How to Quit eHow
Got this rather lengthy note from a DSSer. Thought it was worthwhile to post it up here, since it seems like we’re all seeing the same thing going on at DS.
Queue is at about 8,000 or so, I hear, so it seems like Ehos’s got about another couple of months on the burn rate.
Quite honestly, it sounds like the eHow “editors” or whoever are reading these appeals are acting like a bunch of immature jerks. This is a “professional” company, mind you, that wants to be taken seriously.
Just firing someone who brought up their track record during an appeal? Really?
Pretty much sums up just about everything that’s going on now.
After two years of writing for DMS I was doing fairly well. I had an overall score of 4.0 in research, 3.7/8 in grammar, an 83 percent article approval rate and a 1 percent rejection rate.
Then about a week and a half ago happened. I was hit with more rewrite requests than I had ever experienced. Almost every article of mine (and I did 41 a week) was sent back.
Saying that only half of these requests had any merit would be being kind. Most were superfluous, with vague “notes” such as “do more research” and “You haven’t fulfilled the title.” The only thing I can think is there was a large hiring of new CE’s or the current CE’s were given a directive to be extra diligent, and that they would be rewarded for more rewrite requests. I let many of the requests expire (as is my custom with unreasonable rewrite requests) but it led to my worst week ever. I lost over 200 dollars of my weekly income for no other reason than CEs wanted to curry favor with higher ups.
Many of the rewrites I did do resulted in rejections. The reasons for these rejections were either simply not valid or vague. Once again, seemed like CEs padding their record at the expense of writers. I never had this many rejections in the past so I had many appeals built-up. After a couple of the appeals were upheld I became more frustrated than I ever had in all my time with DMS (and that’s saying something).In another appeal I explained that if the bogus rejection was upheld it would be solely to protect CEs and deprive writers of compensation (which was accurate).
The next day my writing privileges were removed. They cited my work stats — which, by the way, were good enough to get me through the many rounds of cuts over the last few months. I was more than a little pissed about losing the privileges, so I decided to do something I had wanted to do ever since receiving my first unreasonable rewrite request back in 2009. I told off CEs in the notes section of articles. I had about six rewrite requests left in the queue so I told off six different CEs.
I understand not all of them are bad people, and one of them even took it pretty well and got back to me with a funny message, but, for me, this had to be done. And the ironic thing is this is the work I am most proud of in all my tenure writing for DMS. Anyway, I’m listing the CEs’ rewrite request notes (in quotes) followed by my measured responses. I hope you enjoy.
REWRITE NUMBER ONE
Hello, writer.
Thank you for submitting your article. Unfortunately, this article is going to need quite a bit of work before it can be published. The steps are thin and incomplete, with many missing details. This is a fairly complex task to describe, even though it’s a pretty simple job to do. You might want to divide it into sections, with one for preparation, one for the main installation and one for ductwork since not all homeowners choose to use the outside vent option. This is just a suggestion — you can leave it all one section if you prefer.
Before you submit your revisions, please be sure that you have addressed all safety considerations that should be followed when drilling into walls, as well as the standards for safe installation of the microwave. Also, review your steps to make sure all needed details are included. The reader should be able to successfully complete this project based on your article. As it stands, that would not be possible. While I have indicated a few of the missing details, not everything is noted. You may have to complete additional research if this is a project that you are unfamiliar with.
Thanks for your help
Me:
Hello, editor. Thank you for submitting your notes.
Unfortunately, you’re going to need quite a bit of work before you can be taken seriously. You are thin and incomplete, with many missing details. A person should ideally be complex, but you are simple. You might want to divide yourself into sections, with one for personality, one for intelligence and one for physical attractiveness — since no one will ever want anything to do with you until you possess those qualities.
This is just a suggestion — you can combine these attributes in one section if you prefer.
Before you submit your revisions, please be sure that you have addressed all safety considerations that should be followed when developing a personality, as well as the standards for human decency. Also, review your steps to make sure you are interesting. The reader should ideally be able to look at you without vomiting. As it stands now, this is not possible. While I have indicated a few of the missing details, not everything is noted. You may have to complete additional research if this is a project that you are unfamiliar with.
Thanks for your help
REWRITE NUMBER TWO
This is not a baffle. A baffle needs to have some sound-absorbing material attached to it — Masonite is a hard surface that will reflect sound as efficiently as most other wall materials. Also, there are a number of clarity and technical issues. See notes.
Me:
You really just wrote that inserting a lag screw into the ceiling “makes no sense.” If you really feel that sticking a sharpened object into a flat surface “makes no sense” then I wonder how you manage to dress yourself in the morning. Do you also get frightened by the yellow orb you see in the sky every day?
Does the process of feeding yourself become frustrating due to the perceived unnecessary amount of steps (i.e., fork in food, food in mouth)? I understand your predicament (“what is this metal stud you speak of?!!!”), but I can’t imagine a way to “better explain” this article to the point that you’ll be happy, as it would require brightly colored, scratch n’ sniff pictures.
REWRITE NUMBER THREE
Please do more research and rewrite, as based on my own research the error is often triggered by blockages in the furnace venting and pressure issues, among other things.
Please look at these site for more info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Also, remember to include items you will need to complete the task, list any appropriate warnings or tips
Thanks.
Me:
I am sending this back because I felt it was important to let my true feelings be known. I love you. No one has ever cut so deep into an “article” of mine as you have. “Do more research.” “List appropriate warnings or tips.” This is the highly detailed stuff of genius. I may not have been around when “Anna Karenina” was being edited but I can’t imagine it was any different than our situation. Therefore it only makes sense that we get married. I’m not sure whether you’re a man or woman but does it really matter at this point? Our man/woman, woman/man, man/man or woman/woman bond is too strong to be denied. I suggest a June wedding but I’m open to suggestions.
REWRITE NUMBER FOUR
Pretty good steps to start with but we need more detail for the steps 6 and 7 – as provided by your Part Select reference when you click on the “Whirlpool” etc – there is a lot more than just unscrewing everything and unclipping the cords – Part Select does not provide information for LG so you will have to find the one that is specific to LG – they are all different, Maytag seems quite straightforward. Please provide more detail, thanks
Me:
I see your points about steps 6 and 7 and they aren’t without merit. However, steps 6 and 7 happen to be my favorite steps. I love them like children. They are the best steps that have ever happened. I cannot change them, as that would be a form of assault, like defacing the Sistine Chapel — or anally raping one of CNN’s heroes . I’m confident that if you look at steps 6 and 7 one more time you will see the attractiveness and luminosity which defines them. They are beacons of hope, guiding us to salvation. I don’t say this lightly. Many steps have come before them. Many steps will come after them. But there is only one steps 6 and 7. I implore you to bathe in the light of steps 6 and 7. From there we — the designer of steps 6 and 7, and the arbiter of steps 6 and 7 — shall transform into chrysalis… and be reborn — as steps 6 and 7.
Goodbye eHow
So, in the end, petulant writer comments are how I salvaged a soul taken hostage by DMS for two years. It sucks to be without work, but knowing I will never see “Edits needed on your recent assignment submission…” in my mailbox ever again is almost worth it.
I’m so sick of DMS. They know that work is running out for writers and they want to continue making it harder for writers with FL and incompetent CEs. I got a rewrite griping about a caption. Seriously? And then 6 other inept comments that show that the CE is new and barely capable of reading, talking about contradictions in the writing that don’t exist. Idiots. I’ll take my writing elsewhere where every day isnt an annoying and stressful relationship with inconsistent CEs that can’t get better jobs elsewhere. I’ve already shifted 90% of my work elsewhere with much less stress.
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Cry me a river, bitch!
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Hey, we should be rejoicing in this writer’s replies back to his CEs, not sounding like marginal dough-heads. I’m still at DS part-time (when I can snag the $25 bullshit titles), but I long ago figured how to feed it to them. I started out legit about 3 years ago or so, but found it utterly ridiculous. I actually cared about content and am a professional (thus, expert) in health-care. Well, was I ever naive. Constantly dealing with fuck-sticks (and this was 3 years ago!!!). I eventually got pinched by the “duplicate content” police, for daring to use RDA vitamin D info from previous articles I wrote on vit D (probably about 25 of them, but all very high quality, original and legit with refs, but with some duplicate SENTENCES that I initially penned…). Well, after all the battles and bullshit I decided to launch another personality into the DS World, and thus started the fun. My alter egos (all with impeccable qualifications and references, naturally) last about 300-400 articles before implosion for various reasons; once because I simply told a CE to fuck off – not as poetic as the above writer, I know. I got around all the reference bullshit with using very expensive professional textbooks that are not on Google Books or in any e-book format, so the CE cannot verify. I make up page numbers when I need to make my points, and ENJOY it. Some of the books I physically have, most I don’t. Because I am a physician who knows the diabolical shit that is called modern medicine / science / research and what really goes on with those Big Pharma / Oil whores, I always highlight the dangers of their garbage and always tout the natural remedies well-beyond what is supported in the current literature, which we know is tainted, biased, manipulated and censored (well, maybe not all of us know that…). I use my personal experience and observation and the writings of quality men of true-science from many decades past. I then stuff that truth into my articles with bogus refs and shove it into the CE’s face and challenge them to refute. They can’t. Of course it doesn’t hurt that my grammar is 4.2/4.3 and (get this) my research is 4.7/4.8. My acceptance is 90%; 6 rejections in over 1,200 articles. Naturally I’m in First Look. It’s not really about the money for me; it’s about using part of the Beast to fight the Beast, while circumventing all those petty little pricks at DS. Am I worried that people will think that vitamin D is essential to health, boosts immunity and efficiently fights cancer, even though all the sites “allowed” by DS dance around it and pooh-pooh it? Fuck no. Thanks DS, I’ve really gotten some use out of you miserable bastards. I spread truth, side-step CE wankers, make some pocket money and rejoice. I turn lemons into lemonade now and recommend many others follow. Just be sure to lead your readers in the right direction and your Karma will be fine.
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Your still a dribbling idiot.
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We all know DMS is a joke, and this blog right here proves it. Personally, my last article with them was done back in late July or early August (can’t remember which because the scumbag CE took quite awhile to get on it and finally approve it), and that was that. It was my final eHow article, and that was by my choice. Just for kicks, I logged on there earlier and saw that somehow, I still have my writing privileges in spite of being inactive for four months and still being in their insipid Writer Development Program. I’m still getting stupid emails from DMS, too. It’s annoying but kind of amusing at the same time. They can go and suck it.
To the writer who struck back and whom this blog is about, I salute you! Kudos to you for those witty comments to the scumbag CEs!
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Hey, Not Necessary:
“Tough words coming from behind the curtain, bitch! Put that in the Demand Studios forums with your name if you have real balls of steal. Otherwise, your just a sissy.”
They probably would, but they can no longer access the forums.
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looks like they finally riled up the idiot CEs enough to come over and comment lol
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Nice touch coming from a man who will not put his name up either.
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I am shaking in my boots. Be careful. You might just get your ass kicked.
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Looks like I got to you, player. lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol
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LOL – Are you two–I dare you to come out to play. I am not a moron like yourself.
Go put on a pair of panties!
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Didnt even waste my time clicking that link….Click this link…http://www.Youareacowardlyfaggot.com.
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slavennomore–Are you retarded? YOu get fired from dms for shitty articles and then you put up as your name slavennomore. You must have been a dumb ass to take the slave job in the first place. Your full of shit.
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I have read with both repulsion and amusement, the many diatribes of the BS that goes on at DMS. I have this to offer. Having been thru that mill, I can say that they are firing writers because CEs are being TOLD to kick up the rewrite and rejection rate. This I got from a CE herself, brave enough to actually tell the truth. That makes more sense. Why else would all of a sudden, hundreds of writers be thrown out? As for me, I had just gotten approved to do some tech writing — but that didn’t save me. Because the dickwad that insisted that CEs UP their rewrite and rejection rates have threatened the CEs in the same way that CEs threaten writers. It all trickles down, people. Just know that. These idiots remind me of the cops out desperately writing tickets at month end to meet their quota. Writing up innocent citizens with $600 tickets just so they can keep their jobs and maybe get a year-end bonus for doing it! To me, they are no better than the a-hole insurance doctors who deny legitimate claims of people who ultimately die.
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Dear LOL, I’m glad you made $1,000 this weekend. The drug deal finally came through, eh? You’re so full of crap that I can’t imagine why you haven’t exploded yet. You’re an immature creep with a big mouth. And a big asshole.
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Winning.
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NOT
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Another example of how much DSSer’s lie about everything – have you noticed how all the people who claim so vigorously to have other gigs and to not need DM are over in the Forums bitching about how Titling dried up or how tough the CEs are now?
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You all sound like a bunch of fools, and you’re wasting your time here. But, hey, if you weren’t here, you’d be playing mindless video games of smoking something. Grow up, move on, get a real job, even if it’s flipping burgers. You’ll make more than you would at DMS.
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Best thing I heard on this board!
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Thanks for the tip! I love this helpful community of writers who love to help each other with their helpful tips.
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Hiya, Dick(less).
I earned $1,000 over the weekend for one client and have another $2K worth of work lined up through the coming week.
This is a result of self-marketing and relentless phone calling, as well as useful tips picked up on the forums at this site.
As a result, I have some down time I can come on this forum and tell you what a stupid fuck you are. You offer no real valve. You are just a troll and I’ll be more than happy to put my foot up your ass.
So thank you for your concern that we can all make more elsewhere than working for DMS.
Your propensity for overstating the obvious only confirms you are the dumbass I always suspected you to be.
Have a lovely day, if you can possibly choke down your own bile and get on with it.
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LOL – Who are you defending? Half the people on this forum are disgruntled whiners who got fired from DMS because their articles suck. You have CHER with her diatribes and Page with her move out of the USA bullshit. You have the message board police (god forbid you have a spelling error on this board).
You are all idiots! Work bitches, work!
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According to all you gripers and whiners, You need a hard days work to remember what work is. I am not talking about finger pain from typing. I am talking about digging ditches, bitches.
All you man whiners and betty crocker bakers need to go old school!
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Make babies so you can get welfare checks you sorry obama loving kiss ass!
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You missed your calling, ace. Standup comedy awaits you.
Thanks for the laff.
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I am a writer just like everyone else here. Actually, I am a published Tech author who has a great editor. I just don’t want to drink the coolaid. I am not a CE or a TROLL. Just a man that is calling the crap like I see it. I bet if I posted the following, I would be a hero and everyone would be giving me a green thumbs up.
I am so sorry you got fired. You are great. Your articles are great. The world did you wrong.
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Re-read your post. You need a good editor.
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Thank you! I have one.
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I never claimed to be the best writer in the world and I typed this on a phone, griper.
The point is not my writing. The point is how sorry this Obama-Loving-Griper-Entitlement post is.
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Well, then your editors at your $500-per-article job have their work cut out for them. Your post takes aim at the writing abilities of those who post here. If you want to lambaste them, your argument would better served if you, yourself, knew how to write.
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You have convenient excuses. It’s interesting you talk about homosexuality and politics. It says a lot about you. I’m so very glad I’m not one of your editors. You would never speak ill of your editors, but you like to bash entire groups of people? Interesting.
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Also, I might add, Obama has nothing to do with this website. You might try searching eHow for “How to Contact Barack Obama” to air your political gripes.
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No. I’m not a political person. I really don’t care who is president; it doesn’t affect me as it does you. I just think you might have better luck trolling political forums, rather than a freelance writing and editing forum.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it the Republicans and Tea Party members who never want to pay their fair share (taxes), yet insist on a strong defense, paved roads, free libraries, college loans, mortgages, fire and police departments, public schools (or vouchers), etc?
I always have to laugh when Republicans call liberals Socialists.
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Ah, a woman hater, too. Thanks for sharing.
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I do not hate woman. Silly.
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You certainly are an angry little creature. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Page I am not angry. I was just a little animated yesterday. Keep defending the freakshows. They need you.
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There’s a typo.
The self-proclaimed writer meant $5 an article, which is still a handsome salary in this post-DMS world of literary geniuses toiling for love of the written word.
LOL
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You write like a little man from Calcutta. You’re a funny little troll. Not too bright, either.
Thanks for the laughs.
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All you do is whine and cry. The only difference is that you’ve been crying and whining about politics and sexuality. If you don’t like in the U.S., move out of the country. You won’t be missed.
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Here Not Necessary. As an writer and an editor I re-wrote your post for you. You’re welcome.
“I write for DMS because no one would hire me and I could not get a legitimate writing job elsewhere. I have not yet mastered the English language and $500 to me means a couple of rupees or whatever the hell currency I use. These “$500″ articles is no complicated because I can says use the writing gud and I gets me some mooney. I iz a writter.
I think you all are whiners even though I’m the biggest sissy of them all. I worship at the altar of George W. Bush because he was white. You all will not get paid so well as I cuz az I said b4 I iz a gud writter.
Nobody forces you to write for DMS (because you are all better writers than I, and because you all have lives). None of you would work at Home Depot because you’re all educated and I’m a total moron. I get re-writes becuz I no speak Englishh and I no no howz to speel.
I get aggravated with CE’s because they actually want me to know how to write but I am an elephant and therefore have thick skin, smelly hindquarters and I am dumb as a rock.
Throw your articles up and I’ll trash them even though I don’t know how to write or spell. I hate Obama which makes me an excellent writer somehow although I can’t explain the connection. I just like to whine like a little bitch.
Home Depot is hiring for Christmas but I lack the qualifications necessary to work there. I work in my pajamas because normal clothes do not fit my large behind. Because I all do is troll.”
There. All set. I edited it all nice and neat for you and it’s more the “real you” than even you could have dreamed up Not Necessary. Now go troll in your pajamas. The rest of us are working writers and have actual lives.
P.S. Anything you reply to in this post will not be responded to by me. Because it will be useless.
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ROFL
“I hate Obama which makes me an excellent writer somehow although I can’t explain the connection. I just like to whine like a little bitch.”
Yeah, I couldn’t quite make that connection either.
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Actually, the point of all of this is that you should never come up on a web site after you have been fired and gripe. It is lame.
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Well, then that’s exactly what you should have said. Be concise.
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yes maam.
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Cher, you’re freakin’ awesome! So are you, Page! That is all.
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Page and Cher–looks like you have a groupie.
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Oh yes… I’m soooo impressed by the cries and complaints of a group of people who think bagging groceries and microwaving burgers at McDonalds – two of the classic low status jobs in America – is not just a preferable alternative to writing at home for DM, but that such work is the ONLY alternative.
Don’t bitch at me – some of your fellows wrote it!
Suck on it bitches. Suck on it.
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Demand Media was a terrible business model that gave idiot editors way too much authority. All the good ones are employed at real publications, not this content farm nonsense.
The CEs cry like babies that they know best, but I’ve never worked for a legitimate publication where writers were unable to interact with editors for the betterment of the product. DMS doesn’t care about the product, only the ad clicks.
DMS just vomits slapdash bullshit on the Internet. Any CE who does not understand that, well, they only prove my point.
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“Any CE who does not understand that, well, they only prove my point.”
Too funny.
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Why do you take it so personally when people beeotch about DMS CEs? Obviously not everyone who copy edits for DMS is a raging moron or the system would have collapsed a long time ago. And no one here who suggests blacklisting former DMS CEs is in a position to hire anyone anyway. It’s just idle cathartic beeotching. Lighten up dude. At one point you’ve probably said that all DMS writers suck balls with a straw. Probably felt good too. (The saying, not the sucking or being sucked.)
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Don’t feed the dbtt troll. It prefers to nosh on DMS cock, anyway.
Let it starve, and it will die. And no one will care.
That little freak will be along momentarily to make a popcorn fart, then slink back into its hole. Just ignore. This will make the little Nancy-boy angrier than anything else.
Actually, it is kinda fun to watch as it thrashes around like a worm on a hook, ineffectual and useless.
As a ,entally handicapped CE, he/it is entitled to do something, if there was anything the little buggerer was capable of doing. So be patient. The dbtt slug will be along in a little while to jump up and down like a child screaming “look a me! I wear big-boy underwear!”
LOL. Fucking trolls. So predictable. They crack me up.
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More cock and ball references. Keep track of ‘em, folks.
Here, chicky, chicky . . . more bait. Keep ‘em coming.
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First, I am not sure I understand what a dbtt is. Are you trying to be politically correct by saying ,entally? How lame. Anytime someone comes on and disagrees with the masses, you call him a troll. How predictable. I have been around this site for a long time but never had I posted until I got so fed up with the gripes, I had to say something. That is not a troll. I am not from Calcutta. I am a USA citizen. How biased is that.
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Taking it personally? You’re giving you and your little friend(s) way too much credit.
Go ahead, flame on for another 500 words under a variety of names. How much you get paid for that?
Just like the writers who’d rather cry to the Help Desk for 200 words than fix 10. Dumb use of your time.
But you’re not working for a living anyway; that’s pretty obvious.
Troll-bait.
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you are confusing me with you, who, if my other aliases are to be believed, have several aliases of your own. or perhaps this is just one long conversation i am having with myself on my blog. ostensibly it makes you feel better to think that only one person thinks you are a DMS cum-gargling moron, instead of 20.
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I am not paid at all. I am just and ordinary person who is fed up with the gripes. That is all it is. Everyone coming to this persons defense is ridiculous. He was fired for sucky articles and instead of being a man about it and moving on, rights some crap on this freakshow site and now has a positive following. That is how obama got hired as our Pres.
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I totally work for a living. I have a fulll-time job w/ a six figure income. I am a Father and a husband who loves his family dearly. I am not a troll nor out of work. I just got tired of all this dribble. I dont even plan on responding to any more posts; it was this sorry post that caught my attention.
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Given your responses to the original post, I certainly am glad I am not your wife, your daughter or your editor. You have some real issues against anyone who is not exactly like you. The sad thing is that your child will grow up to be just like you.
Also, given your six-figure salary, I really don’t know why you hate the U.S. so much. There are many American people who make far, far less than you who are happy with their lives in the U.S. No one is holding a gun to your head to live in the U.S., just as no one is holding a gun to writers and editor who contract with Demand. If you despise your six-figure salaried life in the U.S., simply move to a country in which you agree with its political and economic climate. All your problems will be solved.
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props to the writer. nice to see someone let them have it. every CE who has ever destroyed a well-written article and robbed $15 to $25 out of a writer’s pocket over some BS should be put on blast, as well as the editor’s desk who upheld their nonsense. EVE included. they shouldn’t get off that easy
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I got some Illinois black snake hanging here for you to suck on, sonny. Then you can bend over like a MAN and I’ll make you squeal like the little bitch you really are.
You know you want some.
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LOL.
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Hold any and all rewrites until after the payday cutoff, if you can possibly afford to do so.
Make the miserable bastards wait until the 11th hour to get their pathetic $4.
Better still, leave DMS to rot into a grease spot. Superior work from genuinely appreciative clients can be yours with diligence and digging.
There is NO REASON anyone ever has to listen to a fuckwit like dbtt, or track record (not), PatM, Dirk the circle-jerk, cock-gagging Gilligan or any of the other mentally-unbalanced losers who cling to the sinking ship that is DMS.
Starve them. Make them suffer using every weapon at your disposal. After all, payback is long overdue.
Think about what the original writer of this blog noted about the sweet joy of never again seeing a rewrite email or that bullshit boilerplate from dms — all because some fool who thinks he’s an “editor” doesn’t understand how to take a leak without pissing in his pants because he never heard of a fucking zipper, much less how to operate the zipper without a reference.
I say, the CEs have been running around like little Napoleons for so long that some writers may have thought their bullshit was simply part of doing business.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Starve the motherfuckers. Those who claim they “edit” for a few bucks are most likely liars who are scared shitless that dms is rapidly fading.
Thank God Almighty.
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That is so gay! Hold off to not pay a CE–Your like a child.
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Your response to Rewrite Four was CLASSIC!
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Oh yes, I’m sure the writer really sent those replies. I’m just as sure of that as that Demand has been hiring a lot of new editors lately.
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So you are still alive and in desperate search of something to say. Nothing changes, least of all your dim intellect.
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You sound like a jilted lover. A boring one, at that.
S’matter, little boy? Not enough affection as a child? Didn’t momma breastfeed your sorry ass?
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Geez, I didn’t even say anything. Track Record (Not), what is your beef with me? Why can’t you directly contact me and tell me what your problem is. You have all of my personal contact information, so just send me an email, for fuck’s sake.
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“And try to salvage some sense of self-respect while you’re at it by tearing down the folks who don’t want you anymore.”
Utter horseshit. You can’t possibly be serious and you are a fool if you are.
There is not enough freelance work at that nasty company for anyone. If you are an “editor” for DMS, you are a liar if you claim your available work has not fallen off next to nothing in the last month.
It’s not an issue of whether DMS “wants” a contractor or not. The simple reality is the company’s publishing division is dying a slow death because the marketplace finally got wise to the fact that no one needs or wants what DMS delivers.
Soon there will be no work at all for anyone foolish enough to depend on DMS.
DMS tricks people into visiting sites with low-quality content to expose the suckers to advertising, instead. That’s all it is. And such a sleazy business model was bound to have a limited shelf life.
Intelligent writers have always known this and deliver no more than what DMS has been willing to pay.
Why would anyone deliver more? To make Rosenblatt richer? Are you that delusional in your roles as an “editor” that you actually believe you serve any other function than a cog in that motherfucker’s moneymaking machine?
Do you take satisfaction in “gatekeeping” a 350-word treatise on how to make a wig out of dog hair? Is that your great contribution to humanity? Editing bullshit on a content farm and fucking over writers trying to get through a shitty economy?
If so, I hope you get what’s coming to you, for you, little man, are a fucking parasite.
And if you are not a CE, then why are you here? To pollute the Internet with your inbred cretinous spew? Demand will pay you the grand salary of $4 for that skill, you stupid fuck. But you’d better hurry; this is a limited-time offer.
TL; DR? Fuck you & Die.
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“The only thing I can think is there was a large hiring of new CE’s or the current CE’s were given a directive to be extra diligent, and that they would be rewarded for more rewrite requests.”
If these are the only things you can think of as reasons for rewrite requests, a little time off for you is probably going to be a good thing. Now you can go back [cough, cough] to your job writing for a real publisher, where — as we all know — editors never question holes in articles or ask writers to fix factual errors based on faulty research.
Go on, troglodytes. Flame away. Show those mad skills you have being anonymous blog warriors — all jive and nothing to back it up.
And try to salvage some sense of self-respect while you’re at it by tearing down the folks who don’t want you anymore.
If DMS sucks so bad, it’s renting an amazing amount of space in the heads of the 10 or so people who actually post here. Makes you wonder where the real problem is . . . not to mention who the real losers are.
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…which it always will.
Rather, it’s that the amount of bullshit a CE slings for a writer trying to make $16 is not worth the time.
And why is that? Because the CEs are petty tyrants who exploit what little power they possess as compensation for their tiny dicks. Bunch of sociopaths, is what you are.
I used DMS for gaps in work from quality clidnts, but the ass-licking content editors who feared for their lucrative $4 jobs, would send back rewrites to add a fucking comma or find “one more reference” before they “felt comfortable.” This is just bullshit for a pissant article that note even DMS cares about.
If you are a DMS content editor, you are a stupid motherfucker, plain ansd simple. Yes, I’m calling you out: you fuck your own mother you sonofabitch. And your little dog, too.
Being assoicated with DMS as an editor will soon be the career equivalent of goose stepping with neo-Nazis.
You would do well to return to hustling on 42nd Street, bitch.
I don’t give a fuck about you or what you think, only that you die penniless and in pain. Let me know how I can help with that.
DMS has a hideous reputation. If you are or were a CE with that shit compnay, you can expect your reputation to plummet like a share of DMD stock.
Guaranteed.
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And both of this fucker’s split personalities are sputtering like the Demand Studios website after the latest upgrade.
It’s great to see the most fragile CEs are lurking around since there are no titles for the morons to “edit,” um, correction: to fuck up.
Get a self-help book on boosting your delicate ego, dbtt,track record or whatever the fuck you call yourself.
You are an ignorant asshole by any name, sweetheart.
And your “editing” days are over.
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Come out of hiding and contact me directly. I dare you.
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…which it always will.
Rather, it’s that the amount of bullshit a CE slings for a writer trying to make $16 is not worth the time.
And why is that? Because the CEs are petty tyrants who exploit what little power they possess as compensation for their tiny dicks. Bunch of sociopaths, is what you are.
I used DMS for gaps in work from quality clients, but the ass-licking content editors who feared for their lucrative $4 jobs, would send back rewrites to add a fucking comma or find “one more reference” before they “felt comfortable.” This is just bullshit for a pissant article that not even DMS cares about.
If you are a DMS content editor, you are a stupid motherfucker, plain and simple. Yes, I’m calling you out: you fuck your own mother you sonofabitch. And your little dog, too.
Being associated with DMS as an editor will soon be the career equivalent of goose stepping with neo-Nazis.
You would do well to return to hustling on 42nd Street, bitch.
I don’t give a fuck about you or what you think, only that you die penniless and in pain. Let me know how I can help with that.
DMS has a hideous reputation. If you are or were a CE with that shit company, you can expect your reputation to plummet like a share of DMD stock.
Guaranteed.
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“And try to salvage some sense of self-respect while you’re at it by tearing down the folks who don’t want you anymore.”
Utter horseshit. You can’t possibly be serious and you are a fool if you are.
There is not enough freelance work at that nasty company for anyone. If you are an “editor” for DMS, you are a liar if you claim your available work has not fallen off next to nothing in the last month.
It’s not an issue of whether DMS “wants” a contractor or not. The simple reality is the company’s publishing division is dying a slow death because the marketplace finally got wise to the fact that no one needs or wants what DMS delivers.
Soon there will be no work at all for anyone foolish enough to depend on DMS.
DMS tricks people into visiting sites with low-quality content to expose the suckers to advertising, instead. That’s all it is. And such a sleazy business model was bound to have a limited shelf life.
Intelligent writers have always known this and deliver no more than what DMS has been willing to pay.
Why would anyone deliver more? To make Rosenblatt richer? Are you that delusional in your roles as an “editor” that you actually believe you serve any other function than a cog in that motherfucker’s moneymaking machine?
Do you take satisfaction in “gatekeeping” a 350-word treatise on how to make a wig out of dog hair? Is that your great contribution to humanity? Editing bullshit on a content farm and fucking over writers trying to get through a shitty economy?
If so, I hope you get what’s coming to you, for you, little man, are a fucking parasite.
And if you are not a CE, then why are you here? To pollute the Internet with your inbred cretinous spew? Demand will pay you the grand salary of $4 for that skill, you stupid fuck. But you’d better hurry; this is a limited-time offer.
TL; DR? Fuck you & Die.
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Speaking for myself, I take a lot more satisfaction in watching folks like you go apoplectic a few times a day. How many names do you post the same drivel under? Go watch a TV show. Take a walk. Find an oxycontin dealer. Masturbate. Call your mom. Do something.
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After all, speaking for myself, I know what works for me.
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Of course, the writer’s presumed reasons for the increase in rewrites are based in paranoia, not at all in fact. Hiring of new CEs? Been around lately?
And if the rest of you think the writer actually left those comments, you probably believe a lot of the other crap that people throw around here.
Without screen grabs, I call BS.
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Sounds like all of my most recent rewrite requests as well – I have had 80% of my articles come back in the past 2 weeks for rewrites – many of them still not getting approved. UGH!
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“Unfortunately, you’re going to need quite a bit of work before you can be taken seriously. You are thin and incomplete, with many missing details. A person should ideally be complex, but you are simple.”
A+
My hat is off to you, sir.
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This was fantastic. Whoever you are, thank you for this catharsis. I look forward to my own personal day of going supernova. The entire DMS universe will be swallowed in my fire.
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I made rewrite requests similar to these—and why did they make sense to me at the time? They obviously don’t seem anything out of the norm, except for the first request, which sounds on the boilerplate side. But, whatever, based on your editor replies, you should be hired to replace the dumb stupid-ass moron copy chiefs who are really the evil minions controlling the copy editors. DEMAND STUDIOS needs a SENSE OF HUMOR.
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Excellent post and comments from the writer.
This is another sad example of the absolute insanity of demand media studios and the bullshit fuckt@rds who call themselves “editors.”
These people, if they can even be called human beings, are lunatics to think any amount of their sniveling bullshit is worth $16 for an H&G article, which the writer’s examples appear to be.
Content editors have abused their abilities for so long that only a Draconian response on the magnitude of clubbing the motherfu*kers with a baseball bat would begin to settle the score with these thieves.
Yes, thieves, for stealing writers’ money by expecting ludicrous and impossible rewrites. And miserable assholes for thinking they can get away with it.
Fuck you, “editors” and most of all, fuck you, Demand Studios.
ANY content editor seeking work beyond this company should be hit hard in the ass with the door marked EXIT.
Blackball the bastards. Ridicule them every chance you get. Hurt them economically if possible, only for God’s sake hurt them regardless.
The motherfu*kers running demand studios have gotten rich by turniong loose power-crazxed sociopaths and calling them editors.
They couldn’t edit ringworms out of a dog’s ass.
All you content “editors” reading this: fu*k you and die screaming in a fire, bitches.
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Tough words coming from behind the curtain, bitch! Put that in the Demand Studios forums with your name if you have real balls of steal. Otherwise, your just a sissy.
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I can’t recall the last time I laughed so hard. Your writer’s clever responses make me want to marry him/her. My husband will just have to understand.
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