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Archive for the ‘Copy Editors’ Category
By Patrick ~ Nov 10, 2011
How to Quit Before You're Fired
(Editor’s Note: Told Patrick to simmah down and cut the language)
As I write this article, the queue is beneath 14K titles.
That means we’re going to run out of work in the next few weeks.
Why – FOR THE LOVE OF F**KING GOD – do you CEs pretend to care?
At least before I could understand. If you didn’t CE an article the right way, you’d get written up and possibly fired.
(Patrick taps a CE on the shoulder)
Guess what?
WE’RE ALL GETTING FIRED!!!
Will you please stop sending back articles for stupid rewrites? IT DOESN’T F**KING MATTER [...]
By Patrick ~ Aug 22, 2011 Recent purges of the writer rolls by Demand Media editorial have generated an uptick in our our correspondence from fellow freelancers. Their system is broken. The writer evaluation program is designed more to purge the writer roles than to justly evaluate scribes. Moreover, Demand Media may be systematically turning rejected articles into published pieces. Writers are denied payment for their work, but rejected writing appears to pass through the DMS system to later be monetized by Demand Media. Our Demand Studios Sucks forums exist to alleviate the power imbalance between freelancers and the company. [...]
By Patrick ~ Feb 21, 2011
How to Rat People Out for $3.50
Look, Demand Content Editors,
We know we have a love and hate relationship with you. You take our carefully crafted articles about retardedly mundane subjects and turn them into unreadable drivel.
We’ve got no problem with that. As long as we get our $15+ dollars.
What we DO have a problem with you doing is RATTING out writers for submitting duplicate content.
The thing is….EVERYONE duplicates content. It’s really the only way you can make good money writing for Demand Studios.
We’re sorry you only make $3.50 per article. Quite honestly, I don’t know why anyone [...]
By Patrick ~ Feb 10, 2011
How to be a Special Grilled Cheese Chef!
So, apparently there was a Demand writer making over $7000/month who just got canned for putting up bad articles.
Apparently they’ve taken down the forum threads on the Demand site, but there’s still some information over on the forums here, if you’re looking to follow the story.
Apparently we’ve got lots of folks coming over here straight from the Demand boards. Couple of things we wanted to say: welcome and feel free to register. We’re not in the business of giving away people’s identities. As a matter of fact, several people over here have outed [...]
By Patrick ~ Jan 19, 2011
How to Be The King
I’m not quite sure what this is about, but I don’t think it’s a letter from a lawyer.
Is this related to something in the forums?
Anyway, here it is.
Per SOP, all personal names have been removed.
Subject: Thanks! Regarding your other posters, they are all entitled to their opinions, of course.
The purpose of this email is not to argue any of them out of those opinions.
But the funny thing about your site is how many of the statements offered have no basis in fact.
1. Copy chiefs do [...]
By Patrick ~ Jan 10, 2011 Demand Studios Sucks founder Patty O’Doare offers his hand to Demand CEs who are in the same boat. Do no harm, but farm that content … [...]
By Patrick ~ Nov 30, 2010
How to Get Canned from Demand Media Studios
From a new reader:
I wrote 26 articles in 48 hours, and 6 of them were on the same subject. I used the only four DS-approvable references I could find, and yes, I repeated them. The articles involved a recipe that has to be mixed exactly, so I used it in each one. It is the ONLY way to complete the task that was the subject of the article. Canned!! I might add that my scores were over 4 and that I was writing at least 35 articles a week for them. I was approved for two [...]
By Patrick ~ Oct 02, 2010
How to Recycle
So we’ve been doing a little more thinking over here about repurposing content.
Here is the official DS stance:
Slightly rephrasing similar content often is not enough to avoid a repurposing citation. Our in-house editors conduct reviews of each writer’s accepted articles, and our copy editors often deliberately choose similar titles when these appear in their queues. If we find that you’ve claimed similar titles and submitted the same or similar content — or chunks of content — for any of these articles, you will incur automatic rejections, immediate suspension and could permanently lose your Demand Media Studios privileges. We advise writers [...]
By Patrick ~ Sep 28, 2010
How to Repurpose Someone's Tossed Salad
Been getting lots of emails about how the CEs and DS are starting to come down on “repurposing articles”.
We’ve never been for plagarism here at DSS. Besides, that’s what the checker is for, right?
It’s like DS wants it both ways, they want 10,000 variations on “How to Toss Someone’s Salad”, but don’t want the same person to write those articles.
And now apparently the Zombies in the DS forum are bitching about us again, too.
Look, writing for DS isn’t “real” writing or “journalism”. It’s writing to fit a system. All we’re going here at DSS is [...]
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