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Quitting eHow a Relief

posted August 12, 2009 - 12:07pm
Quitting eHow a Relief

So I waited until I had my pay in paypal since I know how they can get. I finally quit eHow as I had planned to. I would not have thought of doing that before since I did want to make money on it. It kept making me more and more angry and I thought this is just wasting my time. Even though I did have some money. The money had started to go down making it easier to quit it.

The funny thing is that after I took my articles all off it was still making money. I had all the articles taken off for August. It began showing I had .68 still for August. I thought what is that. It almost made it seem funny to stay there. It must be from the way they are figuring things. They think it is just from the ads. I am not going to say what I was doing just so they can all make money on it. I had done hardly anything though but I had done something on the site. I don't think it was from my profile no ads or are there? I was checking. It is actually making more money than some others that way. It is funny since they see the money as proof of their great writing ability. I do know some are on here. It is getting to be ridiculous. Actually with this name on here I am going to have to take this down probably since they will bother. I haven't been using this much. It is just laziness until I start something else.There are so many other things to do. I wish there was a better how to site to go to but maybe this is just as well. I really just wanted it taken off. It was such a relief. I did not look at the forums afterwards when I told them off. It was filled with such negative things and silly ideas. I have seen other things on the Internet about it but really not that much considering. But it doesn't mean that much to a lot of other people.

I also noticed my profile was back after I had deleted it and it was off. That is another thing that made me mad. It obviously had to be some certain look to be on the featured member etc. I knew they were doing that and didn't pay attention it was even kind of funny. It does get to be annoying. It is just like give me my money. Also it being a popularity contest for money is annoying. I am on the front all the time on another site so it made me wonder. The funny thing also is that after I did it I did notice on the web others considering the same thing. Some other writer was gloating that she had nothing taken off and was in Demand Studios. She had cutesy pie comments from other ones on eHow thinking they are bigshots but in reality not much. They do make money on it by doing different marketing techniques.

Well I will go on and make more money elsewhere I hope. My friends were still on there so if any are reading this I would take it off of eHow if you can. I didn't mean to embarrass them but I couldn't help it. I know how it is on there too that they are mostly not my friend in reality. That is just it though I know it is not really friends and I didn't want to be forced to be social with those I had not much in common with. I just wanted to write on it. They were too rude and bothering.

One on there that has money just has it because they think she is a writer and knows something. They are not that good articles. They were also rude about taking someone off the site for just saying something to their resident pest there which was annoying and then they all got behind them. I couldn't believe it. When I first started I was a bit annoyed with the Abigail pic that was supposed to be your helper on there. It turned out she wasn't really there. I had asked a question and no answer. What was she there for then? There are people on there who seemed to have talked to her too. (being sarcastic). I remembered reading that actually eHow doesn't have to answer any questions. It is just not right the way they were acting. I didn't want to have to ask questions or the idea of having to ask on the forums to people I didn't want to talk to and didn't know. I should have just ignored it. I can't stand that when the computer won't work. It is so funny actually making money without doing anything I would almost go on again and just let it go on. I thought it's not worth it but it would add up after awhile. I will miss the money but it is also just too much wasted time and to have to watch them. I was sick of their attitude. It is annoying having people like that bothering on the forums. They also accused me of taking an article before when it was obviously taken. It was taken by a site in China. Finally it was put back. They really get all mixed up. I didn't understand it all at first. I was glad I took the other friends off too they just sit there trying to get money. Then there was the recommendation idea with people without any merit getting all these recommendations. It was just too annoying. They do that on a lot of sites you have to get used to it I guess. People say to ignore it but how much can you ignore? The time I tried to find out about images and getting legal ones the one in charge on the forums was not very nice at all very abrupt. Then he said as if I didn't read the instructions for posting in Feedback so he was being a big baby and not answering. I was not going to ask every time to use one. I knew where some were to get pics. Then I found out the Wikihow is also from eHow I had stopped that too because of their attitude and it is free anyway. But they will let you put the Flickr commons on and they have it set up. It is all too much for them. I think we did have a right to ask questions as they are making money off of us. It is not just as if they are giving us a service.

I also then noticed since it is there all the time and I had the pipecleaner animals I had myself. There was an article from an eHow editor and I noticed it was the same as another family site Disney actually. It had taken the whole thing and I doubt if they knew them it said Disney nowhere and it was from an editor. I flagged it but they didn't take it down. There is an article and a video for Just Ducky but it does not have the title. To take that whole thing is ridiculous. Then the editors there that are just other writers are editing or taking off articles. So I thought that isn't good. It would be worse to have the other people. I tried to get over taking things off but it just seemed vindictive and it makes you look stupid. I had ones that were picked up from other sites and it is like well, they seemed to like it and then it was down. It is picked up partly because of eHow. If I notice others are it doesn't seem that great. I had my World of Warcraft one picked up by a nice site and then it was taken down so it ruined it. If they are in competition too the editors and actually they are it must be fun to take other things down. Then I saw a pic of their office on there and I thought oh no. I know I think I had seen a pic of them before. I was surprised when they answered me on here. It was not a big deal and I should have left it alone. I know I have also seen that some complained about on here. I cannot actually tell whether I have my Adsense really connected on here. I am pretty sure I made something on here before since on nowhere else. Now since I use it elsewhere it is difficult to tell. It won't come up by itself I don't think on Google adsense. I know some say they don't make anything and then others say they make thousands. Everywhere I go on the Internet it seems to be something. Some woman bothered me on Allvoices who thought I did not speak real English. I have more friends on Rotten Tomatoes now it is funny since I am not doing anything. I only had the one or none all that time before since it was my real opinion. I just had the famous actor and I thought why. They changed how it was done and I took things off. It was as if they hated it. Finally I had someone on another site tell me he liked my reviews. I gave up worrying about what my friends would think before. The funny thing is Bukisa was cleaning up too. I am glad I didn't have much put on there. I always thought it was funny and hard to work with and I took it off. I guess this might clean things up too. It is hard to have things look perfect. If you just want to put something on you don't want to worry. I know put it on my own blog but it doesn't get the views. I will probably clean this up also. I wasn't going to pay for their books for how to write on eHow. I noticed the one I looked up didn't have anymore views than me on Blogger after and I was not going to bother with it. You notice on things when they try to be friends and then if you comment they don't return it. I know some return comments.

Then they were saying if you trade comments you could be put off. It was just ridiculous. Then there were the ones on there or "writers" that would take things and rate them down to "help" me. Romance writers with not much done. I told them if I wanted advice I would ask someone I knew that was a real writer and took them off. If someone notices on the forum now they try to get attention by posting on there to get more money. I read someone else had trouble also as they flagged her article and were rude. They don't really want anyone else there unless they are playing with them certain people. I try not to get involved in forums anyway it is a waste of time. I think bothering on that under the guise of being helpful is as bad as asking for recommendations. They get recommendations too for being helpful or so people think. It would be no sense listening to most of them (all really) since they don't know really. They are so worried about the other people on there. There is also one on there that was still trying to talk to someone the silly little one that bothers all the time on the forum. She was not put on friend and asked him why. They had another discussion on that. Someone tattled on the forum and told them I didn't put them on friends. They were talking to her but they do that too as he said on there.

Now it is still on there and not taken off yet. I took my articles off so they couldn't use them. I saw on there that they would keep them for awhile. I put a comment on their forums that was of course taken off. They just seem to be doing more from the forums messing things up so it is probably a good idea that I took it off. All someone would have to do would be to take your article. I have seen other complaints about them taking the account out and saying that you took the article.

They are trying to clean up the site but they don't understand people's complaints about it. The articles are silly and useless and taking someone else's off does not help it all. Many of the articles that are fun to read are not things that some would think are  wonderful. The fun part was reading other's thoughts on the articles. This way they just have a bland bunch of articles or ones that are not making sense or ripped off to get attention and money on there. You would have to write just within the realm of subjects and words that are ok with them. Many of my articles were left but as he said it was an ongoing process and I was tired of it. They just taken them off and bother.

I know the other friend I had said if they took one more off she was quitting. I noticed she was gone. It is a sad thing. Many articles are really useful. The editors don't know how to correct those articles or what is really correct on those subjects either. Then you see one of their really stupid articles on there and it is really too much. They will have something about where they can find a restaurant or something dull that anyone could find. Now I know too that in order to clean things I must buy cleaning products. I have seen some articles making fun of them but not enough.

 



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