Comments on: Helium.com : About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One

By: nilufer

nilufer — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:12:08 +0000

Any updates on a class action against Helium.com ? If yes, please inform us. I’m ready to join.

By: Keith Adams

Keith Adams — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:01:00 +0000

I echo the previous comment. Google Helium complaints and you’ll find hundreds of complaints about the Terms of Service, and censorship. I’ve just had my own very bad experience with Helium. I asked them politely to remove an article I’d written, which was now damaging to my reputation. After much back and forth, they not only locked me out while keeping all my articles online, but censored another article I’d written which was critical of their behavior, and then, threatened to report me to the FBI! Writers beware of Helium! I’ve since filed an FTC complaint. I wish people would come together to file a class-action suit against them.

By: Lisa B.

Lisa B. — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:23:59 +0000

Writers, beware! People have apparently been scammed or their work wrongfully deleted by Helium.com. While I have actually seen articles on this site that look almost like clones, Helium.com has falsely accused me of plagiarism, and has removed a small piece of informational writing that came solely out of my head and out of my decades of experience with the health field. I have demanded that they re-post my article and retract their groundless accusation since they have no evidence, and demanded an apology. I’m frankly inclined to start registering everything I write with the Library of Congress Copyright Office before I give away any more gems of wisdom to the public anywhere at all. I’m not doing online self-publishing for large sums of money–there won’t be any, by Western standards–but just to get my pieces read. There isn’t anything we can do with these idiots other than to either boycott them, or hire a lawyer and a detective, pull all their records and file a class action suit. Which would you pick?

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:45:22 +0000

I started with Helium about 18 months ago, and had my doubts. Now, I write regularly and have contributed more than 1500 articles. Helium educate people to use sources in their articles, and also have a service available to help those less able to produce great articles to learn online journalism, meaning that the scope of the articles on the site is diverse.

With the recent introduction of the Rewardathon, and following the success of the last rewardathon, Helium is a serious site, who take its members seriously.

I believe that the user agreement is simple enough to understand and that those who do not understand it should perhaps acquaint themselves with the rules, as it is adherence to these rules that helps a member to make a success of their work at Helium.

The earning opportunities are amazing.

By: Brewster Moose

Brewster Moose — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:23:02 +0000

…you all seem to be ignorant of the fact that,inspite of Aristotellian A=A and B=B, so comes binary ones and zeros, bit and byte, that even if A isn’t B, and B isn’t A, either A or B MIGHT BE C! Don’t believe me? There was a data summary at the Stanford Linear Accelarator a number of years ago that sought to reconcile the particles accelerated with the sum total of the target particles and their subsequent dispersal. Guess what? They could only account for 98.785% of target particles released during the collisons.What happened to the rest of those particles? Can you say C? There is a machine intelligence evolving that recognizes information and data that we stupid humans can neither recognize nor comprehend.
By the time that the moral and ethical issues concerning direct cyber/biological interfacing are settled, the machine, at least in terms of data storage, will far exceed the human capacity to accept such a massive amount of data at one fell swoop. Do we then expect the machine’s ability to to choose what data we humans can be safely “spoon fed”, trusting that Our Creation has not assumed a will of it’s own or a much more logical process to an end, or will that day come too late,when the machine has decided that humans just can’t “keep up” and start making our decisions “for us”? I worked at Siltec,INTEL,Atari,AMD, and Apple. I know where of I speak.
Brewster Moose

By: Net-Hetep Ta'Nesert

Net-Hetep Ta'Nesert — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:58:27 +0000

When people write with integrity, proper links are given; and proper credit to authors whose works support the information being written about are joyously given as well. This will ensure the credibility of Helium’s contributors because plagiarism can easiley be proven.
Fact is, is that there exists an unlimited and inexhaustible pool of writers who are just as professional in their chosen areas of personal, social, political, and literary interests above and beyond the socially proclaimed experts that deserve an avenue, and opportunity for exposure.
Helium is that avenue and opportunity.
Let us be intelligently brave in embracing diversity and travelling new horizons that lead to a brighter future. . . TODAY.

By: Jayant Agarwalla

Jayant Agarwalla — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:09:23 +0000

Well personally I think Yahoo Answers is an AMAZING concept. BUT, it is being ruined by people who post stupid questions or questions that can be easily resolved with a simple search.

In fact that is the reason why Yahoo shows search results when you type a question! And it also shows similar questions recently as you type your question. This was done as users posted duplicates of stupid questions.

I am head admin at Scrabulous – http://www.scrabulous.com – where users can play Scrabble online. I answered a few questions about Scrabble online and the next day I get the same questions by new users! These are the types who spoil the site sometimes.