I write articles with some purpose and clear cut objectives. Triond team by categorizing the articles against my wishes makes my articles irrelevant on the sites they are published on.
I have so far submitted 15 articles on Triond and all have been published without any delay or corrections. This indicates that I know the subject I write on and the language thereof. Out of these articles, I think 5 have been placed in wrong categories by the triond team while I had earmarked them as belonging to different categories. This makes my articles irrelevant on the site these are published on.
The latest example is that of my article ‘Programming Oneself’ about how a person must plan his/her life on long/medium/short term basis. I marked the article to be published under category ’society’. But the Triond team redirected it to as a ‘religious’ article and published it under ‘Christianity’. I requested the management to relocate my article which has been declined. This has been happening again and again with me, and I am quite disgusted at this. The important issue here is that I am a determined atheist while my article are placed on a religious site which I take very seriously.
Now I have strongly protested to the Triond management about this high handedness of the team, and awaiting their reply. I wonder how the clerks at the desk know about the article more than the creators themselves, and on what basis they categorise the articles. From the Forum discussions, I found that many articles get wrongly placed by the team and some of them are relocated on the author’s request.
In any case I am not going to take it lying low and accept whimsical rulings of the Triond management team. I understand that they have all the rights on the site, but they must respect rights of the authors too on their articles. May be that I withdraw my those submissions on Triond which are wrongly placed, or even totally withdraw from the site.
Does any of you, my friends, has such a problem with the management, and what remedial measures do you suggest for me?
Tags: articles, categorization, protest, Ram Bansal, triond
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:20 am
I have had that problem too
September 23rd, 2011 at 7:18 am
It’s just a mistake due to their automated system. They don’t seem to use actual human beings as editors anymore, they simply use scan the tags you’ve put into the article and publish it in a catergory that fits one of them. It’s nothing to do with the editors or the management’s views, they don’t even look at the nature of the article anymore. They only really look at content if it’s flagged to them as inappropraite. It’s a pain but it means content is published much faster than it used to be.
Unfortunately with the system as it is, the only way to get around it is to keep clicking the relocate button in the content menu.
September 23rd, 2011 at 7:55 am
Ram, I also have the same problem.Be patient.
September 23rd, 2011 at 8:18 am
Having same problem with few of my articles and flagged to the right category but no avail
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Just ask for it to be relocated to where it should have been in the first place.
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:47 pm
@Sharifa,I had asked for a relocation and it has been declined.
September 25th, 2011 at 8:58 am
triond must be serious on these issues