Dear Triond. .. Regarding Poor Quality Articles and Screening of Submissions
Dear Triond, this letter is a request that some type of article screening process be incorporated so that poor quality articles are weeded out of the Triond system.
Dear Triond . . . should safeguards or checks be implemented on site to reduce the number of poor quality articles that make the cut and are published?
While none of us is perfect and mistakes inevitably creep into submitted works, I’ve seen articles written in broken English and some that were almost intelligible. It’s doubtful that these articles attract a wide readership and it casts a shadow on the credibility of the Triond writing site as a whole.
A nice facet of Triond is that newer writers find it easy to publish their work and all writers can create pretty much whatever they feel compelled to write about (within accepted boundaries)–but, maybe the time has come to implement measures to ensure a higher level of content quality.
These measures would not be aimed at discouraging newer writers or directed to those for whom English is a second language or targeting those who struggle with grammar or usage difficulties–but if a system were built into the Online Editor, this would go a long way in helping all writers to improve their articles prior to publication.
- Each section of the Online Editor could contain a writing reminder
- Each section of text could be flagged if it needed improvement.
These measures have been implemented at other sites as part of the submission process. These sites see a readership that returns because readers know the articles are of high quality and that the writers are credible.
Poll About Article Controls at Triond
- Should Triond Implement article quality controls?
- Should the Online Editor incorporate built in flagging?
This article is not intended as a criticism of Triond. Triond is a wonderful writing site: the built-in spell checker is a welcome feature of the Online Editor and the inclusion of Google advertising has proven a real boon. Triond pays writers promptly and has always been reliable.
* Recent changes to the Triond writing site demonstrate that Triond is working hard to help its writers and to be competitive.
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March 5th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
This makes a whole lot of sense. I too, am tired of seeing garbage slip through the cracks that receives an inordinate supply of views. One such writer of useless filth would be mfdichotomy, he is allowed to publish blatant lies about people such as that johnny depp was found dead, when he is very much alive. You pose a great point. Weed out the trash.
March 6th, 2010 at 5:30 am
Yes, some checks are essentail. Helium site’s Rating by Readers of Others’ Poetry and Articles, earning Rating Stars in lieu, is a good example. As for spoofs like”So and So Dead”–they’re fossils, the novelty having worn off in school mags.The craving for comments from Friends Inc. also highlights trash stuff, borrowed stuff, plagiarised versions with U-tube embedded etc. Like one of my newly acquired Triond friend says, one good reader or two, is enough than 40-parrot comments.
March 6th, 2010 at 5:58 am
I totally agree Athlyn, there are so many good writers here but we are all ‘levelled’ by low standards unfortunately, it is one reason I am not sharing many poems on here now.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Thanks, well said. It makes the entire site look bad. That is why I put the articles here that I don’t usually mention in my portfolio. I never spend much time on these articles at all. My better articles are saved for places that do have quality standards.
One pet peeve I have is when people comment on what is basically a piece of trash by saying “good work.” That just encourages them.
March 6th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Triond is willing to make adjustments and it is my hope that this article leads to needed changes.
March 6th, 2010 at 10:14 am
There are two other writing sites that I have been writing for and they have more strict guidelines for article submissions. Not only does the quality of writing needs improvements, so do the comments. I know who really reads the articles by the type of comments made.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
seconded
March 6th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Well, I do hope those that run Triond read this – it is measured and fair and by no means a rant (which is sometimes what I want to do when I see some of the rubbish they print).
At the moment it seems that as well as promoting our own work Triond are happy for us to police that of others. An example, two recent ‘authors’ were suspended because of emails of complaint sent to the ‘editors’. Their writing was absolutely awful (not hyperbole) and I was ashamed to be associated with a site that published such unmitigated rubbish.
Plus of course, Triond sites have been banned from other social networking sites. Healthmad has recently been banned from Propeller. Get this tho – Trifter has recently been blocked by a non-English site! Ha! Even those whose first language is not English are acting up on this.
Another reason why articles should be more thoroughly vetted is to avoid the above but also to try and halt the systematic spamming of much larger sites, such as Facebook, by those who cannot write to save their lives. It seems that poor writing skills and unethical promotion techniques do go hand in hand.
OK, so this maybe has turned in to a mini rant. Better go and have a stiff coffee!
March 6th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
So many of us have found a home of sorts, here at Triond, and it would be wonderful if stricter writing guidelines where implemented to cull out the spam and allow the cream to rise to the top.
March 6th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I second that (or since Lucas beat me to it) third it.
March 7th, 2010 at 3:21 am
This was a much needed article, I hope Triond will listen.