Will Triond Make History this May?
May two – In case you miss the changes on your dashboard (or you happen to glance at them but leave the act as it is – glance), there’s a new thing going on Triond.
I’m still a little over a month here on Triond but I’m not your lousy lurker who doesn’t seem to spot the difference between a good and a bad article, if I caption it right.
For over a month, many have published articles trying to voice out their views on how the site should get ahead and make improvements especially on the quality of contents published. For all we know, too often we encounter poorly-written articles flooding our news feed (I might excuse myself if this one happens to be tailing the same flow). Well, this May Quality Challenge might just part the Red Sea giving the aisle to REALLY good articles. This is a competition of a sort and winning articles on the Top Content will surely set another benchmarks for others to emulate.
Though I believe this will set another trend, I have these questions in mind:
1. How will Top Content distinguish itself from Hot Content? Could it be possible that the same persons in the latter list reserve the honor to be the same names in Top Content? At least Triond has made it clear that the Top Content would contain 10 articles; unlike the variable number of qualifiers in the Hot Content list.
2. Will Triond deem this challenge as important as health that they will make it a regular feature? That would have to mean monthly. Undoubtedly, cost-benefit analysis would suggest it’d make Triond a better site, if not the best (seems like it now has the unique features of almost every writing site out there).
3. Will they show an up-to-date list of the top 100 qualifiers as well? Or just the top 10? The announcement says “we will give away $5 for each article of the top 100 that will generate the highest average viewing time” while further saying ”To help you out, we will be adding a new section on the Dashboard that is called “Top Content” which will show the top 10 articles leading in the average viewing time criteria.” I need to be enlightened more.
4. Does writing a 1,000-word article with only a few views have an edge over a 100-word article with a good number of views?
I will end it here. I don’t want to look like an announcement recap. Good writers, see you on the list (not that I expect my name to be there). I’m just excited to see who makes the difference.
Related reading: How to Earn on Triond by Being Annoying
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May 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 am
Your article gives me of some idea of what’s going on here on Triond. Thanks for sharing.
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:01 am
oncewanttobeawriter: i hope you make it there. =)
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:16 am
Wow!! This sounds great thanks for the share
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:45 am
Finally, Triond makes a move to improve the quality of the articles. Cheers. And good luck to all of us! Didn’t notice the challenge til I stumbled upon your article.
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:47 am
I’m not writing a 1000 word article for Triond! lol.. Triond only says that readers need to stay on the page for a long time. So just put in a youtube video or more pictures. It loads longer!
May 2nd, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I think it’s a great idea.
May 2nd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
this stuffs really help
May 2nd, 2011 at 9:38 pm
I see some loopholes in this new announcement. Foremost is, how can they make average viewing time a criteria for quality articles? Doesn’t make sense to me. There are fast and slow readers, long and short articles, simple and complex ones etc. etc. I don’t really get it.
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
markbanquirig
-very nice
-you are a good writer/journalist
-but i suggest you to make artistic
-good luck to your journey
-and god bless you.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:23 am
Thanks for the share.
May 3rd, 2011 at 6:45 am
the may special looks impossible for beginners…it’s not stimulating for neophytes in triond,which simply means triond doesn’t need to expand it’s number of authors anymore…
May 3rd, 2011 at 7:31 pm
I don’t have any idea about Triond. I just want to submit articles as many as possible.
May 12th, 2011 at 2:26 am
You are quite right. May Quality Challenge introduced by the prestigious Triond will undoubtedly inspire the Triond writers to write quality content. Thanks for sharing.
May 13th, 2011 at 4:21 am
good sharing
May 19th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Let’s just see…the month is still not over…:)
May 19th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
First time to have this kind of challenge, I am interested in seeing the final 100.