I have noticed this long ago when they put frozen tongue instructions[0], yet still i find instructions quite informative
[0]https://m.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Stuck-Tongue-from-a-Frozen-Su...
WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
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Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#72wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides .for the purpose of generating ad revenue. It is not just that the guides are bad but they are engaging in keyword spamming by creating guides for things that don't even make sense
> wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides .for the purpose of generating ad revenue. It is not just that the guides are bad but they are engaging in keyword spamming by creating guides for things that don't even make sense [citation needed] But, seriously - you're alleging that they're a content farm. Can you substantiate that at all? Because from where I…
> wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides
This 100x over. I've been trying to find a convenient way to block the domain from all my devices. It's all just utterly content-free cyber squatting.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#73Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
I usually click on the X in the top right of the pop-over. Do others not see this/
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#74Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Blocking Javascript is what makes Medium usable for me. (eg with uMatrix)
No article limits, no sign in dialogs.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Medium provides nothing of value to me as a consumer. The value is that it's providing a platform to authors who want a platform where they know they'll get readers. I personally don't choose to use Medium anymore, but it's very easy to get people to read your content on there. In the past I've used places like Wordpress, Blogger, my own webpages, etc., and it took a lot more effort to get people to see your conten…
The value is that it's providing a platform to authors who want a platform where they know they'll get readers That's providing value to the authors, not the readers.
How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist? That's the value Medium provides to readers, and clearly Medium has a lot of reach, flawed their platform may be. It's not mind-blowing, but there it is.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#76Man, what is that headline font?
It's hilarious. I've just learned a bit of Cyrillic during holidays, and even I can hardly stop reading it as "OpeZego" and so on. It must be almost unreadable for people from the many countries with a Cyrillic alphabet.
You can't imagine how often it happens when someone is trying to appear "Russian" or just trying to be fancy. As a native speaker, you can't help but keep reading it in Cyrillic, and the result is completely garbled.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
The value is that it's providing a platform to authors who want a platform where they know they'll get readers That's providing value to the authors, not the readers.
How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist? That's the value Medium provides to readers, and clearly Medium has a lot of reach, flawed their platform may be. It's not mind-blowing, but there it is.
> How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist?
Author's own blog or site. If they do not want to do it that's fine. They can chose Medium I can chose to not read.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah wikihow is improving the internet with much needed articles like "How to be Random" https://www.wikihow.com/Be-Random
Fantastic that you don't need the article. I'm sure you also don't really need this article: https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-Your-Shoes Have you considered that there might be people who would find that article on "being random" interesting or helpful? Consider just for a moment, the perspective of someone who isn't what we'd call "neuro-typical" - someone with an ASD, for example. Such an article might be incredibly use…
I find the content and art on the site really cute and heartwarming and occasionally useful, so thanks! There are so many memes on Twitter that use a funny wikiHow image.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts. The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction. Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.
It is worse than Quora now because Medium not only requires sign-ins bit asks for subscription to read.
Never put a blog on Medium. They want to charge me to read it.
Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#80Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Press esc and wave that block away. For now, at least.