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Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by Slided_Guy »

drewbug01 wrote: post #56
paulpauper wrote: post #48

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

> 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…

Yeah wikihow is improving the internet with much needed articles like "How to be Random" https://www.wikihow.com/Be-Random

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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paulpauper wrote: post #48

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

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Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by capableweb »

lovich wrote: post #38
oefrha wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines: “GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.

Those are functionally equivalent imo. The NYPD operates in other cities and countries. I wouldn't expect people to preface a description of them by saying they were a global police force based primarily in the Phillipines

I don't think so.

> GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines

Would mean: freelancers from all over the world, but most of them in the Philippines.

While

> an army of freelancers in the Philippines

Would mean: freelancers from the Philippines, and only in the Philippines.

At least that's my view as a non-native speaker, so maybe worth about 2 cents.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by drewbug01 »

Slided_Guy wrote: post #61
drewbug01 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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 useful to them.

But hell, if you feel that strongly: https://www.wikihow.com/Nominate-an-Article-for-Deletion-on-...

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by Nextgrid »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #6
flanbiscuit wrote: post #4

Blocked 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've been told it's content creators that enable monetization, but I'm not convinced. Their loss.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s enabled by default or if they use some bullshit dark patterns to coerce users into opting in - it’s in Medium’s best interests to do so as they get a cut of any profits.

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Post by reaperducer »

ravenstine wrote: post #43
ComputerGuru wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Medium doesn’t author anything. It’s as if NYT consisted of nothing but “letters to the editor” (without an editor and not in response to anything that was previously published, because they would be publishing nothing in the equivalent scenario) and then decided to put up a paywall. There are countless free (and even ad-free) text-only hosting options available. Medium provides nothing of value to me as a co…

> 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.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by munmaek »

jordigh wrote: post #51
ravenstine wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what people get when they take promises of any kind seriously. I'm not excusing Medium, but at the same time I'm not going to hold some kind of false expectation over their head.

Oh, but we should hold it over their head. We very much should. Cynicism only hurts us and leaves us with a poorer way to communicate. Cynicism benefits Medium.

Err, what? Just host your own blog. Problem solved.
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