Author Overoptimizing
A handful of authors are over-optimizing their articles by continuously editing them to change the link. I’d say it’s about 100-150 out of 7000 authors that cause 90% of this over-optimizing phenom…
We never mind the labor investment to re-review an article that was edited by an author to improve grammar, spelling, sentence structure, fix a mistake, etc… but it’s heading into the high hundreds and soon thousands of dollars of labor per month to just re-review articles that were only edited to manipulate the link for some profit motive.
How can we allow any author to edit their article for free to improve any grammatical mistake while charging authors a fee to be able to edit their article for profit purposes?
Few thorny problems have easy solutions, but this one might be an exception. How about charging according to the number of links changed? An editorial change that didn’t involve links would be free. Then the authors who made changes to improve text quality wouldn’t have to pay the freight for those trying to game the system for profit.
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