Comments on: Report This! http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-10175 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:38:11 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-10175 Hi EzineArticles blog commentors from 2006: Wanted you to know that we've updated the "Report Article" function today: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/06/article-tools-update.html Rock on, -Chris Hi EzineArticles blog commentors from 2006:

Wanted you to know that we’ve updated the “Report Article” function today:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/06/article-tools-update.html

Rock on,
-Chris

]]> by: Ed Howes http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1259 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:04:38 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1259 It will take time to determine both the extent of the problem and whether readers will make false reports. I think it would be good to get a monthly report of activities (claims and resolutions) to let all of us have some idea how bad the problem is. We could have started with a statement of how much of a problem it has been to date. As to fees for service, we could restict it to Platinum Authors who would like to upgrade to Divine Authors. :-) It will take time to determine both the extent of the problem and whether readers will make false reports. I think it would be good to get a monthly report of activities (claims and resolutions) to let all of us have some idea how bad the problem is. We could have started with a statement of how much of a problem it has been to date. As to fees for service, we could restict it to Platinum Authors who would like to upgrade to Divine Authors. :-)

]]> by: Lance Winslow http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1258 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:56:37 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1258 Can we really trust EzineArticles.com to do the right thing. I think that if someone disagrees with an article and "checks it" or flags it then the EzineArticles folks will wish to remove it so as to not offend anyone. Because Ezine Articles is quite a Politically Correct website, with all its many countries of authors? God help if someone writes an article which is total truth and it happens to offend someone living in denial of reality. I do not believe this is a good idea. I am tired of censorship and political correctness. If some is stealing content, hey that is one thing, but about the time, people flag articles or give them one-stars because they are a religious fundamentalist of the VooDoo Witch doctor or so politically set in their ways they attack anything that is not their Liberal views is a real problem. You are feeding this problem if you do not allow the truth or observational backed-up truth to be told. That is a bad path to go down in the "Freedom of the Press". No wonder your website does not allow Cartoons? Censorship=Bad and if Ezine Articles goes that way then well you are backwards from dab. Can we really trust EzineArticles.com to do the right thing. I think that if someone disagrees with an article and “checks it” or flags it then the EzineArticles folks will wish to remove it so as to not offend anyone. Because Ezine Articles is quite a Politically Correct website, with all its many countries of authors? God help if someone writes an article which is total truth and it happens to offend someone living in denial of reality. I do not believe this is a good idea. I am tired of censorship and political correctness. If some is stealing content, hey that is one thing, but about the time, people flag articles or give them one-stars because they are a religious fundamentalist of the VooDoo Witch doctor or so politically set in their ways they attack anything that is not their Liberal views is a real problem. You are feeding this problem if you do not allow the truth or observational backed-up truth to be told. That is a bad path to go down in the “Freedom of the Press”. No wonder your website does not allow Cartoons? Censorship=Bad and if Ezine Articles goes that way then well you are backwards from dab.

]]> by: Ron Cripps http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1257 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:49:02 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1257 Yes I agree out of the last 15 articles that I have written and posted I have found by doing a search for my name and article title that at least half the articles have had the links and or author bio removed. One web site has left the bio without links but under that he has even claimed the article for his own. Yes I agree out of the last 15 articles that I have written and posted I have found by doing a search for my name and article title that at least half the articles have had the links and or author bio removed.

One web site has left the bio without links but under that he has even claimed the article for his own.

]]> by: Kathryn Martyn http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1256 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:36:35 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1256 Good idea Chris. It'd be nice to weed out some of the articles of dubious quality, although people could always rate the article as "Could use improvement." I don't think very many people take the time to rate articles--likely because it's way on the bottom of the page, but personally I'll take time to check out articles that others have said they liked, so I really value the rating system. Thanks Chris as always for working to make EzineArticles.com the best article submission site around! Good idea Chris. It’d be nice to weed out some of the articles of dubious quality, although people could always rate the article as “Could use improvement.” I don’t think very many people take the time to rate articles–likely because it’s way on the bottom of the page, but personally I’ll take time to check out articles that others have said they liked, so I really value the rating system.

Thanks Chris as always for working to make EzineArticles.com the best article submission site around!

]]> by: Lance Winslow http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1255 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:52:32 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1255 I know unscropulous scum will attempt to attack various authors who they disagree with. But who cares if they cannot prove infringement. Meaning it will just waste EzineArticles.com's time. And it may weed out a few jerks to steal work. I have noticed a few people steel my articles now. Silly scum. I know unscropulous scum will attempt to attack various authors who they disagree with. But who cares if they cannot prove infringement. Meaning it will just waste EzineArticles.com’s time. And it may weed out a few jerks to steal work. I have noticed a few people steel my articles now. Silly scum.

]]> by: Chris Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1254 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:23:09 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1254 To: John R Haughton, We won't be releasing any investigation to any author just like we won't be releasing any private author information to any article abuse reporter. To: David Thomas: We're considering a fee-based level of membership that would allow us the revenue to be able to contact the author if we suspend their account for any reason, along with other premium levels of author support. No ETA yet, but a survey will be sent to a select group of authors this month yet. To: John R Haughton, We won’t be releasing any investigation to any author just like we won’t be releasing any private author information to any article abuse reporter.

To: David Thomas: We’re considering a fee-based level of membership that would allow us the revenue to be able to contact the author if we suspend their account for any reason, along with other premium levels of author support. No ETA yet, but a survey will be sent to a select group of authors this month yet.

]]> by: Wally http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1253 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:46:36 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1253 In response to David Thomas: David, With over 20K authors and another 200+ signing up daily, as much as we would like to proactively contact each author we suspend, it's just not operationally realistic to do so at this time. The primary reason is that well over 50% of the authors we suspend never even bother to contact us about it as chances are they were/are scammers to begin with. We would much rather spend that time working with an author that was suspended for whatever reason and cares enough to email us about it and get their account reinstated then spend that time emailing people that may not even care. In response to David Thomas:

David, With over 20K authors and another 200+ signing up daily, as much as we would like to proactively contact each author we suspend, it’s just not operationally realistic to do so at this time. The primary reason is that well over 50% of the authors we suspend never even bother to contact us about it as chances are they were/are scammers to begin with. We would much rather spend that time working with an author that was suspended for whatever reason and cares enough to email us about it and get their account reinstated then spend that time emailing people that may not even care.

]]> by: Wally http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1252 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:45:56 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1252 In response to Derrick: Yes, it is possible that this tool could be used for evil, ;-) or I should say not as it was intended. Any incidents reported to us will not result in an automatic removal/deletion of an article. Each incident will be handled on a case by case basis and reviewed and investigated accordingly. In response to Derrick:

Yes, it is possible that this tool could be used for evil, ;-) or I should say not as it was intended. Any incidents reported to us will not result in an automatic removal/deletion of an article. Each incident will be handled on a case by case basis and reviewed and investigated accordingly.

]]> by: David Thomas http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1251 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:28:08 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/04/report-this.html#comment-1251 Chet, you put your articles up on here to give them exposure. You can expect other people to publish them to make PPC income, but that's the point of this service being here! As long as your attribution is on the site, that's what you're looking for, as it will enable you to rank higher in the search engines. That's the main reason for publishing articles; also of course, you may get some traffic from the page that publishes your article. Bob, I hope you're right! My account was once disabled because the editorial staff thought that I was guilty of submitting a PLR article. They did this because somebody had published the article without any of my attribution. I had to explain that I did write the article, and that the site had taken the article in violation of the ezinearticle terms, before they reinstated my account. What upset me was that this all happened without ezinearticles contacting me in the first instance to get my side of it. I accept that mistakes can happen, and I hope that the team learned from that mistake. Chet, you put your articles up on here to give them exposure. You can expect other people to publish them to make PPC income, but that’s the point of this service being here! As long as your attribution is on the site, that’s what you’re looking for, as it will enable you to rank higher in the search engines. That’s the main reason for publishing articles; also of course, you may get some traffic from the page that publishes your article.

Bob, I hope you’re right! My account was once disabled because the editorial staff thought that I was guilty of submitting a PLR article. They did this because somebody had published the article without any of my attribution. I had to explain that I did write the article, and that the site had taken the article in violation of the ezinearticle terms, before they reinstated my account. What upset me was that this all happened without ezinearticles contacting me in the first instance to get my side of it. I accept that mistakes can happen, and I hope that the team learned from that mistake.

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