The word “promote” is synonomous with the word “help” and is much stronger than the word “help”, which is why I chose to use it. As an educator, I promote.

As far as “stuffing”, it has to be quality material as well as quantity. It works for me.

Regarding #12:
“Amount” means “total number” or “quantity”. What are you talking about?

I noticed you didn’t include an email address. Why is that? Keep picking those nits.

I don’t think they do it to ’spite’ the reader (or us), but rather it’s a marketing business decision. In fact, I noticed this phenom back in 2004 when I recorded an audio tip to help encourage authors to choose the best category for their article rather than in the category they want to be found in.

Example: A Yoga expert might write an article about how to build a Podcast for their Yoga business. Which category does that belong in? YOGA or PODCASTING? The Author would most likely want it to be in the YOGA category because they don’t sell PODCASTING services or products and they only sell YOGA related products or services. … but our readership could be better served by putting this example article in the PODCASTING section. It’s not black and white; I get that. Judgement calls are made daily by our editors with the goal to keep the peace and keep the same relevant articles in the same categories.

It should be noted that this is not hyper-critical because more than 80% of our traffic DOES NOT surf the site, but rather lands on a specific article thanks to a SERPS handoff, RSS feed, Email Alert, Forward to a Friend, etc.

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Creating Press Releases requires something be “newsworthy” and that can be difficult to create. In Kevin’s case, he found a creative way to showcase his articles & expertise. I don’t fault him for it.

His actions showed us that we have some additional action needed to clarify that the top authors in each category are really the top authors by quantity and there is no quality rating going with that designation.

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Lastly, let’s end this thread.
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A few comments were deleted by request and a few comments were deleted because I thought they were better said PRIVATELY.

This thread reminded me of the Soccer game I coached last night. The boys were elbowing each other (sometimes their own team mates) as they were fighting their way to the goal. There is a fine line between rough competitive play and a technical warning… but as a Soccer coach, I will never tolerate any of my teammates elbowing each other because we’re on the same team! :)

Pam Beers writes (3):

“…I believe we are all here to promote one another…”

I hope not Pam. But maybe help one another. .

and “…if you stuff enough stuff into a tube something is bound to come out the other end…”

Ain’t necessarily so. The tube caould get stuffed and nothing will come through.

Pam Beers writes (12)

“…the largest amount of articles…”

Uh uh. How about “largest number.” Amount and number do not equate, i.e. they don’t mean the same.

Jim Nugent

Kevin, indeed, however I still think it is a huge point of contention and the issue should be addressed. Miss Matched articles in inappropriate categories may help ranking for a writer in a category, however do not help the user of the system and undermine its usability in that the user is not finding what he/she was looking for and then gets bored and with this click-happy society and attention span of 1-2 min. max per page, they are gone from the inappropriate category article and the site as well. Who does this serve? Only the author who miss places the articles and only temporarily? I would say that is neither good marketing or good brand building, but rather trickery based on BS? Is that what writers should see at EzineArticles.com?

Suggestion: 10 authors with the largest amount of articles. (You can even leave out the 10.) “Largest amount” can even be replaced with “Most”.

Authors with the most articles.

TOP 10 MOST PRODUCTIVE AUTHORS IN … CATEGORY ?

Anyway, thanks again for the helpful comments and thanks (many thanks) to Chris for this great service.