Quote:Originally posted by Sponges@Sep 22 2012, 09:34 AM
???
If your article is good, then you get paid more than those who just bullshit articles.
OK, how much though? Like I said before, it's ridiculous that a 1,000 word article isn't even worth 1 week of training and with the new scale I'm sure even if it's quality I still won't be able to get a week's worth of training done. I do papers in colleges HALF the length of that. An hour our of my day should be more than enough for 5 TPE.
Honestly, I don't care what the vets have to say about "we're lucky" just scale it down for the NWJHL players then. <_< It's 500K for them to train it's 1 million for SHL players to get a quality week of training done. There's a reason that scale was taken out and this one expects a little too much out of people who just want to do this in their spare time IMO.
Just have quality control and don't let 1K articles of bullshit get by with the scale, it's not fair for those who put time and effort into a 1,000 word article and can't even get a week of training done when this and their contract is the only means of cash. I have no interest in doing PbP's but now it's looking like I'll have to do it.
Quote:Originally posted by Kyle@Sep 22 2012, 06:27 PM
OK, how much though? Like I said before, it's ridiculous that a 1,000 word article isn't even worth 1 week of training and with the new scale I'm sure even if it's quality I still won't be able to get a week's worth of training done. I do papers in colleges HALF the length of that. An hour our of my day should be more than enough for 5 TPE.
Honestly, I don't care what the vets have to say about "we're lucky" just scale it down for the NWJHL players then. <_< It's 500K for them to train it's 1 million for SHL players to get a quality week of training done. There's a reason that scale was taken out and this one expects a little too much out of people who just want to do this in their spare time IMO.
Just have quality control and don't let 1K articles of bullshit get by with the scale, it's not fair for those who put time and effort into a 1,000 word article and can't even get a week of training done when this and their contract is the only means of cash. I have no interest in doing PbP's but now it's looking like I'll have to do it.
you can just leave too tbh
and I love all these suggestions being fired out without taking into consideration that you need to find reliable graders too.
Quote:Originally posted by Kyle@Sep 22 2012, 01:27 PM
OK, how much though? Like I said before, it's ridiculous that a 1,000 word article isn't even worth 1 week of training and with the new scale I'm sure even if it's quality I still won't be able to get a week's worth of training done. I do papers in colleges HALF the length of that. An hour our of my day should be more than enough for 5 TPE.
Honestly, I don't care what the vets have to say about "we're lucky" just scale it down for the NWJHL players then. <_< It's 500K for them to train it's 1 million for SHL players to get a quality week of training done. There's a reason that scale was taken out and this one expects a little too much out of people who just want to do this in their spare time IMO.
Just have quality control and don't let 1K articles of bullshit get by with the scale, it's not fair for those who put time and effort into a 1,000 word article and can't even get a week of training done when this and their contract is the only means of cash. I have no interest in doing PbP's but now it's looking like I'll have to do it.
You know, you could write a couple smaller articles a week and blow past 1mil, right? You do not have to write 1k words. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to do that.
Quote:Originally posted by Sponges@Sep 22 2012, 12:42 PM
You know, you could write a couple smaller articles a week and blow past 1mil, right? You do not have to write 1k words. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to do that.
A 500 word article isn't exactly "small" and I'd only be getting paid 250K for it. It ends up me having to write 2,000 words by the end of the week anyways. Far too time consuming, this site takes more dedication than the VHL with this new scale tbh.
Difference at the VHL is that quality articles are rewarded while quantity guys still end up getting the benefit anyways with this scale because they all just write 3,000 word articles of shit anyways. <_< I don't see why we can't do a grading scale instead, it adds new jobs to the league and rewards quality articles + quantity and punishes those who are only going for quantity.
Quote:Originally posted by JmanPens19@Sep 22 2012, 11:46 AM
I think my system is pretty good because it rewards for everything so say it was a 1100 word article. In the old system that gets you 850k. In my system, for this particular article it was marked like this:
Professionalism/Thoroughness --> 8/10
Interest --> 9/10
Form --> 9/10
Word Count --> 1100
I would put comments. but I already wrote it in the other thread and I'm not gonna write it again
Formula --> Word count/1250 x Thoroughness x Interest x Form = Payment
1100/1250 x 8 x 9 x 9 = Payment
600k = Payment
So this takes a 250k pay cut and focuses less on word count and more on quality of the article. I can also award bonuses etc.
So my formula
that's your formula...your's could work like i said on the other thread but this won't work like i said to say a perfect 12/12 article no matter what the word count is is only worth 900k doesn't work
Quote:Originally posted by Kyle@Sep 22 2012, 01:45 PM
A 500 word article isn't exactly "small" and I'd only be getting paid 250K for it. It ends up me having to write 2,000 words by the end of the week anyways. Far too time consuming, this site takes more dedication than the VHL with this new scale tbh.
Difference at the VHL is that quality articles are rewarded while quantity guys still end up getting the benefit anyways with this scale because they all just write 3,000 word articles of shit anyways. <_< I don't see why we can't do a grading scale instead, it adds new jobs to the league and rewards quality articles + quantity and punishes those who are only going for quantity.
I think we're arguing for the same point, lmao. I want a grading scale and it seems like you want one too, lol...
Quote:Originally posted by Donini13@Sep 22 2012, 01:49 PM
that's your formula...your's could work like i said on the other thread but this won't work like i said to say a perfect 12/12 article no matter what the word count is is only worth 900k doesn't work
Read the OP again. It said there's bonuses for long articles. Plus, just write smaller articles and you can double up on the 900k or even triple up.
Quote:Originally posted by Sponges@Sep 22 2012, 12:52 PM
I think we're arguing for the same point, lmao. I want a grading scale and it seems like you want one too, lol...
I'd much prefer a grading scale than the new media cash scale. But honestly, it does depend on how much the bonuses are worth which I don't know yet. So we'll see.
Quote:Originally posted by Kyle@Sep 22 2012, 02:01 PM
I'd much prefer a grading scale than the new media cash scale. But honestly, it does depend on how much the bonuses are worth which I don't know yet. So we'll see.
Quote:Originally posted by Sponges@Sep 22 2012, 01:06 PM
You know this is a grading scale, right?
Not really.. Giving someone an extra 100K for writing a good article is hardly a grading scale, seeing as there's no scale to look at for it. All I've seen is 100 words=50K with bonuses if you write a good article.
PS Who the fuck can write a 1,000 word article in 30 minutes? Obviously it isn't quality or well researched if you can manage to do that.
PPS: @Otrebor13: I understand that contract money should be worth more, but Ask and I are only rookies and don't have the talent yet to be able to rely on only our cash to survive training through the season. We still have 2 more years before we can cash in on that, but how are we supposed to get better if this scale is much harder on guys like us who put a lot of time into our 1K-2K articles and deserve the cash for it? Not everyone has all the time in the world to write 1,000 word articles a week or has the talent to get full TPE on graphics. I see A LOT of guys who abuse the system and pump out not researched BS but I take my time in my articles. SORRY I'M DONE COMPLAINING NAO... Or maybe not..