Ezine Articles is Banning People Like Crazy, Are YOU Next?

Ezine Articles is firing Premium Members as not being a good fit. Will you be next? If you're not delivering real value in your articles--i.e., useful information that people can actually benefit from--then you're likely to be targeted. Why risk having your account downgraded or have your articles rejected or banned from Ezine's site?

Prepare for my rant--not against Ezine Articles, but against the junksters who waste my, and your, valuable time.

I'm going to provide the source of the controversy that's raging over this, and I'll weigh in right now with my own firm position on the matter: If you're a junk marketer/spammer or completely clueless newbie who's trying to sell the crap that we all see in our spam folders every day, or, you use "articles" you got from some free "15000 niche articles mega-pack" without working them over and making them truly useful (yes, it's OK to use them, just turn them into something useful and don't copy them verbatim), you deserve to be banned from Ezine Articles.

I'm all for what Ezine Articles is doing. Hell, I'll even volunteer to help! I'm tired of wasting my time on junk: yes, junk from newbie marketers or just completely clueless, greedy idiots who jump on every offer they see on Twitter, Facebook, etc. and then spam everyone about them; junk from Squidoo and Hubpages spammers who think they can write bogus "reviews" and somehow get me to buy some useless product; and, junk in my email from spammers who think I'm stupid enough to believe that I can actually lose 100 pounds by eating berries or drinking the juice from same.

Mind you, I don't fall for any of this junk, but it takes a click to delete it. One click takes one second. If I have to deal with 1000 of these things, that's almost 20 minutes of my life that has been wasted. And I don't appreciate that. I'm a busy guy and can spend my time doing much more valuable things.

Read and heed what Chris Knight had to say in the blog just a few days ago:

"We’ve been firing an average of 2 Premium members every day now as not being a good match. In some cases, we’ve had to fire members who were Premium, got fired, bought again and then had to be banned from Premium membership. We’ve had members plead to pay any price for speed or to be unbanned. One guy yesterday offered us $36k to accept his articles on top of our Premium membership fee with one exception: He wanted us to accept derivative content. No way!

"Key Issue: Our team has been at great odds with ourselves because we want to deliver excellent service to our Premium members, yet a high percentage of our Premium members are not ideal EzineArticles members. We’ve essentially accelerated the speed at which our worst members can submit low value, thin content [emphasis added] into our system."

Later in the post, he explains further:

"Our next big pass at curbing low-value content submissions will come in the form of banning certain types of content that are currently in too high of market supply (think “Acai berry” type articles) and other commonly spammed articles with highly derivative content (think penis enlargement, get your ex back, dating articles, some types of finance articles). We’ve been slow to reach this point because we’re looking for ways to allow legitimate good ideal members to submit content on these topics while singling out the gamers who only want to submit really thin low value content [emphasis added]."

What do YOU think?

Cheers!
Ken "The IM Geek" Harthun