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by W8JI on November 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
After reading the tuner article, another big long mess that is embarrassing to Americans, to Ham radio, eHam, the author, to participants and harmful to people trying to understand how a tuner or transmission line works, isn't there ANY way to review articles before they are published?? The USA is already dropping like a rock in science and technical fields, there are already enough myths about transmission lines and tuners. I understand some topics might be debated or have some small errors, but publishing sheer nonsense is wrong. It wastes space and it embarrasses everyone. With all the resources out there, why the heck doesn't e-ham be a little more responsible about the content of articles? 73 Tom

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by AA4PB on November 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Tom, I'm not sure I'd want one individual at e-ham approving the technical accuracy of each article (I have no idea of anyone's qualifications there). The articles, after being published, get an on-line technical review by qualified people such as yourself. People have to learn to read the article AND the comments to obtain an idea of the validity of the article. It is important that those with some technical qualifications take the time to respond in order to keep new people from being mislead by technically inaccurate articles. Even worse than the articles is some of the misinformation posted on the forums that at times goes totally unchallenged.

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by W8JI on November 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
They could vet the articles to a off public view page a week before posting them. It wouldn't and shouldn't be one person. My bet is if they did that, they would get MORE articles. Not reviewing the articles makes it less desirable to post articles. It doesn't encourage articles, except trash articles that could never be published elesewhere. 73 Tom

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by EARTHLING on November 23, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Yeah, that sounds like a great idea! Let’s form a committee to approve all of the articles. Then this site can get pulled down into a bureaucracy pit that never gets anything done. Nothing quite like a room full of hams all with their own ideas of what is right and wrong, should and should not be ran, and of course, their own agendas, not to mention the all too frequent animosity than runs rampant here at times. That’s how to run, err, ruin a site. I’ll keep reading what interests me, skipping what doesn’t, and ignoring what isn’t any good, and keep my subscription as long as they keep the site running and up to date. If it isn’t broke, don’t try to fix it. No one forces you to read anything here, the comments section allows everyone to air their own opinions on any given article, and there is new content every day that I visit this site. That’s far more than I can say for the others.

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by NI0C on November 24, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Tom raises a good question that I've raised myself a couple of times. My suggestion was to pay authors some nominal amount-- perhaps a year's subscription and enforce some standards for articles. The quality of articles displayed is very uneven-- from well thought out projects with illustrations to off the cuff ramblings and trolling editorials that took probably no more than five minutes to write. One wonders if the articles editor has ever rejected an article. There's definitely room for improvement. 73, Chuck NI0C

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by N3OX on November 30, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
"The quality of articles displayed is very uneven-- from well thought out projects with illustrations to off the cuff ramblings and trolling editorials that took probably no more than five minutes to write. " As always, I think the answer is in the software. Imagine if the users of this site could rank and rate the articles by quality, and that would decide which ones were on top and which ones rolled onto the second page. New articles would be posted at the top of eHam.net and they'd be gone from the front page in mere hours if the users hated them, but they could stay on the front page for a couple weeks if the users did like them. To keep the site fresh, you could have a built- in depreciation where the articles would slowly drift downward in the maximum attainable rating. Again, I have no expectation tha this will happen soon, because it is a tough switch to make in a content management system, but it could work well. There's a real problem in the sense that the best articles clearly take a long time to put together. 73 Dan

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by K1CJS on December 11, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
The real answer is to have someone take the time to actually read through an article slowly--someone with a modicum of knowledge--for one thing to check spelling and punctuation--and for the reason of accuracy. That is the definition of an 'editor'. The fact that the sections of this site have managers is telling in itself. I'm not privy to the way things are done--but it looks like the articles are just lined up and automatically added to the site according to a software timer, with no human intervention whatsoever. I do hope that statement is not representative of the way things are done.

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by KA4KOE on December 16, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
http://www.eham.net/articles/6468 http://www.eham.net/articles/8561 There were written as jokes. Need I say more? PAN

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by K5TR on December 22, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
There are plenty of articles that are submitted that are never approved. The articles manager is the one that reads and approves articles. He often complains that he is not getting quality articles. In the early days of eHam there was a policy to pay for articles based on views. I do not recall when Bill Fisher discontinued that practice. I always thought that was an interesting idea. And maybe it makes sense again. I like the idea of some way to rate or vote on an article. Then we could offer a way to view articles based on number of votes or quantity of votes or some metric that comes up with a score. I will give that some thought. Thanks George - K5TR

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by EC158 on January 14, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Hmmm..I got it! Lets make everyone take a test before they are allowed to post. Maybe 35-50 technical questions. And a Morse Code requirement, lets say 10 wpm. You know THAT always comes up, REAL HAMS know Morse Code and to hell with the rest....

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