Yahoo Voices and an Influx of New Content?

[PaulMaplesden]

On other threads, it's been suggested that he recent shutdown of Yahoo Voices could lead to an influx of former YV writers submitting their content here.

I've been tracking the inventory on CC for the last few weeks and thought it would be interesting over the next few weeks to see if a possible influx has a big change on the amount of inventory that CC offers.

Here's the data as it currently stands - This is a comparison of the inventory from when I first started tracking it at the beginning of June to the inventory last Friday (11 July).



As you can see, between those two dates 580 articles were added to the public catalog (around 100 a week) and 760 Full and Unique rights licenses were sold* - This means an overall, net reduction of 180 articles.

I'll keep an eye on inventory over the next few weeks, see how things change and report it here.

*I'm aware that my figures on license sales aren't completely accurate, due to the information on the 'Writing Ideas' page sometimes being out of date, but I hope this provides a useful basis for comparison.

Thanks,

Paul.

[ReneeF]

this makes us think that the possibility that this reduction is due to a reduction of new content due to lag from editors being inundated with yahoo's spam content

[LauraGinn]

this makes us think that the possibility that this reduction is due to a reduction of new content due to lag from editors being inundated with yahoo's spam content

I have to agree. I've had some articles in the queue for review for almost a week now. Articles are usually reviewed a lot quicker than they are currently.

[jenniferschneider06]

I have only written 6 articles, but my first 5 were all reviewed within 2-3 days. My sixth one has been in the queue for almost a week as well.

[LauraGinn]

I've had four pass through today. Looks like a 5 day wait time at the moment.

[gators18]

I'm surprised they haven't put their foot down on this. Even if Yahoo returns all rights and purges the article, they shouldn't be uploaded here as original, unique content. Obviously in most cases the quality won't be good enough to get accepted here, but stuff getting through could seriously damage this site's reputation.

[Lysis]

I doubt it's getting through as original. Look at the rejection section and see that one person has already said she got rejected.

I used to resell my associated content here. As long as you write something well, then it can go up as usage. But I'm sure the eds are busy filtering out the yahoo blaaaaahgers. The spinners and SEO rejects are looking for a new place to throw up junk and this place was posted as an alternative.