Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Its irritating watching some of the "writers" on GFY acting like they are curing cancer in children. Any idiot can find a 3rd world writer with good enough English to get the job done.

I hired full time writers for over a year a couple years back. My strategy was to give 4-5 people at once a chance and settle with the most dependable and reliable or keep doing it until I found good people. I think Relentless was one that i pass over because he was just so arrogant and expensive and really didn't seem to get that we weren't translating ancient texts or classified documents. He kept babbling about SEO and quality writing and showing me his sites as if he actually had traffic or as if Google Web Spam guys are sitting in their cubicles jerking off to his blog posts. If you know so much about SEO... you'd be busy with SEO. If you were any good at anything online, you'd be measuring your success in dollars and not pennies per word.

That jfalcon guy is another (the guy from Uruguay). He was also the least reliable, always behind, always promising/delivering late, talking about how awesome he was etc... so I shut him down right away. Ironically, i ended up hiring a guy that had just quit working with him who was extremely reliable and followed every instruction to the letter.

No surprise that they both come off as very self righteous and arrogant on the boards.

Writing in this business is the lowest art form and requires the least amount of talent. Particularly since we aren't selling writing.