I was with them for two years (still am), carried over 4.0 scores, low rejections and worked in the automotive. I wrote over 1,700 articles and made a gawd awful lot of money from them. Then they got weird. It got to the point where I could only write detail articles, even with a background of heavy rebuild mechanics (30 years), several certificates and licenses and an a very successful auto repair book. If anything, I'll be only glad when the CEs and section chiefs really get what's coming to them--unemployment. Those are the people that caused so many problems. Yet, the DMS system was flawed from the beginning, imo, where greed got in the way and spam-like articles flooded the market.
I'm barely getting by with TextBroker at the moment. But I am getting by and it's less hassle on all fronts.
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ETA: According to the article, all content mills are in, or will be in trouble as a result of this. Kind of like a failing trend. Now, I'm not sure about the definition, but Textbroker works by a different model, I think. Clients actually solicit writers and go through the company. They pay for what they want. A content mill is a company that just throws SEO crap out there and hope it Google sticks. Am I correct about that? There is a difference. We also have teams and direct orders, where clients favor you and specifically hire you for a job or many. DMS did not operate like that. BTW DMS stock has been falling more than usual since this announcement, and 15 were let go in the R & D department for their content only section. They're scrambling to bolster up their other operations and departments.