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People wonder if Expertscolumn is going down the toilet. Actually, the opposite may more accurately describe the situation. Although a great flushing sound is often heard the throughout the site, it is not enough. The bowl is simply filling up too fast with crap. Even with the most powerful flusher and with a few people plunging with all their might, it won’t be long before the bowl backs up completely. Then it will overflow and create a mess that is simply too nasty and pungent to clean up.
Too many columnists there are abusing this publishing platform. Many writers there simply plagiarize articles by copying and pasting articles from places like Wikipedia. Few writers cite any of their sources for their columns It is hard to believe that although this site is called Expertscolumn that so many of the writers here are true experts on all the subject matters that they write about or that they draw from some infinate source of general knowledge that renders it unnecessary for them to cite sources. There are tons of columns that are not correctly titled. Too many columns are full of grammatical errors and written with poorly constructed sentences. For example, far too often writers here do not even correctly spell Expertscolumn. Many articles are stuffed with keywords that go on and on without ever saying anything meaningful. Often extra letters, numbers and special codes are added so as to meet the minimum word requirement for a column.

Everyone is unique and therefore different columns will appeal to different people and not all columns can be expected to be expertly written. However, after you read a column, ask yourself these sorts of questions. Did that column teach me something? Was that column well written? Would you show that article to your neighbors, friends and family and proudly assert that you too are an Expertscolumnist? Lastly, ask yourself if you would pay for that column or would you think that the column was simply crap that needs to be purged from the site. For example, below is something that someone could write and call a column. Read it and ask yourself those questions and then decide for yourselves if you want to kiss Expertscolumn goodbye.

Thirty items that you might find on an office desk
1. black pens
2. blue pens
3. red pens
4. spiral note books
5. pencils
6. paper clips
7. rubber bands
8. coffee cups
9. coffee cup lids
10. phones
11. pencil holders
12. computers
13. printers
14. papers
15. sticky notes
16. index cards
17. paper
18. business cards
19. keys
20. folders
21. files
22. file tabs
23. binders
24. calenders
25. bills
26. water bottles
27. pictures
28. stamps
29. tape
30. bills

Note 1: This piece was originally published prior to the Expertscolumn: The Tale of Two Flippa Auctions, before Expertscolumn prevented its users  from accessing and potentially earning from their displayed and before Expertscolumn re-emerged with a new look and began sharing revenue again with its users.

Note 2: I believe that the Expertscolumn toilet bowl is still in a state of overflowing content waste. However, in fairness to Expertscolumn, this problem is pervasive across the internet and not strictly isolated to Expertscolumn. Perhaps even this site is overflowing as well. Please inform me if you feel that it is.

Gentle readers, Expertscolumn, put lipstick on the face of its site. However, is Expertscolumn successfully flushing and plunging its site or is its bowl overflowing with content waste?

Originally published (without notes) on August 17, 2012 on Expertscolumn. My content is no longer appears on Expertscolumn.

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