I feel like I committed the perfect crime. For 100 days Helium.com promised their members up to $3 for every 400-word article they wrote. So I cranked out nearly articles , and now they owe me about $900.

But of course it wasn't that simple...



Helium tried to make it harder by adding a rule that the pay-out would decrease if the articles' "quality score" averaged any lower than the top 15% — but there was a loophole. They'd only perform that quality check after three people wrote about the topics. So all I had to do was review things so obscure that no one else would ever review them.

Some of the things I wrote about?





