Associated Content Articles on AC?

I may just be a lowly newbie here at AC, but it seems to me that the best way to get your articles noticed is by writing them about Associated Content. Let's just do a quick search only of articles on Associated Content. Using AC as a search word, you get about 70,500 results. Unfortunately, searching for the exact phrase Associated Content, yields about 160,000 articles since it pulls just about every article listed on AC. But if you scan through the entries on either search fairly quickly, you'll notice the sheer amount of repetition in the subjects.

There may be many new user and writers to Associated Content coming in all the time, but how many different 'How-To' guides do we really need? There's 'How-To Refer Members' and 'How-To Change Email Preferences', just to name a few. I do believe some of these articles and video are helpful, but some of these are just common sense, if you have ever used a computer at least.

The biggest topic Associated Content CP's love to write about, while still keeping with the trend of using AC as their subject, is 'How-To Write for AC'. If you have come here, then you obviously know how to write, and enjoy it to some extent. Writing for Associated Content does take a little practice and time to get used to if you're not used to writing for the web, but one or two articles on this topic should suffice, not 166, which is the results for a search on 'Writing for Associated Content'.

With such a great chance to express opinions and exchange thoughts, while still getting paid of course, it just seems like such a waste to me to have so many useless articles on topics that just the slightest research will answer. It also kind of bothers me that Associated Content would let all these AC themed articles through. There is the chance that some of them are unpaid, which makes them more of a waste of time than anything else, but the odds are that a good number of these 'authors' actually got paid for re-stating what has already been said by others, or just simply stating the obvious.

Now, before any of you send me messages in protest of this point-of-view, ask yourself one question: How many of these articles that I have read, actually contain any useful information on Associated Content that I can't find anywhere else? I am sure the answer will surprise you. And for those of you that still want to complain, feel free to leave a comment. At least that will help use Associated Content for a better purpose, which is Freedom of Speech and Free Thought.