eHow – Still Worth your Time?

eHow has been doing a bunch of “house cleaning” lately, getting rid of several hundreds articles written by its members. This has outraged some of the writers, as it appears that many of the articles removed were their highest earners. Some are still seeing their articles appearing on the website, and others are having their article link redirect to another article written by eHow’s in-house editors or writers paid for their work directly by eHow’s parent company, Demand Media (through Demand Studios). This is beginning to worry and infuriate some people…to the extent that they are moving all of their content to other residual income sites.

So, should you scratch eHow in favor for other sites just yet? I’m currently at 16 articles with the site, and luckily have not lost any of my content. I am making about $8/month, which I know isn’t great, but some of the articles are rather new. Plus, I was planning to set a goal to add a certain number of new articles in July. Now, I’m not so sure I want to. For the moment, I believe I am going to wait it out and see how it goes for the writers who have lost their work…and also to see what eHow’s ultimate intentions are. Are they really trying to scrape their site of useless or repetitive content, or are they seeking to make more money by scraping all the high earning articles of other writers and replacing them with own writings?

What’s your thoughts on the current eHow scrape?