Ghost Writers

In my Opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with Ghost Writing.  Provided the author is okay with the lack of credit or credit going to someone else, I think it's a great way to have works published.

As someone who is shy, and doesn't always like taking credit for accomplishments, I actually really like the idea of ghost writing as a possibility.  I'm also someone who enjoys writing so it's a good way to get content out without having things backfire.

The downsides that I can potentially see happening with ghost writing is a potential for stolen content that was published without authorization to become a ghost written in the first place.

Another downside that I have experience personally is when writers change to Ghost Writers and the quality of articles or published works goes downhill.  This is often due to a backlog of work needing to be done such as RL Stine and the Goosebumps novels, or sometimes by a death of an older author who passes on their works to someone else.  I'm not entirely against this but there's no denying the quality would go down.

Overall I think that ghost writing is a great practice.  Their are some minor potential downsides depending on what written medium your looking at but overall I think it's a good idea that has stood the test of time.