What Does it Mean When An Article is Not Selected?

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   Daniel Mollatposted 7 years ago

   I quote below that part of the email I received today from HubPages editors:
   
   Thank you for submitting your article, Where is Hell? New Thinking Will Surprise You, for consideration on Owlcation. Your article was judged to be a better fit for LetterPile than for Owlcation, and was forwarded to the former site for review. Unfortunately, your article was not selected.
   
   My understanding of this email is that it was forwarded to LetterPile but failed to be selected by its editors.
   Could veteran Hubbers please review my article and tell me what is wrong with it? I've asked the editors the same question and am waiting for an answer. Meanwhile, I would like to get the opinions of veteran hubbers what I need to do to pass the editors scrutiny.
   
   The reason I'm so interested in getting it accepted is that of all my published articles this one appears to have a good viewership despite being so new in publication. It would be a pity if I don't keep supporting it to improve its very promising page view numbers.

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      jjkhawaiianposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Daniel,
      
         I'm not a person whose article or story was rejected, so I'm not sure why yours was rejected.
         My opinion is your article is disguised as a story, but really reflects what your personal opinions are on life.
         Maybe if you had approached it as your beliefs and your arguments for your belief, it would have been accepted.
         Another aspect is to give your thoughts and pros and add cons to give your belief more legitimacy, even though your cons may be biased.
         I would think they took offense because at the end your belief was justified and cemented as legit because Susan accepted Gloria's belief as a possibility.
         To me, it was a chicken s**t way of propagating your belief, excuse my French. It was not simply, "a story".

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   Jeremy Gillposted 7 years ago

   Interesting read, I enjoyed it. I'm not well-versed in religious articles here; is it possible HubPages is hesitant to move one to a niche site (perhaps fearing supporting one religion more than others)? Politics and religion have always been the biggest source of debate (aka arguments) in the forums.
   
   Any tips I have are nitpicks. I'd caption your photos, and perhaps add a few more in the second half.
   
   Correct the error in this sentence (no should be not): "Yes if we were sinners, and no if we led a good, moral, virtuous life."
   
   Add an a here: "Being a parent to a child who is mentally or physically disabled is a sad life, or living to be so old that one is in a vegetative state is not nice thought."
   
   Also, the poll spells believe as beleive.
   
   Best of luck to you, and hopefully the editors will let you know if they want anything else altered.

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      Jeremy Gillposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      As the other comments show, religion is  a touchy subject. Although I don't think this philosophy by necessity dictates not to have sympathy for others, I can see how others might believe so. Definitely a tough area to write about.

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   chasmacposted 7 years ago

   While you have a few typos such as "Hardshiips" and others, there may be more serious problems.
   
   The Title
   The title doesn't reflect the content. These aren't 'new findings'. The notion that anyone suffering a severe disability or born into extreme poverty in a famine-stricken land was seriously evil in a past life is an old philosophy that many people find deeply offensive. Some years ago, the manager of the English national football team was sacked for making a similar statement, a decision that was welcomed by disability groups and many others. That was in the 90s - and it wasn't 'new findings' even back then.
   
   The Content
   Those who are severely disabled, etc., have enough problems just trying to get through life without the added burden of being cruelly branded as having been evil in a previous life, with absolutely no evidence presented. In other words, according to this philosophy, those afflicted deserve all their suffering and deserve no sympathy from others.  Perhaps the LetterPile editors also find this philosophy disgusting.

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   theraggededgeposted 7 years ago

   Comment deleted Not wanting to get into any more arguments.

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