More specificity on rejected and defeaturing

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   melbelposted 22 months ago

   I submitted an article I was requested to write (by HubPages staff) to a network site. Before the existence of network sites, my article did okay. Not great, but it did get regular traffic. When we moved to network sites, this one ended up on, I think, Discover.
   
   I submitted it for consideration to a network site and I was denied. I completely overhauled the article recently and re-submitted it and it was denied. They wanted citations. I then pulled out my list of citations and added it to the article. Then I was accused of spinning the article and it was defeatured from Discover and removed.
   
   I wrote the article myself and it can be easily seen from the before and after how I pulled each section apart and re-formatted and re-titled it so it just looked more modern and fresh.
   
   I guess I am just wondering if I could find out what it is about my article that seems spun.
   
   The only difference between this article and my usual articles is the tone is different. I opted for a more formal tone because it's a medical article.
   
   I'm just really disappointed and hurt that an article I worked hard on (and even was asked to write) was defeatured for spinning.

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      WriterJanisposted 22 months agoin reply to this

      I think it would be really helpful if you posted a link to your article.

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         melbelposted 22 months agoin reply to this

         It’s not on their site anymore. They took it down

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      OldRosesposted 22 months agoin reply to this

      Email the editors and ask.  I have found that they are very helpful and can tell you exactly what is wrong with your article.

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         Kenna McHughposted 22 months agoin reply to this

         +1

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         melbelposted 22 months agoin reply to this

         I did. All I got was a super mean reply:
         
         Hello,
         
         The first and last paragraphs are being detected as AI-generated. For this article to be published, those paragraphs will have to be rewritten. Further attempts to publish AI-generated content will result in account sanctions or a ban.
         
         Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
         
         Thanks,
         Luke
         Team HubPages

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      Matt Wellsposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      We have reviewed your article and republished it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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   melbelposted 22 months ago

   I wrote the thing in 2012.

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   melbelposted 21 months ago

   Okay so I found an ai checker online and pasted part of a Wikipedia article in there and it says it’s 20% ai generated.
   
   If you look at the edits on Wikipedia, you can see each individual edit. I can’t say the person writing the article didn’t use ai, but why would you write on Wikipedia… for free and use ai?
   
   What I’m saying is that ai checkers are false flagging real content.
   
   Edit: I just used the checker on the first paragraph of my article (where they cited I spun it or used ai) and it says 10% ai generated. So it detects even less ai and I know there’s none because I wrote the damn thing.

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