Spin, spin, spin
There are accounts that have a lot of these...I have flagged them and sent email to team@, but they still exist...
But so are the deceptively titled authors
http://hubpages.com/profile/jojo1000
Even after flagging more than a month ago, they are still allowed to remain published.
(I think they have banned me from FLAGGING!)
I think they fired them!
I hopped some and got disgusted when I had to flag nine out of the ten I read for appearing to be spun. Kind of like a bad commercial, hub..."Nine out of ten hubs appear to be crap!"
I have often wondered why hubpages has not done what you suggest.... They MUST have a reason surely!
Of course they do, Earnest. The just don't want to tell us! It obviously has to do with money in some fashion. I don't trust them anymore to do the right thing with the writers. Any of them! Where there's smoke, there's fire!
I have a fair bit of understanding about business as I know you have, but what I can't wrap my mind around, is that they should understand the basics, yet appear not to.
Any long term enterprise needs a reliable source of income, so why can't hubpages see the commercial reality that good articles attract good advertising dollars a lot better than the pile of garbage written by some weak kneed opportunists who have no intention of offering anything of value.
The principles that make or break a business apply here as well.Not here in Fantasyland!
We would all like to know as many of us have asked for the reasons why newcomers aren't made to have their first few articles checked before allowing them to publish at will.
But no go! Mum seems to be the official word here.Yo Mumma!
We all do what we think is right. A pity none of us knows any more than the others. And why is that do you think?
Yep I agree entirely with you Mark. In fact some of the old hands may remember that we had a rating system starting us off as 'Protege' then advancing to 'expert' and so-on.
So IT can be done!
Why not let the peer group be involved in judging the quality of the lets say first five or so Hubs, after all we do have a vested interest
...and the mind-boggling thing is that they get followers!!
How does that all work? 
Sockpuppets, maybe? Indiscriminate "support" of the Hubless or naive belief that someone brand new ought to have followers before writing anything?
I have old writing on another site that won't pay people if they don't rate x amount (and it's not much that they expect). For about three years now, I've been doing my bare-minimum rating each month, just to get my $35 (or so) in earnings. I've told myself it's not bad pay for a few minutes of (unbearable) time each month. As time has gone on, though, I've actually read so much junk that I feel like I've reached a saturation point and just can't read "yet one more". Toward the end of my rating days (and decision to sacrifice what had dropped close to $30 or a little less each month) I'd bypass all rating except for poems.
Anyway, at this point I'm all rated out, and kind of hopped-out; but I Hub-hop on here when I can make myself do it, because it's part of the deal. Honestly (and I"m not exaggerating or being funny when I say this), if you read/see enough of those "horrors" over the course of a few years you can get completely burned out on it, to the point where you just think, "I can not do yet one more of these."
So at this point, I think I'm going to do some hopping for fifteen minutes or so, but I'll get through three before I "get mean" and think, "I just cannot do this."
I like this site for my some of my own purposes and for now, but anywhere else I write from here on isn't going to have the thing that involves voting/rating on other people's stuff. That's just not how I want to make my money (if I ever again make any ). (I don't want to see "dramatic", but, really, I'm amazed to discover how bad, and real, that kind of "burnout" can be over something as seemingly minor as rating/hopping a few pieces of writing here or there. ) If it had been just reading a bunch of stuff that's "normal" writing (but reasonably decent) it wouldn't have happened.
I didn't know what to check on that one.
My theory is: That was an HP competitor trying to show what quality control is like over here.
You got there before me. That'll teach me to read all the posts in a thread
- BenjaminBposted 13 years ago
0You prove my point with your words Lisa. No one who has drank the Kool-aid ever realizes it as they are brainwashed. There is no deal! Nowhere when I signed up did it say I was required to do their job. It may talk about how they would like to see you do so, but that's the subliminal line to herd the sheep together to do their bidding. That you even consider something that is not a deal to be one is all the proof needed, good day
I like that you equate it with picking up trash...that's the way I see it
Amen, hallelujah, and pass the Kool-aid!
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