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   DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

   Here's one that sent me rolling....
   
   A Fulgurant Autumn Rite Odour Can Be Prefabricated Out Of Bottomless Dark Flowers
   
   
   Autumn is visually a splendiferous dimension of assemblage when you can junket your eyes on the changing emblem from ketamine to yellow, chromatic, red and orange. The temperatures power be dropping and the days getting shorter, but this seems to help intensify those unfathomed shades, as the foliage dies. If you are hot enough to score a ceremonial during this picturesque moment of assemblage it would be a ignominy not to guide advantage of these resplendent flag and use them to modify a stunning season observance scent.
   
   
   I see some things never change!   Seriously, is everyone asleep??!!

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      Stacie Lposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I tried to hop some hubs a few days ago and gave up..there's some garbage being submitted everyday!

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      Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Mark it "awesome."  HP allowed it to be published, who are we to disagree. 

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         kmackey32posted 13 years agoin reply to this

         

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      Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      How do we know if we are hot enough to score a ceremonial?

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         DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Rochelle, you and I can only aspire to be that hot!

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         Rehana Stormmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         ROFL! That's exactly what I was wondering!

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      Sally's Troveposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      This is too, too precious for words. Wish my daughter were here with me to read it aloud, as your son did. Thank God I've got two bathrooms in this house, because she and I would be needing them post haste.

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         DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         

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      princess gposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Is this poetry, or a really badly spun article?
      
      hard to tell the difference...

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      melbelposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I never got into Yeats

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      Cardisaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      @ DIYweddingplanner, it sounds like a spun article to me. I have encountered a few. One I read was really difficult to read. Yours sound a bit funny though.....

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         DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I'd love to check out that splendiferous dimension of assemblage!

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            Cardisaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I was just hopping and saw some more. I felt bad flagging so I made a few suggestions in the comments.

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      qeylerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Without Human moderators and having to rely on us...this is par for the Course.  I went through 100 Hubs one day, Only Two could be published on a real site...

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         DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         As opposed to an UNREAL site??!

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            Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I hate publishing on unreal sites. The article never seems to show up.

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               RedElfposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               
               OMG, that's what's been wrong all along? Thanks, Rochelle! Now I know what happened to that last hundred articles - I didn't just imagine writing them - no - wait - maybe I did...Everything feels so unreal...

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                  Sean Evansposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  LOL.  Sometimes I wonder if I'm publishing on a unreal site. Since most of this is all new to me.

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      SimeyCposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      What's wrong with it? It's splendiferous! *grin*

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         DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         That's my new word...isn't it use it three times in a day and make it your own...or something like that...

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       Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Is that the entire hub or just part of it?
       
       Otherwise, I havent had anything to smoke in a long time. Tell the author of that hub to pass it over here.
       

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   thooghunposted 13 years ago

   The reason we have the hub hopping tool is PRECISELY to weed out spun rubbish like that.

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      Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      No, the reason we have hub hopping is because HP refuses to prevent crap from being published in the first place.  You sport the "E", you should know this.  Didn't they give you a test or something before giving you such a pretentious title? 
      
      
      I'll waste no more time on this.

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         thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Perhaps you should ask yourself why I have it before going off on a tirade (Hubgreeting). Not sure where all your self-righteous anger is coming from. Humbug.
         
         For the record, anger management aside, from HP themselves: "Frequent Hoppers also help the HubPages community by rating up the best new Hubs, and also rating down or flagging poor or inappropriate Hubs that don't meet with the conditions of the HubPages Terms of Service.".
         
         That is what I know, it is clearly advertised. I wasn't making a personal statement. Whether or not I agree with it is besides the point, so spare me.

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            Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I've never spared my opinion of your title, thooghun.  It's nothing personal, I assure you.  Some were embarrassed to have the title bestowed upon them and asked for it to be removed. Others asked for it, for some obscure reason, despite the pretention it represents. 
            
            
            
            I'll pass on counseling from you, if you don't mind.  But if HP wants members to help them keep the crap off the site, then stop the newbies from publishing it to begin with.  The reason this site was punished by Google is because HP didn't do its part, not because we weren't doing ours.
               
            
            
            
            Consider yourself spared.

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               thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               The only way I could see that realistically occurring is by having mods review new hubbers (say up to the 10th hub mark). Having HP manually process 10,000 new hubs a day would fail (always, IMO) for one of two reasons:
               
               a) It would end up like Ezine Articles with a 2 week backlog (remember also that despite their hands on editing, it did not spare them being slapped by Google either). Or
               b) Having to hire an unreasonable amount of new staff.
               
               It's a catch 22.  I'm curious how you would go about correcting the problem (I'm curious, not being sarcastic)
               
               Regarding the title, I don't find it pretentious, though I can see how the term "elite" is. What I do is the polar opposite, I volunteer (it was NOT conferred onto me) to greet new hubbers, without gain or privilege returned. So in a way I do feel I've earned it, and I'm proud to sport it. But perhaps it should be renamed to something other than elite, for it has little to do with quality -- in that you are right.

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                  Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  No problem.  I just could never imagine having to sport such a title, much less ask for it.  HP knows exactly why they chose it.  It's an old content site trick used on many other sites in the past.  it's used to divide the common members from the volunteers who are intended to push the site's agenda.  Similar to what you are doing on this topic.
                  
                  Since you mentioned "anger management" in your previous post, then you are probably aware that volunteers will defend giving free work to a program more than if they were getting paid for the same job. Justification for giving their time for free, in most cases.

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                     thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     I'm not all that concerned with how people perceive it, unless it goes too far. I won't argue with the point your making, it makes a lot of sense, however I can't help but feel the division comes not from my elitist attitude, rather than those who pre-judge it and happily skip to that conclusion. If it keeps cropping up, I will ask for it to be removed.
                     
                     I'm always been a little blunt, but I'm not base enough to feel that a little sticker makes me "elite". You'll note that (from my post-count) despite being on here 4 years, I'm not much of an attention seeker in that regard. Which may also be why I haven't felt much heat from it.
                     
                     You didn't answer my question though

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                        Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Sorry, I didn't intend to ignore your question at all.  Is this the one?
                        
                        "It's a catch 22.  I'm curious how you would go about correcting the problem"
                        
                        If so, I would ask hubbers and staff to preview a new writer's first 2 articles before allowing them to publish at will.  I, and many others I am told, had rather do this than try to catch the junk after it is already on the site.
                        
                        Sometimes a bad writer has many hubs published before they are found.  Some are never found, it seems.

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                           thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                           Seems like we can agree on that. I'd even gravitate towards a stricter count -- say 5-10. I wrote 60 hubs before I realized you could make some change on here. I used to think we had to put our nicknames in the URL: "/hub/escapeartist".
                           
                           A little bit of a learning curve would have gone a long way back then.

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                              Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                              Many of us have suggested similar ways to help stop so much dross from ever getting on the site.  HP says no.  So I do too.  No more Hub hopping for me.

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                  Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  Ezine Articles -
                  
                  Shortest time until an article of mine published - 4 days.
                  Longest time until an article of mine published - 7 weeks (48 days actually)

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                     thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     You must have thrown a party when it was finally published! What really irked me about them was how a minute slip that could be corrected with a keystroke would throw me back another couple of weeks.

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                        Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Yes I know the feeling well and I did celebrate. Would you believe it all came down to two fullstops in the wrong part of a sentence?
                        
                        Man, was I relieved when I found out what the final issue was and corrected it.

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            qeylerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            One doesn't have to hire an editor, pay Mods some % one just gets the average writer to waste time looking at dreck.  However, the example used is far better then the advertisements. 
            
            I love the way a writer jerks around Adsense and Google by posting what is clearly an ad and getting them to sponsor the ad with their ads, so that the so-called 'writer'  gets paid by other advertisers for posting his own advertisement.
            
            Guess that's why Hubpages is called a 'Content Farm'

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   DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

   But should we really have to work quite so HARD?

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      mtsi1098posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      good point

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      No.  If every hubber checked just one hub per day it would be very easy.
      
      Unfortunately it ain't a gonna happen.

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      Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I enjoy doing a few evry now and then-- I love to find things like this one. it gets the imagination spinning.

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   PaulaHenry1posted 13 years ago

   Who are we to judge the 'art' of another? hahahahaha!

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      DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Definitely some creative writing.  I made my 12 year old son read it out loud.  We were both hysterical before he was halfway through!  He said, "This doesn't make any sense."
      
      Ummm...yeah.

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         Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Twelve year-olds see things too clearly. It takes a certain maturity to appreciate fine nonsense.

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   thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

   I'm pretty sure that's how I sound after my 11th rum and coke.

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      Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      In that case I would buy you a drink.

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      DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      That's how I sound after two rum and cokes...I'm a lightweight these days!

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   Mcham Lawposted 13 years ago

   I don't mind hopping a few hubs every day or so. My problem is that I flag them and then see them again in a few days. What happens when I flag this spun crap? Does someone actually do something about it?

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      Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      It depends if the crappy hub makes HP money or not.  If you know the hub is bad and it isn't removed after you report it, post it on the forums.  We've had to do this on numerous occasions if the hub makes HP money.  It's amazing what a little embarrassment will do sometimes. 

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   Lisa HWposted 13 years ago

      I don't know...    It looks like a perfectly splendiferous piece of writing to me...

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   thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

   The only person I've ever heard use the word "splendiferous" was Dave Chapelle.

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   DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

   The sad part is the more I read it is the more sense it starts to make...kind of like a mantra or something.

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      shoganposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      That's how they get ya, DIY.  Pretty soon, you'll be writing the same way, put off by everyone else's critique.

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      Sally's Troveposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I understand that completely. The convergence of words is so odd...the more you get into it, the more you get out of the conscious self. I think I have to say, "Beware!"  You may wind up in a place that's not good. But this is fascinating.

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

    Everybody...all together now...ohmmmm....ohmmmmmm.....

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    Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years ago

    If a piece is riddled with spelling errors, the Hub Hopping for me stops.  I try later.  If I want to read spelling errors, I can tune into Facebook, where there's plenty of horrible samples and no one gives a rat's ass about what they're writing.  I appreciate good writing, but I can't overlook spelling errors.  Last night, I couldn't get past a couple of Hubs.  I couldn't even get passed the titles.  Of all things, you shouldn't screw up the title of your Hub with spelling errors.  Jeez.  This is coming from someone responsible for her team losing the county spelling bee in the 6th grade.

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       Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Oh come on, 6th grade? I was in state spelling bees in fourth grade and lost to a kid who probably misspelled about two words a year. I'm just saying, no need to insult children.

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       DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Aaack, me, too!  I was the state alternate and lost over a simple word like "mortgage." 
       
       That was foreshadowing that I would be stuck with one my whole life!

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    Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years ago

    Oh, quit bragging, Jonathan Janco.  At least you made it to the state spelling bee.  When you make spelling mistakes online, it follows you around forever and ever.

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       Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes but in the spelling bee there is no 'edit' button. Online you usually have the chance to proofread and spellcheck and correct. I'm just saying that I've met children who spell better than that under the pressure of hot lights, live audiences and no 'go back and correct' options.

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    duffsmomposted 13 years ago

    I'm not sure where these hubs come from, but they are in abundance.  I do wish Hubpages had some standards with regard to writing quality.

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    Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years ago

    Thank you, duffsmom!  Well put.

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    Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years ago

    And that's where HubPages spoils you as a writer.  You can edit, which is nice.  You can even delete criticism which doesn't agree with you.  There are writers and there are editors.  It is rare that people can do both.  These Hubs I've been reading in the Hub Hopping lately are just plain scary.  If these writers turned in these hubs to a real live editor with all these mistakes, guess what?  Be prepared to get some rejection slips.  That's the real world.  No, it's not okay to ask other Hubbers to be my Hubber Police, nor will I correct their work and send them an email telling them which words aren't spelled right or their grammar and punctuation is screwed up.  If that's the case, then pay me for my time and efforts.  Otherwise, I'm not reading a Hub that doesn't deserve to be Hopped.  Get my attention and entertain me with your writing, but don't insult me as your reader and don't put anything out there that shows you have no pride in your work and are willing to publish a writing train wreck.

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    Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years ago

    Arlene, there's nothing in the rules that says we have to hop hubs. We all do it out of our own free will. If it's not worth your time, then flag it or atleast vote it down. And then hop to another one or just stop hopping. The mods are usually looking for spammers and not necessarily poorly written hubs. You do have the choice to not bother with it in the first place.

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    mega1posted 13 years ago

    I agree with Arlene = I think people should make an effort to produce good writing here, otherwise, why bother?  And it annoys me when people don't even try to spell things right, or use the right grammar and punctuation - its like an insult to the reader.  I am aware that many ESL writers on this site are doing their best, but you can tell when people are trying and when they just don't care.  Still, I have stopped hub hopping because I don't even have time to read all those hubs by people I follow.  It was pretty annoying to hop hubs and only about one out of ten was worth reading!

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       Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes Meg, I agree people should make an effort, but you'll keep seeing the same mistakes from the same people if other hubbers don't flag these low quality hubs.

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          mega1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Yes, Jonathan, you are right!  Right! Right! Right!  darn

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             Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Jonathan, I am aware that I don't have to Hop Hubs, but this system established (or not established) by HubPages certainly needs improvement.  I may stop reading a Hub, but I can also flag it or take action with some of them.  That's my call.  Or I can bypass the whole thing and call it a day, month or year.  Some Hubs are just not worth my time.  I understand writers will put out good stuff or bad stuff, but some people write crap all the time and expect others to correct their crap. 
             
             At the same time, I follow some of the most creative and entertaining writers on the planet, and I keep up with them and provide them with positive feedback.  I look forward to following anyone who provides a good read.   
             
             Not everyone is cut out to be a writer.  I saw one today that was just unforgivable, but it went through.  Of course, I flagged it and voted it down.  Why am I not surprised?  But I guess this is what some people call that "getting published".  I remember names, so when I see there is no hope for these repeaters, I move on.
             
             I have nothing against leaving praise where (in my opinion) praise is due.

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                Maddie Ruudposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                I'm not sure what you mean by "went through."  HubPages is an open publishing platform.  We give everyone the benefit of the doubt, to start with.  That means that we are not reviewing all Hubs prior to publication.  There are many rules violations that we can automatically detect (too many links, etc), but there are others that we cannot detect without human review (such as extremely poorly written articles).
                
                In other words, when you HubHop, you are not seeing things that we have approved.  You are seeing things we may not yet have seen.  Flagging brings them to our attention faster, so thank you for doing that.
                
                Of course, nobody is obligated to Hop.  Some users genuinely enjoy helping to weed out the crap and improve the site, that's all.

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                   Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   I used to do my share of hopping and believed it was for the good of the site.  But until you guys do YOUR part in keeping the crap from being published to begin with I see no need for wasting my time.  The open publishing platform is what caused the first Panda slap here on HP.  Give it up, it doesn't work!

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    Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years ago

    Well, I would say all systems need improvement on some level and HP certainly is no exception. Often where you find one spelling/grammatical error you are likely to find many. People like this are just careless or less skilled in the language. I would only suggest that people having 'expectations' of others to correct their work might be a bit of a harsh indictment. I never got such an impression from such hubbers.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

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       Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Unreal.

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       DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Say what?

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    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    Here's one for you DIY-- includes these tips about wedding planning:
    
    "Without any surprise, thinking a wedding can be knotty.
    
    "You may make the nuptials mentation job equal author embarrassing when your nuptials day is arrival presently.
    
    "You can flush straighten sure that you gift be competent to alter your circumstance to run smoothly.
    
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    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    In another hub there is advice for finding a hotel to hold the event. This one sounds good:
    
    "The hotel had a such advertised chef, Psychologist, and catering body. We met with Psychologist. He wowed us with a distribution of dishes hors d'eouvres, appetizers, entrees, and deserts; no necessary to face encourage. We yet went so far as to parting the agenda up to him, and were delighted when he told us what he had in deal. The store and patterned arrangements were united on after a few disagreements with my parents, not the florist. The band was rattling safe; they would gratify sagittate but ravishing invitation and they were feat out the shadowing hebdomad. Like I said, everything was toppling into residence."

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       Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Wish I didnt read that!
       Now I need a drink!

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          Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Maybe the Psychologist can make some appetizers to go with the drink. Don't worry everything will fall into pl... I mean topple into residence.

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             Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Oh, well.  Makes for an entertaining Forum.  Unfortunately, I can't meet y'all for dinner and drinks and pick your brains.  But that's the online experience for you.

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             DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Wow, great stuff.  I'm saving both of those to use in my next hub!

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             WriteAngledposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Unless the shadowing hebdomad gets you...

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                Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                That does sound rather ominous, doesn't it?

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       mega1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       definitely no necessary to face encourage!   I almost understand what this all means - and I'm very glad I was not at that wedding.  or event.  or hebdomad gathering

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    Arlene V. Pomaposted 13 years ago

    Great idea, DIYweddingplanner.  Gotta use what's there.  But I have to admit that you are great at stirring the pot!  This is a very long Forum!

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    Randy Godwinposted 13 years ago

    Come on guys, this is an open platform!  HP wants to give these guys a chance to improve their writing.  Perhaps if they read their hubs aloud........ 

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

    I'm sure it involved some sort of animal sacrifice or something at the very least!

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

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    All from the same guy...he has 17 hubs and I checked 6 of them. I gave up and flagged his profile.

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    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    I'm overwhelingly and utterly discombobulated by the eloquence of these recent offerings.  I'm afraid I will never escalate to aforementioned pinnacles of rhetoric.

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

    C'mon, Rochelle.  Keep those fictive juices graceful...I hear Pilates helps!

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

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       Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Lol, very good.
       
       One benefit of the new "home" page is that you get new hubs from your favorite subjects - I think.  And I have already picked up a few, and their hubber owners, from that source for flagging.

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          Uninvited Writerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I saw this on the feed.

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             Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             On reading that again it is the best I have seen.  Hilarious.

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       Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You'll notice it says  "How to CHANGE", not how to improve your grammar skills..

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          Uninvited Writerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          

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             Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Here's another excerpt with advice on writing titled: Don't worry about the first draft"
             "So, what are the things that you impoverishment to allow in your oldest depth? Why is it so consequential and how are you leaving to indite it in an telling way without causing too untold example in your work allocation finished a paragraph, looked at it and exclaimed, "That sucks"? Don't worry around it. It's the gear drink. And the perfoliate statement is, it's oft wicked.
             
             It doesn't thing if you're a college educatee scarcely stringing line unitedly or a excavation attribute writer with ten eld of jock undergo low your belt. Chances are sound that most of the low drafts you succeed to become up with faculty ever break."

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

    Today is a banner day...the next hub I saw on the feed was badly spun too...as well as all 17 of the author's hubs. I wonder if it's the same guy I flagged yesterday.

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    thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

    I saw that new one too and took care of that, as I hope other did.

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

    The feed has been a great source of inspiration for me as a writer.   Seems like the worst offenders like to write about weddings...!? 
    
    UW, not sure what copulation has to do with grammar...it was never that much fun when I was in school!
    
    Yes, I love the feed...it's a veritable flagging extravaganza!
    
    Oh, btw, the jeffriestube, thanks for "liking" my business page on FB...nice!

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    thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

    My pleasure!

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    Lily Roseposted 13 years ago

    Okay, so I didn't read through all of the pages here, but what I did read inspired me to go do some hopping (you're welcome, HP!) which I haven't done in a while and all I have to say is: OMG!!!!!
    
    I admit, I don't hub hop much, but NEVER have I seen the amount of crap I just saw in about 10 minutes of hub hopping!  I probably hopped around 25 hubs and flagged probably 18 of them!!  It's truly no wonder now to me why HP is going downhill...something really should be done to prevent this crap from ever being published. Maybe new hubbers do need to prove themselves worthy before anything of theirs is published! C'mon!!

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    Mark Ewbieposted 13 years ago

    ... which backs up the point I and others have made repeatedly - trial period for new hubbers and dual purpose the hopper for moderating AND permission to publish for new hubbers.
    
    So, if you are new, you don't get published at all, until a number of people (including HP team) have reviewed your page.
    
    I don't know how much this affects us as individuals given subdomains but surely it is a red flag to Google to say come back and stamp on us?

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    Lisa HWposted 13 years ago

    I don't know...   Last night I was really tired, so I figured I'd do the "effortless"/"mindless" thing of Hub hopping.  Usually, it doesn't take a lot of time or effort to run into something awful, indicate that, and go to the next Hub.  A person who's not in the mood to read can usually easily find something that doesn't even require much reading to see how bad it is. 
    
    Last night, I was seeing Hubs that looked substantial and "overall good".  They would have required reading to see if there was anything that wasn't obvious (as opposed to so many "usual" ones that don't take more than seeing the thing in the first place for it to be clear it's spammy and/or spun).  I saw some that seemed like they weren't written quite as skillfully, but I would have had to read to really be fair.  Since I was too tired to read each substantial-length Hub I'd go on to the next, and then the next, etc. etc.   Eventually, I got too tired of clicking and clicking in the hopes of finding some "easy-to-take-of-losers", so my well intentioned plan to make use of my tired time by effortlessly "addressing" some easy-to-spot losers amounted to wasted time and no real hopping getting accomplished at all.  Maybe it was a freak night, but it struck me that maybe the days of mindlessly/effortlessly hopping could be dwindling some (which would be both good news and bad news, depending on how tired hoppers are or aren't).   (Or else maybe I was getting the "un-addressed" new Hubs of a lot of other tired hoppers who had passed them by without addressing them.  )

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

    I find hub hopping a good way to find excellent writers too. I have discovered a lot of good stuff.

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       Lisa HWposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I've seen some good stuff too.  That stuff isn't as much fun to talk about and make fun of, though.      (and it really isn't as much fun for tired hoppers who hope to find stuff they can easily hit the "reject button" on without doing a lot of reading. 

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    Cheeky Girlposted 13 years ago

    Wow, this sounded like it was "Washed" through Google Translate and typed up by a person who just discovered the language of English for the first time. Some parts sound kind of good, but other bits are just bizarre!

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    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    This is almost not being funny anymore. More writing advice that I don't even want to make a guess about:
    
    "Pauperization to be much originative? We all do. But it is sometimes marmoreal to be solon successful if you don't hump enough life to do it."
    
    So flagged-- along with others by the same "author".

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    DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years ago

    I am absolutely changing my name!!!
    
    Afghanistan, wedding is a much celebrated circumstance where the uncastrated ambience hives with process.
    
    Wedding between the forward cousins is a unrefined recitation. When the miss attains the age of ten, operation for a likely participant is initiated by the women stemma. Mother and aunts meet the female friends to enquire different likely candidates.
    
    The status of the guy, his stress and his looks are advised before determinative the release. The select is then presented before the men sept and they cross indispensable inquires before finalizing the connection. Formerly everything is constitute suited, the pre-wedding ceremonies are performed to dedicate a unrestricted approval of the things.
    
    Literal ritual generally takes put when woman attains the age of cardinal.
    
    According to the topical practice, every matrimony requires two exchanges. A dower is brought by the bride to the partner's asylum. It mostly constitutes home items which the two testament require for their tense invigoration unitedly.

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       Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Perhaps I was wrong when I suggested new writers be on a probation period before being allowed to publish hubs.  Nah! 

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          DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Do they all have to write (and I use that term loosely!) about weddings?

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             Randy Godwinposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Yes, they do.  Someone has to warn those people not to get married! 

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       Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, I was taken aback with certain terminology-- can you be a "DIY planner"?
       I hate to see your hard won acceptance being undermined by "uncastrated ambiance".

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    IzzyMposted 13 years ago

    "Certain woods have a gloss that is hard to miss; dull appearance is another indicator of poor quality or milling problems.
    Ads by Google"
    
    Do you think this is copied content??

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    Mutiny92posted 13 years ago

    The ascending expenditure of an college training makes it rattling carping for students to feel disjunctive structure to pay for college. Employ at location students would be a majuscule way to postscript the money required to act their upbringing.
    
    er...yeah....what he said...

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       IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I flagged him too! It was the majuscule word I remember, I mean how can you forget  an amazing and unusual word like that.
       
       I'm wondering where they get them, unless its some kind of foreign language to English spinning software?
       
       [Can't speak English? No problem. Our software automatically translates any article on the web and spins it, giving you a uniquely worded article for you to claim as your own! Save $$$.]
       
       Sorry guys, you've been ripped off.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

    And it continues...
    
    "My Article Parcel Article Message Copulate
    
    Whether you are fair turn out when it comes to feat the subscribers that your enterprise needs, or you are in the mood to countenance around and rattling get the artefact on different pieces of aggregation, you'll conceptualize that one of the gear things that you necessity to anticipate near is taking a see at articles."
    
    This guy had 5 spun articles.
    
    And another:
    
    "What forgiving of horror news do you requisite to pen? Your options are as citywide lawless as the type of 'fiend' you recognise to make. The statement 'mutant' represents not only the critters and creatures you invent, but also the message - whether echt or imagined. This is the rapscallion in your lie. The student genres are:"
    
    Damn the spinners are busy this weekend, third one in a row:
    
    "With the status in field, the requirement of the wireless spy camera is accretionary by leaps and boundary."

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       IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       But you must admit, this is from non-English speaking spinners. The frightening thing is that spinning software is evolving, and becoming better, and those who speak English as their first language are finding it easier to use.
       
       Foreigners can forget it! If their English is so poor that they think the spun article is good, they will never find success.
       
       But for native English speakers, eventually the web is going to be filled with spun crap.
       
       My own hubs have been copied all over the place. The copies rank higher than my hubs at the moment. I have not even looked at spun copies of my hubs. And that is scary!

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    thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

    HP better get cracking. Put more staff on to review these pieces of crap, and institute the above suggestion of a grace period for new members. If you want Google (and the writing community) to take you seriously, then act seriously.

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    Mutiny92posted 13 years ago

    Most of the webmasters are searching every day for a new way to get more traffic to their blogs/forums but most of the common ways are not giving us the good number of those visitors which we are searching for , so everyone should concentrate on the best ways for getting the best traffic and safe his time from the unreal ways which are taking us from our right way , everyone now will say the best way for getting more visitors are google and youtube and the famous websites but we want to increase the sources of the sites which are reffering for us the visitors , i will say no !!!,
    
    A subtle hint is the lack of formatting around the commas.  I see a lot of spun content with a space BEFORE the comma.
    
    This is a bit of a run-on sentence, I would say.

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    Maralexaposted 13 years ago

    Hello good people of HubPages
    
    May I respectfully suggest that the writer of the above hub could be another Lewis Carroll.  Just for fun I add a copy of one of my favourite poems:
    
    Jabberwocky
    
    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
    
    "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!"
    
    He took his vorpal sword in hand:
    Long time the manxome foe he sought--
    So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
    And stood awhile in thought.
    
    And as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!
    
    One, two! One, two! and through and through
    The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.
    
    "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
    He chortled in his joy.
    
    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
    
    “”from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872).

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       DIYweddingplannerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       They obviously used the same spinner!

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    LuisEGonzalezposted 13 years ago

    OK, this is really not about hub hoping but I have been receiving comments to my hubs that basically are an invitation to visit an online pharmacy from others outside of HubPages. So it appears as some sort of spam......

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       Terishereposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Hi all, I'm fairly new here. The Hubpages community has been very friendly towards me. You don't find this within too many online communities.
       
       I enjoy hub hopping when I'm bored. I've come across some great poetry and articles, and then, some articles were so bad, I couldn't make heads or tails of the author was writing about lol
       
       Terri

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

    Arghh... got another spinner today. 37 hubs in 24 hours... I just flagged the profile after looking at a couple.
    
    Just waiting for one of these guys to come on asking why they aren't making money or complaining their hubs were removed

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    thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

    Calling all Hub Deputies...
    
    This is an APB for http://boedz80.hubpages.com/
    
    All units respond.

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    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    Does this one need a wedding planner or a urologist?
    
    "A nuptials is one of the most precious moments in two fill's history. This is when they are hold in blessed matrimony as one. To piss it memorable, decent mentation should be done. Often times, thinking your wedding can be a trying and tiresome task. There would be present that you would bonk awake nights as you try to counselling out every part to hit the upcoming wedding day perfect.
    
    Though it can be trying disagreeable to thought out your ritual to piddle it perfect, there are predestined structure to inactivity out the inflection and play things easier for you as you direction out your ceremony."

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