My poem has been unpublished by hubpages staff

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   minakayposted 13 years ago

   I wrote this poem but was told that the topic and category does not match the content. I want to change the category but cannot seem to find the relevant buttons to do so. Can somebody help and while you are at it, take a look at this and criticize/suggest ideas. Thanks.
   
   WHAT IS LOVE-MY DEFINITION
   Love is a subject I like to dwell upon but I know that as one grows, one becomes lost for words to use in defining what true love really means! I have watched people get confused when you ask them what love is. Children have a different perception and adults also have theirs but all perceptions are right because they bring definitions that come from the heart.
   
   Love cannot be defined and any attempt to do so is just that - an attempt. Love is felt and experienced and that is its best definition. However, it won't stop me from attempting to define it in my own words because each time I think of love (whether EROS - the love between lovers, spouses, etc. or PHILOS - the love that is platonic or just friendship love or even AGAPE - the sacrificial kind of love especially the type God demonstrates towards us) I feel like writing it in poetry.
   
   Below is an attempt - yes, just an attempt at defining love my way.
   
   
   
   Love is the thrill
   
   I feel
   
   When I kneel
   
   to reveal
   
   to my God the appeal
   
   of being with you still.
   
   
   
   Love is the smile
   
   that bridges the miles
   
   between turmoil and the files
   
   of excess piles
   
   of magnificent tiles
   
   of love that lift me to the skies.
   
   
   
   Love is the croak
   
   that manages to go for broke
   
   each time I, your beauty, soak
   
   as you divest yourself of your cloak
   
   
   
   Love is the misery
   
   of waiting endlessly
   
   for the time to seamlessly
   
   enter your embrace ceaselessly
   
   
   
   Love is the coup
   
   that makes my heart pound anew
   
   when I think of someone so alive and true
   
   Someone so amazingly YOU.

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      RoseAsauresRexposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      wow really interesting and beautiful

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   Website Examinerposted 13 years ago

   Use this link, available from the control panel, while logged into your account. You can browse categories or use the search feature.
   
   http://hubpages.com/my/categories
   
   You can also change categories for any hub, see the tabs on the upper right corner of your screen while in editing mode.

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   IN2Deepposted 13 years ago

   This has happened to me also-even after the poem was published for a month--in my case--I changed the tags-for this you could use tags like--"love-like-relationships-poem-poetry-feelings-emoyions-feelings- ect. It would most likely be under "Books-Lit--then Poetry. Hope this helps

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   kathryn1000posted 13 years ago

   Yes,it is a poem.I like it too.

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   Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

   The place this would be placed would be under
   
   Books, Literature, and Writing → Poems and Poetry → Inspirational Poetry
   
   It is a nice piece that even without hearing you read it has a real jam feel to it.

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   Ashantinaposted 13 years ago

   As JaggedFrost says
   post under: Books, lit, writing -- Poems and Poetry
   
   use tags: love, life, poem, poetry, relationships
   
   Hope it helps!

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   saleheensblogposted 13 years ago

   before publishing delete your post here so that you don't get flagged for duplicate content. I don't think you are following this thread though

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   minakayposted 13 years ago

   Thank you, everyone. You have all been real helpful and no doubt I am learning fast from all of you. Thanks once again.

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   Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

   In other word, "Thank you and go away because yall ain't given me the pity and respect I was expecting."

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      RoseAsauresRexposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      how can you honestly know that this is what the person who posted this really means? are you a mind reader? you need to learn how to find the good in people and not assume that their motives are bad and not for good

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         N.E. Wrightposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I agree with you.
         
         HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

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    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    I try not to make snap judgments.  It is poor form.  But no offense was intended none the less.

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       Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I found your previous comment interesting enough.

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          tlmntim9posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Just what I'd expect from the staff. So supportive????????????Not!

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             Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

             exactly

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             psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             What staff? W.E. isn't staff.

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                Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

                We know W.E isn't staff, just telling that HP staff are busy banning legit articles while all sort copied product reviews from amazon float on the site!

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                   psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   They catch non-allowed material when they see it.  You just have to work out what the problem is and fix it.

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                   saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   HP never ban a legit hub.
                   HP bans substandard Amazon hubs.
                   All the amazon hubs are not sub-standard.

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    Pearldiverposted 13 years ago

    You guys really need to Stop Your Self Promotional Games!!
    If You Really Need To do this sort of promotional crap then you really need to have a good look at your writing ability and adjust it so that you gain regular traffic and other hubbers who WANT To Read it without being prompted by the additional forum selling!
    If you want to get your stuff read in the forums.. then use the appropriate forum thread! - The Extreme Rakeover!!
    
    As far as this poem is concerned... Love is a Croak?? - Really?
    WTF is a Croak - One of the skills to writing poetry is NOT Forcing a Rhyme... I believe you have forced it so much here that a Frog may appear out from under your Croak if you don't remain seated!

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       Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You think everybody who replied here are self-promoting. Then why are you roaming around in the forums

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          Pearldiverposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Oh.. Dahhhhhh!!  

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          psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          No, s/he means the hubs that got dumped probably broke the TOS for being overly promotional.  Which is the most likely explanation.

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             Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

             How can a poem get overly promotional!!!

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                psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                I have no idea.  But then OP never told us what the voilation was that caused the problem.  So anything is possible.

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                   saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   OP mentioned that the hub was categorized under wrong topic. So the hub was flagged being deceptively tagged/categorized.

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                      psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      Well, there you go then.
                      
                      Much ado.

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                         saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                         I think he never categorized it under creative or commercial writing category.

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                saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                http://hubpages.com/faq/#overly_promotional

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             saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             she meant that posting the text in forum was overly promotional.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       

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          Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          now I get it, still very unlikely though

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             saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             what is unlikely?

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                Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

                I mean the text was probably not overly promotional. Anyway since you are saying that hubteam is always right what can you say about this hub:
                hxxp://hubpages.com/hub/BLACK-MASS--A-BRIEF-DESCRIPTION/
                
                One of my similar hub got unpublished, while this hub is ranked in google for quite a few days.

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                   saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   please take off the link, don't give the poor hub a backlink.
                   
                   The hub has enough content
                   The layout is poor and seems like she was shouting.
                   The content is plagiarized though HP allows to keep plagiarized contents but penalize the hubber as do Google.
                   
                   I don't see a problem with it.
                   
                   
                   What warning you received when your one was taken off?

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                      psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      This is his/her own hub and a bit off topic.

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                      Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      Adult/mature content,  however it was not some cheap hub. Respected hubbers have discussed about the hub here:
                      
                      http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/63194
                      
                      And you are right, the above hub is almost entirely plagiarized from wikipedia, and we can say  it has plenty of mature images. If HP is so strict about mature content, they should implement the rule uniformly, not  in  a discriminatory  way. And what does HP expect, in a content site like this  there won't be any serious article?

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                         saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                         I don't see what other said about your hub.
                         
                         ~Just one or two words can trigger the filter
                         
                         ~Adult Content: Contains nudity, lewd or provocative images, excessive profanity, sexually explicit content, or contains links to adult or pornographic sites
                         
                         ~Hubpages want all serious articles remain published here. They only unpublish when there is a serious TOS violation.
                         
                         ~Hubs covering sensitive or sexually related topics are not acceptable to many advertisers that's why ads are disabled in such hubs. For an example, the filtering program doesn't understand whether you are encouraging suicide or preventing it. They only understand that you are talking about suicide.
                         
                         Wait for the team's reply.

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                            psycheskinnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                            It is all in the other thread.  There were pictures of women showing a lot of skin.

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                               saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                               hmm I guessed.

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    2uesdayposted 13 years ago

    Sometimes messages appear on hubs such as too many tags etc. I usually assume it is an automatic message. Your hub may have been flagged as wrong category, if that is all moving it should solve the problem, probably all sorted by now by.
    
    I really think there is much less 'human' input into things like this and Hubberscores (on your profile) and Hubscores ( on your hubs) than I assumed when I first arrived here.
    
    Maybe!!? A hamster in a wheel is part of how it all works and some days it runs faster than others. Some days its little friend the sneaky old fox spots something it does not like and makes us change it.

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    psycheskinnerposted 13 years ago

    The rule is applied uniformly but only after a hub is brought to the attention of staff.  They don't check every page.

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    mega1posted 13 years ago

    come now, only "serious" hubs - let's discuss "serious"
    
    hmmmmmmmmm . . .  oh!
    
    serious.
    
    ha
    
    no?
    
    serious.   
    
    **tinyhaha?**
    
    NO!
    
    ONLY SERIOUS!

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       

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          Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          You didn't say why the above hub was not flagged then. Aren't the pictures explicit in that case too?

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             saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             ~May be art work saved that hub
             
             ~none flagged that

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       Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       when I said serious I didn't meant to insult any commercial hub, I only meant it was not one of those spammy "hot aunty" type hubs.

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    Mark Ewbieposted 13 years ago

    I'm glad I didn't bother with my poem after all.
    
    I copied stuff
    And spammed
    Then my Adsense
    Got jammed
    So Satanic
    I was dammed
    Slightly manic
    Wasn't planned
    But I'll be back
    And you got scammed.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       
       
       
       

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          Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          What does it mean?

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       Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Mark, I didn't copy anything. Please care about what you are saying before you actually know anything about it.

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          saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          he is kidding, never mind
          

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    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    If this thread is to continue, lets hear from someone who has been seriously wronged by HP and see if we cant spot a reason why they were picked on.  Sometimes people here who write that kind of stuff are victims of Hoppers.  Heaven knows that there isn't enough time in the day for staff to comb every site for contraband.  If you see something like that you can also flag it.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       when hoppers flag a hub its first reviewed by the moderator and only then gets unpublished.

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    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    Good point that was extremely difficult to figure out.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       which one?

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    Kushal101posted 13 years ago

    yeah, which point?

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    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    saleheensblog 15 minutes ago:
    when hoppers flag a hub its first reviewed by the moderator and only then gets unpublished.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       oh ha ha ha
       
       I thought it was something new

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          Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          me too, thought some sort of cryptic message!

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    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    This convo is moving so fast that I often find that the comment I make gets totally disassociated with the source info and it is hard to capture the previous comment when doing this on my feed.

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    Kushal101posted 13 years ago

    No doubt hubs get viewed by moderator before being unpublished, I am only amused why 2 hubs got 2 different treatment.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       ~May be the art works saved that hub
       
       ~none flagged that one but flagged your one
       
       ~there is a set level of filtration in the software. you exceeded the level that one didn't

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          Kushal101posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          my hub was not flagged by software, it remained published for quite some time, then someone manually flagged it.
          Anyway, isn't it around 3.30 AM in Dhaka now?

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             saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             yes

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    Kushal101posted 13 years ago

    Now have a look at this forum thread.
    http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/63285
    
    Understandably hubteam gets mad at times.

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       saleheensblogposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       i flagged that and within few minutes that will be removed

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    Kushal101posted 13 years ago

    rare to see a XXX spammer of such calibre, fantastic straightforwardness.
    We should get some sleep now, Good Night.

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