Hello Hello has been banned
Me too, Habee
That is why her stuff is worth saving.
I figured out a solution to getting a list of Hanna's hubs. I have asked her to get a csv report from Hubstats and send me it.
I also gave her detailed instructions on how to delete the columns that are private with comments, views etc, so we will just have a list of urls and maybe titles.
Hopefully she has Excel, she has Word so she should.
I think many of us suspected something like this, Lynda! Some of the most cold hearted individuals I've ever conversed with worked for content sites. It must be a requirement for the job.
Thank you so much for helping her and for enlightening us as to her position in life. She seems like a really nice person and if she went through the Dresden fire bombings she has certainly suffered enough in her life. Thanks again!
- Home Girlposted 12 years ago
0North America was built by immigrants. To clamor about 'proper English' if your grandmother hardly speaks it (I assume), is simly immature and just funny to hear. If you are writing and speaking it flawlessly - it is your territorial advantage, don't boast about it. Hello,Hello lost her account in Hubpages, but she definitely can have it in a different place.
Grammar-shmammar, if you have something to say - say it! I absolutely love George Simenon's novels, but I never read anything but absolutely horrendous translations of his into English, I don't know French at all. I think if somebody CAN help her to move all her 400 hubs(quite a lot!) into a different place - that might be that great help she needs.
A word has a lot of power.
A book can change your life. It changed mine. I would love to read some of her hubs,she obviously has something to say, to share.
I wish I could help, but I am not a proper English person, and I am technically...challenged.
There is a little edit box at the foot of each comment (bottom right) you make on the forums, which allows you to correct spelling errors/typos on posts you put up. I use it often enough, I should know
It's only there for a few hours after you post then it disappears again.
- Home Girlposted 12 years ago0
"We do not disclose publicly the reason for a ban, and this is no exception."
I think this IS the explanation. Without knowing the true story we cannot judge both parties. When you do not play by the rules, you are... exactly,
I'm sure we'll find out, either way!
It is always easier to accept other peoples punishment than your own, PC! But you know that.
Perhaps she did break the rules and deserved to be banned permanently. But look how long some of the misleading, spun, heavily trafficked hubs stayed on the site after the first panda. Only when they were publicly pointed out on the forums were they reluctantly removed by staff. Even though they had already been flagged before. With the millions of page views they were pulling in they had to be making a pretty penny for the site.
Money talks, Bulls**t walks! The way of the world, PC!Yes, the crappy, misleading, high traffic articles were eventually removed with no explanation as to why they were allowed to remain when other much better hubs were being marked for removal or editing. Sorta like "Okay, you caught us" type of stuff. I don't know about you, but for me this doesn't engender a feeling of trust for the powers that be.
I suppose it's my previous interaction with other content sites which makes me so suspicious here. I'm sorry, I've been burned before on writing sites and lately there has been so much crazy stuff going on it's hard to get comfortable. Do you think I ought to call the NYT back and tell them "to never mind"?
And I hope HP does not make the same mistakes that CENSORED site did! Perhaps I've been too hard on HP staff, but like someone said about the forum bans, they've gotten by with a few things too! I think many of us know that. Unfortunately, we can't give them a 3 or 7 day ban to show our disapproval. We can only bit*h about it!
Thanks Lynda! I hope none the staff have elderly mothers who read these forums. though!
Yes, you are probably right. Loyalty isn't a part of big business in America anymore. But I bet if you asked them they would like loyalty from their partners. I hope everyone keeps this in mind in the future. I'm finished with this now
Setting up blogger is really easy. (I don't know if you have one there or not, but it's so simple). I'd think since she's probably already got an Ad Sense account, and since she has that I'm assuming she wouldn't want to share access to set-up with anyone (and shouldn't). She could set it up the basic blog and ask anyone willing to guide her through any questions on anything beyond that to help. She could use the setting "permissions" to allow others to post her stuff (if they wanted to help). Maybe there could be a note it somewhere to say that it was written by her. (I don't know if they show something like a guest's e.mail or name - or what with posts; because only I post on my own.)
Anyway, if she just goes to her Google account and finds "Blogger", I'd think she could set up the most basic blog fairly immediately. If she needs help with changing templates or colors I'd be willing to help (via e.mail). I think, for the most part, all it takes to figure out stuff like how to change colors and templates is playing with it for a little while. (I found it fun.)
They do run a new blogger through a few settings, but a person can either use the default (at least at first, until she figures out whether she should change something) or else use her own judgment.
She could be up, running, and posting within minutes on blogger. They do let people select types of ads, but just selecting "monetize" will get someone Google ads (even if they just go with whatever Google puts on there).
She uses a lot of photographs on her writing, and that can be done either by "adding a gadget" and then selecting "image" (and then getting it from one's PC the way it's done on HubPages), or else it can be done by selecting the image icon that shows up when posting (and then doing the same thing "browsing one's PC" and selecting the photo).
Images posted with the "add gadget thing" can be moved by dragging them.
I know she's got other people helping her on here, but my e.mail address shows up on my blogs. I'd be happy to answer any questions she has along the way. (I really don't think she'll run into too many with the initial set-up.) Blogger offers nice templates, and if someone doesn't want to change them then they're all set right from the start.
In posts, link lists, and text blocks; links are done the same way on there as they're done in a text capsule on HP.
If Hanna's out there reading this, I hope some of this "super-nutshell version" of setting up on Blogger helps a little. It's really, really, easy to set up (a lot easier than a lot of other blog sites), and it really doesn't take long to learn as one goes along.
If Hanna was OK with her stuff having the basic background/look that Hubs have on here, I'd imagine she'd be happy with a basic template on there. If a person has mostly only posts, it's not at all a big deal to go in and change templates, see how they look, and change back.
If Hanna isn't likely to be reading this, I hope some of you who are in touch with her will encourage her to choose Blogger if a blog is something she's interested in. I pretty much think it's the easiest blog site (and if someone gets more familiar with the "fancier" things it's fun to exercise a little creativity if someone wants to).
If someone wants to pay for it, Blogger will also put someone's blog posts into a book for any blogger who would like that. Maybe Hanna would like that kind of thing one day to share with family members or just keep. If she started with a basic, general-subjects, blog and got familiar with it; she could then set up different, niche-type, blogs (like history, famous people, or growing up as someone who lived through WWII as a child) I don't want to make Blogger seem more complicated, or a bigger deal than it really is; but I thought maybe she'd find it kind of fun to plan to set up something new and different.
Just read your post Skyfire. Why won't Wizzley work out? I know Hanna has problems with her English etc, but if everyone else edits her existing Hubs to a good standard, then surely they can be posted on Wizzley, unless there is something I don't know
I see, thanks for clarifying
It does sound like the best bet for her as she is used to using HP, and Wizzley is so similar there is little or no learning curve to go through
So true Habee, good luck wriggling out of those requests
Coulda told you that would happen
I couldn't commit to help, but the thought that that would happen did occur to me. I imagined everyone and his article-spinning brother, and everyone with "B-minus" and below grammar skills, bombarding the generous people who showed willingness to help. (Time to put your e.mail settings on "don't allow anyone to contact me" (at least for awhile).
Passing judgements and making assumptions doesn't add to the conversation
let's stay civil, please and thank you those of us who knew or got to know Hello Hello are shocked and dismayed because she has been a wonderful contributor as a writer and fellow HP author. She will be missed and I'm hoping this was all just a mistake but if not, if she still wants help in the future, I'm here for her.- Aunt Mollieposted 12 years ago0
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