This blog post will look most likely completely unrelated to my other posts but I will be writing about topics such as this every now and then. First off I would like to say that I appreciate hubpages for all that it has done for me as it was my first blogging website and it also got me my adsense account and amazon associates account. It all started from nothing and has evolved to this very website (which was my full time employment at some stage) so my appreciation has to be stated beforehand. I understand that this article would be a better fit for my hubpages account as a farewell letter than here but it was a decision I took since I won't be using that account anymore. First off I should say when this issue started. Hubpages got hit very hard (like a lot of other websites) during the Panda update and like other websites they changed their strategy implementing new rules and new features (such as the switch from folders to sub-domains) and this has mainly worked out. Don't get me wrong hubpages always had rules and rejected articles but it never was down to heavy moderation of good posts. One of the first issues I experienced was when someone duplicated my article with relatively few minor changes (my article was posted 3 months before the other article appeared). What happened was I received an email saying my article was spam and was quoted from somewhere else and they rejected it (that is 3 months after my article was published). A quick search revealed that this was a common issue hubbers had, and it was troubling. I tried getting the person to [...]
