One of the most well known stories, which always amazes me, happened eight years ago.
A particular site sought every reason NOT to publish particular writers to limit earnings. Every way to reject a post was established.
A famous writer, to test this theory, published a short story. The image he used for his work was a bit small. So his work was non-featured. No one could see it.
The story was later published in a magazine.
This is not fiction.
The author deliberately posted one of his short stories on the site, advised everyone what he was doing, got us all to race to the site to ‘catch’ the first minutes of the publication.
It was quite funny that this story was taken down because the image he used was ‘too small’. Of course it was published in hard copy and he was paid more money than the site earns in a month.. maybe a year.
If you ever thought a human eye moderated posts on that site… think again.
Just say that the site doesn’t deserves him!!
Could one imagine such a superb short story read for free on a writing site?
Amazing story. Glad the photo went on to be published in a magazine.
He is a famous short story writer, in fact, in the Ad on this page, his name is there. He doesn’t do photography or images, he writes. But because his image was too small Hubpages had it ‘non-featured’
That is cool to see his name on the ads. He did not need the site after all!
He didn’t. He obviously knew someone on the site who complained, he joined under a nick, did his exploration, posted, got the slap down, so proved the point. Hubpages doesn’t read your work, an A.I. does all ‘moderation.