I never thought that I would be publishing an article like this one about the HubPages writing platform, let alone having to write an article like this about them. Nevertheless, I regret to inform all of you that my relationship with HubPages is on the cusp of coming to an end.
It has recently been brought to my attention that the HubPages writing platform has been plagiarizing the literary work of its own members. A group of HubPages writers (Hubbers) have discovered that HubPages has unethically duplicated their articles on the Owlcation niche site.
In case you don't know what the Owlcation niche site is, it is one of the vertical sites where a Hubber could get their HubPages article upgraded from the DiscoverHubPages site to there; and the Hubber's article would, therefore, receive more attention and rake in more commission money than before.
Well, eventually a Lisa Winter informed all of us Hubbers that we needed to move any articles we might have had on the Owlcation site over to the DiscoverHubPages site if we wished to continue earning commission on them. The irony of it all is that I had made numerous attempts to get my HubPages articles upgraded to the Owlcation site back when they were still paying Hubbers money for their articles, and I never succeeded in convincing them to do so.
Now I have to be concerned that HubPages may plagiarize my articles onto that same website and pay me nothing for them. They are using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to do so. It's all so gut-wrenching.
I stumbled across all of this negative information about HubPages on a discussion forum. There is a second discussion forum in which Hubbers are discussing this same unpleasant situation for all of us. Both discussion forums will provide you with the full details of what has been happening in this regard.
Those of you out there who are not writers on the HubPages writing platform are probably wondering what any of this information means to you. If you're not planning on joining any more writing platforms, then it would mean nothing to you. However, if you're planning on joining the HubPages writing platform, then I strongly advise that you hold off on doing so until and unless this same matter with HubPages gets resolved.
If you already hold an account with HubPages, then I recommend that you do what I do. Don't submit any more articles for publication on that same writing platform until this matter with them is resolved in one way or another.
It could very well be that HubPages is getting ready to go belly up. I've backed up each and every article that I have ever published on that writing platform, so I am well prepared for the worst.
The HubPages website is currently showing that there are only four staff members employed at HubPages. However, on another part of that same website, it is claiming that there are 25 staff members working for HubPages. I don't know which information of theirs to believe, but this situation with them is really starting to stink to high heaven, to say the least.
I don't deny that I have had some good times with HubPages throughout the eight-to-nine years that I have been a Hubber. However, I'm getting strong feelings about taking all of my articles from their writing platform and moving them to a different writing platform where at least I know that I will make money from them and nobody on staff there will plagiarize them.
Currently, some of the more established writers on HubPages are checking with the copyright lawyers they have on retainer to see if there is some kind of legal avenue we can all take to make things right with HubPages. The problem is that the HubPages writing platform sneaked some microscopic wording into their Terms of Use to create a legal loophole that would allow them to get around the copyright laws. It's a mess.
I am in private communication with some of the Hubbers about this situation, and we're all putting our heads together to see if this situation is fixable. By the time that I publish another article about the HubPages writing platform here on my PEAKD channel, I will likely have closed my account with them.
I'm not really angry. I'm really just sad about it, because I had high hopes with the HubPages writing platform and I don't know where I'm going to find another revenue-sharing writing platform that offers the same opportunities that the HubPages writing platform initially offered to get my articles published online that I can also monetize.
Once people start removing their literary work from HubPages in droves and investors start pulling their money out of the HubPages writing platform, HubPages is eventually going to be unable to remain afloat and everything is going to disappear with it from the Internet. It's meeting the same tragic fate as Infobarrel did, and I never saw any of this coming; but, unfortunately, nothing is guaranteed on the Internet.
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