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Help – I Can’t Submit Or Edit My Articles

We get several email contacts per week with something like this in them: “Help, your system won’t let me submit or edit my articles”

Here’s the reason why this happens: You cheated!

It’s that simple. If your account is restricted from submitting or editing articles, that means one of our human editors found evidence that you were using some sort of software to submit or auto-submit machine-spun article garbage to us.

We don’t want articles that your software writes. If we wanted software written articles, we would use our own software to write crappy content and not offer to pay others for theirs.

Content Caboodle provides a valuable service to all users, from authors to publishers to the thousands of readers who visit our article pages each day.

Unlike most article publishing sites, we compensate authors for helping us to deliver a valuable service and quality user experience, so of course we take offense to authors who try to push spun-article garbage on us and our visitors.

If your account is suddenly restricted, here’s how that happened:

Every article submitted to Content Caboodle receives a real review by a human editor. If that editor believes there are indications of manipulation, auto-submission or machine-spun writing (s)he flags the article for a second review by one of our managing editors.

A managing editor will then review the article together with one of our software technicians. If they both agree that the article has violated our submission policies and the technician can verify that some form of software was used to create or spin the article, then that article and all other articles pending review by the same author are immediately declined and the author’s account is placed on Restricted status.

We do not take this action lightly. That is why we have the 2-tier review process that involves multiple editors and a software technician. We certainly don’t ever want to falsely place an author’s account on Restricted status, however once a determination is made it is final.

We do not ban authors, and you may still access your account to remove any prior articles that you may have published with us if you wish, but you will not be able to edit articles nor submit new ones ever again from your account.

There is no path to removing the Restricted status from an account.

Once we are certain that an author has attempted to circumvent our guidelines or devalue our service for visitors we no longer want their content submissions, period.

Our policies are not meant to be harsh, but to protect the value of the service for all who participate as authors, publishers, and readers.