Have you noticed that AC edits content?

United States
November 20, 2008 10:50am CST
When your submit to AC, they reserve the right to edit your content. I noticed that some of my articles have been edited and it gave me a weird feeling. It's like someone else wrote the article now because they used word choices that I wouldn't. I don't really care because the articles I have there I wrote especially for AC and I don't have much of an emotional attachment to them. Has this happened to any of you?
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@freak369 (5113)
• United States
31 Dec 08
They did that with a few titles of things that I wrote. I didn't even recognize a few of them because of the title change. I have had a few be declined for publication with notes on the submission page on how to edit it or things that I needed to add or remove. If they want boring reviews then they are well on their way to them when they get on the edit bandwagon" and want everything a certain way.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
30 Nov 08
The only thing they've edited for me was titles, as others have said. I wasn't happy about one of them, but they do it so the search engines can find it easier. That means more money for me, so I won't complain. Most places will edit if needed. If you write for hard copy (magazines, etc.) you'd be really good to never have anything edited.
• United States
23 Nov 08
Do you have your original copy saved on your computer so you can see the differences for sure? Sometimes they will change it back for you if you can prove it's not what you wrote. Fortunately, the only thing they've changed on me is titles, and while they haven't all been for the better, in my opinion, I could live with most of them. Good luck! Keep writing! Love and stuff, Michy
@Randync (544)
• United States
22 Nov 08
I have had titles of articles changed, that is the most editing that I have noticed, them doing to mine.
• United States
29 Nov 08
All I have really noticed is that sometimes they will reword a title for SEO purposes but (generally) it still says the same thing. They did change one title on one of my articles and their new title focused on something completely different than the article. The original title was Like a Bolt of Lightning comes Juliette (Lewis) and the Licks focusing on the title of the album and the name of the band, what I thought would be the more highly searched terms to find that particular article. They changed it to Actress Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) Starts a Rock Band Juliette and the Licks and that kind of frustrated me but I guess the meaning was still kind of the same.