"Only native English speakers please"

You can read my comment on Jabo's response

@Rollo1 That's how it should be, of course.

@jaboUK No, they don't all mean that. If you come from the wrong country some sites will assume that your English isn't good enough, though I've come across some people whose write such good English that it's hard to believe that it isn't their home language. It's so wrong that those people should be penalised.

@Gina145 Really? I must admit to being quite shocked at that. I don't go wondering around the internet much so haven't come across that. I agree that some non-native English speakers can be better writers than some born to the language.

This is the reply I get from this site 'Great Content' They do not say that before one applies. Unfortunately, we must inform you that your application did not meet the minimum requirements of the greatcontent quality assurance team. We must, therefore, reject your application. The main reason for our rejection is stated below: Thank you for your application, and your sample text. Unfortunately we guarantee our clients that only native US English speakers write our texts, and as such must reject your application.

When there is so much exposure nowadays for learning the language this cult should be given up. Yes. I call it cult

@sofssu was his own site a success?

@hereandthere Yes he was until panda hit, a lot of people from HP joined him..

You can read my comment on Jabo's response.

I am with you on this but at the same time it is the set up of a site that dictates these rules.If bad English can still get earnings then the less they worry about grammar and spellings the faster will be their earnings and their community will grow. There are sites where articles are written for requesters who expect good english and it is here that they often blindly refuse those whose second language is English although there will be many who can write better than these so called native speakers.

@MALUSE We are not supposed to point out errors here, else I would be spending most of my time too, teaching native speakers How about this one "I would of went with him" Yes. a native speaker. I remember in the good old myLot I had voiced my opinion about writing long posts vs short posts and had chosen short posts adding that we were taught precis writing while we were learning the language. Most of those from the US did not know the meaning of precis writing and they pounced on me assuming that I had made a typing error and the word should have been precise.

@MALUSE I sometimes wonder if those people's English is really so bad or if they're just extremely careless. I try never to hit a submit button until I've proofread what I've written, and I get really embarrassed when I miss an obvious mistake. As for your last sentence, I hear that kind of bad English used on the radio all the time, and that's by professional journalists.

@LadyDuck If that was a condition before applying I would not have wasted my time there. .Some sites do not have countries in their drop down list that they do not want to include.

There are ,many sites that make that a stipulation. I have mentioned about that as a comment on Jabo's response.

@allknowing If they state this rule before you join and write, it's their right, but not if they said this after you submitted the text. A curiosity, for English do they mean British English or American English? It's not exactly the same.

@allknowing In that case, it doesn't make sense that they only ask for native speakers. If they do a test then they should base it on the quality of the test.

Whatever the site a test is normally conducted to judge the quality of a writer. And being a native English speaker is no criterion according to me.

Atleast I try my best to do justice to the exposure I have had that has brought me to this level.

Well said.The trouble is they have not done their home work about the exposure the world has to learn every single language that exists on earth and sometimes foreigners doing better than their own kind.

Anyway I really do not who is a native English speaker. As America is a conglomeration of those who have settled there from all over the globe. I do not know about UK though.

And those that are social only within a certain culture will not apply for writing on such sites. Also there is a test there. Having said that there is no guarantee that many of those who are native English speakers are any better. I just picked this sentence from a post written by someone who is a native English speaker " I would of went with him" .

@skysnap .Everyone who aspires to write there is expected to write good English and even those whose first language is not English are quite adept at it and yet some snobbish sites exclude them. Their loss indeed. You may not do that but when I write I am particular that I check my grammar and spelling. Also, there are scores of Indians scattered all over the globe who write and speak impeccable English and many of them live in India.

@allknowing Yes that is because native english speaker too make the mistakes. just like we make mistake in our own mother tongue but we don't check grammar right?

But you do not own any sites. Unless you do

Indeed they are. Their loss not mine. There is plenty of fish in the ocean and myLot is one such.