There are sites created to be scams, such as Bubblews. It was organised on the basic Ponzi; everyone gets paid the first time.
To be paid the 2nd time one had to bring in a certain number of warm bodies who could be ripped off…. on and on according to specific paradigms as to who would be paid and who would not be paid.
So a Jamaican joining Bubblews was very unlikely to get that 2nd pay out, where an American was more likely due to their ability to contact law enforcement.
In short, Bubblews was never a writing site; it was born a scam to enable to owners to make money.
I belabour the point to divorce Bubblews from actual writing sites which have their own reasons for not paying and how they go about it.
YE OLD HIT TRICK
Expertscolumn and Niume are two sites which play the old Hit trick. Factoidz played it way back when the owner found himself unable to pay his writers.
Now the owner, M.Q. is a guy far stupider than he realised, decided to alter the hits that items had received. The problem is that people had seen their hits then seen the alterations, so were aware of what he was doing.
Factoidz died over seven years ago due to involvement of American law enforcement.
Expertscolumn is a trick site, where no one reaches pay out because of various games. One of them is the manipulation of hits. Very often hits don’t register, coin doesn’t increase, and one will hover at some number for YEARS.
Niume has been doing the hit juggling as well.
One will reach the first pay out rather painlessly, then, of course, stick at some low number for months so that the owners don’t have to pay.
When a site, be it Hubpages or Triond or Niume pays by ‘hits’ they hold all the cards. For unless one imbeds a secret counter in their account one can’t know for a fact, how many hits they have.
Arbitrary Rejection of Articles
When a site can not pay its users, it implements a rejection of items. There is no real reason for the rejection.
Expertscolumn will tend to demean an item calling it ‘unsuitable’ or ‘badly written’ or some other term to make the writer believe that the item was rejected for a substantial reason.
Literacybase will claim an item is ‘plagiarised’ when it is not. It will either ignore the fact the writer has quoted sources and given attribution, [which is not plagiarism, of course as the writer is not taking credit for the item,] or just make the charge and when pressed, fling some ‘source’ which is nothing like the so called plagiarised article.
This is done because the site can’t pay its writers.
In the case of Factoidz, for example, it was because the Owner took the money and ran. In other cases it is the lack of business acumen.
One of the realities of online writing is that most sites are run by people who know nothing about business, about writing, about anything they need to, which would enable them to conduct a successful business.
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It is not true what you wrote about Bubblews, I was paid more than year every single time I requested payout. I earned there about 1K and was not paid just couple hundreds when they stopped paying before all last changes. It was good site, just cheaters were paid also, and it was the reason why site was banned from google adsense.