Why public lessons are rejected

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I’ve uploaded a bunch of audios for transcription and created several courses with these audios. I made the lessons public and for a while they were visible on the platform and people were using them. Then at some point in time the lessons got rejected. I wrote to the support staff and no explanation was provided. I’ve tried again to make the lessons public, but again they have been rejected with no explanation. I’ve followed all of the requirements set out in their guidelines for making lessons public, so I’m not sure why they are being rejected. Question: Does Lingq discriminate against certain types of content? If so, then I do not want to support them any longer by paying for their services.

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LingQ ‘discriminates’ against publically sharing copyrighted content. If you are not the owner of the content or have permission from the author, you are not allowed to share the content (it’s against the law and LingQ could be taken to court for allowing users to fileshare copyrighted material). My guess is this is probably the most common reason why user content is rejected.

They also ‘disciminate’ against duplicate content (content which already exists in the LingQ Library) and content with poor quality audio and/or transcript.

Content which actively promotes certain religious points of view or the sharing of religious texts is also not considered appropriate and will be rejected.

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It may be different if his content was accepted and then made private again. I’ve seen profile pages with notices from the staff explaining why content was removed. That should at least be the standard practice, both for rejections and for later removals.

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You can reach out to me at north@lingq(dot)com if you’d like to show me the content that you tried to share. We do get a lot of new pending lessons every week, and most of them are rejected for one of two reasons:

  1. Low quality lessons (bad audio or text)
  2. Copyright issues.

If the issue was #2, you should have received an invitation to become a LingQ Librarian. As a Librarian you can share External lessons to avoid most copyright issues. But again, if you send me an email I can take a look at your lessons and give you some feedback.

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