I'm not sure this is personal. Have you tried emailing them?

A friend of mine said that someone had been trying to spam his article database submitting up to 400 junk articles in a short time. Maybe this is a temporary effort to protect themselves from article spamming until they can get control of the situation?

Don't give up.

Personally, I think that with sites like Squidoo getting a million unique visitors per month and growing and paying royalties to authors, I think more writers will opt for sites which share the profits derived from "exclusive" or "semi-exclusive" material.

Here's something on that topic...

http://work-at-home.business-opportu...e-the-profits/

Hope this resolves in your favor. Let us know.