Why did they close my riddle?

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So I came up with this -at least what I thought to be a- great riddle and posted it on this site.
Within minutes, it was closed by the community. It said:
This looks like a puzzle you found somewhere. For the content you did not create proper attribution is required.....  and so on.
It upset me. I am scrambling to find out why. Here was my riddle: A simple cipher.

Stiv · Accepted Answer

To solve this puzzle, note the key word in the text:

If we employ this on each of the three parts of the puzzle text, we can get the following:

So the reason your puzzle was closed is because it seems like you were telling us:

So please provide suitable attribution!! ;-)

Why did they close my riddle?

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