If someone else submitted this same article, wouldn't it show up in the firehose?
This last week I submitted 15 articles to slashdot. 2 were rejected right away, and several sat pending. One that was voted quite well in the firehose was later rejected. One article, not including this one, was hijacked and redirect to another site.
I fully expect that most of the articles I submit will be rejected. My tastes are not universal, nor are all the press releases I gather and articles I write the quality that a good editor would except. I'm still learning how this process works, and expect a few bruises and blackeyes.
With that said, I don't see why I've been maliciously blacklisted by the editors of this site. I've seen 3 articles on this site this week from other web sites that collect and publish news in exactly the same way that I do. They haven't been blacklisted, why am I?
The Napoleonic method by which I was browbeat in the superbug article was uncalled for. I made a mistake, and immediate fixed it when it was brought to my attention. However, since then, my articles have been rejected or redirected to other sites.
I spend a significant amount of time scouring the internet for press releases and research papers on the topics I'm interested in. The ones I think are applicable to slashdot, and haven't been submit by others, I submit for review. I then watch those submissions in the firehose, to see which are interesting to slashdot users. People are obviously interested in the topics I'm submitting, why penalize me for doing you a favor?
I just discovered slashdot a few weeks ago. I've been suffering through the idiots at Digg ever since people learned how to game their system. At first slashdot was a bit daunting, because the submission system is quite different than any other user generated news sites I've seen. After my initial learning curve though, I realized the true power of this system.
Earlier this week I told a friend how much better I liked the slashdot editorial system. I told him how the system allowed people to vote on articles, but that editors still had the final say. I said "you don't get all the toilet humor articles on the home page about the scientific methods of wiping your butt." For me slashdot was the ideal news aggregator.
Now that I'm on the pointy end of the editorial process though, I'm starting to see problems. First off, if an editor has the time to go out and find a similar article to the one I posted, then they have enough time to tell me why they rejected mine to begin with. If you are just going to take the research efforts I've put in and redirect them at your whim, what incentive do you intend to offer so that I'll continue to submit high quality news?
I apologize for posting this letter to this article. I was unable to find a "Letters to the Editor(s)" section. If one exists, please let me know, and I will continue this dialogue their.
This isn't the article I submitted to Slashdot. You editors are complete assholes, its a wonder people use your site at all. Thanks you hypocrites for sending people to a worthless BBC article, and not my site.
Slashdot Mirror
In case you didn't read my post, I said I've only been here for 3 weeks. Is there some hidden meaning in your post? Please elaborate.
If someone else submitted this same article, wouldn't it show up in the firehose?
This last week I submitted 15 articles to slashdot. 2 were rejected right away, and several sat pending. One that was voted quite well in the firehose was later rejected. One article, not including this one, was hijacked and redirect to another site.
I fully expect that most of the articles I submit will be rejected. My tastes are not universal, nor are all the press releases I gather and articles I write the quality that a good editor would except. I'm still learning how this process works, and expect a few bruises and blackeyes.
With that said, I don't see why I've been maliciously blacklisted by the editors of this site. I've seen 3 articles on this site this week from other web sites that collect and publish news in exactly the same way that I do. They haven't been blacklisted, why am I?
The Napoleonic method by which I was browbeat in the superbug article was uncalled for. I made a mistake, and immediate fixed it when it was brought to my attention. However, since then, my articles have been rejected or redirected to other sites.
I spend a significant amount of time scouring the internet for press releases and research papers on the topics I'm interested in. The ones I think are applicable to slashdot, and haven't been submit by others, I submit for review. I then watch those submissions in the firehose, to see which are interesting to slashdot users. People are obviously interested in the topics I'm submitting, why penalize me for doing you a favor?
I just discovered slashdot a few weeks ago. I've been suffering through the idiots at Digg ever since people learned how to game their system. At first slashdot was a bit daunting, because the submission system is quite different than any other user generated news sites I've seen. After my initial learning curve though, I realized the true power of this system.
Earlier this week I told a friend how much better I liked the slashdot editorial system. I told him how the system allowed people to vote on articles, but that editors still had the final say. I said "you don't get all the toilet humor articles on the home page about the scientific methods of wiping your butt." For me slashdot was the ideal news aggregator.
Now that I'm on the pointy end of the editorial process though, I'm starting to see problems. First off, if an editor has the time to go out and find a similar article to the one I posted, then they have enough time to tell me why they rejected mine to begin with. If you are just going to take the research efforts I've put in and redirect them at your whim, what incentive do you intend to offer so that I'll continue to submit high quality news?
I apologize for posting this letter to this article. I was unable to find a "Letters to the Editor(s)" section. If one exists, please let me know, and I will continue this dialogue their.
This isn't the article I submitted to Slashdot. You editors are complete assholes, its a wonder people use your site at all. Thanks you hypocrites for sending people to a worthless BBC article, and not my site.
Original can be found here
Thank you for the information. I added a citation last night after the first comment.
Are you even aware what a press release is? Define Press Release. Thanks for the spam on my comments.