Summary: Why not route around the 'closed submission queue' issue by using Slashdot journals?
Elaboration: Isn't it annoying when you submit a story for consideration within Slashdot but it gets rejected? And you're pretty darn sure you had a good story? And even more annoying when you see the story turn up two weeks later as 'news'?
The slashdot editorial chiefs, to my understanding, have repeatedly and persistently refused to open the submission queue to moderation since it has so much garbage (and redundancy?).
Now that may or may not be true; I don't really know. I don't think it's total BS, given how people behave on Slashdot today. I once saw a talk in NYC given by Michael and Timothy discussing what they did as moderators and I can sympathize by the crud they have to wade threw (we watched them go through the queue in realtime on a projection screen.)
Still, it'd be nice to have a place to submit your slashdot rejected stories. And why wouldn't moderation that works for the commentary function work for the editorial function also?
I found another person griping about their rejected submission and having had the same experience yet again within the past few weeks (I've only submitted a dozen or so stories over the 2-3 years I've been on Slashdot), this time wondered whether the Journal system would let us route around this issue. So not having used the Journal system much, I'm going to experiment a bit. Care to join me?
--LinuxParanoid aka --LP