If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of August 2003, then reply to this post. Submitting stories both here and elsewhere at the same time is fine and encouraged.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of July 2003, then reply to this post. Submitting stories both here and elsewhere at the same time is fine and encouraged.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the first half of July 2003, then reply to this post. Submitting stories both here and elsewhere at the same time is fine and encouraged.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of June 2003, then reply to this post. Submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue (and/or your journal) at the same time. (If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better...)

(Question I'm debating: should I delete old journal entries for which there were 0 story submissions?)

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the first half of June 2003, then reply to this post. Submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue (and/or your journal) at the same time. If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better...

Write-once, submit-twice!

Added 2003-06-10: For the original journal article (now scrolled off) describing the concept/motivation of this user-moderated story queue, see here.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of May 2003, then reply to this post. Submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue (and/or your journal) at the same time. If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better...

Write-once, submit-twice!

Check out the story submissions from last month. A few decent ones never made Slashdot.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the first half of May 2003, then reply to this post. Submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue (and/or your journal) at the same time. If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better, right?

Write-once, submit-twice!

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of April 2003, then reply to this post. I find it easiest to submit stories both here and to the Slashdot queue at the same time. It definitely gets seen here by several people. Heck, post the story in your own journal too, with a link to it if that helps you get greater visibility. If a story makes it onto the main page too, so much the better.

If you have a story submission and that has been neglected in the first half of April 2003, then reply to this post. Heck, if you *know* it's a good story, just post it here too when you submit to Slashdot. That's what I find easiest for me. Links to your own journals accompanying your story submission are fine.

I read slashdot fairly regularly. I guess I need a bit of a cron job to remind me to make these journal posts though, since these journal entries stop accepting comments after 2 weeks.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of March 2003, then reply to this post. Heck, if you *know* it's a good story, just post it here too when you submit to Slashdot.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the first half of March 2003, then reply to this post.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the second half of February 2003, then reply to this post.

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in the first half of February 2003, then reply to this post.

("First half" since someone reminded me that journal entries get archived (and thus can't be moderated) after a while, and I think based on past experience that this happens after 2 weeks. I'll change the periodicity if I discover otherwise.)

    --LP

If you have a story submission that has been neglected in January 2003, then reply to this post.

I'm not sure how/whether comments on stories in my journal can be moderated or not; I'm hoping so. Here goes nothing.

Update: 01/21 5:18 GMT: It works! The first story has been moderated up! Thanks to the kind moderator for noticing this area, whoever you are. Now we just have to get more submissions (+ moderations). I'm advertising in my tagline; feel free to join in.

    --LP

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