edmicman's Journal: Is Slashdot's submit feature broken?

I've submitted a number of stories, and most have been rejected. That's fine. But I've had two submissions that are still just sitting there, pending. One on 2007-02-26, the other recently on 2007-05-26. I'm OK with them being rejected, but the most recent concerned the bill introduced to the US Senate to redefine the broadband definition used in the US. I think it's a worthy story, and am surprised that it hasn't been covered at all by Slashdot yet. But mostly, why are my submissions still 'pending'? What should the expected turnaround be? Did my submissions just fall through the cracks?

Broadband Definition Submission

[Souliosis]

I saw your journal entry while browsing through the Firehose this morning. Concerning your comment about the submission relating to the Senate changing the definition for broadband, I went back to 5/26 and checked out what you submitted and skimmed the article ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/25/Groups-p raise-US-broadband-data-bill_1.html [infoworld.com] ). It's not identical by any means, but it's rather similar to this story: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 18/155231 [slashdot.org] At least, you get the i

It ain't broke, they're just lazy

[TopShelf]

I've had submissions sit in a pending state for 18 months before they finally got rejected. Some editors are better than others at cleaning up their queues...