I submitted this story few minutes ago and it got instantly rejected, so let me repost it here in my journal:

I have already described many strange moderations in the past, I have posted results of my research, but I haven't seen anything like this ever before.

I submitted this story few hours ago and it just got rejected. Fortunately I saved the text so writing it was not a total waste of time and I can at least repost it here:

Somewhen after this post and before this one, Slashdot started to silently convert dashes to double hyphens,

I thought so but later doubted it. Now I am unsure.

I thought I would write a novel in November but I have just come to the conclusion thah it might be sadly much less likely than I previously thought.

In a recent Guardian article, Oliver Burkeman thoroughly explains how non-Americans could hypothetically have a chance of influencing the outcome of the United States Presidential Election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio and contacting the US media. In the first three days after publishing, more than 11,000 people requested addresses, but

I think I will write a novel in November, The National Novel Writing Month, mentioned on Slashdot in the Kamikaze Novel Writing story. It seems like a good idea. I might need some practicing but there is over a week left. OK, here we go.

The night was...

"The result of the US election will affect the lives of millions around the world but those of us outside the 50 states have had no say in it -- until now," writes Guardian Unlimited, one of the most popular online news resources on the Internet, in the article entitled My fellow non-Americans. "In a unique experiment, [Guardian] has assembled a democratic toolkit to ena

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