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Subject: 
Re: Slashdot (was:Bad News for Brickbay!?)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:39:41 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Chris Osborn writes:
In article <GqH7Kz.yp@lugnet.com>, Ross Crawford <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote:
ROSCO (who submitted the story to slashdot, but it got rejected 8?(
I'll try again later)

I just submitted it too. It seems like it requires tons of people to
submit anything before they will post it. I'm sure they'll reject it
from me too, they reject everything I submit.

I think it's a bit luck-of-the-draw as to which "editor" reads it. I've only
ever had 1 story accepted 8?(

ROSCO

FUT off-topic.geek



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  Re: Slashdot (was:Bad News for Brickbay!?)
 
I think it depends more on how the title is phrased, which category is chosen and how it is written. I have had success by writing submissions in that certain 'slashdot style'. KL (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Slashdot (was:Bad News for Brickbay!?)
 
(...) Yah, I'm guessing that most of the "editors" don't read what you're submitting, they just reject it. That's probably why it takes tons of submissions to get a story up, you have to get enough in that it slips past the rejectors. (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Bad News for Brickbay!?
 
(...) I just submitted it too. It seems like it requires tons of people to submit anything before they will post it. I'm sure they'll reject it from me too, they reject everything I submit. (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)

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