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Here we are, two days after The Morgatory Blizzander took exception to one of my submissions that was approved by another ed. Strange, because TMB is not even an ed, he is only a coder, from what I understand, so how could his objection overrule the decision of an editor? The result, as documented in my last journal, is that my submission has been deep sixed, marked as hidden, so that it is not in the queue, not in the pre-queue, not anywhere! I request, respectfully, that the eds cease this act of censorship. TMB's objections are no more valid than mine, and since I thought this particular article important enough to be a submission to SoylentNews, TMB's objections are noted, but now I think he may actually be a Nazi. Which, as a Native American, seems strange. But I do remember a scene in the movie "Under the Volcano", starring Albert Finney, where a Metis riding on a bus, and wearing a National Socialist Party Pin, harasses a full-blood Native American Mexican. And then it hit me! Not about racial purity at all, since the half-breeds could feel superior to the full bloods, as long as they were not of the "right" blood. TMB is a mongrel. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I am one, too! But to object to an investigative piece looking into the alt-right, because he is afraid, and I repeat, AFRAID, that I am calling him a Nazi? Methinks the Buzzard protests too much. Let my submission go, eds! Let it go.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday October 01 2017, @04:59PM (3 children)
I think I can help you shed some light on this. What you call "suppressed" was a story that was set to not display.
When an editor accepts a submission [soylentnews.org], it will link to the corresponding story [soylentnews.org], unless two or more submissions were merged, in which case none of them links to the story since merging creates a new submission.
But if a story is set to not display, the story page will say "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along", even though the submission links to it and you got credit (+3 karma) for the submission.
Some reasons to do that are: the story is a dupe, the story is sitting at a future date at the top of the list, the story is being edited and isn't ready yet, or in your case, an editor didn't agree it should run and clicked the checkbox to kill the story (and it wasn't TMB).
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday October 02 2017, @08:16AM (2 children)
Thank you, Takyon! Of course the mechanics of the shadow ban mean nothing in regards to the ethics of such behavior on the part of the editors, not who is responsible in this case. (I am quite aware of who it was, TMB is just a Nazi sympathizer that needs to be called out.) So any ed can kill any story, for any reason, such as trying to legitimize neo-Nazi groups in the United States of Americoons? This is very interesting. Very.
So when will my submission be posted on the main page? Days? Weeks? Months? Until after the Allies victory over the Axis? Just wanting to know. I have so many more lined up and ready to go. Seems Nazis are all the rage these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:55AM (1 child)
"Not who"? Maybe you meant "nor who"?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:25AM
I was going for "nort", as in Nort Dakooota.