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Of course, these are only those that some ed felt guilty enough to send a message. Others deleted without comment or a by-your-leave.

Post-Scriptum: I must express my deepest gratitude to the Soylentil who sees fit to gift a subscription to me, since I am not able to contribute to SN, even though I almost never agree with my benefactor. We need more Soylenils like that.

 

Reply to: What I notice

    (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @12:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @12:42PM (#919348)

    Unless there has been selective editing of the rejection letters (possible, as I have no evidence for either a true or false determination on "selective editing") these rejection letters are typical 'canned' responses without proper context.

    I.e., The space after "... reason:" and before "The editors felt ... " is supposed to contain a statement of a reason why the article was rejected. Yet it is blank.

    So we have a situation where a submission was rejected, and the rejection letter is saying: "we rejected for a reason, but we will not tell you what that reason was, nor will we fix it ourselves".

    But, unless the submitter knows the "reason" for the rejection, how are they expected to be able to correct it?

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