Dear Editors,
I have tried to submit two stories to your site for the past week. The first involved celebrity nonconsent. You rejected it on the grounds that "for legal reasons, we cannot accept stories with celebrity nonconsent." Yet when I came to this board, I was told by one of your editors that you can and do publish stories with celebrity nonconsent, and that all I would need was a disclaimer.
Therefore, I posted not one but two disclaimers. One I created on my own, the other I do drew from the disclaimer another author posted for his celebrity nonconsent story, WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON YOUR SITE, and is titled "Kidnapping Jenny McCarthy." On top of that, I apologized for my story and sent you a very nice message in the notes, saying that I hoped the disclaimers would be enough.
However, you REJECTED MY STORY AGAIN, for the same reason, despite all the disclaimers, the assurances of an editor on this board that it could be published and that you do publish such stories, and the example of another story that appears on your site involving CELEBRITY NONCONSENT, the very thing you claim you cannot publish for legal reasons. I suppose my disclaimers didn't even matter. Did you even care?
I also submitted a second story, which although was remarkably similar to the first, had NO CELEBRITIES INVOLVED. Instead, I invented names for the people. Not only did you not accept this, BUT YOU ERASED IT. The submission is no longer to be found in my profile, although I KNOW I SUBMITTED IT. So not only did you reject my first story twice on the same grounds, despite my TWO DISCLAIMERS (last I checked, "Kidnapping Jenny McCarthy had only one disclaimer, and you accepted it), but YOU ERASED MY SECOND STORY ENTIRELY, WHICH DID NOT INVOLVE CELEB NONCONSENT, but was instead purely a nonconsent story.
So please tell me WHAT IS GOING ON. WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?
I can attach either of my stories, with their disclaimers, to this post, if necessary.
I have tried to submit two stories to your site for the past week. The first involved celebrity nonconsent. You rejected it on the grounds that "for legal reasons, we cannot accept stories with celebrity nonconsent." Yet when I came to this board, I was told by one of your editors that you can and do publish stories with celebrity nonconsent, and that all I would need was a disclaimer.
Therefore, I posted not one but two disclaimers. One I created on my own, the other I do drew from the disclaimer another author posted for his celebrity nonconsent story, WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON YOUR SITE, and is titled "Kidnapping Jenny McCarthy." On top of that, I apologized for my story and sent you a very nice message in the notes, saying that I hoped the disclaimers would be enough.
However, you REJECTED MY STORY AGAIN, for the same reason, despite all the disclaimers, the assurances of an editor on this board that it could be published and that you do publish such stories, and the example of another story that appears on your site involving CELEBRITY NONCONSENT, the very thing you claim you cannot publish for legal reasons. I suppose my disclaimers didn't even matter. Did you even care?
I also submitted a second story, which although was remarkably similar to the first, had NO CELEBRITIES INVOLVED. Instead, I invented names for the people. Not only did you not accept this, BUT YOU ERASED IT. The submission is no longer to be found in my profile, although I KNOW I SUBMITTED IT. So not only did you reject my first story twice on the same grounds, despite my TWO DISCLAIMERS (last I checked, "Kidnapping Jenny McCarthy had only one disclaimer, and you accepted it), but YOU ERASED MY SECOND STORY ENTIRELY, WHICH DID NOT INVOLVE CELEB NONCONSENT, but was instead purely a nonconsent story.
So please tell me WHAT IS GOING ON. WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?
I can attach either of my stories, with their disclaimers, to this post, if necessary.
