What rule did I transgress, Mr Editor, please? It all looked fairly harmless to me.
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I've had a sub deleted on the writers' page!
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I rarely delete postings, preferring to let the votes of others do the talking.
However I just felt that we'd been seeing a few too many unfunny jokes about tits in mangles or flaccid penises that did not chime with what I hope is a more sophisticated site than that. So these probably weren't the worst examples but they just came at a point where I was getting fed up with the writers' room getting clogged up with stuff that belonged somewhere else.
For the record a couple of the pointless gags about Cumbria got taken off as well. So if anyone was thinking about writing a story about a woman with big tits being shot in Cumbria, your chances of a front page are probably pretty thin.
Yours humourlessly,
Editor
Posted 8 years ago # -
Far too much crap gets posted these days (yes, yes, yes mine too)
Maybe it is time for a little 'quality control' in order to stop the more worthy efforts being buried under an avalanche of dross.
Maybe limit the amount of subs any one person can post per day
'Goose that laid the golden egg' and all that.
It feels great to see your name up in lights every day but too much rubbish will only frighten off the better writers - and then where will we be.Posted 8 years ago # -
What I think is funny - OK, apart from pooey pigs' bottoms - is the outrage that this site isn't a commune where there should be no editorial control.
Mr Ed is presumably trying to make newsbiscuit into a roaring comedy success - why shouldn't he do what he thinks will best achieve this? You know his real name isn't "editor", and what do editors do? They fricking edit, that's what, to increase the quality percentage. It's like pruning. If you want no quality control, post somewhere else.
Now, if something you write gets removed, you've just had a FREE lesson in what's funny from a successful author/comedian/whatever he is anyway. And if your sense of humour doesn't agree with JOF's, don't moan about it on his site. A while ago, there was, to my mind, a surplus of 'feature'-type FPs, and not enough satire, and so I left for a while. No-one died. Now I like it better, and I'm back.
Presumably Private Eye also take unsolicited submissions. Would you moan because they didn't use something you sent? What would that mag be like if they printed everything that was sent in? It'd be shite, wouldn't it?
Plucky - some of your stuff is very good. The hardest thing in writing is working out what the bad bits are. If someone's prepared to help you work that out, for god's sake let them help you.
Hope to see you in the pub on the 21st, yours etc.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Thanks, Mr Westwell. After 28 years of writing, publishing (including a book on how to write), reviewing, editing, I 'spose I have a few insights into some of my worst excesses in writing. And some of them, unfortunately, are on here. I also agree, entirely, that the editor has a right to edit: that's his job and this is his site.
The fault lies with me: I get moments of schoolboy humour and also of going off the deep end. Anyway, this is old news...
Glad you are back in the Old Country and hope you are enjoying the unusual weather. Best wishes, Plucky. xxx
Posted 8 years ago # -
Cheers Pluckster! It's got all sunny now! I'm looking over a sleepy Sunday afternoon cricket pitch where proper oak trees are casting long shadows, a cold beer's in my hand, and everyone else has gone to sleep jetlagged already.
Smashing - might have to get pissed and watch Morecambe and Wise on youtube. :-)
Happy to escort you to a Paddington-bound tube after our Monday night revels, if it's the epic treck across London that's putting you off, btw. Unless I'm too drunk to stand, of course.
Posted 8 years ago #
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