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By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.
We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.
In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bacon on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:25PM
It seems like the stories with a science-y bent are less commented on than those with a tech-y bent.
Assuming that the most comments come from people familiar with the subject matter, this makes sense - there is probably a greater percentage of tech-types rather than science-types; an effect magnified by the relatively lower user base (vs the other site).
Which begs the question of the editors - how will you approach submissions in this context?
One strategy might be to play to the emerging preferences of the existing base. Another might be to persist with the less read articles in hope of generating a deeper pool of users. What would be the guiding principles for these decisions?
(Score: 1) by isostatic on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:10PM
I hope they keep posting them, even if they aren't commented that much, or even clicked on. I read the summary and try to keep my mind somewhere in the sciences, even if I'm not interested enough in the depth of discussion to spend the time on it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:59PM
How will we keep down the click bait spam? On the other site it seems to have got fairly bad in many stories seem to be nothing more than to generate huge discussions that are little more than a platform for people to bash on each other. Sometimes the stories seem to be little more than advertisements for some sort of VC fund.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by naubol on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:48PM
I choose not to comment on Biology posts, but I absolutely love reading them. If anything, I think they should keep them relatively even, because it isn't even always the amount of comments but the quality of those that are there.