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Interview: Ask SoylentNews Staff Anything

posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

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: 2, Informative) by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:46PM

    by LaminatorX (14) <reversethis-{moc ... ta} {xrotanimal}> on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:46PM (#2774)

    We've informally been aiming for a story every hour and a half or so, a bit less late at night. We're working to balance our desire to post many of the great submissions we're receiving with wanting the stories we do post to have their time in the Sun at the top of the feed. (This is also a good answer to the "Why wasn't my submission posted?" question, in many cases.)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:06PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:06PM (#2857)

    Have you been toying with the idea of automation?

    There's some stories that really need to go up immediately (Hey, the Ukraine just started a genuine shooting civil war this morning and (insert something soylent relevant here))

    On the other hand, some stories can sit and if nothing was force posted in the last 120 minutes then one waiting in the hopper goes up. So some really cool scientific paper from last week (hint hint) could automagically appear to break up a dry spell.

    This is not theory... theoildrum and thehousingbubbleblog have done exactly this in a cron job for many years.