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So, what is SoylentNews? This is your chance to tell us!
I am announcing the first ever SoylentNews online video contest. The rules are pretty simple.
- Upload an original video (no more than about 60 seconds, please) to the site of your choice (but please tell us where it is up loaded and ensure it tracks views) that answers the question, "What is Soylent News?" Your video should ideally contain the phrase, "Soylent News is ..." but this is not strictly required. Let us know what site you upload to.
- Tag your video SoylentNews.
- Watch as the hits roll in.
- ????
- Profit!
Too easy, right? We will count the views on 31 March 2014, at 11:59 UTC. The winner is the individual video that has the most views.
You do not actually have to appear in the video! Make a cartoon, do CGI, do a voiceover of a movie, whatever. Be creative and explore your artistic vision! (Yes, you have one. It may be underutilized at times but it is there).
We have not yet determined the prize for the winner, but it will be jaw-droppingly awe-inspiring (it's a key-chain I found on the sidewalk somewhere). No, it'll be something good. At a minimum we'll feature your video on the site here and interview you for the "making of" your entry. But probably more (it's a keychain).
On behalf of the entire staff and volunteers, we continue to be amazed at the response we've gotten from the community so far. We will continue to provide ways that you can interact with us and help define us. I hope you enjoy this contest. If you have any other suggestions for how we can better meet your needs, feel free to let us know in IRC, the Forums, or the Wiki. Thanks for reading!
~Mattie_p
p.s. keychain!
p.p.s updated based on feedback
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:49PM
Mate, I'll be blunt, but please don't take it the wrong way. It's a candid dump of my mind and I'd be very grateful for the same in return, even if it would come equally blunt:
Are there some objective reason pushing you in the need of faster grow? Did someone/something imposed a deadline? You cannot access some sponsorship without a "critical community mass", thus running a risk of not being able to support the site?
(is it only a personal desire for a faster growth i.e. not necessarily an objective reason? If it is so, don't you think it would worth asking the community too how do they feel about?)
If you want a community to support you, I think that it's only fair that you, as a steward, be open towards it, otherwise you'll create dissonances in the feelings of inclusion/"belongliness" and those will accumulate to a breaking point - it happened in specific way with "the other site", it can happen to SN (maybe due to other reason, don't be naive to believe it was the Beta look-and-feel is the actual reason for the split, even if it well may have been the trigger for it).
If you really like to take the pulse of the nascent SN community, why don't you ask directly: "So, guys, why did you get here in the first place?"
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm old enough not to be ashamed of being wrong; so, if you think I'm wrong, table your point of view and let's get this over with