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All of the trend lines on this site are positive except one: story submissions. After an initial surge, they have been gradually declining despite users and page views climbing. Tonight the submission queue ran dry. Janrinok and I could go scrounging, as we sometimes do, but this needs to be addressed.
We have around four thousand registered users, and who knows how may AC's reading along. We can do better.
I challenge each of you to submit stories on a regular basis, at whatever frequency you find comfortable. Really, if even half of us submitted a story once a week, we would have more than we could ever use. Once a day, once a week, once a month, whatever you can handle, send it in.
Bookmark this link: http://dev.soylentnews.org/submit.pl - use it. Give us so many stories that we can select the cream of the crop and stun you with how amazing our community is. Make it happen.
I'm going to leave this story on top for a while, and see what is waiting for us when I get to work in the morning. Wow me, please.
This is our news site. There are others like it, but this one is ours. Its success is in your hands.
[UPDATE: We have received, in less than 12 hours, more submissions than we had the whole rest of the weekend. THANK YOU SO MUCH, and please, keep them coming. Even one story a month matters. Let the party re-commence. :) ]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Monday March 24 2014, @01:15AM
Did we/you ever get around to developing a set of editorial guidelines?
What kind of stories do we want?
What should a good story include?
Can the Editors be relied on to fix spelling and grammar?
And, what causes a story to be rejected? What do the Eds really hate?
(Score: 5, Informative) by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @01:26AM
http://wiki.dev.soylentnews.org/wiki/Submission_guidel ines [dev.soylentnews.org]
This is our news site. There are others like it, but this one is ours.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pogostix on Monday March 24 2014, @01:40AM
I have a submission that shows as accepted but I don't think it was ever published.
Is it in a queue? Or do editors change their mind about publishing sometimes?
Or... is there a bug that is causing submissions to get lost?!
(Score: 1) by Sir Finkus on Monday March 24 2014, @02:19AM
My impression (based on lurking in irc) is that accepted articles go into a queue and are published at a semi-regular interval.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @02:34AM
That is odd. I can find your submitted story, and it shows accepted, but isn't in the feed. We'll look into it.
This is our news site. There are others like it, but this one is ours.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lhsi on Monday March 24 2014, @05:22AM
I also have a story that is accepted but I haven't seen it on the site yet. My assumption had been that it was queued until Monday.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 24 2014, @08:58AM
Unfortunately this doesn't contain content guidelines much beyond typographical, and some aspects like "Use primary sources wherever possible." are actively discriminated against rather than being actual guidelines, like its a parody, or a very theoretical goal.