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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: 2, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Monday March 24 2014, @06:16AM
Regarding the lack of submissions, you might consider making a post to clarify that that you'll welcome good stories snagged from Slashdot, Pipedot, etc. just like you would from any other source. I know that I'd seriously hesitate before cross-posting anything otherwise for fear of being told off, even though I know some of us don't bother with the other sites.
Regarding the comments, this is a controversial opinion, but I think that you could safely change things temporarily so we can comment and moderate in the same discussion, then change them back in the future if it becomes an issue. I think it wouldn't be harmful because discussions here are civilized, the stories generally aren't the sort to provoke fights, the majority of users here actively want Soylent to thrive, and 5 points isn't really enough to do much damage. (Also, the rule is so easily circumvented by posting ACÂ or under a second account that it's effectively forum DRM: it only hinders the honest people, not anyone likely to cause trouble.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @11:06AM
> stories snagged from Slashdot
So four-year old dupes are ok?