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posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @12:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the Call-to-Action! dept.

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. :) ]

 
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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Monday March 24 2014, @11:19AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Monday March 24 2014, @11:19AM (#20282) Journal

    We seriously have not had the opportunity to be be very choosy about subject matter, sources, and the like.

    I can only reiterate the points I've already made...

    There's nothing forcing you to post X stories per day. Comment-count on stories indicates there's FAR too many on the weekends...

    Half my submissions were rejected. Not that I'm not offended, but that doesn't exactly scream a desperate deficits of stories to me. The pattern seems to indicate an aversion to sciency stories, and it seems I'm not the only submitter that has seen this.

    While I welcome critique, submission and commenting are the most powerful thing members can do to steer the tone of this site.

    Well then, it seems like members are telling you that you're posting too many stories, and as this story and your reply indicate, some editors here are unwilling to listen and accept that.

    I believe the bug you mention was worked on (fixed?) over the weekend.

    I thought as much, as I saw a notable (but not complete) improvement since the maintenance. But it does defeat the purpose of bug tracking systems if nobody is bothering to update them...

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  • (Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @11:44AM

    by LaminatorX (14) <reversethis-{moc ... ta} {xrotanimal}> on Monday March 24 2014, @11:44AM (#20289)

    "Well then, it seems like members are telling you that you're posting too many stories, and as this story and your reply indicate, some editors here are unwilling to listen and accept that."

    As far as that goes, what we're getting is a lot of conflicting messages owing to different priorities and tastes, as you can see here when we had a community discussion specifically on this matter. [dev.soylentnews.org] Our current posture emerged directly from that discussion. Some members want a more restrained pace, others want us to push things out as quickly as we're able. I don't think there's a single right answer that's best all the time.

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  • (Score: 2) by cwix on Monday March 24 2014, @01:05PM

    by cwix (873) on Monday March 24 2014, @01:05PM (#20333)

    I disagree. I think the comment count issue more lies in the fact that many of us do not feel qualified to give useful and insightful commentary on subjects we do not understand. I have found a good many of interesting articles, but I just don't feel like I can comment on something that far out of my field of expertise without making myself look like an ass.