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  • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 16 2014, @10:00AM

    by Open4D (371) on Sunday March 16 2014, @10:00AM (#17178) Journal

    In the system I'm proposing, the urgency level would simply be the submitter's opinion, which the editor would be made aware of - possibly at the same time as being made aware of the Karma of the submitter. It would still be down to the editor to chose if & when to post any particular story.

    My take on some priority levels:

    • Urgency Level 1 - Important breaking news that should ideally be considered soon
    • Urgency Level 2 - Breaking news that may be worth considering soon
    • Urgency Level 3 - Today's news.
    • Urgency Level 4 - Best posted within the next few days
    • Urgency Level 5 - Best posted within the next few weeks
    • Urgency Level 6 - Non-urgent

     
    I suppose I'm assuming that every now & then, an editor thinks "right, time to post a story", and has a look at all the submissions. When they do so, they might sort by urgency - as long as they don't defer to it too much (because we certainly need level 6 submissions quite often).

    Furthermore, some editors might chose to receive an alert (email, for example) whenever a user above a certain Karma level submits what they claim is a level 1 or 2 story.

    Most "Ask Soylent" type submissions should be Urgency Level 6.

    I've submitted two stories so far, and I would have declared them as levels 3 and 5 respectively.

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