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Hi Guys, Soylent's Editors do a lot behind the scenes to keep the community going. As a gift idea for them this year, please consider submitting lots of stories over the next two days to get the queue nice and full. Then they'll be able to schedule in their appearance on the home page ahead of time and take Christmas (or Hanukkah) off to spend time with their friends and families.
If you've never submitted a story before, here are guidelines for composing a story submission. You submit it here.
My own method is to find tech/science articles from SN's RSS-bot or a dozen other sources like the BBC or sciencenews.org, grab the title, and a couple of paragraphs that communicate the gist. Often I'll add a quip, question, or note of my own, but that's up to your personal taste. It's easy and takes under 5 minutes per story.
Thanks for reading, and have a happy holiday!
[Ed Note: The week between Christmas and New Years is always slow for submissions and time is a precious commodity for all of us. The more subs in the queue, the further out we can get the story queue, and the more time we have to spend with our loved ones. Any help you can give would be appreciated!]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:03PM
Personally, would rather have normal pace or even faster...since there is plenty of time to kill while avoiding all the relatives that show up over the holidays.
Also, if the feed actually stopped for a day or so, I wonder how many eyeballs would go away and not come back?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:42PM
I would prefer many spicy stories over holidays, better than normal days. Not everyone enjoys R.L, meeting shitheads that one managed to avoid for the whole year. There should be more discussions.
And can we please disallow moderation of comments over the next two weeks? (feel free to disagree with this one). It is distracting, while adding nearly nothing of value. No-moderation should also give a message to those who think that moderation of comments matters.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @05:00PM
You could set -1/-1 Threshold/Breakthrough to read all comments. Easy to save those settings if you have a throwaway account, but I imagine you could make a script to automatically apply them once you land on an article ( https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/12/23/1417241 [soylentnews.org] ). This would navigate to a new URL like https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&mode=improvedthreaded&commentsort=0&op=Change&sid=17148 [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:19PM
It is distracting, while adding nearly nothing of value.
It's valuable to me and it is one of the things that distinguishes this place from many others. Feel free to browse at -1, but I haven't came across any posts that did not belong there. Informative mods are probably the most useful (and least misused) since they basically only go to posts with references.
I can't speak for everyone, but positive moderation of my posts helps validate the effort I put into them. Why else would I go through the effort to make a well-referenced post if I have no idea if people read it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:31AM
Try making a well-referenced comment about jews. The only moderation you will get will be -1, Troll.
Try making insightful comments about jews starting wars and getting everyone else to die, while they are busy gathering corpses of dead nations. It won't be moderated +5, Insightful.
So there you are.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Friday December 23 2016, @05:39PM
Yeah, I hear that! I just figure there're plenty of sources of distraction available, although maybe that's not so good for SN given your second point. I definitely was not trying to imply that Real Life is somehow awesomer than usual around "the holidays", but just that if the editors have something to do other than editing, that's cool with me.