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posted by cmn32480 on Friday December 23 2016, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-appreciate-the-help! dept.

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!]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 23 2016, @05:34PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday December 23 2016, @05:34PM (#445114) Journal

    It was reflexive. Ever since I went away to college in Chicago, and now living in New York, Christmas has been paired with Hanukkah. At first it was also twined with Kwanzaa, but that seems to have dropped off the radar (go to the heart of Harlem at Christmas time now and you cannot find any Kwanzaa merchandise). Why is that? That's really an exercise left to the reader.

    Of course if you do that exercise, you might then wonder about other things, like how Israel seems to be in the headlines of every major American paper quite disproportionately to their population, economic performance, or any other index. You might wonder why nearly every Hollywood script has a Jewish character in the cast, when there are so many other cultures that could get equal time (When was the last time you saw a Dogon character in an animated children's film? How about Touareg--those guys are pretty cool).

    Fair warning, though. Keep the results of that exercise to yourself. Noting obvious patterns is wrongthink and is severely punished.

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