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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: 2) by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @07:09PM
We are slowing down the posting rate too - to approximately one story every 2 hours or so. But not everyone is on holiday. Some people don't celebrate the holiday, some are working or on call, others are travelling. Our community is global. They might all want to browse the site during the 'holiday' period so we do try to keep something of interest on the front page. As we cannot predict where in the world people might be - even one of our editors is currently several thousands of miles from his usual location - we try to give 24 hour coverage.