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SoylentNews is people

posted by mrcoolbp on Monday August 10 2015, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-you-gonna-call-now dept.

As you are all aware, we are in the middle of the dog days of summer. We get it, people are busy with work, family, and a plethora of other things. Some of our (volunteer) staff need a break too, so we are looking for a few good people, be they man, woman, child, animal, mineral or vegetable, to join our ranks and help spread the workload.

There are a number of ways to help out:

  • Join us on our webchat IRC or, if you are new to IRC (I was only a year ago), check here for some tips on getting connected.
  • Email mrcoolbp (or if you are sick of that guy any other staff member like janrinok will do; "nickname@soylentnews.org" works for any of us)
  • Read the wiki page on "Getting Involved"

One thing that this site needs more than anything else to thrive is submissions.

We greatly appreciate all of our submitters. The submission queue is the lifeblood of SoylentNews, when it is empty, there is nothing to read, learn from, and argue about.

Takyon, Hugh Pickens, Phoenix666, and Arthur T. Knackerbracket come immediately to mind as people that we see submissions from a lot, and they present great submissions. However, consider that just one article a week from 25% of our registered users would give us more material than we can use, and yield a far greater variety of viewpoints, opinions, and stories. When you find something interesting, submit a story. Take a quick peek at our Submission Guidelines for some insight into best practices.

"But what do I submit?". Check out the RSSbot logs. Scroll down to 'today' and check out the links. This bot simply posts stories from various relevant sources in real-time by scraping RSS feeds (you can refresh the page and get more up-to-date stories).

A well crafted summary is preferred, but not an absolute necessity. Your summary doesn't have to be elaborate. It could be a copy/paste of the first paragraph or two from the article, but please, be sure to give us the link where you are getting the material.

I can only speak for myself, but I find the time spent working on SoylentNews and hanging around on IRC generally pretty relaxing. It is fun for me, and I appreciate that the community is an interesting place with people from many places, industries, and walks of life. It is a place where I come to learn, and read things I would otherwise never see.

Thanks to you all for helping build a great community, and we hope to see many new faces over the coming months.

--cmn32480


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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday August 10 2015, @11:18AM

    by inertnet (4071) on Monday August 10 2015, @11:18AM (#220626) Journal

    I'll never be a top submitter, but that's exactly why I hardly ever bother to submit anything at all. At the unmentionable site a submission of mine that pointed to the original source wasn't used, while another person's submission was used that went to a clickbait site. And because there's no explanation at all, my reaction automatically becomes: "why bother". That and the idea that someone else will probably submit a story anyhow.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday August 10 2015, @11:23AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday August 10 2015, @11:23AM (#220628) Homepage

    At the unmentionable site

    Slashdot Slashdot Slashdot Slashdot Slashdot.

    See? Nothing bad will hap$6asdu%jyhvreargghh/velociraptors!

    --
    systemd is Roko's Basilisk
    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 10 2015, @05:56PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2015, @05:56PM (#220787) Journal

      The monkey gets velociraptors - all I got was this jungle rot. Soylent sure throws a m̶o̶n̶k̶e̶y̶ ̶ wrench into that whole karma thing.

  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday August 10 2015, @03:05PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Monday August 10 2015, @03:05PM (#220710) Journal

    At the unmentionable site a submission of mine that pointed to the original source wasn't used, while another person's submission was used that went to a clickbait site.

    If you think that is bad, wait until someone copy/pastes the text that you wrote in a submission and that person's submission is accepted while yours is rejected (happened to me at "the other site")

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday August 10 2015, @07:47PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2015, @07:47PM (#220861) Journal
    The problem is that 'someone else' isn't posting that story.