After several early attempts, we have settled on a process for deciding on the final name for this site currently known as SoylentNews.org. You'll need to log in and go to: userprefs/homepage and check the box marked "Willing to Vote" if you'd like to participate (do this now, the submission round will go out soon). The vote will occur using an email-based solution loosely based on the Debian/Condercet method that we cooked up. Note: checking this box will indicate that we are scraping your email address from the database for participation (this is completely opt-in). If you wish not to participate, just make sure this box is unchecked (this is the default).
We are opening the floor to name suggestions. If you have suggested a name earlier, you'll need to re-submit it through this email voting system. Though we prefer available domains, if you have pre-purchased a domain (eg: to prevent squatters), by submitting the name you are stating that you are the owner of the domain(s) and will give it without strings attached to this project if it were to be chosen.
The criteria for an acceptable name:
This is how it will work:
If you're interested:
NCommander adds: So its finally here, and I wanted to apologize for the long delay before this actually happened. To the editoral team, please bump this to the top of the index for the next 24 hours so everyone gets a chance to see it (click 'fastforward' then save to autoupdate the timestamp). I promise a Featured Story option is coming in the next major update so we don't have to deal with this!
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 09 2014, @02:32PM
We may also find domains aren't available, trademarked, etc. The results are ranked so we can always just grab the next one lower down from the list.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 09 2014, @05:44PM
The difference is that for unavailable domains, you have only one list, and thus an unique ordering. But for the ten final candidates you've got two lists, and thus have to decide which list you draw the additional name(s) from. Since both lists are affected in the very same way by shared names, you cannot simply say you choose from the list less names were taken from.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.