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: 1, Troll) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 09 2014, @06:04PM
You should improve your reading skills.
The requirement is that if you have reserved a domain name you suggest, that you agree to give it without any strings attached (that is, you cannot buy a domain, suggest it, and then say "oh, that's my domain, but you can have that domain name ... for a thousand dollars."
The other requirement is that otherwise, the domain must be free on all three top-level domains (that is, if foo.com is already held by some unrelated person, you cannot suggest foo.org).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09 2014, @06:22PM
You should improve your understanding of the word "practical".
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 09 2014, @07:12PM
I cannot find a meaning of the word "practical" that would make the claim true.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.