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(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:06PM
Have you been toying with the idea of automation?
There's some stories that really need to go up immediately (Hey, the Ukraine just started a genuine shooting civil war this morning and (insert something soylent relevant here))
On the other hand, some stories can sit and if nothing was force posted in the last 120 minutes then one waiting in the hopper goes up. So some really cool scientific paper from last week (hint hint) could automagically appear to break up a dry spell.
This is not theory... theoildrum and thehousingbubbleblog have done exactly this in a cron job for many years.