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So, what is SoylentNews? This is your chance to tell us!
I am announcing the first ever SoylentNews online video contest. The rules are pretty simple.
- Upload an original video (no more than about 60 seconds, please) to the site of your choice (but please tell us where it is up loaded and ensure it tracks views) that answers the question, "What is Soylent News?" Your video should ideally contain the phrase, "Soylent News is ..." but this is not strictly required. Let us know what site you upload to.
- Tag your video SoylentNews.
- Watch as the hits roll in.
- ????
- Profit!
Too easy, right? We will count the views on 31 March 2014, at 11:59 UTC. The winner is the individual video that has the most views.
You do not actually have to appear in the video! Make a cartoon, do CGI, do a voiceover of a movie, whatever. Be creative and explore your artistic vision! (Yes, you have one. It may be underutilized at times but it is there).
We have not yet determined the prize for the winner, but it will be jaw-droppingly awe-inspiring (it's a key-chain I found on the sidewalk somewhere). No, it'll be something good. At a minimum we'll feature your video on the site here and interview you for the "making of" your entry. But probably more (it's a keychain).
On behalf of the entire staff and volunteers, we continue to be amazed at the response we've gotten from the community so far. We will continue to provide ways that you can interact with us and help define us. I hope you enjoy this contest. If you have any other suggestions for how we can better meet your needs, feel free to let us know in IRC, the Forums, or the Wiki. Thanks for reading!
~Mattie_p
p.s. keychain!
p.p.s updated based on feedback
(Score: 4, Interesting) by LookIntoTheFuture on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:46PM
the point of this is?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:50PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by LookIntoTheFuture on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:56PM
Taken seriously by whom? And, why does it need to be taken seriously by anybody else? Does everything need to RULE THE WORLD? I'm all in favor of this site becoming a non-profit. That way this kind of silliness can end.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:05PM
True, none of that is strictly necessary for the site to post stories and the readership, regardless of its size, to have fruitful discussions on them, but just as the tagline says: "Soylent News... is People", so the more the merrier.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:36PM
"I was thinking more in terms of getting to undertake interviews with notable people"
Well, I've been thinking about that topic, I think we can safely assume we're not going to get Woz for the first interview, and I'm volunteering Bruce Perens or mcgrew to be the first interview victim. How generous of me to volunteer them, without even mentioning it to them first.
Can anyone else think of a victim who's either interesting or a good writer or preferably both, and most importantly, is actually available? How about somebody who likely has a hell of a story, like worked in the IT tent in the park during that Ukraine uprising or something like that?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by omoc on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:48PM
Marketing for what exactly? Users do not exactly generate profit here and the YouTube crowd is nothing like the kind of /. users this knock-off is shooting for.
Seriously, we can do without the YouTube crowd here so the OP has a valid point with this question.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:40PM
The point is to get a bunch of organic linkbacks to soylentnews.org from youtube.com so SN so more highly rated in search engine results.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by chown on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:01PM
If that's the purpose (and that sounds very plausible), that's pretty bad for two reasons:
a) it'll attract people from the masses, leading to a reddit like community (eternal september)
b) if this whole post-your-video thingy is for the hidden purpose of getting linkbacks, it belongs to the same kind of stupid games and tricks that dice tried and continues to play with the other site.
(Score: 1) by el_oscuro on Wednesday February 26 2014, @01:52AM
PWN the search engines! I like it...
SoylentNews is Bacon! [nueskes.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Covalent on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:02PM
Oh come on. It could be fun!
And if you ... look into the future (see what I did there)...your video could be the face of SN.
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 3, Funny) by LookIntoTheFuture on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:32PM
Uhm... That wouldn't be good for anybody. :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by dilbert on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:18PM
(Score: 2) by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:52PM
I'd mod this up funny, but I'm all over this thread and can't. Sorry. Thanks for reading! ~mattie_p
(Score: 2, Funny) by SockPuppet on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:47AM
You couldn't figure out how to make a sock puppet? ;-)