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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Popeidol on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:17AM

    by Popeidol (35) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:17AM (#11270) Journal

    I wasn't sure whether it should be the submitter or the editor who tags the priority. While the submitter doing it makes it more likely to hit the queue quickly, it also could lead to abuse with people 'accidentally' mistagging articles as urgent to get it looked at faster than everybody who used the tag correctly.

    You're right about the rest as well: The option to push breaking news is nice, but it should never become a focus. That's not what we're about.

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  • (Score: 2) by jt on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:50AM

    by jt (2890) on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:50AM (#13416)

    IMHO the submitter should never tag the priority, as it will either be a) abused, or b) ignored. In a previous workplace our bug tracking system had 2 priority fields. One was visible to the users, who always tagged everything as top priority and highest urgency. The other was visible to the tech team who estimated the real priority from the user-suggested priority and a broader knowledge of the organisation. It would have been a career-limiting move to allow the users to know this.

    Let the editors make these decisions and maintain an independent viewpoint.

    • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 16 2014, @02:00PM

      by Open4D (371) on Sunday March 16 2014, @02:00PM (#17178) Journal

      In the system I'm proposing, the urgency level would simply be the submitter's opinion, which the editor would be made aware of - possibly at the same time as being made aware of the Karma of the submitter. It would still be down to the editor to chose if & when to post any particular story.

      My take on some priority levels:

      • Urgency Level 1 - Important breaking news that should ideally be considered soon
      • Urgency Level 2 - Breaking news that may be worth considering soon
      • Urgency Level 3 - Today's news.
      • Urgency Level 4 - Best posted within the next few days
      • Urgency Level 5 - Best posted within the next few weeks
      • Urgency Level 6 - Non-urgent

       
      I suppose I'm assuming that every now & then, an editor thinks "right, time to post a story", and has a look at all the submissions. When they do so, they might sort by urgency - as long as they don't defer to it too much (because we certainly need level 6 submissions quite often).

      Furthermore, some editors might chose to receive an alert (email, for example) whenever a user above a certain Karma level submits what they claim is a level 1 or 2 story.

      Most "Ask Soylent" type submissions should be Urgency Level 6.

      I've submitted two stories so far, and I would have declared them as levels 3 and 5 respectively.