whats up soylentils. any good meta discussion of soylent we care to have?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20, @04:52PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday October 20, @04:52PM (#1421507)
It's probably a reminder that SN needs the community to submit more stories to the queue. I remember on old school Slashdot, it felt like a big deal to have your story accepted for the front page of the site. You'd edit your own story to an extent, write a blurb, and submit it. There were so many submissions that it was hard to get one accepted. It would certainly help the editors if we edited our own stories to the extent possible and submitted them, and a reminder of that is probably the meta the site needs right now.
For users with accounts, is there any way to maybe have a badge (like the subscriber badge) that shows how many stories they've had accepted in the past 30 or 60 days? Maybe there should be more ways to reward users for submitting stories. What if getting five stories accepted in a month got the user a one month gift subscription?
For journals, what if users without subscriptions had three options: comments enabled, logged-in users, and comments disabled. And then for subscribers, what if new options were added like only logged-in users with accounts that have been active for more than a month, or logged-in users with 20+ karma? Maybe give subscribers a couple of new options, but give the logged-in users option to everyone whether they're a subscriber or not? I know SN needs ways to encourage people to subscribe, so in exchange for making one of those perks free, a couple of new perks get added for subscriptions.
And will SN's financial goal tracker ever return to the front page? I remember that was a big deal, and SN routinely asked for subscriptions to cover their costs. And although I know those costs are down, they still exist. If nothing else, it made users more aware that their subscriptions mattered, because they would see that bar move closer to the goal.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20, @04:52PM
It's probably a reminder that SN needs the community to submit more stories to the queue. I remember on old school Slashdot, it felt like a big deal to have your story accepted for the front page of the site. You'd edit your own story to an extent, write a blurb, and submit it. There were so many submissions that it was hard to get one accepted. It would certainly help the editors if we edited our own stories to the extent possible and submitted them, and a reminder of that is probably the meta the site needs right now.
For users with accounts, is there any way to maybe have a badge (like the subscriber badge) that shows how many stories they've had accepted in the past 30 or 60 days? Maybe there should be more ways to reward users for submitting stories. What if getting five stories accepted in a month got the user a one month gift subscription?
For journals, what if users without subscriptions had three options: comments enabled, logged-in users, and comments disabled. And then for subscribers, what if new options were added like only logged-in users with accounts that have been active for more than a month, or logged-in users with 20+ karma? Maybe give subscribers a couple of new options, but give the logged-in users option to everyone whether they're a subscriber or not? I know SN needs ways to encourage people to subscribe, so in exchange for making one of those perks free, a couple of new perks get added for subscriptions.
And will SN's financial goal tracker ever return to the front page? I remember that was a big deal, and SN routinely asked for subscriptions to cover their costs. And although I know those costs are down, they still exist. If nothing else, it made users more aware that their subscriptions mattered, because they would see that bar move closer to the goal.