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Journal by kolie
whats up soylentils. any good meta discussion of soylent we care to have?
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You will never know hunger.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2025, @04:52PM (7 children)
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) by kolie on Monday October 20 2025, @06:40PM (6 children)
Actual good shit in here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2025, @08:57PM (5 children)
We were just notified, in jan's latest Meta, that AC submissions to the queue are suspect and given lower priority, lest they be covert ari subs. Nice that Jan also has restricted discussion in the front page Meta, as he is wont to do. Enjoy the bubble, remaining soylentils! You may not even realize that janrinok has created one.
(Score: 2) by kolie on Monday October 20 2025, @09:05PM (4 children)
As a trained editor - we prefer non-anonymous submissions because its the kind thing to do and recognize our users who are given attribution. We take anonymous submissions and in this case "prioritizing" them means literally checking them for suitability for the site first over the others. It has nothing to do with them likely to be Aristarchus. submissions. But keep throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks mate. Grasping at straws on this one as is the usual.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2025, @09:22PM (3 children)
What if a submission "sounds like" ari, or comes from an IP that has been maliciously spam modded? Can't even see the wall anymore, bro!
(Score: 2) by kolie on Monday October 20 2025, @09:26PM (2 children)
All submissions and write-ups are given the same consideration and criteria. There was no training on check post for Ari identification and deny stories that would otherwise be posted. AFAIK there is no practice of matching submissions to IP or other identification or spam relation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2025, @09:52PM (1 child)
Well, that is reassuring!
(Score: 3, Informative) by kolie on Monday October 20 2025, @10:01PM
Further more - any editor can decline or process a story. There is notes we leave "not for me" etc. Any one person can pick it up and run with it depending on their expertise or otherwise - one editors trash might be anothers treasure. An article that fails to be ran has really been declined by EVERY editor going through the queue and still not finding an advocate . Really every article is given the same shake.