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All of the trend lines on this site are positive except one: story submissions. After an initial surge, they have been gradually declining despite users and page views climbing. Tonight the submission queue ran dry. Janrinok and I could go scrounging, as we sometimes do, but this needs to be addressed.
We have around four thousand registered users, and who knows how may AC's reading along. We can do better.
I challenge each of you to submit stories on a regular basis, at whatever frequency you find comfortable. Really, if even half of us submitted a story once a week, we would have more than we could ever use. Once a day, once a week, once a month, whatever you can handle, send it in.
Bookmark this link: http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl - use it. Give us so many stories that we can select the cream of the crop and stun you with how amazing our community is. Make it happen.
I'm going to leave this story on top for a while, and see what is waiting for us when I get to work in the morning. Wow me, please.
This is our news site. There are others like it, but this one is ours. Its success is in your hands.
[UPDATE: We have received, in less than 12 hours, more submissions than we had the whole rest of the weekend. THANK YOU SO MUCH, and please, keep them coming. Even one story a month matters. Let the party re-commence. :) ]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Fluffeh on Monday March 24 2014, @08:57AM
This is where it is important to get a critical mass of readers who are also submitters. The vast majority of us will likely read a few common websites - but each of us may well follow a particular site that no-one else does. If we get THOSE readers to submit interesting stories, we will get that great balance of "common" as well as "niche" websites being submitted - and as a result grow so much greater for it.
I would challenge the folks who HAVEN'T submitted a single article to find something out of the way that they are interested in - that we might well also be interested in - and submit it.