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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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @09:47AM
Seriously, you complain about not having enough submissions, yet people here say theirs have been rejected. Then we have multiple stories about Climate Change within several days. Stop picking stories that fit your agenda and you won't have a problem.
(Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @01:03PM
Frankly, submission volume has been low to the point that we've been accepting almost everything. If a topic has come up more than once ( climate, Turkey vs Twitter)it's because there have been ongoing submissions on the subject, not because we're promoting an agenda.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Open4D on Monday March 24 2014, @02:49PM
I also commented [soylentnews.org] about an excess of Climate Change stories. But whereas I conceded that "each of the 3 stories had a different editor", you jump right in and accuse them of "picking stories that fit [their] agenda".
This agenda you have identified is clearly well-orchestrated across multiple editors, with lots of tech news and the occasional Overselling Climate Change [soylentnews.org] story thrown in keep people off the scent. But no-one's fooling you!
Or maybe you're the one with the agenda, trying to twist a call for more submissions into your own little whinge.