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: 3, Informative) by mmcmonster on Monday March 24 2014, @09:58AM
Absolutely. Too many stories with only a handful of comments each.
With thousands of page views, I think the main problem is people are waiting for others to comment first. Either that or the topics are so esoteric that the population doesn't feel comfortable commenting at all.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday March 24 2014, @04:26PM
I agree. I think it's because ./ had enough people in each domain/area that you had to be pretty knowledgeable of the topic to comment. There was a lot of off-topic stuff really. Criticism of editing, speeling, and the grammars could be a quarter of the comments. It may just take a while for people to come out of their shells enough to comment on things they aren't experts on.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.