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posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @04:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the Call-to-Action! dept.

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. :) ]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Open4D on Monday March 24 2014, @10:25AM

    by Open4D (371) on Monday March 24 2014, @10:25AM (#20153) Journal

    In addition, moderation sucks (sorry). On /. I get 5 mod points every couple of days that *stay* for a couple of days. Here I get 10, spend 2 and when I visit the site the next time the remaining 8 are gone. Maybe it's just me or I do something wrong (?), but on /. moderation is fun for me, here moderation is an annoyance.

    They expire after 4 hours, AFAICT.

    I think there's a view that mod points should ideally not be saved up for use on the moderator's favourite stories. (And therefore perhaps a view that any Soylent user should be capable of moderating comments on the majority of stories, so they can dive right in and use up their points straight away?)

    I know the expiry of points is tough psychologically, because it feels like you've wasted them. But actually the system can be (and I suspect already is) designed so that the overall amount of moderation happening is fairly constant, even on days when a higher proportion than normal of users failed to use their points.

    So don't worry. I don't think anything bad happens if your mod points expire. The electrons are recycled :)

    Some URLs:

    http://soylentnews.org/moderation.shtml [soylentnews.org]

    http://soylentnews.org/~NCommander/journal/36 [soylentnews.org]

     
    I expect one could spend a lifetime discussing & reworking the moderation system.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by omoc on Monday March 24 2014, @04:00PM

    by omoc (39) on Monday March 24 2014, @04:00PM (#20297)

    > "I expect one could spend a lifetime discussing & reworking the moderation system."

    I think it took /. quite long to get it right, and their current system feels just about right. In addition to the previous points, it's also just inconvenient to spend the points on static html. I rarely get any points here anyway, but when I do I don't even use them.