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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: 2, Troll) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 24 2014, @04:32PM
Seeing "Hugh Pickens style" clickbait posts from Papas Fritas has soured me on visiting this site further. We need some real submissions so we can avoid having useless folks like him clog up the site.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Maow on Monday March 24 2014, @08:30PM
Seeing as how SN is hurting for submissions (per this story's topic), I think it's time to realize that SN needs a Hugh Pickens type of member.
He is a frequent submitter, writes up lengthy and well sourced submissions, and I don't see how his stuff was click-bait, other than if one takes that term to mean "something interesting that I want to click on to read more".
I never really saw the problem with Hugh Pickens that some people did (do?) - he was a valuable member. Much more so than I am, for instance.
Having said that, I haven't been to the other site since the slashcott so haven't seen any of his submissions for months.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Tuesday March 25 2014, @03:54AM
Yeah, I don't really mind either. Or care, for that matter. If something interests me, great. If it doesn't, I know where the down-arrow key is.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.