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cmn32480 writes:

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

As you are all aware, we are in the middle of the dog days of summer. People are busy with work, family, and a plethora of other things.

The editorial staff, just like the rest of you, has these commitments.

We are looking for a few good people, be they man, woman, child, animal, mineral or vegetable, to join our ranks and help spread the workload, before one or several of us go off the deep end.

If you would like to volunteer, there are a number of ways to do it.

• Join us on our webchat IRC [soylentnews.org] or, if you are new to IRC (I was only a year ago), check here for some tips on getting connected [soylentnews.org].
• Email an editor or other staff member (most of us have "nickname@soylentnews.org" as an email address)
• Read the wiki page on "Getting Involved [soylentnews.org]"

One thing that this site needs more than anything else to thrive is submissions.

We greatly appreciate our all of our submitters. The submission queue [soylentnews.org] is the lifeblood of Soylent News, when it is empty, there is nothing to read, learn from, and argue about.

Takyon, Phoenix666, and Arthur T. Knackerbracket come immediately to mind as people that we see submissions from daily or almost so.

Keep in mind, you don't have to submit every day. One article a week from 25% of our registered users would give us more material than we can use. When you find something interesting submit a story [soylentnews.org]. Taking a quick peek at our Submission Guidelines [soylentnews.org] is a good place to start.

A great number of story ideas can be found here in the RSSbot logs [sylnt.us].

A well crafted summary is preferred, but not an absolute necessity. Your summary doesn't have to be elaborate. It be a copy paste of the first paragraph or two from the article, but please, be sure to give us the link where you are getting the material.

I can only speak for myself, but I find the time spent working on SoylentNews and hanging around on IRC generally pretty relaxing. It is fun for me, and I appreciate that the community is an interesting place with people from many places, industries, and walks of life. It is a place where I come to learn, and read things I would otherwise never see.

Thanks to you all for helping build a great community, and we hope to see many new faces over the coming months.

--cmn32480

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