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New poll: what topics would you like to see?

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Good idea (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-06-12 11:55 (#22G)

To have a poll like this... but I wonder if it is less about story fit and more about the number of people coming by and contributing...

For myself, I go in and out with regards to having and/or making the time to contribute. Big fan of this site, but hey, a whole week can go by when you're on vacation or at a conference or something...

Re: Good idea (Score: 5, Insightful)

by marqueeblink@pipedot.org on 2014-06-12 15:54 (#22W)

I think pot luck (no drug reference intended) is a sensible approach right now. People can submit stories they find interesting, and see whether they can convince the editors to post them and then get people to respond to them. That's their feedback. Trying to put together a submission content policy right now would probably be counterproductive.

Re: Good idea (Score: 4, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-12 16:04 (#22X)

That's kind of the way it's working right now - as volunteer editor I can assure you I'm posting almost everything that comes in, thinking anyone who went to all the trouble to post something deserves to have it hit the front page. Later when the number of submissions picks up we can begin filtering. "Too many articles" is currently not one of our problems. Soylent typically has 14-18 submissions in the queue, but the times I've reviewed them I've found a lot of stuff that wasn't really that great.

The volunteer editors here have also gone to great pains to take even barebones submissions and make them into something interesting and newsworthy, when a post needs a little love and care.

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Time Reason Points Voter
2014-06-13 04:01 Informative +1 danieldvorkin@pipedot.org
2014-06-13 05:54 Interesting +1 genkernel@pipedot.org
2014-06-16 02:34 Interesting +1 pete@pipedot.org
2014-06-17 03:17 Normal 0 reziac@pipedot.org

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