BarbaraHudson's Journal: Wow - made the front page twice in 3 days.

I must be doing something right.

Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight this morning, and First Birth From Human Womb Transplant.

It's all about timing

[damn_registrars]

You can only suggest a solid article when an intelligent "editor" (ie, not samzenpus) is at the wheel. Otherwise offer up conservative FUD when he is... Of course, that isn't enough either, as solid articles that are relevant to "news for nerds" can still get rejected when we have intelligent editors doing the screening, if they get buried in the firehose.

My mistake - 3 times :-)

[BarbaraHudson]

Just had another story accepted [slashdot.org] That makes 2 in one day.

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[maynard]

There's a real dearth of quality submissions lately. Your work is being accepted because the editors need it. Badly. That's why Hugh Pickens keeps getting front paged too, even though he clearly engages in self-promotion. His choice of material is good and write ups concise.

Slashdot needs a new policy and system to foster community contribution. I don't think the site is dead. But I do think editors should consider how to rebuild audience share by transitioning focus away from link aggregation - a market th

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[BarbaraHudson]

Thanks. Back before I dropped out for a couple of years, I was thinking that it's too bad that so much of the real action that takes place in journals that just never gets seen. I'm not talking so much about tech stuff, but about the human side of tech. I know, there are people who think it's irrelevant, but like Alan Greenberg wrote in "How to be a successful consultant":

There are three rules. The first rule is, no matter what they say, there's always a problem. The second rule is, no matter what they say, it's always a people problem. And the third rule is that they will tell you the solution to the problem within the first 5 minutes."

A tech site *could* help support people better with the human aspects of computing, keeping their audience rather than losing it to r

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[maynard]

I have some ideas. I think it's time for a journal entry too.

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[BarbaraHudson]

What would happen if slashdot had a separate "subscribe to this blog" feature that worked even for non-slashdot users?

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[maynard]

It took a while, but here you go.

http://slashdot.org/journal/13... [slashdot.org]

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[BarbaraHudson]

Just finished reading it :-)

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[maynard]

You may have been the only one. lol

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[BarbaraHudson]

Don't be too sure. Remember, for every person who says something, there's usually 10 to 100 who don't. :-)

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[BarbaraHudson]

And 4 in one week (Texas ebola patient dies [slashdot.org]). And those are the ONLY submissions I made in the last week. I don't know - just that when I see something that stands out, I submit it.

I submitted a story, watch it fail

[damn_registrars]

I really shouldn't have submitted a story that involves actual science [slashdot.org], but unfortunately I submitted it while "Failure Machine" samzenpus is the one approving FUD for the front page. I would ask people to vote it up but I expect he would still snub it out.

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[damn_registrars]

Surprise! You're FP'd.

Notice it didn't make front page until after the failure machine went home for the day... it was posted by the vastly more intelligent editor soulskill.

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[BarbaraHudson]

Don't worry, be happy :-)

Better to have a diversity of editorial viewpoints, than to have a boring echo chamber, n'est pas? Congratulations.

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[damn_registrars]

Better to have a diversity of editorial viewpoints, than to have a boring echo chamber, n'est pas? Congratulations.
The diversity here is you either express a conservative bias, or none at all. I could experience the same by watching fox news.

Frankly, I would prefer the "editors" here just simply leave their politics out. I'm a little puzzled that dice allows it anyways - this leads me to wonder if dice pays attention to this site at all or if they worry only about their investment in thinkgeek.