https://wiki.soylentnews.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DecbotSoylentNews - User contributions [en]2026-05-16T10:09:57ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.4https://wiki.soylentnews.org/index.php?title=Submission_guidelines&diff=155Submission guidelines2014-02-06T23:25:55Z<p>Decbot: /* Categories */</p>
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<div>As asked for on the front page: Discussion of Submission Guidelines.<br />
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It wouldn't be slashdot without hot-button topics generating hundreds of posts in areas on the more political charged side of science (global warming, nuclear energy, weapons, evolution, etc.)<br />
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''I've noticed that the quality of articles on Slashdot has gone down a lot in recent years. Even if Slashdot goes back to the original format, I think we can make a much better site by having better articles.''<br />
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== Categories ==<br />
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As is stands now OldSlashdot has the following categories on the front page.<br />
*'''Ask Slashdot'''<br />
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*'''Book Reviews'''<br />
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*'''Games'''<br />
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*'''Idle'''<br />
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*'''YRO'''<br />
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*'''Cloud'''<br />
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*'''Hardware'''<br />
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*'''Linux''' <br />
** perhaps we should add a Windows and OSX category as well or just call this Operating Systems. I'm a Linux user at home, but it seems one sided to have only a category for Linux. We should try to be unbiased when possible.<br />
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*'''Management'''<br />
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*'''Mobile'''<br />
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*'''Science'''<br />
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*'''Security'''<br />
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*'''Storage'''<br />
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Is this the same format people would want on a new site? Expand the list, or focus more on fewer categories?<br />
Combine where possible (i.e. Storage and Cloud may fit in some larger category ??)<br />
Additions:<br />
* Alternative Energy<br />
* General Current events ?<br />
* Developers<br />
* Digital Currency/Bitcoin? - is anybody really interested in Bitcoin as much as the /. editors seem to be?</div>Decbot