drinkypoo's Journal: All story submissions should be journal entries!

While perusing the Firehose I came to the realization that most of those stories are going to be lost to antiquity. Oh, they'll be discussed on other websites, but slashdot actually provides us journal functionality so that they can be discussed here even if your submission doesn't make it as a story.

This is a call to all to make all of your story submissions as journal entries. Just click the radio button for "Publicize" (which is right under the format pulldown menu) and bingo! Your journal entry shows up in with the list of all the other submissions.

Can anyone see a problem with this approach? I wouldn't eliminate the idea of non-submission journal entries, but in general anything you are willing to submit as a story is something you don't mind having your name attached to...

Signal-to-noise ratio

[Ctrl-Z]

The problem I see is that most users don't drink from the firehose. And it's awfully hard to find the stuff you're looking for with all that noise.

Good idea, but...

[Captain Splendid]

...I think we need the "brains" behind the firehose to get it out of beta first.

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[drinkypoo]

Yeah well, "brains" probably aren't the problem, motivation is. I know that most of my problems can be solved by adequate application of inspiration. I perspire enough. But more to the point, I'm not sure people are understanding me. I don't want to make all journal entries into submissions. If I did, I'd have said so. I want all submissions to be made into journal entries! Or in short, I want to see the submissions of others :)

There are of course two reasons for this. One is that a lot of news goes awa

Re:This is a stupid idea, and you are a stupid per

[The Clockwork Troll]

On Digg I will typically scroll through pages and pages of MySpace blog spam to find 4 or 5 decent stories

If you have to scroll through pages and pages and you're not finding a story, then here's the news: you are the story.

And it's a sad story.

Re:This is a stupid idea, and you are a stupid per

[drinkypoo]

You are a fucking dumbshit. I'm proposing that all submissions be journal entries, not the other way around. You won't see them on the front page unless they get promoted to story. You will see them in the firehose anyway because they are already story submissions. Otherwise they'll just be discussions under people's blogs, which can be referred to later if anything. YOU, however, should never post in my fucking journal again. Dipshit.