- What is the Neatorama Upcoming Queue all about?
- So it's like Digg?
- Can I post to my own blog?
- How come my posts never make it to the front page?
- What if someone submits something inappropriate?
- How do I upload an avatar?
- Who built the upcoming queue?
1. What is the Neatorama Upcoming Queue all about?
It's a way to let anyone write a blog post on Neatorama. Spot something neat on the Web? You can write a post about it yourself!
Good posts are voted up by Neatorama readers and if they're great, they'll be promoted onto Neatorama's front page.
Sort of, but not exactly. Don't get us wrong, we love Digg (and reddit, mixx, and other social networking websites) but our Upcoming Queue has a few differences:
Your Submission is a Blog Post
First and foremost, Neatorama is a blog and it will remain a blog. We've just opened writing for the blog to basically everyone (technically, you have to be a registered user of the blog to submit your post, but anyone can join for free).Via Link is provided
This is a personal pet peeve of mine: social networking sites don't give via credits. If you found an interesting item to post on Neatorama via a certain blog, please credit it with a via link. It's good manners.Author Link is provided
Your post will carry a link to your website, but we do reserve the right to edit this in cases of spam and inappropriate content.Equal Chance to Get Promoted to Front Page
On Neatorama, all submitted posts are created equal. Don't have a lot of buddies that will vote for your submissions? No problem. There are two ways to be promoted to front page: votes and editor's pick.
The first one is easy: good posts with a lot of votes will be promoted to Neatorama's front page (though we do reserve the rights to override these in cases of duplicate posts, inappropriate content and spam).
The second method, editor's pick, is a way to even up the playing field a bit for submitters who don't have a lot of friends voting for their submissions. Basically, Neatorama editors will look for good posts - regardless of the number of votes garnered - to promote to the front page.
No Burying
Once a post is on the front page, it's on the front page. No burying, no personal vendettas.No Direct Linking to Pictures
This is another pet peeve of mine: linking directly to a picture. This offers no context or photo credit and gobbles up someone's bandwidths and gives them no chance to offset that expense through advertisements.
Yes, if you have original content. Otherwise, please link to the original article - your blog will be linked to from the author link. If you found the original piece through another blog source, please credit it using the "via" link. Don't be greedy - self-promotion and link dropping are frowned upon.
Please note that editors may edit your submissions for clarity/credit/etc.
4. How come my posts never make it to the front page?
Are they interesting? Are they work-safe? Do they link to original articles? Have we covered that subject before? (With nearly 18,000 posts on Neatorama and counting, many of the suggestions have actually been featured before).
Your post will have 24 glorious hours in the Upcoming Queue.
5. What if someone submits something inappropriate?
That's that the "Flag this post" link is for. Please report inappropriate contents so we can ban hammer the doofus that submitted them.
We use gravatar. It's free and easy to use! Plus, your avatar will work on all gravatar-enabled sites.
6. Who Built the Upcoming Queue?
The awesome folks over at Sift Partners. The Queue is a specially customized version of Varo CMS (the engine of VideoSift, the best video community website on the planet) hooked up to the WordPress blogging engine of Neatorama.
If you'd like one, you can join the interest list over at VaroCMS.
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