There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted. Even better would be a way for community members to give each other props in that regard, as in "I'd like to hear more from Joe, he always has insightful things to say on the subject of artificial DNA."
Perhaps I'm wrong, but neither karma nor consistently high mods appear to be linked to submissions chances that way. Of course there is the potential for abuse from shills, but you the editors ought to be able to quickly check out the bona fides of a userID's contributions and vet the validity of the acclaim.
There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted.
One problem with that is that you seem to be describing a vicious cycle. If you luck out and have a few submissions accepted, all of a sudden you have a greater chance of having your submissions accepted -- even if you're not necessarily all that interesting.
The other problem with being "consistently ahead of the curve with the news cycle" is that the people who are farthest ahead of the curve are the people who work for the news sites. You can see where that leads.
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There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted. Even better would be a way for community members to give each other props in that regard, as in "I'd like to hear more from Joe, he always has insightful things to say on the subject of artificial DNA."
Perhaps I'm wrong, but neither karma nor consistently high mods appear to be linked to submissions chances that way. Of course there is the potential for abuse from shills, but you the editors ought to be able to quickly check out the bona fides of a userID's contributions and vet the validity of the acclaim.
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There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted.
One problem with that is that you seem to be describing a vicious cycle. If you luck out and have a few submissions accepted, all of a sudden you have a greater chance of having your submissions accepted -- even if you're not necessarily all that interesting.
The other problem with being "consistently ahead of the curve with the news cycle" is that the people who are farthest ahead of the curve are the people who work for the news sites. You can see where that leads.
The goal of giving everyone access to the