Holy submissions batman

Ok, so doodirock inspired people to be part of the site I can see. This is the first day I check the submission queue and there is...actually people submitting. Granted, most are tank which isn't too drastic a change since he typically sends me sub-texts to write about. Now, he's helping by writing a few himself.

So, a few things about submissions, so that you kinda know what articles we typically will accept and which ones we may not.

Bleeding Edge News

When you find news that just occured, minutes or hours before, we'll probably rush to post it. Now, it should be something informative and not a big quote from another news site like 1up, kotaku, etc. Try to write something original, from your own thoughts, but quote sources and people as you would for anything else.

Editorials

You got something to write about and want all to read it? Well, we'll probably take a good editorial (although it might not hit the page immediately). Editorials are great filler for times when news is low. And, they're often the best reads and offer the most comments and feedback.

Things we probably will not publish:

1. Small news that may only inform a short list of people. For instance, if a new video comes out for some game or something, we probably won't post it unless its a well anticipated game (Halo 3, some PS3 games, etc.) More then likely, if you want your submission to come through, we don't want "here is the new video from such and such" but the video and a short writeup about why you think the game is going to rock or suck. Meat to the submission, not just an updated trailer.

2. Old news. If you find something cool, but it happened a month ago (hell, even last week) it will probably get passed by unless the content guys (doodi and I pretty much) think its well informative (such was with the dual HDMI article we published which was old news but we don't think everyone knew).

3. News that doesn't fit our demographic or is a promotion for another site. We won't publish stuff like "check out this new game site that just came online" unless it changes the world for some reason. News that also doesn't pertain to gaming or neat technology. Mp3 player news is cool because a) we have our own podcast, b) games and music often mix and c) its cool technology. However, we probably won't pushlish something about a new robot design or something unless it was designed using an xbox or has a high cool factor.

4. Horridly written content. This doesn't occur often, but if it will take us longer to re-construct it then a few minutes it might get pushed aside or dumped. If its good but just needs a polishing we might queue it for a bit until one of us gets around to it (as this is our side side side job).

5. News that has a good chance of being false. If you see something like "PS3 to come out at $250.00 instead" please find a large set of reliable sources before pushing it to us. Because we're going to do that too, and if it turns out to be one forum post or one site... we'll probably not post it (as to not look foolish if it turns out to be horribly wrong).


How can you help us make it post faster?

1. Conform to a few small rules, use italics on game names and console names. Break thoughts into paragraphs because it hurts our eyes if you do not.
2. If you want to include images, setup a flickr account then link them to your article where you want them to go. We may move them around or omit a few if it is going to make the news post get all messed up (google ad is there, and only so much room in the text). Keep them under 400 pixels wide as well please.

Ok, enough for now! Thanks for the submissions! Keep them coming!

CodeMonkey