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Originally posted by cj@Nov 15 2002, 06:05 PM
Eventually our writers will be able to submit articles into their own templates and I will click 'publish' from somewhere in the carribean ;-)))
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That is how my story site has been running for years. The aspiring authors on my site upload their stories (and have give their own title, description and pick the category) and upload the story in text format so that I can process it automatically.
All I do is a quick check on the story for illegal content and press "publish". For the lazy (like myself), this is a godsend. I have new stories every day and it just takes a few clicks.
Then I let the readers vote on them, so that I can let the system decide which stories to drop after a while (the one with low votes, or low views). And you are right: that's hard, I get only 0.07 votes per login on average.
Still, it makes the good stuff stand out from the poor stuff, so it's still suitable for me to use and drop stories automatically. Plus the authors are motivated to get high votes, or submit another story that scores better on the "top stories" list.
I'll program anything that saves me from having to read all those stories!
Greetings,
Art