User Guide: Ideas

In traditional publishing, unsolicited manuscripts were often thrown out. Sometimes, they were set aside to pile up until the summer intern could go through them. In small webzines, they are often lost in email, misplaced in basecamp to-do lists, or thrown in a wiki (maybe…)

\PublicSquare provides a clean management system for all story idea submissions.

A story is entered into the system on the public face of the publication. The story can them be voted for (requests) voted against (passes) and commented on. Why is this useful?

  • see what ideas are interesting to your userbase
  • see what ideas are controversial
  • let your userbase tell you if the idea is plagiarized
  • let your userbase help refine the idea! For example

    • ask interview questions
    • add more facts
    • bring up the hard issues

When you evaluate an idea, we highly recommend you look at comments as well as rating… sometimes it pays to run a controversial article!

Length of idea submission is unlimited by default, if you want people to submit complete articles.