I just worked it out so that Sympoze will automatically import each post from the blogs I track in my philosophy blogroll and submit it as a scoop. All readers can now sift through all of the posts in my blog roll via Sympoze. Users can vote the blog posts up and have them promoted to the front page.
The automatically submitted post, do not automatically show up on the front page. Automatically submitted posts sit in upcoming post limbo until users vote them up.
Users: Make sure you check out the upcoming posts section to see if there is anything you think is worth promoting to the front page. If you like one of the posts enough to promote it to the front page – vote it up. Right now it’s set up so that three votes promotes a post to the front page.
I’ve already set up a bunch of accounts for people. If you’re interested in an account – send me an email. It’s quick and easy for me to do.
Also, if you think there is a philosophy blog that is worth putting in the blogroll so that it’s posts are submitted automatically to Sympoze – let me know
I’m not sure that automatic submissions are such a good idea. The ‘upcoming post limbo’ becomes too full with random posts to be worth our time browsing and rating them. (Needle/haystack.) Better to ensure that all posts on sympoze have to overcome the initial hurdle of at least being interesting to one person.
Richard,
I was just thinking about that today. I think I’m going to go in and remove the automatic feature.