Mailing Lists are important — they're your primary connection to your section editors and the best way to get the most interesting stories.

Higher-profile assignments will be commuicated as needed by section editors, each with reputation requirements and larger point payouts. To do a story with a reputation requirement, you must bid at least the requirement to be eligible for the assignment. This is to ensure that newer writers don't get a critical story dropped on them and thus make everyone involved unhappy.

Example: Chip Dingo sends out a story request, say, an interview with Cheech and Chong, for the Entertainment Section. This is a high-profile assignment, so it will have a minimum reputation requirement of 400, and will pay out 350 site points. To be eligible to take this story (and be given the subsequent interview), you must bid at least 400 reputation points. Because it is a high-profile story, however, people who bid more reputation points are likelier to get it; they're liable to lose more if the interview goes awry, and thus have a larger vested interest in preparing and making sure it goes well. That said, editors have final say and simply bidding all your reputation every story doesn't mean you'll always get the choiciest assignments. The person given the story will receive an additional number of reputation if successful, determined by the editor upon completion of the story.

To sign up for mailing lists:

Once logged in, there are two ways of updating your mailing list settings.

Method 1:

1. In the user menu (right sidebar near the top), there is a link for "Your Profile." Click it.
   
2. Now, on the next page, Click "Update Your Profile" from the Edit dropdown.
   
3. Next, click the Mailing List tab, and click the "Yes" button for each list you want to subscribe to.
4. Click "Update" to finish.

Method 2:

1. In the user menu (right sidebar), click "Mailing Lists."
   
2. Click the "My Subscriptions" button on the next page.
3. Click the "Yes" button next to each list you want to subscribe to.
4. Click "Save" to apply the changes.

       

Written by :

Janus Jones