"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols)
05/04/2015 at 11:00 • Filed to: None
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"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols)
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Like some of you may have seen, I shared a post from my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that focuses on statistics and I’d like people to read it for some reason. I plan on cross posting the car stuff here, but I’m wondering if Deadspin, i09, lifehacker, gizmodo, etc. have similar communities listed as sub blogs that are fairly easy to get authorship for. Any help is always appreciated.
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scoob
> Patrick Nichols
05/04/2015 at 11:05 |
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There are but out of the ones I ventured over to, Oppo is by far the most active. But that was a while ago, might’ve changed by now.
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Patrick Nichols
> scoob
05/04/2015 at 11:06 |
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Unfortunately this is the response I’m expecting to here. Fair enough I’ll do some looking around.
yamahog
> Patrick Nichols
05/04/2015 at 11:31 |
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I think Observation Deck (under i09) might be what you’re looking for.
pauljones
> Patrick Nichols
05/04/2015 at 12:08 |
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Yes there are, and many of them are very active. You can find them by going to the little list icon at the top right hand corner of the screen. When you’re on the Jalopnik mainpage, it will list major Jalopnik subblogs. When you’re on another site, it will list the major subblogs for that site.
The biggest of them are as follows:
io9 - Observation Deck
Jezebel - Groupthink/Powder Room
Deadspin - The Concourse
Gizmodo - Sploid
Kotaku - Talk Amongst Yourselves
Lifehacker - Hackerspace
Keep in mind, though, that they all vary quite a bit in terms of structure, content, culture, and ease of access privileges. In terms of structure, the closest you will get to Oppositelock will be Observation Deck, Talk Amongst Yourselves, Groupthink, and Powder Room. Like Oppositelock, they tend to be user-sourced content that is off-topic, but thematically reltated to their parent blogs. However, unlike Oppositelock, getting authorship on those blogs is much more difficult. The trade off to that is that the content tends to be of somewhat higher quality more consistently.
On the other hand, places like Sploid and The Concourse tend be much more rigid in structure, with a set number of writers and contributors, and run in much the same way as their parent blogs.
A couple of bits of advice -
1) Do not expect them to be an audience even remotely like what you find here. Many of the types of content and humor that fly here may not (and often times does not) fly in other places.
2) Be courteous. Before getting to gung-ho about making a shit ton of posts, make it a point to get a feel for the place first. Read what is already there, and interact with commenters that seem to be there pretty consistently. Doing so will give you a better feel for what the audience is and is not receptive of.
3) Look for the cross threads that show up semi-frequently. They are made by a super user who has authorship on all of the major subblogs, and act as a place where users of different subblogs can cross paths, interact, and get to know each other.
4) Be good to people. Even if you get a rough start, just be patient and understand you’re in a different place and just need to adapt a bit.
5) Don’t troll. Don’t be a dick. If you create a troll post or go shit-stirring, and that post originated on Oppositelock prior to being shared to other places, we will ban you here. Inter-blog conflict is not looked highly upon.
That all being said, good luck. Go forth and explore.
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Patrick Nichols
> pauljones
05/04/2015 at 12:31 |
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Thanks for the advice! I would only be cross posting more formal write-ups from my group blog. It is sad but true that not every place can be like it is here.