A 'Winter' fan reminded me that there are three ways for readers to voice their opinions on a story. Voting, of course. Second, there is the Comments section at the end of each story. And then there is the option to email an author - - directly or through the SOL internal process.
What about an additional method?
How about adding a public response mechanism to our blogs? In other words, give voice to those readers who would like their observations to be read in the SOL forum. Let them have the opportunity to post their opinions of a blog in the blog section itself.
My thinking is, that for one reason or another, my blogs draw more emails than my stories. And some of the responses are brilliant. Deserving of a wider jury.
It would mean simply allowing readers to publicly comment on a blog, just as they currently can do on a story.
I believe it would help inform and animate our site. Maybe.
Paige