Our story thus far: the Slush Pile is a go, it's gonna be trawled by a Slush Patrol, and it's gonna take more than one vote to either be accepted from the Slush Pile to the main site, and more than one vote to be rejected back to the author's sandbox. So how many?
I'm operating under the assumption that acceptance/rejection from the Slush Pile is going to operate on a net-vote basis, like how we do votes for deletion currently. I kind of would like to see it be slightly easier to be accepted than to be rejected. This shouldn't mean that more crap would get through, since I'm assuming crap will get downvoted much more quickly that it would get upvoted. ('Sides, anyone who's upvoting crap on the Slush Pile needs to be taken off Slush Patrol.) But, it would bring in some articles that may be overlooked otherwise (and yeah, maybe some marginal crap also, but not much, I don't think).
Anyway, my idea is to require a net +2 to be accepted from the Slush Pile, and a net -3 to be rejected. Maybe +3/-4, but only with a large active Slush Patrol.
While we're here, I'm gonna solicit suggestions for another name for the Slush Pile.
Right then. Discuss.
