updating 'Slashdot It!' related items to discuss badges

plugins/FAQSlashdot/faq/editorial.shtml

@@ -23,18 +23,19 @@
                 Last Modified: 6/19/00
         </small></em></p>
 
-<h2><a name="ed101" id="ed101">How do I add a "Slashdot It" link to my own page?</a></h2>
-        <p>You can add a small javascript link to your site to allow readers to automatically submit a story to Slashdot for story consideration.  This link will work for both logged in Slashdot users and anonymous submittors, however, only logged in Slashdot users will have the option to write their own summary of your story.</p>
-        <p>The following html can be pasted directly into your page to add the "Slashdot It" link to your page.
-        	<xmp><!-- Start Slashdot It link -->
-<a href="javascript:location.href='http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)">
-<img src="http://images.slashdot.org/favicon.gif" alt="Slashdot" border="0" height="16" width="16"></a> &nbsp; 
-<a href="javascript:location.href='http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)">Slashdot It!</a> 
-<!-- End Slashdot It link --></xmp></p>
-				<p>For security or control reasons many people will wish to serve the small Slashdot icon on their own image servers.  If you wish to do this you may download it at <a href="http://images.slashdot.org/favicon.gif">http://image.slashdot.org/favicon.gif</a> and need only replace "http://image.slashdot.org/favicon.gif" in the above text with a link to your own image location.</p>
-        <p><em><small>
-                Answered by: <a href="mailto:scuttlemonkey@slashdot.org">Scuttlemonkey</a><br>
-                Last Modified: 4/18/07
+<h2><a name="ed101" id="ed101">How do I add a badge or "Slashdot It" link to my own page?</a></h2>
+        <p><img src="http://images.slashdot.org/sdit6n.png" alt="sample slashdot badge" style="float:left; padding-right:1.5em;">You can add a small badge like this to your site to allow readers to automatically submit your page as a story to Slashdot for story consideration.</p>
+        <p>Once your page has been submitted, the badge will reflect its current popularity, and allow your readers to vote for it or go to the submitted story.  This badge will work for both logged in Slashdot users and anonymous submittors; logged in users may vote, other users will be redirected to login before voting.</p>
+        <p>The following html can be pasted directly into your page to add the Slashdot badge:
+        	<xmp><script src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.js" type="text/javascript"></script></xmp></p>
+        <p>For security or control reasons, you might wish to use your own image and formatting with a plain HTML link.  This link will allow readers to submit your page as a story, or else go to the existing story submission where they can vote and see its current popularity.  The following HTML snippet builds the right link automatically, you can paste it directly into your page as is:
+          <xmp><a href="javascript:location.href='http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=basic&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)">Slashdot It!</a></xmp>
+        Or you can construct the URL argument by hand, e.g., 
+          <xmp><!-- for a page at http://cmdrtaco.net/, edit as appropriate for your site -->
+<a href="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=basic&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcmdrtaco.net%2F">Slashdot It!</a></xmp></p>
+        <p><em><small>
+                Answered by: <a href="mailto:scc@slashdot.org">scc</a><br>
+                Last Modified: 10/3/07
         </small></em></p>
 
 <h2><a name="ed102" id="ed102">Where do I submit corrections or update s to previous stories?</a></h2>

plugins/FAQSlashdot/faq/index.shtml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ $VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d", q$Id$ =~ /(\d+)/g
         <h2><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml">Editorial</a></strong></h2>
         <ul>
                 <li><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed100">How do I submit stories to Slashdot?</a></strong></li>
-                <li><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed101">How do I add a "Slashdot It" link to my own page?</a></strong></li>
+                <li><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed101">How do I add a badge or "Slashdot It" link to my own page?</a></strong></li>
                 <li><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed102">Where do I submit corrections or updates to previous stories?</a></li>
                 <li><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed103">Where do I submit Press Releases?</a></strong></li>
                 <li><strong><a href="/faq/editorial.shtml#ed104">Can I email you a Story Submission?</a></strong></li>

plugins/FAQSlashdot/faq/tags.shtml

@@ -170,22 +170,23 @@ HTTPS: <a href="javascript:location.href='https://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='
 <h2>How do I encourage my readers to bookmark at Slashdot?</h2>
 
 <p>In case your site's webpages aren't already cluttered enough with
-"Digg It" and "Add to Del.icio.us" links, you can add a link that
+"Digg It" and "Add to Del.icio.us" links, you can add a badge or link that
 automatically submits your page to Slashdot. If enough readers
 click, your page will be brought to our editors' attention -- it's
 like a cheap, fast
 <a href="/submit.pl">submit.pl</a>.</p>
 
-<p>You can use the above HTTP link format. We recommend using our
-icon and the text "Slashdot It" as the anchor. Here's one block of
+<p><img src="http://images.slashdot.org/sdit6n.png" alt="sample slashdot badge" style="float:left; padding-right:1.5em;">
+You could use the above HTTP link format; but we recommend using our
+badge (which looks like this).  Besides allowing submission,
+badges show readers the current popularity of a submitted page
+and let them vote on it themselves. Here's a block of
 HTML you can include in any page:</p>
 
-<blockquote><p><pre>&lt;!-- start Slashdot It link --&gt;
-&lt;a href="javascript:location.href='http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.slashdot.org/favicon.ico" alt="Slashdot" border="0" height="16" width="16"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="javascript:location.href='http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)"&gt;Slashdot It!&lt;/a&gt; 
-&lt;!-- end Slashdot It link --&gt;</pre></blockquote>
+<blockquote><p><pre>&lt;script src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</pre></blockquote>
 
-<p><i><font size=-1>Answered by: <a href="mailto:malda@slashdot.org">CmdrTaco</a></font></i>
-<br><i><font size=-1>Last Modified: 11/02/06</font></i>
+<p><i><font size=-1>Answered by: <a href="mailto:scc@slashdot.org">scc</a></font></i>
+<br><i><font size=-1>Last Modified: 10/03/07</font></i>
 
 
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