College Sublistnook Takeover Week

Still not at starbucks then. For now.

LMFAO, I died. My high school English teacher said once.. "Today an English degree plus $1.00 will get you a big mac." Reminded me of it.

RPI has only ~1400 subscribers. It isn't the total number that counts as much as it is the amount of growth and sublistnook size proportional with school size.

Tens of thousands? ಠ\_ಠ We have, like... 6000-7000 students at RPI. (Edit: Grads included)

I believe it was the growth that was taken into account. But its OK we know liberal art students aren't the best with numbers. (Hope this joke wasn't too mean)

Have you seen /r/doctorwho? The whole sublistnook is full of Tumblr stuff from *last year.*

>and creating next month's reaction gifs FTFY

YEAH! YOU GOT A PROBLEM?!?!

They don't always *like* to m*********.

I think he's referring to /r/onoff a sublistnook where they have pictures of people (mostly/entirely women) clothed and then unclothed.

[/r/OnOff](/r/OnOff)

You shouldn't be posting this multiple times as replies to different comments.

Except most of these college sublistnooks are the best examples of community you will find. I'd rather show people r/VirginiaTech than the usual front page any time. I can't believe the bitching that goes on in here from people saying they "want their listnook back". It's a week where some of your formatting might be changed. Listnook was founded by two 20 something year old recent college graduates most likely for use by other college students.

You lose the logo for all sublistnooks and have them replaced for the college one if you remove custom styles. It's a lose-lose situation. Front page is infuriating or every page looks slightly less infuriating

Well good because it was an international thing. One of the schools that won is Canadian. Also: http://blog.listnook.com/2011/11/grow-college-sublistnook-competition.html The college sublistnook competition has come to an end. We tracked the growth of 463 college sublistnooks from August 20 to October 26 and the results were pretty impressive: Subscribers to all college sublistnooks grew from 42,957 to 71,423 Traffic to those sublistnooks grew from 9,375 uniques/32,122 impressions per day to 30,196 uniques/118,943 impressions per day **Sublistnooks from 18 countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, United States, Wales)** Sublistnooks from 48 U.S. states plus Washington DC (Alaska and Wyoming are the only hold outs)

If you'll look at the original contest page, you'll see they looked at every college/university sublistnook *from every country*. The most active ones just happened to be from the U.S.

Even though people across the world do use listnook, you do have to remember it is an American site hosted by an American media company on an American domain. It logically follows that a lot of the extras would be geared toward Americans, just like http://www.theregister.co.uk/ serves a wider audience but has its own local slant. That said, I'd love to be able to disable this too.

With regards to your insistence that "college" is an inappropriate term- I'd just like to point out that in the US there is a distinction between colleges and universities, but the term "college" is commonly used in reference to all undergraduate programs. The exact delineation between colleges and universities is hazy and often varies from state to state, but generally to qualify as a university the school must have significant doctorate and/or professional programs and research. In contrast, "college" traditionally refers to 4-year undergraduate liberal arts schools; these schools may also have graduate programs, but such programs are usually small or otherwise insignificant (even if the undergraduate quality is strong). You will often hear US universities referred to as a "university system," where the the 4-year undergraduate program(s) of the university are *college(s)* under the umbrella of the larger university, along with the associated doctoral and professional colleges. While universities themselves are not technically colleges, they must by definition include at least one college; thus the term "college" is used to refer to all institutions of higher education (both universities and colleges). Additionally, note that the classification may refer to the historical role of the school, rather than its current definition. For example, The College of William and Mary is an extremely prestigious school in Virginia that was founded in 1693. It would have every right to change its name to "William and Mary University," considering its numerous graduate and professional programs and overall academic strength. However, it chose to retain the term "college" due (at least in part) to its history as a primarily undergraduate liberal arts program, as well as the fact that it was one of 9 "colonial colleges" founded before the American Revolution. My alma mater, Virginia Tech (which Listnook will be highlighting on the 22nd), is classified as a university. In fact, its official name is "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" but "Virginia Tech" is much easier to say. Within the university are many different colleges, such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, and The College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Technically I received my bachelor's degree from "The Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University," but the question people ask is "where did you go to college?" to which I respond "Virginia Tech." TL;DR- All US universities are colleges, but not colleges are universities. "College" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used term for all 4-year undergraduate institutions, so correcting its use here is inaccurate.

Not everyone goes to university and Listnook isn't a place solely dedicated to students despite them comprising a large proportion of the demographic. Even so, I'm sure a lot of students couldn't care less about this competition and want to get back to procrastinating in peace on a plain old front page.

Haha I remember our mod saying they switched them. Even my grandma still thinks I go to RPI.

Been a while since I laughed and face-palmed simultaneously...bravo

someone else might've gotten it wrong