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posted by NCommander on Monday November 07 2016, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the whadaya-say? dept.

So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.

When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.

In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.

~ NCommander

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday November 07 2016, @10:21PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 07 2016, @10:21PM (#423789)

    I'd agree with that more or less. In my own meandering long winded way I was pointing out that stories like "lets discuss where NASA should send its next probe" inevitably result in a hundred plus comments whereas "NASA probes Uranus" also inevitably results in less than ten comments.

    Yet I find the content of the lesser commented stories very interesting, well at least sometimes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:16AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:16AM (#423924) Journal

    Sometimes a good read isn't necessarily good discussion fodder. Doesn't make it less of a good read. Worrying about whether an article generates discussion is what leads to shitty clickbait fodder and stupid "Does $foo mean $bar?" stupid-question-as-a-headline articles.

    There's already enough of that elsewhere, so I actually appreciate that SN also covers the less discussion-generating stuff as well.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:56PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:56PM (#424044)

      A live example is the story up right now about the bronze age city discovered in Kurdistan.

      Pretty cool. Very interesting. Theres one comment and its probably gonna die with that one comment. There's gotta be more to say about it? But what?

      "Cool thx for the article" plz no spam

      "This is particularly spooky because I just got the pathfinder card game "mummys mask" base set so hopefully we're not LARP out the whole adventure path, although that would be kinda cool" I would only make a post like this if I were drunk

      "I got to play with a geomagnetic resistance meter once for a short amount of time, it was ancient so this is probably out of date but it was a cool combo of 4-wire metering AND AC measurement. Also I think it was doing something funky with synchronous detection to average/null out power line noise and geomagnetic field noise." The problem is, other than the other 3 or so EE here, no one would possibly care.

      Although in that narrow realm it is interesting, because geologic resistance meters are pretty cool pieces of electronics. You give a noob EE the job of making a resistance meter and they poop out something not entirely laughable but technically works in the lab at least some of the time. Then you're like, oh yeah forgot to mention it has to work in the field, in the rain, be oil field roughneck proof toughness, static electricity proof, corrosion proof, able to run correctly near power lines and your radio communication stuff and survive semi-distant lightning strikes. All at the same time. Actually a story about "how the heck do you make a ground resistance meter in 2016?" is starting to sound like it could accumulate interesting comments.