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SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Friday January 20 2017, @07:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-legacy dept.

A couple months ago we ran a story asking the SoylentNews community for volunteers to help with editing and the community did not let us down; we received a full dozen inquiries! You've probably noticed a few new names art the top of the stories and quite frankly, their contributions made it possible for the staff to survive the holiday season — many, many thanks!

If, for whatever reason, you did not want to be an Editor, but still wish to contribute, there are many other areas:

Submit stories
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Other?
See something else where you'd like to help out? Let us know — the more the merrier! There's a lot of fun and camaraderie in our team... in large part it's why I continue to contribute to the site. Join in on the fun!

There are many rewards for contributing. Just to be a part of such a diverse and knowledgeable team is indescribable. I have learned so much from some amazingly helpful people. So join up as an editor, submit stories and comments, moderate, or help the site to keep running.

Lastly, spread the word. Share a link to the main page, to a particular story, or even to a single comment.

--martyb

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @10:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @10:55PM (#456760)

    Makes no difference to me.
    The only thing that I have unblocked here which isn't readable text is the subscriber's star.
    N.B. If that feature was done properly, I'd see a text representation of that (alt-text) and I wouldn't need to bother with that config change.

    Now, if we had a name like "Mozilla" we could have a New Age thing that looks like Moz://a, as that bunch just did. 8-(

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]