The staff are all volunteers from the community and remain a part of it whilst staff - so to me the story reads a little oddly, there is no staff v community / them n us here - just a bunch of people from within the community with the time, inclination and ability to leave ideology aside whilst attending to staffy matters. Sure we have heated debates in #editorial and #soylent, flame each other in comments etc. - but when it comes to running the site, that all goes to by the by and what needs to be done gets done. I think that speaks volumes about all those involved (staff or not) and I am happy to finally collaborate with, for want of a better word, intelligent adults.
I'm also happy TheMightyBuzzard missed his last chance to call me a damn idealogical socialist or some such non-slur in 2016 by dint of either being off fishing or napping.
Anyway - all the best for 2017 to all that read this.
juggs / Deucalion ~The chair warming staffer, IRC bod
(Score: 5, Informative) by juggs on Sunday January 01 2017, @01:15AM
As the tag says: SN ....is people
The staff are all volunteers from the community and remain a part of it whilst staff - so to me the story reads a little oddly, there is no staff v community / them n us here - just a bunch of people from within the community with the time, inclination and ability to leave ideology aside whilst attending to staffy matters. Sure we have heated debates in #editorial and #soylent, flame each other in comments etc. - but when it comes to running the site, that all goes to by the by and what needs to be done gets done. I think that speaks volumes about all those involved (staff or not) and I am happy to finally collaborate with, for want of a better word, intelligent adults.
I'm also happy TheMightyBuzzard missed his last chance to call me a damn idealogical socialist or some such non-slur in 2016 by dint of either being off fishing or napping.
Anyway - all the best for 2017 to all that read this.
juggs / Deucalion
~The chair warming staffer, IRC bod