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I blew it.
You rightly hold SoylentNews to a high standard and I let you down when I merged three different political stories into a single story.
Rushing to get out the door to get to work, seeing the story queue running out, having seen the interest in the UK elections in our IRC channel, having heard much on the radio concerning former FBI Director Comey's testimony, seeing a story appear on a likely nomination for that vacated FBI post, and aware of the guideline on only one Politics story per day — I made a hurried decision to merge all three stories together.
The community rightly pointed out the shortcomings in that decision. Rest assured I won't make THAT decision again!
In retrospect, it would have been much better if I released two separate stories — one with the UK Election vote, and another with a merge of the FBI-related stories with, say, a 12-hour spacing between them.
It is a privilege to volunteer for this site, one that I do not take lightly. I let down the community — you deserve better. Trust that I have taken this lesson to heart and will strive to do better going forwards.
--martyb
[n1: There will be a UK election story coming in the next day or so, when more details are available. The majority of the coverage so far is speculation and reports of agreements have been retracted.]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by VLM on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:07PM (1 child)
On the other hand, there were three stories but the comments will be indistinguishable "Trump Derangement Syndrome" victimposting combined with a bit of humor.
I mean, for any random comment in three stories couldn't it appear in the other two almost unchanged? Colo had something insightful on that topic in the original comments.
A large fraction of the readers don't understand UK election procedure or politics, Comey was pretty much a joke why is even being covered at all other than acute TDS, theres not much to say about the nominee that I know of, so all we gonna get is "my religion gives me good boy points for being holier than thou against those who are less progressive" and people making fun of them or just telling jokes.
Also I'll be the jerk who points out there isn't really any story to save the rest of you some time. In which case bundling a bunch of nothing together might rise to the level of being a story. Sorta.
The Comey thing is a weird psyop trying to convince people there are witches in Salem, errr I mean hackers in Russia, err I mean Russian hackers in our voting machines, ah its just to make bad appearing press. Someone at the DNC told the media this will be the strategy, probably the same idiot who advised Hillary, LOL, and I'm sure it'll backfire similar manner. With a side dish of maybe Trump asked if Flynn was off the hook because if he wasn't, a simple presidential pardon would fix that witch hunt rather permanently. There really isn't anything behind all the hot air at all.
The UK election thing seems to boil down to nothing? I'm not an expert and political types can talk up nothing into anything, but superficially in the long run its gonna be the same people doing the same thing as predicted, right? Its kind of like covering "groundhog day" in the USA.
The nominee for new FBI top cop is too new to say much of anything about the whole topic AFAIK. Has anything "interesting" been released over the weekend? AFAIK, "no". Meaning it really is currently a boring story.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:42PM
"On the other hand, there were three stories but the comments will be indistinguishable"
Yes, thanks to partisan posters like yourself, who can't comprehend someone with a different opinion. Funny that one of the worst offenders with Hillary/Obama/Comey derangement syndrome pointing this out.