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Greetings Soylentils! This is your captain and overlord of editors Dopefish speaking, with an exciting announcement.
I'm pleased to announce that we have two freshly minted editors added to our team here at SoylentNews and their handles are janrinok and girlwhowaspluggedout. They have demonstrated a passion for the site through their submissions and contributions via comments.
With these new additions to our editorial staff, we will keep pushing the site to new heights and help increase the number of quality submissions that post to the main page for all to see and enjoy. Furthermore, janrinok and girlwhowaspluggedout are based out of France and Israel, respectively, which should both improve editor coverage during the hours when the Americas are asleep and, more significantly, help us post news that appeals to international members of our community.
Thank you all for your continued interest in SoylentNews and keep up the good fight! This is Dopefish signing off.
~Dopefish
[ED Note: "Per the feedback reflected in the comments, I changed any mentions of 'audience' to 'the community', which better reflects who we are."]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cwix on Friday February 28 2014, @07:10PM
... And good luck. A lot of the folks around here have high expectations for the editors.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @07:26PM
Thanks for your best wishes. I'm sure that both girlwhowaspluggedout and myself will try to live up to your expectations. However, as we have already seen, the occasional mistake will happen and if you can accept that with a touch of humour, we'd appreciate it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:37PM
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie [wikipedia.org]
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @10:01PM
Any sociopath can come up with a statement that defines all who disagree with him as somehow inferior.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @07:43PM
s/girlwhowaspluggedout and myself/girlwhowaspluggedout and I/
Didn't take long for me to get that one wrong!
(Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:45PM
That's not a serious grammatical error. Native English speakers make that kind of mistake frequently.
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 3, Funny) by unitron on Friday February 28 2014, @11:50PM
Native speakers of English make serious grammatical errors frequently.
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
(Score: 5, Interesting) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Friday February 28 2014, @09:25PM
Thank you.
Your expectations are as high as mine. The desire to finally see some proper editing is the reason I wanted to become an editor, and my goal here is to serve this community by being the best damned editor I can be.
I do, however, apologize ahead of time for any dupes, typos, or editorial foibles I may make.
Soylent is the best disinfectant.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by regift_of_the_gods on Friday February 28 2014, @10:11PM
This is what I suspected. The moderation on /. was a *lot* better back when Pope Alexander was running the show.
Anyway, congratulations!
(Score: 1) by Reziac on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:10AM
Your first one I've seen (the 'ancient dental plaque' story) was very well done. Two thumbs up!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:11PM
Soylent is the best disinfectant.
(Score: 2) by SMI on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM
To err is human, to forgive is canine.
(just my $0.02)
(Score: 1) by fadrian on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:40PM
I do, however, apologize ahead of time for any dupes, typos, or editorial foibles I may make.
Don't sweat it. Any editorial standard, mistakes or no, is better than what the Dice-heads were doing.
That is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:22AM
Four things:
1. Welcome guys!, It's awesome seeing sn's steady growth and I can truly feel that it's much more about the community than on the other site. (I can proudly say that ever since I discovered sn, I've never visited the other site ;)
2. This goes to girlwhowaspluggedout: I'll soon go on a holiday with family to Israel and we'll surely be visiting cultural sites to learn about the country.
Now as a techie I was thinking it'd be interesting to also learn a bit about the secret service of Israel and possibly their involvement in cyberwarfare. Is there any place I could do that?, maybe some kind of museum?
Also, all of us have a Swiss as well as a German passports. For our visit we decided we're all gonna use our Swiss passport. Do you think that makes a difference?
3. To janrinok: Bonjour mon amie :)
4. Is it possible that I can only reply to other posts and not create 'root posts'?
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:47PM
Your post was a reply to this [soylentnews.org].
To create a 'root post', the relevant reply button is currently to be found just above the first post.