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posted by martyb on Friday January 31 2020, @01:00PM   Printer-friendly

Who has noticed anything new at SoylentNews these past couple days?

We have a new editor who has just come on board and has posted his first two stories to the site (one each for the previous two days).

You may recall that I posted a request for help a little over two weeks ago. I am happy to report that we had a positive response to the request... and a new editor has been in training starting a few days later!

Please join me in welcoming spiraldancing to his new role as an editor on staff. He is not new to the site as he created an account here a bit over 4 years ago. He worked his way through training on our development server. (Under the watchful eye and guidance of janrinok. JR not only walked SD through the mechanics of how to post a story, but also a goodly amount of what to be mindful of during the whole process. It is all too easy to make a mistake... which I can attest from personal experience!)

I look forward to seeing him bring his perspective and input to our team.

Welcome
Aboard!


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Friday January 31 2020, @02:19PM (4 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 31 2020, @02:19PM (#951769) Journal
    YES is the short answer. And I am available to begin training from Monday.
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Friday January 31 2020, @02:24PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday January 31 2020, @02:24PM (#951773) Journal

    >And I am available to begin training from Monday.

    About time you got some training.

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    • (Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Friday January 31 2020, @02:28PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 31 2020, @02:28PM (#951776) Journal
      It is thought to be too late in my own case - but I can still mumble what little I can remember to any poor sod who wishes to listen. ;)
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @03:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @03:45PM (#951800)

    So from a training perspective, wouldn't it have made more sense to make him approve/post his announcement story as sort of a final exam?

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday January 31 2020, @06:57PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 31 2020, @06:57PM (#951895) Journal
      But that would have been a waste of effort - we thought it much more valuable to actually process a story from submission to the Main Page. He had plenty of 'dummy runs' before being allowed on the live system.