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As promised, here's the round-table discussion post that I said on Wednesday was coming. We have a long history at SoylentNews of listening and responding to our community; I genuinely hope that never changes. I also recognize that I may have ruffled some feathers in the last few weeks with original content postings so here's the best place to get this all out.
I am mindful of the community's support and goodwill; I don't want to squander any of it. Yes, there are times where my hand may be forced (e.g., DCMA takedowns). Still, I'm always a bit hesitant whenever I post on the main site for anything that isn't site update news or similar. I may be the de facto site leader, but I want my submissions to be treated like anyone else's — I want no favoritism. The editorial team does review my stories and signs off before they go live (unless it's an "emergency" situation such as the last time we blew up the site). However, as the saying goes, the buck stops with me.
SoylentNews accepts original content. I'm also aware that I've probably submitted the most original content so far (See "Previously", below for some examples). I'm grateful for the community's apparent acceptance of my submissions and the positive responses to them. What I don't know is if there is an undercurrent of displeasure with these. Maybe everyone thinks these are all fine. Then again, maybe somebody has an issue with them. Rather than assume anything, let's get it all out in the open.
What I want to cover in this round-table discussion is original content and having images in posts as well as topics such as yesterday's Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020.
So, contributors and commenters to SoylentNews, get that Reply button hot and let me hear your feedback. As usual, either a member of staff or I will respond to your comments below,
73 de NCommander
Previously:
(2020-06-03) Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020
(2020-05-24) Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
(2020-05-14) Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking
(2020-05-10) Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility
(2020-05-15) Meta: Having a Chat about SoylentNews' Internet Relay Chat
(2018-10-25) My Time as an ICANN Fellow
(2017-10-09) soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues
(2017-04-20) Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo...
(2017-04-17) SN Security Updates: CAA, LogJam, HTTP Method Disable, and 3DES
(2017-03-13) Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4)
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 08 2020, @05:17PM (4 children)
Not an editor but what we discussed in our super secret IRC channel that motivated this discussion mostly boiled down to we don't really want to be posting any original content besides tech/science type stuff to the front page. Op-ed, politics (unless we get an interview or one of the community is running for office or something), and such need to go in a journal. But it's just a general consensus of whoever was around on IRC at the time not a rule, which is why NC asked here.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday June 08 2020, @07:26PM (1 child)
mostly boiled down to we don't really want to be posting any original content besides tech/science type stuff to the front page. Op-ed, politics (unless we get an interview or one of the community is running for office or something), and such need to go in a journal.
That's perfect! Who the hell is arguing against it? If you spot a particularly interesting journal, can they be cross posted to the front page?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday June 09 2020, @01:11AM
We can *sorta* cross-post a journal to the main page. This is actually part of rehash, and code we inherited from Slashdot. As we got it though, the feature was partially broken so it's currently disabled (and has been since GoLive). It's been something I've been meaning to fix for ... oh say five years now?
Maybe something I'll do on one of my hacking streams.
Still always moving
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @11:38PM (1 child)
That's backwards, let users write and submit political articles under the politics nexus. People who hate politics should just hide those stories in their preferences or ignore them. Politics and opinion are more discussed than anything else here, and we'd see far more interesting original content if it wasn't relegated to journals.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:44PM
I get your point but it would also lead to mountains of butthurt. We'd turn down a huge majority of politics op-eds for being poorly written, outlandishly biased, or just because we don't like to run more than one or two a day max.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.