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posted by NCommander on Monday June 08 2020, @01:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the somewhat-overdue dept.

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)

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @08:28PM (#1004984)

    I'll stop reading SN if there are images in comments or journals. It's far too likely that goatsex (or far worse) will appear in comments. No thanks.

    I'm a little more accepting of the idea of images in stories, provided the images are hosted on SN. If they're hosted on a third-party server, it's far too easy for them to be taken offline and become broken at a later date, or changed to another image after the story gets posted to SN. Trolls could easily submit a story with images hosted on their own servers, then changing those images to goatsex once the story gets posted. If images are visible in stories that are in the submission queue, it's still easy for goatsex to appear at an SN URL. I do look through the submission queue because there are interesting stories that don't get posted. If there's goatsex in a rejected story, the URL to the rejected story would still be valid, still allowing people to be tricked into viewing goatsex at an SN URL.

    Basically, if there's a risk of seeing images I don't want to see, then I'll stop reading SN. I can scroll past obscene text and even ASCII art can be ignored fairly easily. But that doesn't work quite so well for images. If there's a high risk of encountering goatsex (or worse), I'll leave. It's been many years since I've seen hello.jpg and I would prefer not to encounter it again.

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