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This is a topic that comes up all too often in comments, lambasting editors or praising them.
As it stands, editorial is a black box, they accept submissions, fettle them, then they appear as stories. Recently, the Original Submission link appeared on stories so you can see what went in and what appeared out of that black box, yet still the complaints come.
Just how much transparency is necessary? (This is an open question not rhetorical)
I like to believe that SoylentNews is the people that form it as a community, and the editing should reflect that.
Should we adopt some version control for subs so everyone can see who edited what through the pipeline that goes from sub to front page?
Thoughts on a postcard please.
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META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want?
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anne Nonymous on Friday May 29 2015, @04:23AM
> fettle them
I'm pretty sure that's illegal, even in New Hampshire.
(Score: 2) by juggs on Friday May 29 2015, @04:41AM
You may want to move beyond urban dictionary, there are others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @02:07PM
Put the fettle to the metal, watch the page count go round?
(Score: 0) by KGIII on Friday May 29 2015, @09:11PM
fettle:
Noun
1. A state of fitness and good health.
Verb
1. Remove mold marks or sand from (a casting).
I figured I would save some effort.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @08:22PM
> Remove mold marks or sand from (a casting).
So, go pound sand?
(Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:00AM
Like 'suburban dictionary', 'rural dictionary', and 'fields&streams dictionary'?
But seriously, am trying to reproduce a bug we think we've found after upgrading the site on June 1, 2015 to rehash.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by purple_cobra on Friday May 29 2015, @10:20AM
Hehe, that's one of those words/meanings that has been dying out (or, if it has had a parallel evolution, a different meaning that has become more prevalent) in these more interconnected times. FWIW, it's a colloquialism meaning "to refine", at least in the North of England. You also have a related expression "in fine fettle", i.e. doing/feeling very well. See here [dict.org] for definitions.
My homeland has an expression that I personally have used more as I moved a few hundred miles north: "potch", meaning to fiddle aimlessly with. "Potching" with something means you're messing around with it for reasons (apparently) unknown.
Back on topic, editorialising the submissions is, to my mind, not something I'm comfortable with, but correcting spelling, checking URLs actually point somewhere useful, etc. (i.e. fettling!) is a very good thing. But I'm an old git and I probably place more emphasis on this than others!
(Score: 2) by juggs on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:06AM
It probably is a localisation thing. I was also brought up in the North of England and "fettling" has no connotations other than polishing something to be the best that it can be.
Our aim for SN editorial activity is not to "editorialise" stories i.e. dramatise things or bias them one way or another, but to present a readable, balanced summary of the article that is linked. Personally, I think the editors do a great job doing that. The recent spate of unrest about the process kind of rocked my confidence though, perhaps we'd developed tunnel vision.
SN is nothing without its community behind it, that's how it began and I am adamant that is how it should proceed. Hence this META to get some feedback on how those outside the boiler room are finding things. You never know if you don't ask.