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META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want?

posted by juggs on Friday May 29 2015, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the random-thoughts dept.

juggs writes:

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @09:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @09:25AM (#189580)

    Don't say

    X writes:

    if you've changed anything in the submission. Because clearly they didn't. You're putting words in their mouth.

    Original submission by X

    would be better imo.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @01:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @01:56PM (#189657)

    if you've changed anything in the submission.

    If anything changed that altered the tone of the submission. Corrections of spelling, grammar, and minor clarifications (e.g. replacing "he" with a person's last name) don't require reattribution.

  • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday May 29 2015, @05:06PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Friday May 29 2015, @05:06PM (#189734) Journal
    Yes, several of us have had some lengthy discussions on this topic on irc.. We've been kind of waiting to hear what the community says before firmly deciding on what we should put there.
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  • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Friday May 29 2015, @05:23PM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Friday May 29 2015, @05:23PM (#189742) Homepage

    We agree; that's basically what we intended to do all along, we may have missed it a few times. Thanks for your continued input!

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