Greetings Soylentils! This is your captain and overlord of editors Dopefish speaking, with an exciting announcement.
I'm pleased to announce that we have two freshly minted editors added to our team here at SoylentNews and their handles are janrinok and girlwhowaspluggedout. They have demonstrated a passion for the site through their submissions and contributions via comments.
With these new additions to our editorial staff, we will keep pushing the site to new heights and help increase the number of quality submissions that post to the main page for all to see and enjoy. Furthermore, janrinok and girlwhowaspluggedout are based out of France and Israel, respectively, which should both improve editor coverage during the hours when the Americas are asleep and, more significantly, help us post news that appeals to international members of our community.
Thank you all for your continued interest in SoylentNews and keep up the good fight! This is Dopefish signing off.
~Dopefish
[ED Note: "Per the feedback reflected in the comments, I changed any mentions of 'audience' to 'the community', which better reflects who we are."]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cwix on Friday February 28 2014, @07:10PM
... And good luck. A lot of the folks around here have high expectations for the editors.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @07:26PM
Thanks for your best wishes. I'm sure that both girlwhowaspluggedout and myself will try to live up to your expectations. However, as we have already seen, the occasional mistake will happen and if you can accept that with a touch of humour, we'd appreciate it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:37PM
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie [wikipedia.org]
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @10:01PM
Any sociopath can come up with a statement that defines all who disagree with him as somehow inferior.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @07:43PM
s/girlwhowaspluggedout and myself/girlwhowaspluggedout and I/
Didn't take long for me to get that one wrong!
(Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:45PM
That's not a serious grammatical error. Native English speakers make that kind of mistake frequently.
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 3, Funny) by unitron on Friday February 28 2014, @11:50PM
Native speakers of English make serious grammatical errors frequently.
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
(Score: 5, Interesting) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Friday February 28 2014, @09:25PM
Thank you.
Your expectations are as high as mine. The desire to finally see some proper editing is the reason I wanted to become an editor, and my goal here is to serve this community by being the best damned editor I can be.
I do, however, apologize ahead of time for any dupes, typos, or editorial foibles I may make.
Soylent is the best disinfectant.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by regift_of_the_gods on Friday February 28 2014, @10:11PM
This is what I suspected. The moderation on /. was a *lot* better back when Pope Alexander was running the show.
Anyway, congratulations!
(Score: 1) by Reziac on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:10AM
Your first one I've seen (the 'ancient dental plaque' story) was very well done. Two thumbs up!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:11PM
Soylent is the best disinfectant.
(Score: 2) by SMI on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM
To err is human, to forgive is canine.
(just my $0.02)
(Score: 1) by fadrian on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:40PM
I do, however, apologize ahead of time for any dupes, typos, or editorial foibles I may make.
Don't sweat it. Any editorial standard, mistakes or no, is better than what the Dice-heads were doing.
That is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:22AM
Four things:
1. Welcome guys!, It's awesome seeing sn's steady growth and I can truly feel that it's much more about the community than on the other site. (I can proudly say that ever since I discovered sn, I've never visited the other site ;)
2. This goes to girlwhowaspluggedout: I'll soon go on a holiday with family to Israel and we'll surely be visiting cultural sites to learn about the country.
Now as a techie I was thinking it'd be interesting to also learn a bit about the secret service of Israel and possibly their involvement in cyberwarfare. Is there any place I could do that?, maybe some kind of museum?
Also, all of us have a Swiss as well as a German passports. For our visit we decided we're all gonna use our Swiss passport. Do you think that makes a difference?
3. To janrinok: Bonjour mon amie :)
4. Is it possible that I can only reply to other posts and not create 'root posts'?
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:47PM
Your post was a reply to this [soylentnews.org].
To create a 'root post', the relevant reply button is currently to be found just above the first post.
(Score: 5, Funny) by tlezer on Friday February 28 2014, @07:10PM
I, for one, welcome our new editor overlords
(Score: 3, Funny) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Friday February 28 2014, @08:06PM
Soylent is the best disinfectant.
(Score: 1) by sbgen on Friday February 28 2014, @08:13PM
I could help you but read my sig.
Warning: Not a computer expert, but got to use it. Yes, my kind does exist.
(Score: 1) by cwix on Friday February 28 2014, @08:34PM
What share of the sugar do I get?
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday February 28 2014, @11:33PM
Will you be conducting regular blood sugar tests to ensure we aren't stealing product?
If not, I'm the guy you're looking for!
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 3, Funny) by SMI on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:56AM
Sounds like a sweet job!
(Score: 1) by Yow on Friday February 28 2014, @09:59PM
I was waiting for this comment to pop up...
(Score: 3) by Geotti on Friday February 28 2014, @10:05PM
FTFY. (Yay!)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 28 2014, @07:12PM
Welcome! Post things you find interestind and don't listen to the haters.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:53PM
But do listen to constructive criticism, especially if it comes from many different people.
Don't automatically dismiss your critics as 'haters', and adjust your behavior if they make reasonable arguments.
I like to think of this as a community site, and if that's true, then the vast majority of the people here won't be 'haters', whatever that means exactly, but instead just regular users. Read their comments with that in mind.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Jerry Smith on Friday February 28 2014, @07:14PM
That's a good thing to hear: worldwide coverage! Now, if only the modpoints could be dealt out during my awake time, that would be grand!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 2) by lhsi on Friday February 28 2014, @10:43PM
I'm also pleased by the increased worldwide coverage. I wonder what the optimal time between stories will end up being.
(Score: 1) by nightsky30 on Friday February 28 2014, @07:22PM
And thank you for your help!!! :D
(Score: 5, Funny) by weeds on Friday February 28 2014, @07:25PM
... is people!
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Dutchster on Friday February 28 2014, @07:27PM
I'm excited to see this site grow and continue to be all about its users. That can only be done by having a talented, productive crew of editors to keep the stories coming at just the right rate. Too few new stories and people will lose interest. Too many and user contributions (i.e. comments) will be diluted. Finding that sweet spot is definitely the challenge. Peoples' time is limited and if there's too many stories a day it just won't be possible to have meaningful conversations in most of them.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday February 28 2014, @08:33PM
And if we can beat similar sites to the punch, that will help too. Welcome to our new HTML-wielding overlords.
Tips for better submissions to help our site grow. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Dutchster on Friday February 28 2014, @08:53PM
To some extent, yes. But when I think about similar sites it's kind of the opposite of Playboy. I don't go there for the articles. They're always a few days late. It's the thoughtful community commentary that draws my interest. The articles themselves are really a sideshow.
Let's face it; news aggregation services are a dime a dozen now. In fact if some in the community are already aware of a given story before it posts to Soylent the responses might be a bit more informed than what you get in off the cuff response to the first (and horribly inaccurate) piece to break a story.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JeffPaetkau on Friday February 28 2014, @07:30PM
Congrats to the new editors and best of luck.
I have been amused watching as SN makes some of the same mistakes that drove us crazy at "the other site". Dupes, spelling and grammar mistakes, assuming everyone knows what Element 14 is etc. I guess avoiding those mistakes is harder than it looks.
I hope the new additions to the team can help take SN up another notch in editorial quality and make this site even better than "the other site".
Again, good luck, and thanks everyone for your work so far.
-- Jeff Paetkau
(Score: 5, Funny) by DarkMorph on Friday February 28 2014, @07:30PM
Looks like a step in the right direction. I look forward to seeing submissions with English summaries for articles in French. For that matter, I would like articles from anywhere in any language to be permitted! Reminds me that yesterday I submitted an article in Japanese...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:24PM
Bon. Ressemble à une étape dans la bonne direction. J'attends avec impatience de voir les présentations de résumés en français pour les articles en anglais. Pour cette question, j'aimerais que les articles provenant de n'importe où, dans n'importe quelle langue à être autorisé ! Me rappelle qu'hier, j'ai présenté un article en japonais ...
(Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:27PM
Hmmm... Not very international or quite what I expected.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:44PM
I couldn't help but notice the use of the word audience to refer to users of this site.
(Score: 3) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @08:50PM
I'm glad you pointed that out and surprised that I missed it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @09:44PM
Greetings! Editor here. I took the feedback to heart and issued an editorial correction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:45PM
I can say with certainty if the editorial balance is lost and this site gets all sanitised like it's predecessor, with political correctness and nothing to see here move along attitudes, we will become an audience, soon before we go elsewhere.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by skullz on Friday February 28 2014, @08:54PM
What would you have preferred? Unwashed masses?
The editors filter the stories the users submit and then subsequently bash on, kind of like DJs for a really drunk crowd. Sure, they may not be 'real' artists but everyone in the room is listening to what they are playing.
(Score: 1) by Geotti on Friday February 28 2014, @10:01PM
Whoever stays at such parties after they realize that the dj's playing for the drunkards? That's just masochistic...
I can only recommend parties, where the DJ took acid and is playing one sublime, long (the transition is the) track.
Back to the question, I would've preferred "the community."
(Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @10:19PM
I prefer anything other than the word 'audience' in that particular context.
(Score: 3, Funny) by M. Baranczak on Friday February 28 2014, @10:55PM
I'd prefer the soylent majority.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:07AM
Now THAT'S funny!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:11PM
Yes it does creep in pretty quickly. We are a community... Hope that lasts.
(Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @10:16PM
Agreed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:33AM
I just assumed it was a snark. Or you know, he picked words by rolling dice.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Friday February 28 2014, @09:29PM
Out of curiosity...any chance we could get an explanation of what "girlwhowaspluggedout" means? My first thoughts were
1) girlintraining's new account, or
2) some kind of sexual euphemism.
Although I suspect neither of those is on the money.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:45PM
(Score: 1, Funny) by timbim on Friday February 28 2014, @09:47PM
Also, is she hot?
(Score: 1) by Yow on Friday February 28 2014, @10:03PM
which is more appropriate: *eye-roll* or *face-palm* ?
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:03PM
Maybe he was saying it with extra irony, and had no intention being unwelcoming. Maybe he thinks that women like having their physical attractiveness up for discussion at any time so his remarks are bound to help grow the community.
Hmmm ... okay, I'll go for *eye-roll*
(Score: 1) by Scruffy on Friday February 28 2014, @11:01PM
1087 is a lucky prime.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:56PM
girlintraining is, IMHO, one of the last true trolls, so while I'd appreciate her/his/it's presence here, I'm not sure if I'd like them to be an editor.
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Monday March 03 2014, @08:54AM
Not saying the person in question is a troll but the vikings named their axes (their most common weapon, everyone had at least an axe) after female trolls (it says so on Wikipedia somewhere).
So they must have plenty going for them --do not dismiss them lightly :3
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