posted by
janrinok
on Friday March 27 2015, @06:29PM
from the asbestos-shorts-are-on-backorder dept.
from the asbestos-shorts-are-on-backorder dept.
I'm sure that you would like to join with us in welcoming three new editors to the team. They will be coming online sometime during the next few days. They are:
- NotSanguine
- cmn32480
- CoolHand
The new additions bring the editorial team to a healthier size, which will enable us to achieve and maintain the standards that we believe the community deserves.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Friday March 27 2015, @06:36PM
> will enable us to achieve and maintain the standards that we believe the community deserves
You mean enough free time for more than a shower per month?
(Score: 4, Funny) by dyingtolive on Friday March 27 2015, @06:50PM
They use Linux, man. Why would they take more than one shower per month?
Oh, I need to update apache.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @06:51PM
sudo apt-get install shower
(Score: 4, Touché) by dyingtolive on Friday March 27 2015, @07:30PM
Troll? Aww, you guys take yourselves too seriously: http://www.bash.org/?75347 [bash.org]
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 27 2015, @08:39PM
Indeed. We had a 97-comment article [soylentnews.org] from an editor calling for help for lack of a personal life, and I get troll-modded for remembering it.
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday March 27 2015, @06:51PM
I shower once a week if I need it or not, you insensitive clod!
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hartree on Friday March 27 2015, @06:37PM
Thanks to all of the editors for the time and effort they put in!
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday March 27 2015, @06:50PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cmn32480 on Friday March 27 2015, @06:58PM
Let me just say.... Wilt Chamberlain ain't got nuthin' on me.
And you could have at least wished me a happy birthday.
I've been using it for 20 years, why change now?
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 27 2015, @06:54PM
I, for one, welcome our new editorial overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted SN personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground news caves.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Friday March 27 2015, @07:01PM
Thanks, DM! ...and we'll talk later... ;)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Friday March 27 2015, @08:00PM
A warm welcome to the new editors. May their kind grow in strength and make our community better. All the best in your new endeavour. Enjoy the ride !!
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by buswolley on Friday March 27 2015, @07:08PM
don't take the trolls to heart.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 27 2015, @09:25PM
I for one could never do a job that involves so much dedication and self-control.
Anybody who insulted one of my summaries would be immediately called out as a "lame and lazy chickenshit fucker" in the discussion.
Fortunately, if somebody talks trash about one of your summaries, maybe I can call them out for you, Bahahah!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @09:55AM
Agreed. Take them to bed, then kick em out in the morning.
(Score: 5, Funny) by NotSanguine on Friday March 27 2015, @07:18PM
About showering. I'm having second thoughts about this now.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday March 27 2015, @07:38PM
I am totally NOT showering with you or CoolHand.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 5, Funny) by NotSanguine on Friday March 27 2015, @07:41PM
I am totally NOT showering with you or CoolHand.
I guess you didn't read the editorial guidelines very carefully, did you?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday March 27 2015, @07:50PM
DAMNIT!
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday March 27 2015, @08:30PM
If you change your mind, i can photograph the event. For free even.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Nerdfest on Friday March 27 2015, @09:39PM
Never shower with someone named "Coolhand". "Coldhand" is even worse.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:45AM
Nice one nerdie.... :)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @09:29PM
> As an editor, no agenda;
That's impossible.
The best you can do is to try to recognize your own agenda and compensate for it.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 27 2015, @10:31PM
> As an editor, no agenda;
That's impossible.
The best you can do is to try to recognize your own agenda and compensate for it.
Is it? I suppose that not injecting my own opinions could be considered an agenda, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant.
I guess we'll just have to see then, won't we?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @11:35PM
Recognizing your own biases is nearly impossible.
For example, Scalia on the supreme court. He is pretty adamant about being a textual originalist and therefore objective.
But that falls apart in many of his rulings because he picks and chooses the definitions of the words in the text that most appeal to his biases. Of course he does not recognize that he's doing that because, to him, those definitions are the correct ones - but all he's doing is using them as a proxy for his subjectivity. He does get riled up when called out on it - because he truly and honestly believes he's being objective.
Here's a thought experiment:
We all believe incorrect facts. I think you can agree with that, right?
So now, try to name just one incorrect fat that you yourself believe.
Since being an editor is not something that can be automated, it is a job that requires human judgment, your biases will be manifest in the judgment you apply.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:57AM
Recognizing your own biases is nearly impossible.
But recognizing the steaming load you've put forth, for what it is, is quite easy.
Here's a thought experiment:
We all believe incorrect facts. I think you can agree with that, right?
So now, try to name just one incorrect fat that you yourself believe.
I don't believe in facts. Facts are facts. Either it's a fact or it's not. If it's a fact, then there's evidence for it and can be proven. No belief is required.
If it can't be documented and/or proven, it's not a fact. Then it's a hypothesis or an opinion. Not a fact.
Note that the decisions written by jurists (like Antonin Scalia) are called "opnions" not facts. Why? Because they are opinions and not facts.
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan [wikipedia.org] famously pointed out:
And so, my opinion is that you're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
Have a lovely day.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @03:08AM
> I don't believe in facts
I feel like you have focused on a hair-splitting over wording rather than the intended meaning.
Let me rephrase:
We all have incorrect beliefs. I think you can agree with that, right?
So now, try to name just one of your beliefs that you know is incorrect.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday March 28 2015, @03:13AM
> I don't believe in facts
I feel like you have focused on a hair-splitting over wording rather than the intended meaning.
Let me rephrase:
We all have incorrect beliefs. I think you can agree with that, right?
So now, try to name just one of your beliefs that you know is incorrect.
Fair enough. I believed you weren't a troll. Now I know that belief is incorrect.
Have a lovely day.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @03:40AM
> Fair enough. I believed you weren't a troll. Now I know that belief is incorrect.
I am disappointed to see the proof of my point in your exhibition of cognitive dissonance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @01:42PM
I don't believe in facts. Facts are facts. Either it's a fact or it's not. If it's a fact, then there's evidence for it and can be proven. No belief is required.
If it can't be documented and/or proven, it's not a fact. Then it's a hypothesis or an opinion. Not a fact.
Actually you do believe in facts. Not to get all epistemological on you, but everything we know is just an opinion. We all have thresholds for evidence that will give us confidence in the accuracy of our opinions. And those thresholds are a place where bias manifests. People typically have lower thresholds for opinions that confirm their beliefs.
(Score: 2) by jbWolf on Saturday March 28 2015, @04:43AM
I'm confused... are you leaning towards showering more often or not at all?
In all seriousness: I look forward to you, cmn32480, and CoolHand on the team. Welcome all!
www.jb-wolf.com [jb-wolf.com]
(Score: 1) by rondon on Friday March 27 2015, @08:12PM
Thank you ladies and/or gentleman. I appreciate your voluntary service to make this site successful, along with all of the others who do so as well.
(Score: 3, Funny) by JNCF on Friday March 27 2015, @08:29PM
I bet CoolHand can't eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in one hour.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Friday March 27 2015, @09:24PM
He'll still have to spend the night in the box, though.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 4, Funny) by CoolHand on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:46AM
What we have here is a failure to communicate..
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday March 28 2015, @02:10AM
[*BANG!*]
Ooops.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday March 27 2015, @10:28PM
Thanks to the volunteers!
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday March 27 2015, @11:14PM
Break a leg!
Everyone, you can also help the editors out by keeping the pipeline full of lots of well-formed and well-spelled submissions. Weekends especially tend to run a little thin, so if you can help bank them up Friday or Saturday morning to carry the community through to Monday, it would help.
It takes a village...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @08:58AM
I've really grown to love this community in the short time it has existed. It's full of smart knowledgeable people with an excellent sense of humor. I'm in awe of what we (yes, I feel like part of this revolution here) have been able to accomplish so far. This is my news source of choice, often the only source in fact. And as has been pointed out repeatedly the discussions are what it's all about. The injections of useful interesting surprising facts and the crystalline spock-like rational and the empathic or animal emotional comments. The bold predictions and the passionate appeals. The often heated debates which really makes one to think about the arguments of different points of view. And the amazing jokes one cannot find anywhere else and which often make me chuckle out loud making everybody notice think I'm a little bit crazy. The rants (like this one) which ramble on and on and on flogging a dead horse to new heights! So without further ado,
Huge heartfelt thanks to everybody who contributes towards this venture. Live long and prosper!