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frojack writes:
"Tesla stock soared today, up over 17% at one point, on solid earnings reports, and also due to achieving the highest recommendation of all cars from Consumer Reports (Note, not linking direct to paywalled CR site). In addition, Tesla Motors Inc. is expected to make a big announcement regarding its 'gigafactory' battery plant this week. Tesla is rumored to be partnering with Japan's Panasonic Corp. or South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The location of the factory is also yet to be determined, although analysts have bet on New Mexico or Arizona. One thing is sure: 'Tesla hopes to reinvent battery production like it already did to other parts of the auto supply chain,' one Wall Street analyst said.
Within the next few weeks, CEO Elon Musk will go to China to deliver the country's first Model S according to CNBC."
(Score: 0, Troll) by sudo on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:09AM
This story is trash. TSLA reported earnings last week. Thought /. was where we went for old news?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cwix on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:22AM
Backlog of stories and the desire not to push them out to quick is my guess.
(Score: 1) by cwix on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:24AM
Sorry this was supposed to be a reply to comment 7795. I mush have clicked the wrong reply button.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:32AM
It was a reply to comment 7795.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by cwix on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:57PM
Hmm after I posted, it looked like a second commend. Well either way I screwed up lol, Mea culpa.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by sigterm on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:58AM
That's actually a very good question.
There are several interesting stories on the submissions list, so why aren't we seeing them on the front page? Is SoylentNews still in need of more editors?
(Score: 2) by nobbis on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:43AM
Agreed, plus we have a dupe on the front page, and a story about xenophobia that is outside the focus of this site
It's easy to look up when your mind's in the gutter
(Score: 2) by gringer on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:50AM
I don't think it's a lack of editor problem. Look at the time stamps on submissions -- it's a fairly consistent 1.5 hour separation, on the half hour/hour. I would expect less consistency in submission time if editors were a problem.
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:47PM
So I don't seem to have the option of saying 'LaminatorX is the new kdawson'.
To avoid this post sounding too negative: Dopefish has managed to fill up the front page with interesting articles. Keep up the good work!
sudo mod me up
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:35PM
Stories come from the community. If you want better stories, submit better stories. (I've submitted a couple, and they are not the most outstanding things ever to grace the front page of Soylent. Submitting a good story is not as easy as it sounds, I quickly learned.)
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday February 28 2014, @09:26AM
Stories come from the community and are filtered by the editors. There are quite a few interesting stories in the submission queue, and yet LaminatorX managed to pick the ones that embodied the worst of Slashdot. Dopefish, in contrast, managed to pick a load of interesting articles from the same queue.
Given the posting rate of about one story per hour, the problem is not the shortage of submissions, it's poor choices by the editors (or, specifically, by one editor). Looking at the current submission queue, there are 48, and about a quarter of them look like they'd be interesting. That's enough for the next 12 hours, even if nothing else is submitted.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:31PM
Nope, ./ was where we use to go for flame wars and fanbois. Soylent is not about the fresh news, it's about the discussion. We can discuss a week-old story just fine, thank you very much. I think the editors are doing a great job.
If you are dissatisfied with the timeliness of the stories, perhaps you'd care to submit a few and help keep us up to date.
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.