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posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @06:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the albeit-slowly-but-surely dept.

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."]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by cwix on Friday February 28 2014, @07:10PM

    by cwix (873) on Friday February 28 2014, @07:10PM (#8698)

    ... And good luck. A lot of the folks around here have high expectations for the editors.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +4  
       Insightful=3, Informative=1, Total=4
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @07:26PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 28 2014, @07:26PM (#8711) Journal

    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.

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    I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:37PM

      by Sir Garlon (1264) on Friday February 28 2014, @07:37PM (#8719)

      "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie [wikipedia.org]

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      [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

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @10:01PM (#8827)

        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

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 28 2014, @07:43PM (#8720) Journal

      s/girlwhowaspluggedout and myself/girlwhowaspluggedout and I/

      Didn't take long for me to get that one wrong!

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      I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
      • (Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Friday February 28 2014, @07:45PM

        by Sir Garlon (1264) on Friday February 28 2014, @07:45PM (#8721)

        That's not a serious grammatical error. Native English speakers make that kind of mistake frequently.

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        [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

          by unitron (70) on Friday February 28 2014, @11:50PM (#8892) Journal

          Native speakers of English make serious grammatical errors frequently.

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          something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Friday February 28 2014, @09:25PM

    by girlwhowaspluggedout (1223) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:25PM (#8796)

    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.

    Now, they who reached Parnassus' lofty Crown,
    Employ their Pains to spurn some others down;
    And while Self-Love each jealous Writer rules,
    Contending Wits becomes the Sport of Fools:
    But still the Worst with most Regret commend,
    For each Ill Author is as bad a Friend.
    To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways,
    Are Mortals urg'd thro' Sacred Lust of praise!
    Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
    Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
    Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join;
    To err is Humane; to Forgive, +5 Divine.

    (Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, ll. 514-525)

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    Soylent is the best disinfectant.
    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by regift_of_the_gods on Friday February 28 2014, @10:11PM

      by regift_of_the_gods (138) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:11PM (#8837)

      To err is Humane; to Forgive, +5 Divine.

      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

      by Reziac (2489) on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:10AM (#8931) Homepage

      Your first one I've seen (the 'ancient dental plaque' story) was very well done. Two thumbs up!

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      • (Score: 2) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:11PM

        by girlwhowaspluggedout (1223) on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:11PM (#9163)
        Although I'm now an editor, I still contribute stories when I can. I'm glad you liked it :)
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        Soylent is the best disinfectant.
    • (Score: 2) by SMI on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM

      by SMI (333) on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM (#9016)

      To err is human, to forgive is canine.

      (just my $0.02)

    • (Score: 1) by fadrian on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:40PM

      by fadrian (3194) on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:40PM (#9171) Homepage

      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.

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      That is all.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @01:22AM (#8920)

    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

      by Open4D (371) on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:47PM (#9713) Journal

      4. Is it possible that I can only reply to other posts and not create 'root posts'?

      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.