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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 Dutchster on Friday February 28 2014, @07:27PM

    by Dutchster (3331) on Friday February 28 2014, @07:27PM (#8712)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday February 28 2014, @08:33PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Friday February 28 2014, @08:33PM (#8755) Journal

    And if we can beat similar sites to the punch, that will help too. Welcome to our new HTML-wielding overlords.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Dutchster on Friday February 28 2014, @08:53PM

      by Dutchster (3331) on Friday February 28 2014, @08:53PM (#8765)

      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.