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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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @08:44PM (#8761)

    I couldn't help but notice the use of the word audience to refer to users of this site.

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  • (Score: 3) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @08:50PM

    by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @08:50PM (#8763)

    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

      by Dopefish (12) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:44PM (#8810)

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:45PM (#8814)

      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

    by skullz (2532) on Friday February 28 2014, @08:54PM (#8768)

    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

      by Geotti (1146) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:01PM (#8829) Journal

      kind of like DJs for a really drunk crowd

      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

      by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:19PM (#8842)

      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

      by M. Baranczak (1673) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:55PM (#8864)

      What would you have preferred? Unwashed masses?

      I'd prefer the soylent majority.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:07AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:07AM (#9002)

        Now THAT'S funny!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @09:11PM (#8780)

    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

      by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:16PM (#8841)

      Agreed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:33AM (#9010)

    I just assumed it was a snark. Or you know, he picked words by rolling dice.