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(Score: 2) by Open4D on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:24AM
Popeidol and others have posted some interesting ideas for formal enhancements to the story submission & editing systems/processes.
There is something informal that could be set up in an hour, and remain in place at least until any more formal stuff is ready. There could be an email distribution list of people who might be able to provide fast feedback in support of the editorial process. I would be the first volunteer, as would I see it as a low-commitment way of (potentially) helping.
A typical message to this group would be "I intend to publish the following on the front page in 10 minutes. Any comments? ... " Obviously only a minority (10% perhaps?) of recipients would be sat in front of their email client at any one time, but that could still be enough people to catch dupes, typos, etc.. Also, there could still be some value in replies received after a story hits the front page.
This idea is just something for the editors to consider. Do they think it would help them? Or would it actually be counterproductive, adding the burden of an extra layer of bureaucracy, delays and a load of snarky comments? It shouldn't be mandatory for editors to actually use this group, and it should be the editors themselves controlling the group's membership list. (Or maybe individual editors would prefer to maintain their own private email list of trusted 'feedbackers'. If any editor wants me for that purpose, get in touch.)
One possible disadvantage is further claims of fragmentation, like those seen here [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Wednesday March 05 2014, @10:42AM
Incidentally, is there any easy way for 2 SN users to make contact with each other with a degree of privacy? The messaging system [soylentnews.org] only seems to support messages from the system to the user. Ideally I don't want to post my email address in a public comment / journal entry.
N.B. I said "easy", because I wanted to pre-empt any suggestions that I could encrypt my email address with my recipient's public key and then I would be able to post it publicly. :-) I'm thinking more along the lines of a new type of message in the messaging system: "User Example66 has shared his/her verified email address with you and asks that you make contact: example66rulez@example.com"
P.S. Sorry for being off topic.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Foobar Bazbot on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:36AM
Note that IRC supports private messaging, and there's some effort towards linking IRC authentication to slash authentication in some way. Once you have the ability to know that "example66" on IRC is the same person as "Example66" on slash, you could have a link on Example66's public profile page that would open the web-based IRC client directly into a PM to example66.
Of course, making this work asynchronously (i.e. if the recipient is not online) requires a bot to save the message, and deliver it next time they log in. Then to ensure they'd know to login to IRC and receive the message, you'd need... a new type of message in the messaging system. So this may not be simpler, but it does provide general private communications (vs. just sending an email address) without implementing yet-another-pm-system inside the slash messaging system. Maybe the right answer is both...