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posted by mattie_p on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-kim-jung-un dept.

I can no longer sustain the level of activity needed to run SoylentNews, and so I have resigned as leader.

In the end, I was literally begging people to step back and let the site "just run" for a few days while I caught up... alas, to no effect. Issues must be resolved "right here and right now" continuously throughout my day with no end in sight.

NCommander has taken over as project lead - he has access to everything from the registrar down. I understand he has a different vision for the project, which will soon be revealed.

I'm sorry to leave like this, but there's really nothing for it. I'm going back to my AI studies, which happen at a more leisurely pace.

John Barrabas

(And yes, this was an amicable transfer of power. There's no hard feelings on my side.)

[Ed. Note: this is a word for word article based on Barrabas's journal entry.]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by tomp on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:56AM

    by tomp (996) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:56AM (#11684)

    Sorry to hear this. Nothing needs to be fixed *right now*. Some people just need to hear that. I'm sad that some squeaky wheels made this not fun for you. Those people are not what makes a community strong and following their wishes will not make us stronger.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:38AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:38AM (#11819) Journal

    Sorry to hear this. Nothing needs to be fixed *right now*.

    Well, whatever made John Barrabas resign probably should be fixed *right now*.

    But other than that, I agree. There are certainly many things at the site which could be improved. But there is very little which really needs to be improved, and absolutely nothing which needs to be improved right now.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by gottabeme on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:06PM

      by gottabeme (1531) on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:06PM (#12010)

      "Well, whatever made John Barrabas resign probably should be fixed *right now*."

      Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid. (I don't mean him, I mean the people who wouldn't just shut up and be patient. Sometimes the Internet really just stinks. It's so dehumanizing that people treat others like slaves.)

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:22PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:22PM (#11943) Journal

    Nothing needs to be fixed *right now*.

    This can't be repeated enough. Is Soylent perfect? No. Will it become perfect as a result of anyone working themselves to death? Definitely not. Most of us put up with the kind of bugs in this version of Slashcode in the other place for about a decade. Yes, we bitched and moaned about it, but we kept coming back because it's the community, not the horrible pile of unmaintainable Perl with some really crappy CSS that made us visit TOP and makes us visit here.

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