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META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want?

posted by juggs on Friday May 29 2015, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the random-thoughts dept.

juggs writes:

This is a topic that comes up all too often in comments, lambasting editors or praising them.

As it stands, editorial is a black box, they accept submissions, fettle them, then they appear as stories. Recently, the Original Submission link appeared on stories so you can see what went in and what appeared out of that black box, yet still the complaints come.

Just how much transparency is necessary? (This is an open question not rhetorical)

I like to believe that SoylentNews is the people that form it as a community, and the editing should reflect that.

Should we adopt some version control for subs so everyone can see who edited what through the pipeline that goes from sub to front page?

Thoughts on a postcard please.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday May 29 2015, @04:32AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday May 29 2015, @04:32AM (#189488) Journal

    Editors are Gods! They wield absolute power! Once you let the plebs have a right to object, or complain, or do anything but submit their miserable findings, the whole game will be up. I prefer the black box of infinite darkness, and bow down to its infinite wisdom. Seriously, even if the editors are not actually gods, they should behave as gods. Thunderbolts for some, Swans for others. Way it goes.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 29 2015, @04:37AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday May 29 2015, @04:37AM (#189491) Journal

    ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫 ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫
    🐦  ABSOLUTE POWER  ⚡⚡⚡
    🌀     CORRUPTS      🐦
    🔫    ABSOLUTELY     🌀
    ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫 ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday May 29 2015, @04:42AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Friday May 29 2015, @04:42AM (#189494) Journal

      Yeah, but that is only for absolute values of absolute power. Now imagine a perfectly spherical cow and a SoylentNews editor . . . .

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Kell on Friday May 29 2015, @05:59AM

        by Kell (292) on Friday May 29 2015, @05:59AM (#189526)

        As luck would have it, many Soylent editors and contributors are already spherically-shaped...

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 29 2015, @03:52PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday May 29 2015, @03:52PM (#189710) Journal

      Not if you use dielectric grease.

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  • (Score: 1) by blackhawk on Friday May 29 2015, @10:13AM

    by blackhawk (5275) on Friday May 29 2015, @10:13AM (#189597)

    Some of those swans were pretty rape-y, I'l take the thunderbolts, thanks!

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by WizardFusion on Friday May 29 2015, @01:45PM

      by WizardFusion (498) on Friday May 29 2015, @01:45PM (#189654) Journal

      Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @10:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @10:55PM (#189882)

        That's not funny. That's god damn insightful.