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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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META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by engblom on Friday May 29 2015, @05:33AM
I do not see any problem with how it is now. Somehow there will always be some hating if their text got edited, regardless if it was an improvement or not. This is visible from Wikipedia were some are even using bots for keeping their own written version there. We will never be able to satisfy those hating some minor edits.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 29 2015, @07:26AM
Somehow there will always be some hating if their text got edited,
Agreed, but those people have to start their own site. That's the only why they will be happy.
I've submitted a story or two. Some have made it virtually untouched. Others got a badly needed fresh coat of hatchet.
The former, I did an OK job on, the latter, I clearly needed to step up my game.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday May 29 2015, @09:59AM
I've submitted a story or two. Some have made it virtually untouched. Others got a badly needed fresh coat of hatchet.
The former, I did an OK job on, the latter, I clearly needed to step up my game.
Exactly the same thought here. I take my submissions seriously enough to put in a lot of time revising them, so if anybody could find edits unjustified or disturbing, it would be me. So far, there has been only one submission out of several where there was more than a word or two tweaked that I was neutral about — and in that exceptional case, I was grateful because I knew I'd written the submission while too tired/distracted to do a decent job revising it myself.