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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: 2) by GlennC on Friday May 29 2015, @01:09PM
I've submitted a few stories, just items I found interesting and thought worthy of sharing.
Fortunately for me, I haven't had a submission denied, although one is still apparently in the queue.
If one of my submissions is denied for some reason or other, I'm not going to be offended.
It's your site, fill it with what you will.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday May 29 2015, @02:31PM
The point is, it's not. The site is a co-operative. It was born from the failures of the old site, which went downhill* as more and more money became involved.
But yeah, invisible hand is the best way to fix things, just take your wallet elsewhere. Sigh.
* Yeah yeah, it's been going downhill since it was Chips and Dips
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday May 29 2015, @05:54PM
It is OUR site. Yours, mine, and everybody else who reads it, writes subs for it, or works on it or enjoys it in any way shape or form.
The staff is a part of the community. We want to do our jobs better and make the end result something that the entire community can be proud of.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 2) by juggs on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:49AM
^^ THIS is the reason for this META story and the reason that SN exists. SN isn't about top down dictat or foisting things on the community that they do not like, that's exactly why SN came into being as a certain subset of people fractured off from /. - enough was enough, we can do this better ourselves so let's do it, together. Here we are.