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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @05:28PM (#189743)

    The way to handle opinion pieces that you still want to post is to be very clear that the piece is the opinion of a person/organization that has a particular ax to grind.

    On that much, we agree. Make it very clear that this is the opinion of a person or an organization.

    Find out what their overall position is, and announce it along with the story.

    But this, I'm not so sure about. It doesn't seem to me to be the job of the editors to inform the rest of us what the overall agenda of a person or organization is. At most, I think it would be a fair call for an editor to point out the affiliation of the person who wrote the opinion piece. The rest seems best left to the comments. YMMV.