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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday June 29 2016, @03:29PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 29 2016, @03:29PM (#367611) Journal

    I feel your pain. If I want a good submission, I want it to look good, it takes a few minutes to submit it.

    If you find an interesting story, please submit it! If you feel you lack time to write it up as well as you'd like, please lead off the submission with something like:

    <p><b>EDITORS: Lack time to write as well as I'd like; would very much appreciate your cleaning it up.</b></p>

    (The wording itself is purely up to you, of course.)

    Speaking only for myself — but I've witnessed his among the rest of the editors here — I try to take as light a hand to editing as possible. There is a "feel" for the stories on this site that we try to maintain. That said, you may have noticed that some of our regular submitters have a unique style, and I try to let that come through.

    Some of our community want their submissions to be posted exactly as submitted; sorry, it's not your personal site and editors will edit. On the flip side, there are some who really don't much care about the wording — they just found something 'cool" that they want to share. When looking at a submission, it's hard to know how much leeway the submitter is happy with, so a light hand takes precedence.

    So, just let us know if you don't mind our taking a heavy hand to the editing and that will make both your and our lives easier.

    tl;dr Submit what you find interesting, let us know in the submission if you don't mind heavy editing, and we will all benefit.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 29 2016, @04:00PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 29 2016, @04:00PM (#367623) Journal

    Thanks - it never crossed my mind to do something like that. Makes sense to me!

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday July 03 2016, @08:24PM

    by edIII (791) on Sunday July 03 2016, @08:24PM (#369320)

    For the record, I've found you to be a quite decent editor. I've got no problem taking you up on that offer, and I think I may have already left a comment to the editor once.

    My issue is not the cleaning up, and posting of it. I just spent about 8-10 minutes looking over the article I just submitted, and then trying to find the best way to present it. No real issue there. The issue I have is just finding stories that aren't dupes (which I failed with my last attempt). Every single story I come across, that isn't also here, I attempt to submit.

    I guess it's hard to be a frequent submitter when SN is literally 90% of your source for news.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Monday July 04 2016, @03:35AM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 04 2016, @03:35AM (#369420) Journal

      For the record, I've found you to be a quite decent editor. I've got no problem taking you up on that offer, and I think I may have already left a comment to the editor once.

      Thank you. I do try. Some days are better than others. (I find that I most often come up short when I edit well into the night (it's nearly midnight as I write this), but that seems to be the main time that I have time available to commit to this site.)

      And yes, I think I have seen an editorial note from you in the past. It's always helpful to know where the submitter is coming from.

      My issue is not the cleaning up, and posting of it. I just spent about 8-10 minutes looking over the article I just submitted, and then trying to find the best way to present it. No real issue there. The issue I have is just finding stories that aren't dupes (which I failed with my last attempt). Every single story I come across, that isn't also here, I attempt to submit.

      Yes, writing stories is hard work -- I truly appreciate the effort that you put into it. Who among us, when in school was actually excited when given a writing assignment? Certainly not me! And yet, here I am editing and occasionally writing stories, of my own choosing!

      I guess it's hard to be a frequent submitter when SN is literally 90% of your source for news.

      That's the nicest complement I've received in a very long time! That just made my day AND week! Thank YOU!

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