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Myself and other submitters have noticed that articles are being edited to change the tone and intent of our stories.
Soylentil McD has suggested that "Minor edits, spelling corrections, and such, are no problem and to be expected." but "I think soylent editors should adhere to a policy of not putting words in the submitter's mouth".
I agree with that. If the editors want to add their own two cents, they can respond inline like the rest of us. Their role here is to be responsible, not privileged.
The stories we submit are a reflection of our enthusiasms and beliefs, the tone and character of those posts is as much part of the submitter's story as the actual content. The community is what makes sites like SN and Slashdot before it, an eclectic community with a wide range of opinions, styles and passions will always be more active and interesting than a bland monoculture. SN's editors should embrace and encourage that diversity, not sabotage it to appease some corporate interests.
So what do other Soylentils think? Should the submissions be allowed to stand as a clear reflection of the community's intent, or should the editors change our submissions to suit their perception of suitability?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @09:00PM
Free speech is free. Your worrying that you've said something wrong which is not actually what your worrying about 'wrong' is defined by the collective so your trying to appease an amorphous mass (us). Honestly don't worry it, I don't care, people who do tend to have issues with what free speech entails and they go ballistic attempting to 'correct' something which was never a problem. If you really want to be sorry for something, be sorry for the fact that you have all these people, all this talent, and yet your site is very limited in scope and operation.
At the moment we can 'comment' on stories, but we really could also develop, we could play games, we could share torrents or compress our files into torrents(in a more general sense you could offer online tools). We could collaborate on things, we could have real time discussion rather than reloading the page each time (I'm looking at your server people for their lack of ability to deal with async data via websocket).
Be sorry for being unambitious in your vision, goal, and structure.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @09:54PM
At the moment we can 'comment' on stories, but we really could also develop, we could play games, we could share torrents or compress our files into torrents(in a more general sense you could offer online tools). We could collaborate on things, we could have real time discussion rather than reloading the page each time (I'm looking at your server people for their lack of ability to deal with async data via websocket).
Sounds like unnecessary web 2.0 garbage.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 24 2015, @11:16PM
So..
* Play games - Facebook?
* Share torrents or compress our files into torrents - Warez?
* Real time discussion - IRC?
I think it boils down to a AOL/facebook like environment. There are already playgrounds for these kinds people.
The only point would be to develop a better discussion board where users interact with each others. But it's the same there, there's already others doing it good.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by rts008 on Monday May 25 2015, @01:07AM
NO!
I don't want or need another facebook wannabe, much less one duct-taped to a warez site.
I come here to read articles I may not ordinarily run across that may interest me, the be able to engage in interesting discussions related to that, or just lurk if I find it interesting, and don't know much about the subject.
I have no interest in coming here to code, collaborate, deal with torrents, or any of that other nonsense your pushing. That stuff has little or nothing to do with the whole idea and purpose of this site.
As for the 'real-time discussions', few of us have the time to spend actually doing that on yet another 'online circle-jerk'...jobs, families, you know, life, takes up most of our time. If you want real time discussions with someone, give them your ph#. If they are like-minded they will actually call you. There are a multitude of ways to hold real-time discussions with someone nowadays without forcing that format on everyone else.