Hopefully you will have noticed a number of new editors that have appeared to help keep this site running. They have been active for over a week but you might not have noticed them if you have been enjoying the Thanksgiving Day holiday, or just spending money during Black Friday (which seems to last longer each year!)
Snow, Charon, FatPhil, Fnord666, and GreatOutdoors have completed their training and are busy making their contributions to the team, and there are several more volunteers who will begin training in the near future. I hope that you will welcome them and keep them busy by providing more and varied submissions for them to battle with. They have already significantly reduced the strain on the editorial team and we are all breathing a collective sigh of relief back here. Thank you for volunteering guys!
(Score: 4, Informative) by ikanreed on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:31PM
Good luck. I'm probably going to ruin all your stories by being an angry jerk on them.
Or bad puns. I could ruin them with puns.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:40PM
Bad puns are the best puns. Fact.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:48PM
There is a long way to go before anyone here gets to the bottom of bad puns...keep digging.
For inspiration, I'll suggest the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories by Spider Robinson?
Thanks to the new volunteers and of course thanks to ALL the SN volunteers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:54PM
Well, given that bad puns are the only puns...
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:51PM
I've been staring at this for fifteen minutes and the best I can come up with is "I, for one, look forward to the punishment."
Sorry, everyone......truly sorry.
(Score: 2) by number6x on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:21PM
Do we need 'Punny' and 'Punishment' moderator choices for good and bad puns in comments?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:31PM
No need.
A bad pun is its own punishment,
a good pun is its own reword.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:19PM
My God, what have we pun?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:39AM
The goodness or badness of a pun is subjective. You could say it's in the "Oy!" of the beholder :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by fubari on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:32PM
Thank you indeed :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:35PM
Oh sorry, it's a crew of new editors, not new mods.
Carry on.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:26PM
They still should run a pool on which one(s) get unjustifiably attacked first for not being perfect omnisentient beings.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:50PM
If they were omniscient beings, they could tell us which one of them it will be.
(Score: 2) by charon on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:29AM
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:05PM
That's your diploma right there. Congrats, you're one of ... them.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:35PM
We don't have a team of Moderators - the community moderates our site.
(Score: 2) by dlb on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:40PM
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:36PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:57PM
I for one welcome our new editor overlords!
And sincere thanks for your work here.
I hope my paranoia, sarcasm, attempts at humor, and friendly discussion don't ruin your stories.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by charon on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:43PM
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Thursday December 01 2016, @12:41AM
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:44PM
Thanks for stepping up to fill the need.
----- 10 turns around
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:58PM
I for one already welcomed these bastards. What, you wanna a medal?!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by n1 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:17PM
Has been really great to see some people step up and help out with the editorial tasks on this site.
From all the existing editors, and me personally we really appreciate it!
Now though, we need more submissions from the community. If you want to see more things here, diversity in topics, better sources for the summaries, then please submit them and make this the site that you want it to be. Everyone who uses this site has the power to make positive contributions to the project.
We can do better, we can't be complacent and we should not close the doors to new content, view points and contributors. I want to see this community grow and it's potential be utilized.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:53PM
The above (submitting articles) is going to be my resolution for next year. And I don't normally do the whole resolution thing. I hope to find interesting things for y'all to edit in your new positions!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:37PM
For anyone who hasn't seen them and is wondering how to submit an article, the submission guidelines are here [soylentnews.org].
I'd further recommend folks who are submitting their first stories to do so on a Friday or weekend. The submission queue tends to be shorter then and editors have more opportunity to work on individual stories; you can hop on Soylent's IRC [soylentnews.org] channel to talk to them about it if you have questions.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:40PM
Thanks for stepping up, Snow, Charon, FatPhil, Fnord666, and GreatOutdoors! Thanks also to janrinok and everyone else for keeping the editing room running.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anne Nonymous on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:04PM
> They have been active for over a week but you
You missed a comma, you insensitive clod.
Also, "welcome" to the new editors. We are watching your punctuation.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday December 01 2016, @02:10AM
Welcome Aboard!
It has been a real treat to see the new guys come on board, learn the ropes of the UI as well as the vagaries of the process whereby a submission makes its way to the front page. It is not for the faint of heart. And then comes the acid test when the community starts providing constructive feedback. =)
And it has been just in the nick of time as my free time well nigh disappears from now until mid-January.
tl;dr YAY!!!
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Mainframe Bloke on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:39AM
Trite but true: thanks heaps for jumping in.
Noob question: why do double blanks, which according to my old typing teacher always follow colons and full stops, when entered in the text box input appear as single blanks in the HTML output? Just a "dumb question", but it detracts from the legibility, for me at least.
cheers
(Score: 2) by charon on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:39AM
Short answer: because that's how HTML rolls. All the whitespace in the world is collapsed to just one space.
Still short, but slightly longer answer: if you want to go to the trouble, you can set a Greasemonkey script to place a non-breaking space appear after every period. This is probably more trouble than it's worth.
(Score: 1) by Mainframe Bloke on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:15PM
Thanks again, for explaining the basics and for the pointer to Greasemonkey.
(Score: 1) by Kenny Blankenship on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:58AM
I didn't notice Fnord666. I also didn't see Fnord666. I think there's a typo or something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Someday, even Killer Meteors must fail.