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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the fresh-blood dept.

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!

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by ikanreed on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:31PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:31PM (#434977) Journal

    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

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:40PM (#434985) Homepage Journal

      Bad puns are the best puns. Fact.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:48PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:48PM (#434989)

        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

        by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:54PM (#435023) Journal

        Well, given that bad puns are the only puns...

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:51PM

          by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:51PM (#435053) Journal

          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

            by number6x (903) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:21PM (#435096)

            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

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @09:31PM (#435127)

              No need.

              A bad pun is its own punishment,
              a good pun is its own reword.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:39AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday December 01 2016, @04:39AM (#435269) Journal

          The goodness or badness of a pun is subjective. You could say it's in the "Oy!" of the beholder :D

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  • (Score: 2) by fubari on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:32PM

    by fubari (4551) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:32PM (#434978)

    Thank you indeed :-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:35PM (#434982)

    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

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:26PM (#435040)

      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

        by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:50PM (#435086)

        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

        by charon (5660) on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:29AM (#435283) Journal
        Pretty sure I already won that a few days ago.
        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:05PM

          by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:05PM (#435520)

          That's your diploma right there. Congrats, you're one of ... them.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:35PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:35PM (#435043) Journal

      We don't have a team of Moderators - the community moderates our site.

  • (Score: 2) by dlb on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:40PM

    by dlb (4790) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:40PM (#434984)
    ...so, Thank you!
    • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:36PM

      by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:36PM (#435075) Homepage Journal
      Yes it is! Thanks for helping to make SN great!
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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:57PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:57PM (#434994) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by charon on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:43PM

    by charon (5660) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:43PM (#435018) Journal
    Thank you, janrinok and the editor team, for having us. I don't get a whole lot of time to make comments, so editing is a way I can contribute to the SoylentNews' well being in the time I do get. All praise should be sent in cash, all criticism in day-old fish.
    • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Thursday December 01 2016, @12:41AM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Thursday December 01 2016, @12:41AM (#435220) Homepage
      Seconded, except for the fish part. You can send my portion to charon. Seriously though, I enjoy reading this site and I feel this is a way that I can make it even better. The team at SN have made us feel welcome and I appreciate that. I'll make mistakes but I know I can count on the SN community to gently correct me when that happens. I will be editing in a Nomex jumpsuit though, just in case.
  • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:44PM

    by arulatas (3600) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:44PM (#435019)

    Thanks for stepping up to fill the need.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:58PM (#435025)

    I for one already welcomed these bastards. What, you wanna a medal?!

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by n1 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:17PM

    by n1 (993) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @06:17PM (#435037) Journal

    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

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 30 2016, @07:53PM (#435087)

      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

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:37PM (#435102) Journal

        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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:40PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:40PM (#435105) Journal

    Thanks for stepping up, Snow, Charon, FatPhil, Fnord666, and GreatOutdoors! Thanks also to janrinok and everyone else for keeping the editing room running.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anne Nonymous on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:04PM

    by Anne Nonymous (712) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @10:04PM (#435148)

    > 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

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 01 2016, @02:10AM (#435243) Journal

    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!!!

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Mainframe Bloke on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:39AM

    by Mainframe Bloke (1665) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:39AM (#435258) Journal

    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

      by charon (5660) on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:39AM (#435289) Journal

      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 Kenny Blankenship on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:58AM

    by Kenny Blankenship (5712) on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:58AM (#435308)

    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.

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