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posted by cmn32480 on Friday December 23 2016, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-appreciate-the-help! dept.

Hi Guys, Soylent's Editors do a lot behind the scenes to keep the community going. As a gift idea for them this year, please consider submitting lots of stories over the next two days to get the queue nice and full. Then they'll be able to schedule in their appearance on the home page ahead of time and take Christmas (or Hanukkah) off to spend time with their friends and families.

If you've never submitted a story before, here are guidelines for composing a story submission. You submit it here.

My own method is to find tech/science articles from SN's RSS-bot or a dozen other sources like the BBC or sciencenews.org, grab the title, and a couple of paragraphs that communicate the gist. Often I'll add a quip, question, or note of my own, but that's up to your personal taste. It's easy and takes under 5 minutes per story.

Thanks for reading, and have a happy holiday!


[Ed Note: The week between Christmas and New Years is always slow for submissions and time is a precious commodity for all of us. The more subs in the queue, the further out we can get the story queue, and the more time we have to spend with our loved ones. Any help you can give would be appreciated!]

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @02:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @02:52PM (#445028)

    My own method is to find tech/science articles that I can politicize. I add my own special trollish spin to whatever would normally just be an interesting article in the hope of fomenting hostility and arguments in the comments.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:05PM (#445037)

      Don't forget your links to the World Socialist Web Site, which is Stormfront for the Left.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:16PM (#445059)

        If I link to both in the same story, would that cause the site to receive SIGFPE?

      • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:19PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:19PM (#445061)

        Stormfront has long been infiltrated by jewish vermin.

        There is no way to verify members' identities, so the JIDF goes there unchecked. If you go there, you will see that many members want their data to be deleted after they see that it is having real effects on their lives. Sickening. It has become wrong to hold views un-approved by the self-appointed authorities.

        • (Score: 1) by charon on Friday December 23 2016, @10:34PM

          by charon (5660) on Friday December 23 2016, @10:34PM (#445259) Journal
          You mean people who are assholes are being treated like assholes? I am shocked — shocked! I thought you alt-right neo-nazi white-supremacist dickheads were too tough for international jewry to bother you. If you really believe what you say you do, be proud: tell the world. And when the world replies that you're a fucking asshat, you can go to your cold lonely grave knowing how righteous you were. And everyone else can be relieved you're gone.
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:08AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:08AM (#445447)

            Found a zionist jew.

            It is always the jews who call for people to come out in the open if they want to attack the jews. Calling them names to get them to come out with their real identities. This is so the vermin can destroy each one of them.

            Look at the newspapers from a century ago, from 1910, 1920, 1930... nearly 100% of the editors and owners are jews. And they promote dreadful wars that bring death and destruction to nations.

            I salute all those who are fighting the jewish menace, covertly or overtly. And all those who are supporting the fighters, either covertly or overtly. The jewish problem is on the tip of everyone's tongue, but no one is saying it. It will take one strong blow to jewry to get everyone to join the good fight.

            too tough for international jewry to bother you

            See above. The vermin continually asks for names.

            tell the world. And when the world replies that you're

            The world will not "reply" anything. The jews will reply. The jews own the media and look at the American presidential elections coverage to get a picture of what they tried very hard to do. The whole world is the victim of jews. The world has been (and is being) manipulated to fight for jews. The world is now seeing more and more that the jews are causing all their suffering.

            And everyone else can be relieved

            Who is this "everyone"?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:27AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:27AM (#445455)

            And everyone else can be relieved you're gone.

            The world speaks [rt.com]

            The world will be relieved when the jews are gone.

            From the article:

            The main US pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, said it was "deeply disturbed" by the Obama administration’s reluctance to use its veto in what it described as a "destructive, one-sided, anti-Israel resolution."

            AIPAC, a jewish lobby group is not the world.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:04PM (#445035)

    I thought editors only needed hookers and blow.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by cmn32480 on Friday December 23 2016, @04:05PM

      by cmn32480 (443) <reversethis-{moc.liamg} {ta} {08423nmc}> on Friday December 23 2016, @04:05PM (#445054) Journal

      What, exactly, do my cats have to do with this?

      --
      "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:07PM (#445129)

        I would've guessed "Die" and "RIAA".

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:04PM (#445036)

    What's that? 40% of Jews live in the United States, and they comprise only 2% of the American population; and, their almost exclusively located on the coasts of the United States.

    That's just the United States; surely, this website reaches out to an audience in the rest of the world.

    What the FUCK is Hanukkah?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:32PM (#445042)

      Your post confuses me. You did not clearly make your point. Are you saying that Hanukkah shouldn't be mentioned because only 2% of the US is jewish? And where does the "rest of the world" comment fit in? And you may not realize it, but the Christmas/Hanukkah comment was made in regards to the editors, not the world population. Do you have reason to doubt that at least one of the editors is not jewish and/or doesn't celebrate Hanukkah?

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Friday December 23 2016, @03:35PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Friday December 23 2016, @03:35PM (#445043)

        Today is also Festivus. Just sayin'.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:29PM (#445068)

          Holiday schedule, during which Odin the Allfather will be leading the Wild Hunt:

          Hanukkah began Dec 6 sunset, ended Dec 14 sunset, so that one's done and gone now.

          Saturnalia began Dec 17.

          Solstice occurred Dec 21 at 10:44 UTC, so that one's done and gone now. Friends and I celebrated on Wednesday. Now to await equinox, which will occur Mar 20, at 10:29 UTC.

          Today (Dec 23) is Festivus and the final day of Saturnalia.

          Dec 25 0:00 UTC Santa departs the north pole for various Pacific islands to begin his warp 9.95 journey across the globe. Also Dec 25 is Christmas Day.

          Kwanzaa begins Dec 26 with Umoja ending Jan 1 with Imani.

          Then everybody gets a big hangover.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:37PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:37PM (#445072)

            Dec 25 0:00 UTC Santa departs the north pole

            D'oh, should have been Dec 24 12:00 UTC.

          • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday December 23 2016, @06:52PM

            by isostatic (365) on Friday December 23 2016, @06:52PM (#445147) Journal

            At least it's not a warp 10 journey. I already have enough salamanders.

          • (Score: 1) by lcklspckl on Friday December 23 2016, @08:57PM

            by lcklspckl (830) on Friday December 23 2016, @08:57PM (#445215)

            Chanukah in 2016 will start on Sunday, the 25th of December and will continue for 8 days until Sunday, the 1st of January. Note that in the Jewish calander, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Chanukah on the sunset of Saturday, the 24th of December. http://www.when-is.com/chanukah-2016.asp [when-is.com]

            It changes from year to year. I'm not even Jewish! And also: a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan. -Krusty

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:08PM (#445055)

        The reason to doubt is that Jews are almost non-existent; they are dust.

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:50AM (#445321)

        The reason to doubt is that Jews are almost non-existent; they are dust.

        ---------

        The above comment was marked "flamebait" [soylentnews.org], so I have to include this text to trick the system into thinking it's a new comment with new content.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @03:39PM (#445045)

      Perhaps it was included due to relatively high Jewish fraction of the tech sector? I couldn't find numbers for the overall percentage (my guess is much more than 2% in USA), but here's a list (somewhat out of date...) of corporate leaders http://jewishtechs.com/jewish-techies/ [jewishtechs.com]

      Plenty of traditional holidays around winter solstice time -- it's when "the sun starts to come back".

      disclaimer -- this AC is not Jewish, but my GF is a non-practicing Jew.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:22PM (#445063)

        So you admit to fraternizing with jews? Sleeping with a jewess? You might as well sleep with a donkey.

        You know well that Jew is a race, not a religion.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:37PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:37PM (#445071)

          ?? Arabs and Jews look the same to me -- as far as I can tell the only differences are religion.

          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:40PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:40PM (#445076)

            Meh. They both cut up little boys' sexual organs.

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:48PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:48PM (#445082)

              One of them lets an old man suck the penis after being freshly cut link [subvertednation.net]

        • (Score: 4, TouchĂ©) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 23 2016, @05:18PM

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday December 23 2016, @05:18PM (#445104) Journal

          I do. I fraternize with Jews. I also slept with a Jewess. She was the one who slept with a donkey.

          --
          Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:28PM (#445067)

      2% of US population does not matter to the rest of the world. It does not matter what that 2% celebrates. Be it young boys, be it ritual human sacrifice, be it intentional animal suffering.

      That 2% of US population is a very small percentage of the actual world. That is why they want to massively reduce the world population.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:58PM (#445088)

      What the FUCK is Hanukkah?

      Hanukkah: a winter holiday that occurs before the winter solstice. According to Hebrew chronology [wikipedia.org], Hanukkah begins on Kislev 25th. During this time, many humans celebrate a myth about a war god recorded in the Scroll of Antiochus [torahlab.org]:

      ...The House of Chashmonai came to the Beis HaMikdash and rebuilt the gates that had been smashed and repaired the breaches in the walls; they purified the courtyard from the corpses and the impurity. They tried to find clear olive oil with which to light the Menorah, but they could only find a single jar which was sealed with the signet ring of the Kohein Gadol. They knew that it was pure, but there was only enough oil to burn for a single day. The Lord of Heaven, Who causes His name to dwell there, gave a blessing to the oil and they lit from it for eight days. (pp. 19-21)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 23 2016, @05:34PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday December 23 2016, @05:34PM (#445114) Journal

      It was reflexive. Ever since I went away to college in Chicago, and now living in New York, Christmas has been paired with Hanukkah. At first it was also twined with Kwanzaa, but that seems to have dropped off the radar (go to the heart of Harlem at Christmas time now and you cannot find any Kwanzaa merchandise). Why is that? That's really an exercise left to the reader.

      Of course if you do that exercise, you might then wonder about other things, like how Israel seems to be in the headlines of every major American paper quite disproportionately to their population, economic performance, or any other index. You might wonder why nearly every Hollywood script has a Jewish character in the cast, when there are so many other cultures that could get equal time (When was the last time you saw a Dogon character in an animated children's film? How about Touareg--those guys are pretty cool).

      Fair warning, though. Keep the results of that exercise to yourself. Noting obvious patterns is wrongthink and is severely punished.

      --
      Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @09:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @09:20PM (#445226)

      Then [Soylent's Editors will] be able to schedule in their appearance on the home page ahead of time and take Christmas (or Hanukkah) off to spend time with their friends and families.

      Are you upset that Phoenix666 didn't wish the rest of the world had time off for whatever reason?

      I understand that you might be upset about how special this time of year is to other people (I'm not included in this), but Phoenix666 has no obligation to be inclusive. Are you one of those "everyone is a special snowflake", "everyone gets a trophy", "Why isn't everything about ME?", gender inclusive pronoun types?

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jcross on Friday December 23 2016, @03:56PM

    by jcross (4009) on Friday December 23 2016, @03:56PM (#445051)

    Can't we just all be okay with fewer stories coming through? I mean, I'm personally okay with the editors chillaxing regardless of what's in the queue; the world won't end if the news stream slows down a bit or even stops for a few days.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:03PM (#445052)

      Personally, would rather have normal pace or even faster...since there is plenty of time to kill while avoiding all the relatives that show up over the holidays.

      Also, if the feed actually stopped for a day or so, I wonder how many eyeballs would go away and not come back?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @04:42PM (#445079)

        I would prefer many spicy stories over holidays, better than normal days. Not everyone enjoys R.L, meeting shitheads that one managed to avoid for the whole year. There should be more discussions.

        And can we please disallow moderation of comments over the next two weeks? (feel free to disagree with this one). It is distracting, while adding nearly nothing of value. No-moderation should also give a message to those who think that moderation of comments matters.

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @05:00PM

          by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 23 2016, @05:00PM (#445091) Journal

          You could set -1/-1 Threshold/Breakthrough to read all comments. Easy to save those settings if you have a throwaway account, but I imagine you could make a script to automatically apply them once you land on an article ( https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/12/23/1417241 [soylentnews.org] ). This would navigate to a new URL like https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&mode=improvedthreaded&commentsort=0&op=Change&sid=17148 [soylentnews.org]

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:19PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:19PM (#445167)

          It is distracting, while adding nearly nothing of value.

          It's valuable to me and it is one of the things that distinguishes this place from many others. Feel free to browse at -1, but I haven't came across any posts that did not belong there. Informative mods are probably the most useful (and least misused) since they basically only go to posts with references.

          I can't speak for everyone, but positive moderation of my posts helps validate the effort I put into them. Why else would I go through the effort to make a well-referenced post if I have no idea if people read it?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:31AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:31AM (#445434)

            Try making a well-referenced comment about jews. The only moderation you will get will be -1, Troll.

            Try making insightful comments about jews starting wars and getting everyone else to die, while they are busy gathering corpses of dead nations. It won't be moderated +5, Insightful.

            So there you are.

      • (Score: 2) by jcross on Friday December 23 2016, @05:39PM

        by jcross (4009) on Friday December 23 2016, @05:39PM (#445119)

        Yeah, I hear that! I just figure there're plenty of sources of distraction available, although maybe that's not so good for SN given your second point. I definitely was not trying to imply that Real Life is somehow awesomer than usual around "the holidays", but just that if the editors have something to do other than editing, that's cool with me.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @04:51PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 23 2016, @04:51PM (#445083) Journal

      EmDrive 2.0 [soylentnews.org] will be used to create a free energy relativistic kill vehicle. Everyone you know and love is living on borrowed time.

      With that in mind we might as well get all the news out at a fast pace.

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    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @07:09PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 23 2016, @07:09PM (#445154) Journal

      We are slowing down the posting rate too - to approximately one story every 2 hours or so. But not everyone is on holiday. Some people don't celebrate the holiday, some are working or on call, others are travelling. Our community is global. They might all want to browse the site during the 'holiday' period so we do try to keep something of interest on the front page. As we cannot predict where in the world people might be - even one of our editors is currently several thousands of miles from his usual location - we try to give 24 hour coverage.

  • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Friday December 23 2016, @05:32PM

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <mrpgNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday December 23 2016, @05:32PM (#445112) Homepage

    Where else to look for submissions? I like:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/technology [theguardian.com]
    https://www.theguardian.com/world [theguardian.com]
    http://www.bbc.com/ [bbc.com]

    Happy Festivus!

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @07:10PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 23 2016, @07:10PM (#445156) Journal

      Right now I have the Anandtech, Ars Technica, EFF/Deeplinks, HPCwire, KurzweilAI.net, Next Big Future, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and TorrentFreak RSS feeds open in Claws Mail.

      I would also consider adding Futurity, The Intercept, NPR, NYT, The Platform, and Reuters.

      Although Science Daily [sciencedaily.com] is a news reprinter, it does a better job than Phys.org because it usually links directly to the university source ("Materials provided by" link). Don't forget the DOI/Journal Reference. I've seen that Phys.org does have some original reporting from time to time, however.

      For space, Space.com, Universe Today is alright. NASA/JPL news release RSS feeds may be preferred. Spaceflight Insider is well-written. nasaspaceflight.com is also pretty good and its forums host the infamous emdrive-related threads with some of the Eagleworks scientists posting updates there frequently.

      Avoid Wired, the Financial Times, and Forbes, which have pay/scriptwalls.

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 23 2016, @07:10PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 23 2016, @07:10PM (#445157) Journal

      Right now I have the Anandtech, Ars Technica, EFF/Deeplinks, HPCwire, KurzweilAI.net, Next Big Future, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and TorrentFreak RSS feeds open in Claws Mail.

      I would also consider adding Futurity, The Intercept, NPR, NYT, The Platform, and Reuters.

      Although Science Daily [sciencedaily.com] is a news reprinter, it does a better job than Phys.org because it usually links directly to the university source ("Materials provided by" link). Don't forget the DOI/Journal Reference. I've seen that Phys.org does have some original reporting from time to time, however.

      For space, Space.com, Universe Today is alright. NASA/JPL news release RSS feeds may be preferred. Spaceflight Insider is well-written. nasaspaceflight.com is also pretty good and its forums host the infamous emdrive-related threads with some of the Eagleworks scientists posting updates there frequently.

      Avoid Wired, the Financial Times, and Forbes, which have pay/scriptwalls.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:02PM (#445126)

    As a potential submitter, I'll challenge the notion that it takes about 5 minutes a story right now, because it takes that long to go through the submission queue to make sure it isn't a dupe, which there is at least one I noticed:

    Submission: Mainpage 12/24 00:54 LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown

    Article: LIGO Data Probes Where General Relativity Might Break Down [soylentnews.org] from 12/12.

    Too many articles may add some level of burden on the editors as well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:23PM (#445171)

      As a submitter, I'm also a counterexample as it takes me an average of 20-30 minutes to put together a good submission.

      I disagree with "too many articles" being a burden, though. In theory, yes it could, but, historically, the problem has been so much the opposite that there have been multiple Meta submissions trying to address it.

    • (Score: 1) by charon on Friday December 23 2016, @10:42PM

      by charon (5660) on Friday December 23 2016, @10:42PM (#445264) Journal
      It's fairly easy for us to see that an article is a dupe. So if you do some quick checking and we do some slightly less quick checking, it will be fine. Also, sending it as a nicely formatted ready to publish article is not necessary either. A lot of people send us a bare link. Some send original short articles supported by links. One of the submission bots copy/pastes the entire text of the linked story. We are used to any format, so send us whatever you think is worth talking about and we'll get it into shape.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @06:29PM (#445141)

    But the very next day, you gave it away.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:23AM (#445431)

    Let them know it's Christmas time [youtube.com]