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posted by NCommander on Monday June 08 2020, @01:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the somewhat-overdue dept.

As promised, here's the round-table discussion post that I said on Wednesday was coming. We have a long history at SoylentNews of listening and responding to our community; I genuinely hope that never changes. I also recognize that I may have ruffled some feathers in the last few weeks with original content postings so here's the best place to get this all out.

I am mindful of the community's support and goodwill; I don't want to squander any of it. Yes, there are times where my hand may be forced (e.g., DCMA takedowns). Still, I'm always a bit hesitant whenever I post on the main site for anything that isn't site update news or similar. I may be the de facto site leader, but I want my submissions to be treated like anyone else's — I want no favoritism. The editorial team does review my stories and signs off before they go live (unless it's an "emergency" situation such as the last time we blew up the site). However, as the saying goes, the buck stops with me.

SoylentNews accepts original content. I'm also aware that I've probably submitted the most original content so far (See "Previously", below for some examples). I'm grateful for the community's apparent acceptance of my submissions and the positive responses to them. What I don't know is if there is an undercurrent of displeasure with these. Maybe everyone thinks these are all fine. Then again, maybe somebody has an issue with them. Rather than assume anything, let's get it all out in the open.

What I want to cover in this round-table discussion is original content and having images in posts as well as topics such as yesterday's Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020.

So, contributors and commenters to SoylentNews, get that Reply button hot and let me hear your feedback. As usual, either a member of staff or I will respond to your comments below,

73 de NCommander

Previously:
(2020-06-03) Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020
(2020-05-24) Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
(2020-05-14) Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking
(2020-05-10) Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility
(2020-05-15) Meta: Having a Chat about SoylentNews' Internet Relay Chat
(2018-10-25) My Time as an ICANN Fellow
(2017-10-09) soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues
(2017-04-20) Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo...
(2017-04-17) SN Security Updates: CAA, LogJam, HTTP Method Disable, and 3DES
(2017-03-13) Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4)

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Monday June 08 2020, @02:43PM (2 children)

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday June 08 2020, @02:43PM (#1004831) Homepage Journal

    Thank you kindly.

    Actually, when I drafted this, I only linked one or two articles. The editoral team is the one who added the rather long list of novels (and that's not counting the shit I wrote during golive!).

    I legit forgot I wrote up about my time at ICANN. I may talk with the editors to create a seperate nexus to put my own content under.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by RS3 on Monday June 08 2020, @04:08PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Monday June 08 2020, @04:08PM (#1004869)

    I may talk with the editors to create a seperate nexus to put my own content under.

    How about maybe a user's journal section or something similar? :)

    Trying to be funny, in case someone doesn't get it.

    Seriously, I think it's great as-is, and I and many (most) of us look forward to your submissions. Thank you!

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:11AM

    by dry (223) on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:11AM (#1005101) Journal

    I fully agree with fullynever, your articles are interesting and on topic for the site I believe. Even the odd picture in your posts seemed fine to me though I agree with others about not going overboard in allowing them.