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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)
(Score: 5, Informative) by martyb on Monday June 08 2020, @06:48PM (3 children)
Yes, I noticed a spam mod TMB gave to a comment and took exception to it. Had a vigorous discussion with him about it on IRC. Although I could see his point, that comment did not meet the criteria for a spam mod as it was currently described in the moderation FAQ. He ultimately concurred. To his credit — and without hesitation — he owned up to it AND of his own volition gave himself a one-month moderation ban.
As for the outcome of the discussion you mentioned, it has been put on hold for the simple reason of lack of resources. There are a very limited number of minor changes that can be immediately made to the site (templates). Most others need to be checked into source control and a new version of the slashcode ("rehash") released. That is something that needs another pair of eyes to review and roll out. At the moment, TMB is stretched already with some construction work that should wind down in a couple months or so.
We are, however, far from idle! Juggs (aka Deucalion on IRC) has been studiously trying to bring our IRC server up to date... and making steady progress, too! This is on our new server, aluminum, which is slated to eventually replace our one-and-only CentOS server. There are a bunch of other services that run on that box, that are in line to get transitioned over after IRC. At the same time, TMB has been transitioning some of our Ubuntu boxes over to Gentoo.
So, we are aware and making progress to where we can actually do something about it. ATM, everything still works, we have backups should things go sideways, and we are slowly (but surely) on the right path!
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday June 08 2020, @07:26PM (2 children)
Wow, thank you so much martyb!! It's all making perfect sense now. I guess I only wish I could help somehow... But thank you all for making this a great site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @01:18PM (1 child)
You can help by browsing at -1 when you have mod points.
You have that power. Use it.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday June 10 2020, @01:35AM
No, not going there, that's where the goatsee lives...