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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:49PM (#1005287)

    4 is most likely largely from registered users starting at 1 and nearly all of them getting an additional +1 good karma bonus unless they have it turned off.

    That certainly makes sense. Especially given that the statistics you provided didn't include the karma bonus.

    There were 353532 AC comments when I checked 20 minutes or so ago. I'll let you do the math from the cid of this comment and the frequency distributions from there, I'm headed for a nap.

    So about 1/3 of comments are AC. I'd have expected it would be more, but there it is.

    Thanks again for providing these details Buzzard. And sweet dreams!

    But everyone who's been here a month has mod points every day, so that would effectively make all registered users browse at -1 every day until they'd used up that day's mod points.

    A reasonable point. Perhaps folks could consider doing so a couple times a week?

    That said, I always read at -1 because I don't want to miss interesting stuff that doesn't get upmodded -- and to upmod those comments.

    It's a small price to pay, IMHO, to highlight the good stuff.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by martyb on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:58PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:58PM (#1005431) Journal

    Late to join in here, but my $0.02 is that I have *always* read comments at a threshold of -1.

    Accidents do happen. I know I've mis-modded (is that a word?) a few myself. Something something being human something.

    Not withstanding the foregoing, abuse can happen. I have a great deal of empathy for the "little guy (or gal!)". I've been on the short end of things enough times to know how it feels... and don't like it one bit. So if that means that when I am reading comments, I am looking at everything>em> right from the start, then so be it. If I see what I think is an incorrect moderation -- I'm on it with a quick reverse-mod to balance things out!

    I wonder how many of those who complain about down-mods actually view comments at -1? Hmmm?

    It bears mentioning that staff gets the same number of mod points as everyone else: 10 per day.

    That said, I have little enough time to get to read comments here; I spend too much time trying to get stories pushed out to the community! Call it a labor of love, whatever. I've been with the site from before it went live... and have no plans to leave any time soon!

    --
    Wit is intellect, dancing.