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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:17PM (3 children)
Because it imposes a cost on the "victim". I say pass it on to the accuser/aggressor. Make 'em show just cause
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 09 2020, @11:48PM (2 children)
What cost? Beyond a negligible karma hit that's easily made up I mean.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:09PM (1 child)
You're very intelligent, and really good verbally, but I think you're caught up in the nitty-gritty argument points.
Let's go big-picture:
1) Why do people spend time and mental effort to write here (or any blog/forum) at all ever- what's their motivation, and what's the payoff?
2) Why is there a mod system at all?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 12 2020, @03:40PM
I'm not caught up in minutiae, it's a very important question to know the answer to if you're going to take that position. I'm interested in the answer.
1) Lots of reasons ranging from the desire to piss others off, to the desire to inform them, to the desire to convert them to your position, to the desire to crowdsource the debugging of their own position.
2) Inertia partly. It was what we did on the old site and what we expected. Other than that, a lot of folks dislike comments they consider of low quality (and almost nobody is completely immune to considering disagreement a qualification for that). I'd get by just fine without anything but a Spam button but I'm aware that I'm in the minority in my ability to read something I don't like and not have it ruin my mood.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.