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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: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:54PM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:54PM (#1005426)

    At the risk of becoming annoying with my repeating this, 1 downmod removes my post from many people's view. Why bother to spend (waste?) time writing here if people can't see my post? And taken to the logical extent, what would this site be if nobody writes?

    Much of my life I've been fairly libertarian. I'd be beyond happy to live in a society of good people who treated each other well and didn't commit offenses against each other. We'd be free of laws, police, courts, prisons, etc. Reality, however, can bite the butt. IE, there are people who just simply need to be locked up for the good of the rest.

    In an anarchy I could arm myself and ventilate attackers (unless they get me first of course). Here, it's all sneak attacks. I have no idea who to retaliate against.

    And quite frankly, it's not how I want to live, including interaction here.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 09 2020, @11:55PM (2 children)

    Dude, in your last hundred comments, you had a whopping one comment sitting below a score of 1 and I just spent a mod point to bump that one up because I thought it should be sitting higher. You're not mad because you're being silenced, it's just kneejerk annoyance.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by RS3 on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:52PM (1 child)

      by RS3 (6367) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:52PM (#1005818)

      I'm more altruistic than you realize. I think a lot of interesting / intelligent people are warded off by the current mod system, and I'd bet it's why there are so many AC comments on SN in general. Think about the long-term effect: sensitivity and intelligence often go hand-in-hand. So as you lose what I consider to be the better people, you're left with: mostly thugs. Thugs can be intelligent, for sure- I've known many, but not people I spend much time with. It's y'all's system- I just wanted to be sure that y'all see it from our non-admin trenches perspective.