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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 janrinok on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:57AM (3 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:57AM (#1005706) Journal

    This site has commentators from all over the globe and it would probably help if you explained your version of right and left wing.

    Is North Korea left or right wing, when compared to China for example? How about Vietnam or Kazakhstan? How about where do China and Russia sit in relation to each other on your scale. Is it that anyone outside of the USA is now left wing?

    Taken from Wikipedia. [wikipedia.org]

    A variety of distinct left-wing movements existed in American history, including labor movements, the Farmer-Labor movement, various democratic socialist and socialist movements, pacifist movements, and the New Left.

    Where do these parties sit when compared with the 'left wing' Democratic party? More to the left, more to the right?

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 10 2020, @11:36AM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 10 2020, @11:36AM (#1005753) Homepage Journal

    Dude, that'd be a totally legit argument if we weren't talking about the most back-seat-driver'd nation in the world as far as politics goes.

    How China and Russia sit is a global scale issue not a domestic one. It's like if I say I'm heading out to the east for a fishing trip. If I were in the habit of international fishing jaunts you could expect it to mean somewhere in Asia. But I'm not so the farthest it should be taken to possibly mean without clarification is surf fishing in the Atlantic.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:24PM (1 child)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:24PM (#1005800) Journal

      This discussion has run its course - but we weren't talking about the USA. This is a round-table discussion for the whole community. The suggestion was that 'there was a political discussion'. Nobody mentioned US politics, just politics in general which is entirely valid. You chose to interpret that as US politics, many of us didn't, because the world is much bigger than the USA alone.

      But your point was well made - there is always some chucklehead who comes along to point that fact out ;-)