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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: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:15PM (3 children)
Frustration point: I wish I knew who you are because you, and I have NO idea how many other ACs there are, and I are in agreement. I don't know if there's 1 good AC, or many.
TMB and others who started this site are brilliant, and will always have a clever if not brilliant, but sometimes misguided reply to almost any criticism. I'm not sure what's behind the resistance to change- other than what martyb wrote here (somewhere) that of course changes would involve coding time and there are other priorities.
I've asked TMB a couple of big-picture questions and I'll be very interested in his response, if he responds at all. Like, why do people bother writing anything here at all- what's the motivation? And, why is there a mod system at all?
I think people, in general, get very caught up in point-to-point argument and miss the big-picture.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 12 2020, @03:53PM (2 children)
My resistance to change is because that's just how I think. If I'm going to make a change, I need to be convinced it's going to be an improvement. I don't have any silly ideas like the way we do things now is somehow sacred but the one advocating for change is necessarily assuming the duty of convincing me if they want me arguing their position as well. I'm intentionally a tough sell on non-trivial things because it's a really good way to keep from making things worse and having to fix them afterwards.
And laziness-based inertia of course.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday June 12 2020, @04:09PM (1 child)
Solid wisdom! I'm honored that you've heard me, esp. with all of my scattered rants. I should just make a journal entry and let the rats fight over the cheese.
One of my butt-hurts in life is that people don't listen to me. Just this morning I'm dealing with an IT "emergency" because someone didn't listen to me when I told them what IP address to assign to a printer. They're so much smarter than me, and I'm the only admin for them. They keep choosing IPs in the DHCP range. Gee, can't figure out why the whole network is slow, printer doesn't work, etc. "But teh Internets said this IP is okay!" It's the story of my life.
Thanks again, and we all truly appreciate all of your hard work! Well, most of us...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @09:13AM
You know, I don't know if it is better or worse that they picked on in the private range. Last time I heard of that here some guy in marketing complained their unauthorized printer couldn't get an IP address and 1.2.3.4/5 "worked intermittently" when manually assigned.