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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 hendrikboom on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:48PM (5 children)
Can we get comments of different moderation levels displayed in different colours?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 10 2020, @12:12AM (4 children)
Pretty easily but I think it'd annoy more folks than it made happy unless it was optional.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:12PM (3 children)
Just like the old-style green letters on a black background is optional. I use it all the time and really like it. But it has the effect of confusing me momentarily whenever I hear someone talking about the "green site".
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:45AM (2 children)
Well, making it optional would mean writing a second CSS file for each and every theme and then deciding if that gets put in a user's page based on their setting. Relatively simple but not as simple as using Stylish or the like to do so for you. Comments have a score1, score2, etc... class applied to one of their highest level divs, so it should be dead easy and to pick whichever colors you like and apply them to whatever sub-elements you like based on comment score. Really, if I were to work something like that up, I'd probably have to save two user color settings (background and font) for every scoring to account for colorblind folks and folks who just dislike my color choices.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday June 15 2020, @05:32PM (1 child)
So it looks as if the way to do this is for me to use Stylish. I'll look into it.
Thanks.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:38PM
If it gives you much of a headache at all let me know and pick your colors and I'll write one up for you. Won't take ten minutes.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.