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posted by martyb on Friday December 25 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly

[2020-12-25 22:18:22 UTC -- Corrected typo (with thanks to maxwell demon) --martyb]
[2020-12-25 21:32:03 UTC -- Updated with staff info and reformatted the story. --martyb]

First, on behalf of the staff at SoylentNews, please accept our best wishes for a happy (and safe and healthy) holiday!

Next, here are a few quick items of note that bear calling to your attention.

Please join me in welcoming requerdanos to the editorial staff at SoylentNews! He has already jumped in with both feet and had stories appear on the main page. Welcome aboard requerdanos!

Of note, as well, takyon has not only posted 1364 stories to the site, and he has submitted just shy of 6,100 stories (as I write this it stands at 6,097 submissions... there's more(!) how about posting over 20,000 comments! Thank you SO much!

I always feel reluctant to mention anyone specifically as running this site is a team effort. I sense there are some staff who prefer to work in the background and shun the limelight. We appreciate their efforts nonetheless! Recall the early days when site crashes were a request frequent occurrence. We've come a long way from then and I count it a privilege to have worked with such knowledgeable folk who have been so generous with their time and energy!

Lastly a huge thank-you to those who responded so generously to our end-of-the-year fundraiser! As of this writing, we have had 21 subscriptions totaling $567.40 since our request went out a couple weeks ago.

In this second half of the year (July 1 through December 31) we have raised $1908.15 from 85 subscriptions towards our $3,500.00 goal. THANK-YOU!

We realize it's been a tough year for everyone; take care of your friends, family, and community first. But, if you do have the means, we'd really appreciate your subscribing and helping us to keep things going for you and our community! Please see this comment to our previous story for step-by-step instructions on how to subscribe.

Why subscribe? Why not? Besides, you'll get all the benefits listed on the "SoylentNews - Why Subscribe?".

NB: If you'd prefer, you can subscribe anonymously. There's an option to make a gift subscription, as well. For any questions or difficulty, please reach out on IRC, send an email to admin@soylentnews.org, or just post a comment to this story.

Thank you!


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:34AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:34AM (#1091395)

    I'm the AC who said he wasn't subscribing again right now, and who condemned your harassment of creimer. I am calling bullshit on this. If your time is so limited, you could have avoided harassing creimer and spamming Slashdot for months. Your behavior probably contributed to Slashdot eliminating AC posting. Slashdot is worse off for your spamming. But you had ample time to do that.

    Many stories don't get posted because the editors don't have time to go through and edit bot submissions that contain the full text of articles. If you had time to spam Slashdot, you have time to edit your own stories once in awhile and submit them to the queue. If users edit their own stories, it means there's less work for the editors, and they can post more stories. I've noticed that when I edit stories myself, editors tend to post them very quickly, and they jump ahead of many other submissions. If you think a particular story should be posted, edit it yourself, and it will probably be posted almost right away. You're not doing that, so I see no grounds for you to complain.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @07:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @07:54AM (#1091417)

    Did I miss something?

    I'm the AC who said he wasn't subscribing again right now, and who condemned your harassment of creimer

    Who the fuck is "creimer"? And how was he "harrassed? Explicit details, please, with graphic screen shots and audio, if available.

  • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Saturday December 26 2020, @01:32PM

    by fliptop (1666) on Saturday December 26 2020, @01:32PM (#1091459) Journal

    I've noticed that when I edit stories myself, editors tend to post them very quickly, and they jump ahead of many other submissions.

    I'll second that motion.

    --
    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Sunday December 27 2020, @04:16AM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday December 27 2020, @04:16AM (#1091628)

    Egh, it's like I say, I have $5 for a burger, but I don't have $5 for a pack of gum. I tried submitting a few stories, they got rejected, it's not worth my time to throw shit at a wall. Your autistic brain makes up shit people say to make your case better. But that's something you should take pills for. I got a shitload of free time, but I'm certainly not spending it throwing shit at the wall.

    so my creating 2 named accounts, and not once posting as AC is what made slashdot disable AC posting? there's that autism again. take your pills buddy, it'll make the voices stop.

    I'm not complaining you daft dense idiot. I literally several times stated it's up to the people who run the site to do whatever they want. I answered a simple question posed by the OP - why not subscribe. It is you who for like a couple of years now, is fixated on some fat spammer at the green site that went to shit at beta and dice - years before that fat idiot started spamming it.

    you absolute fucking doorknob. take your pills.