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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!

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  • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday December 27 2020, @11:15PM (4 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday December 27 2020, @11:15PM (#1091838)

    why not you? this way you can stop posting across a bunch of threads pretending to be different people, thinking i'm actually reading most of your replies. i love that meth house scene in breaking bad. are you enjoying digging that hole? what's funny is that fixation on shit that you got going on - that's a mental disorder and likely autism. it's something you literally have to live with till you die, or pop pills with nasty side effects daily. and there's zero you can do to change that and have a normal, enjoyable, rewarding life.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:59PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 29 2020, @12:59PM (#1092438) Homepage Journal

    Same question to you re: editing. You don't have time to push even a story or three during your morning coffee? Or even hop on IRC and spend literally two seconds pasting a url to make a bot submission?

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:46PM (2 children)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday December 29 2020, @01:46PM (#1092450)

      Alright, look man, trust me, you don't want me here editing shit. I'm here to let out the toxic shit annoyances of the day build up, talk about tech and make fun of idiots. I would rather literally pay for you to hire a dev to build a presorting type spam filter so the editors you do want on your team have less work to do and can get some decent shit on the page like you used to have. do you really want a story starting with "fakefuck39 posts a story submitted by runaway?" that doesn't even look good on text.

      and there are like 2-3 people here who just single me out because i made fun of them too much, and comment offtopic shit and downvoat every comment i make. this means if I submit a story, they're going to keep doing that in their ritalin-fueled focus session, and make the discussion about some slashdot spammer from 5 years ago, instead of the topic.

      so really think about this. yes, I got a shitload of time - i've been laid off and just bumbling around europe w/ my wife. i got nothing to do but look at the black sea right now and buy beef at the farmer's market. but there's baggage here that comes with this account. it would be more productive, for you, to just get cash for development help. i know, materialistic shit. but it's about results you want, and shit costs money sometimes. not the really important shit, but this is "entertainment" shit, not important shit.

      think a few days, then let me know. if you still want this, i'll give it a roll. but if it ruins the discussion, i'm out of the human spam filter business and no hard feelings.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:48PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 31 2020, @03:48PM (#1093258)

        I'd hire you, as long as your spam filter removes all of your comments too. Starting with yours. And remembering you. Forever. And sells the filter data to all other blogs / boards. No, gives it away, free.

        • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:06PM

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:06PM (#1093268)

          I see, so you, a guy whose account karma is downvoted so low by the readers here, that you have to resort to AC just to write more than 4 comments per day, will hire me for this site whose readers prevent you from writing comments, to improve the comment quality of this site?

          cool. buy the buzztard a $1000 subscription. this site, which upvotes me and downvotes you into oblivion, is always happy to gave your cash. If you do that, I guarantee I will not make fun of a single person here for a year, get my entertainment on techdirt instead.

          deal?