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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2022, @07:23AM (7 children)
Nice topic change, the discussion was about article submissions. A big fu for skipping everything I said to piggy back your own rant about how hard things are. You poor baby, how do you do it?
Let's try again.
Post a staff journal at least, gather feedback. Post another journal summarizing ideas, asking for more, and further discussion. Eventually you can run a vote.
Two items you should be able to do without a perl coder. Expand the moderation guidelines and post some rules of civility if you want this site to be less of a toilet. Next disable AC comments, anyone can make multiple accounts if they truly need a throwaway to make some comment. Otherwise there is no method to enforce site rules, and even then it is hardly a big deal when they can make a new account any time. Moderation karma also means nothing when anyone can post AC to avoid a karma hit.
Meh, I'm realizing it is pointless. SN code is too brittle and staff have little to no desire to change anything as you make very clear. No surprise you have a hard time finding people to help out.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday May 19 2022, @10:03AM (6 children)
Which topics should the rejected submissions go under? Oh, that's right - none of them. If people want to discuss politics then they can put them in their journals.
Feedback about what exactly? Why would we need a staff journal? Surely something as important as you are suggesting should be on the main page?
Was it any particular submission in question, or just the ones that you haven't mentioned so far?
As for the last quote - don't you think that the community might have views on this? No worry, I'm sure that they will all accept the suggestion of an AC who might be making his first ever posts on this site as far as they can tell.
So, let me get this right, you are getting 3 - 4 hour/day of my time for free and now you also want me to run a staff journal for some unclear purpose or function, rewrite the moderation guidelines and produce some 'rules of civility', you want me to disable AC commenting based solely on your decision, and this is all to do with 'article submissions'. Give me your address and I'll pop round and do the housework for you too. Excuse me if my laughing disturbs you.
How about you get a disposable account (as it is so easy to do), and start the discussion in your journal?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2022, @06:30PM (5 children)
*yawn*
Speaking of whining, did you read the title of this story? You've got a real persecution thing going on, maybe time to stop working on SN if you can't handle feedback? Why would anyone volunteer when this is the attitude they get? Super duper boomer bullshit that no one wants to put up with anymore.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 20 2022, @05:42AM (4 children)
When can you start training as an editor please? It usually takes 3 - 5 hours of online training before you become productive but that varies on the individual. As we have already disabled your original account for moderation abuse you will have to create a new one with a permanent email address. Although all work is voluntary it does include weekends.
Several editors would appreciate a break but without a replacement it is not possible.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2022, @06:05AM
So this is how it is going to be, eh? Beatings will continue until morale improves?
Moderation abuse, huh? You mean, someone modding down psychopaths like Runaway, or idiots like khallow? I have always been amused that the admin could so flippantly talk of "moderation abuse" with no criteria, though it seems vaguely biased against left leaning political views, who might downmod racists and fascists. And you think that disabling a soylentils account is going to encourage them to join your alt-right cabal? Right.
Some wish to help by getting you to recognize the right-wing slant of the site. This is the problem with Tech, and especially IT: They think they are so smart, and so objective, that they just cannot see the racism and misogyny of their worldviews. No wonder janrinok is so deeply disturbed by aristarchus, to the point of launching an indiscriminate barrage of spam mods at any AC that might possibly be the White Whale. Sad thing is, the disabled account most likely is not even the one janrinok is addressing, and aristarchus is all up in his feed.
"Permanent e-mail address"? What is that? AOL? Hotmail? Something "real"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 20 2022, @05:24PM (2 children)
Poor baby, can't even follow the actual topic. Dementia? Just old person crotchety? Still confusing who is who? Depends?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 20 2022, @06:59PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21 2022, @04:52PM
That nerve's bame? Exasperation. Not my fault you can't stay on topic. After enough of your shifting goal posts to ignore topics mockery is all that remains. Grow a spine and stop avoiding, maybe with a better attitude you'll find it easier to recruit volunteers.