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Well, it's been a bit of time since the last time I posted, and well, I had to think a fair bit on the comments I received. It's become very clear that while I'm still willing to at least help in technical matters, the effort to reforge SN is much higher than I expected. In addition, given the, shall we say, lukewarm response I got to my posts and journal entries, well, I'm clearly not the right person for the job.
I think at this point, it's time to figure out who is going to lead SN going forward. After my de facto stepping down in 2020, the site has, for want of a better word, been a bit listless. At the moment, no one on staff really has the cycles to take that position on. A few people have expressed interest in the position, and I've talked with Matt, who is co-owner of the site about this. By and large, whoever fills the seat will have to figure out what, if anything, needs to change in regards to moderation policy, content, and more.
If you're interested in potentially fulfilling the role, drop me an email at michael -at- casadevall.pro, with the subject of "SN Project Leader", and include the following:
- Who you are
- What you want to do with the site
- How you intend to do it
- Why do you want to get involved
I'll leave this call for candidates open until December 14th, at which point Matt and I will go through, and figure out our short list, I'll talk to editors, and solicit more comments from the community. I'm hoping to announce a successor in early January, and formalize the transition sometime in February, which will be the site's 9th anniversary.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday December 07 2022, @05:52PM (3 children)
>It's that only the Select have the right to say if your post stays or is deleted.
Is that any different than how SN runs now? I don't fully understand "the algorithm" but, with just a few net downvotes I believe the posts go invisible, like low rating comments in SN do too.
I suppose there's a lack of karma influence in the reddit rating process, too... for whatever that's worth.
>I expect most of us are =here= because we prefer =here=, for whatever reasons may be. We've all got our rocking chairs on the porch, and we ain't movin'. :)
I get a strong sense of that, it's just an expensive porch in terms of manpower to keep it from collapsing, and we seem to be more rockers than carpenters.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday December 07 2022, @06:16PM (2 children)
I don't know of posts going invisible here; even egregious spam is still there at -1, if you care to look.
And the carpenters are already busy, while the rockers lack carpentry skills anyway... I have nothing to contribute but my appreciation for the carpenters.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday December 07 2022, @07:04PM (1 child)
Well, that "if you care to look" mode is what I'm calling invisible - as opposed to deleted.
I browse SN at +3 and up, but then I frequently open trees if anything looks interesting.
In reddit, it's more rare that I'll open an invisible (downvoted) thread, but that's because most of reddit is barely worth skimming through in the first place.
I'm a (figurative) carpenter in my day job, a literal carpenter (kitchen remodel) in the evenings, and family time snags big and little chunks of time as well. I get a fair amount of time to rock on the porch, but that's mostly stolen moments that just aren't enough contiguous time to get "real work" done.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday December 07 2022, @07:48PM
Ah. I browse here at 0 (tho at 2 on the Green Site; our S/N is that much better) and have become fairly skilled at judging when to peruse the -1, from whatever it replied to. If I'm skimming in a hurry, I may only look at parent posts. Most days I skim down through threads and posts until either I lose interest or they achieve some predictable stasis. I do find a lot of score 0, and the occasional -1, that I deem worth an upmod (I almost never downmod). So some of what you read at 3 may be a little bit my doing. :)
The ability to build useful or beautiful things is always admirable, and earns you a bit of rocking time. :)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.