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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by tftp on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:28PM

    by tftp (806) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:28PM (#3729) Homepage

    I cannot say that Ukraine's troubles are news for nerds; however it is certainly stuff that matters. Nerds may be primarily focused on technology, but it would be a poor advice for them to keep fiddling with bits and bytes while the world around them descends into chaos and civil war (as it's happening right now in Ukraine.) These are important things.

    There is no need to overdo it (or anything else, to that matter) - but it is OK, IMO, to have a thread where those who have an interest may discuss the events. If you are not interested... don't click there. The good part of SN is that it is not as remote from the people as /. was. /. always was a 3rd party, a company that someone else built, and where someone else set the rules. If SN implements voting on stories, this whole issue will be history - bad, uninteresting submissions will be simply voted out.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by oodaloop on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:49PM

    by oodaloop (1982) <jkaminoffNO@SPAMzoho.com> on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:49PM (#3755)

    And can't we just tag stories Political, Technology, Apple, YRO, etc and be able to block article with certain tags? So if it's tagged Political and Technology allow it, but block if it just has the tag Political? With something like this, we could please multiple crowds at once.

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  • (Score: 1) by isostatic on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:14PM

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:14PM (#3784)

    >If SN implements voting on stories, this whole issue will be history - bad, uninteresting submissions will be simply voted out.

    Isn't that digg?

    The original place was What Interested Taco, which seemed to coralate with what interested me. The kind of people that have time to sift the crap looking for good stories tend to be the kind of people that vote up kitty pictures.

    SN needs editors. Perhaps a system where we can vote away editors after 6 months would be ok, but on a story by story basis I want someone else to sift the thousands of submissions loping for stuff that interests me, not what interests group think.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:24PM

      by janrinok (52) on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:24PM (#3865) Journal

      SN is not catering to an 'audience' but to a membership who want to contribute to a discussion with other like-minded individuals on a range of technical, scientific or related subjects; I think that point was made clear on /. a few weeks ago. It will only survive with the support and contributions of everyone who wants to see it do well.

      Anyone can volunteer to be an editor, although I know that effort is being put in to train those who have already volunteered so even if you do stand up don't expect to be given a job the next day. It might happen, but it might not. But if you want to able to 'fire' them at will then you also have to be prepared to step up to the plate and show others how it should be done. By all means provide critical feedback - they have asked for it and genuinely want to receive it. To be able to 'fire' them because they didn't provide the stories that you wanted to read - I think that is unreasonable.

      Nobody gets paid on SN, and some people are working very long hours for the 'fun' of it. There is no-one with the 'time to sift the crap looking for good stories' but they can process good submissions from us, the readers. I believe that a small contribution from each of us will go a long way to making this a success.

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