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"Soylents: Concentrated pools of experts, doers, thinkers.
I am a neuroscientist.
What do you do?"
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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Fry
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @04:09AM
We've got Janrinok with nonsense and test articles, Dupefish with dupes, and LaminatorX with THIS shit now? Give me a motherfucking break. I vote to eject the editing staff and replace them.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @05:01AM
We need higher quality posts than this (... with comments from "wankers" and "batmans") if we want to survive. The other possibility is to disappear into oblivion like so many sites before us. Consider the two.
Act civil!
Be smart and literate!
Don't post shit!
Don't be a dick!
https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/20 10/08/17/dont-be-a-dick-part-1-the-video/ [discovermagazine.com]
(Score: 2) by TheloniousToady on Monday March 17 2014, @08:39AM
Good suggestions. In particular, following those guidelines would be a great way to distinguish this site from Slashdot. ;-)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by elf on Monday March 17 2014, @10:07AM
I'd like to see this as an experimental post, this site came up quick with the help from the community. There were a lot of hard hours put in with lots of encouragement and participation by the community.
I think this post was trying to appeal to the human side of people in an attempt at having a post talk about the members and to have a place for people to find out about all the others out there. I don't think it has worked out as intended but I guess thats how you learn in life. Things are still new so I am sure things will get better over time but I don't think comments like you have written are going to help one bit.
(Score: 1) by Peristaltic on Monday March 17 2014, @07:33PM
Likely story- In reality, the Soylent staff is trying to mine data about us for the NSA and Google- hidden, thuper-thecret data that these dastardly organizations couldn't find anywhere else. The fact that nobody is required to post a reply is a malevolent ploy at reverse-psychology that nobody can resist. I mean, really... God only knows how you intend to use this wealth of information... Wait- you guys are working for /., aren't you! You're going to cross-reference this sensitive inforomation to, to, -do something bad- to us in revenge for our waning loyalty to our Dice overlords.
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As a side-note, could we please have a \conspiracy sub-soylent?
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Oh, and before I forget: Bioinformatician
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PS- A bit more whitespace for the HTML "p" tag, please.
(Score: 2) by xlefay on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:59AM
Wait, how did you know?
(Score: 1) by Peristaltic on Tuesday March 18 2014, @02:53PM
(Score: 4, Interesting) by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @05:26AM
Noted - we await your submission(s).
It's always my fault...
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday March 17 2014, @10:21AM
Hey, I've been meaning to ask but I don't think there's a PM function; how much destruction did you suffer from that storm?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @11:58AM
Several trees down, one of which hit the corner of the house, so a bit of damage there. Insurance will pay. Thanks for asking.
However, its nothing like the stress of being an editor for SN! We are 'editors' - we edit others' submissions. If the subjects that the community want are not the ones being submitted by someone else, I can see a very simple solution. But, apparently, not everyone else in the community can. Nearly 4000 members and only a very small proportion have submitted a story. And if someone wants me to step down, all they have to do is step up. :)
It's always my fault...
(Score: 1) by efitton on Monday March 17 2014, @12:46PM
I like it here. I think you guys (gender neutral Midwest term) are at least on par with slashdot and I figure you're at the beginning of the learning curve. Pretty exciting actually. Well not everything is perfect, perfect is the enemy of the good and this is pretty darn good.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:51AM
Yeah, guilty as charged. I'm not great at submitting stories, but I try to mod when I can. I also try to comment when I think I have something useful or witty to add. Unfortunately, that isn't very often. I simply try to contribute where my talents allow me.
Anyone who expects perfection from you guys doesn't understand how hard your job is... and doesn't understand people in general. I can accept mistakes and missteps especially when the overall stuff is decent quality. I just don't accept stupidity (aka, Beta).
Keep experimenting and keep up the good work.