Comment 2SHB Re: already on soylent

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already on soylent (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-15 12:26 (#2SE5)

already on soylent

Re: already on soylent (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-17 08:27 (#2SG7)

EVERYTHING I've submitted has already been on Soylent... I submitted them there, first. That didn't stop several of them making the front-page of |. just fine, and getting positive comments. And I certainly wouldn't like |. just to be an "overflow" site, of topics Soylent didn't find interesting enough to cover.

Re: already on soylent (Score: 1)

by seriously@pipedot.org on 2014-09-17 10:56 (#2SGE)

well, I think that discussion was covered widely when we imported all SN article here (for a few hours) as a test. Overall, the conclusion of the experiment was something along the lines:
  1. keep |. original, don't copy SN, we can go there to read it if we want
  2. we want articles more tech-oriented than SN & /.
Now I think some articles from SN indeed do have a place here, and I guess that's why yours got accepted. In other words, my opinion on this is: please, by all means, keep sending to the pipe, but be also aware that not all of them fit in and that copy-pastes with a 2-day delay are not that interesting anymore ;-)

ps: I really enjoyed the article on microbial life in the arctic :-)

Re: already on soylent (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-17 19:34 (#2SHB)

I don't have any problem with story rejection... not at all. I just think that "somebody else got there first" shouldn't be a singularly disqualifying offense, unless you really want |. to be a second-class citizen to all other sites, and basically force your readers to go elsewhere. I certainly don't want to see |. copy the junk SN posts, either, but |. shouldn't lose out on any interesting stories just because it isn't always first, here.

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