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:keep |. original, don't copy SN, we can go there to read it if we wantwe 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.
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:keep |. original, don't copy SN, we can go there to read it if we wantwe 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.
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:keep |. original, don't copy SN, we can go there to read it if we wantwe 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.
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.