I just want good links on the homepage. Yours. Mine. The bins. Your words. My words. Whatever!
I agree with you regarding having good links for the homepage, and I understand your perspective. I think we differ in what we consider an article to be. Say we define a submission as some proposed text for an interesting link. If I submit something which gets edited in some way you mentioned, then is my username/url really relevant anymore? I understand that within slashcode someone is credited with the submission, however, it might be more reasonable to have that person be you with a link to the slashdot user who made the original submission.
In any case, I'm not really interested in who gets credit for a submission, but I am interested in good articles. The topic here seems to be that there is some combination of credit for submission and quality of article that leaves the community wanting, submission volume aside.
And the no-follow thing seems awkward to me. It seems like i'm saying a URL is not worthy.
It seems that what you need to decide is what constitutes an article and edit/moderate it as a collective whole. If the extra links cause a drop in the signal to noise ratio, perhaps it's not worth accepting it even if it's the only submission of that article.
Additionally you might act as editors with the submissions. Rather then fixing links and/or slimming down a potential article, perhaps you should put the responsibility back on the party that posted it. I suppose this could be done as something simple like a 'Rejected' status with a 'Rewrite' attribute, however, what you really want to do is teach readers to be writers also.
I can't stand bikers... and its because of the stunts like that.... I'm not the kind of jackass to start yelling... So when its a biker who isn't hugging the curb, but instead taking up an entire lane, I reserve the right to get pissed.
It sounds like you are precisely that kind of jackass...
I'm a cyclist and I don't feel the way you do about drivers. However, if you want to spend a portion of your day sitting in your coffin pissed off at the world, more power to you. Just try to leave the rest of us out of it.
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I agree with you regarding having good links for the homepage, and I understand your perspective. I think we differ in what we consider an article to be. Say we define a submission as some proposed text for an interesting link. If I submit something which gets edited in some way you mentioned, then is my username/url really relevant anymore? I understand that within slashcode someone is credited with the submission, however, it might be more reasonable to have that person be you with a link to the slashdot user who made the original submission.
In any case, I'm not really interested in who gets credit for a submission, but I am interested in good articles. The topic here seems to be that there is some combination of credit for submission and quality of article that leaves the community wanting, submission volume aside.
It seems that what you need to decide is what constitutes an article and edit/moderate it as a collective whole. If the extra links cause a drop in the signal to noise ratio, perhaps it's not worth accepting it even if it's the only submission of that article.
Additionally you might act as editors with the submissions. Rather then fixing links and/or slimming down a potential article, perhaps you should put the responsibility back on the party that posted it. I suppose this could be done as something simple like a 'Rejected' status with a 'Rewrite' attribute, however, what you really want to do is teach readers to be writers also.
It sounds like you are precisely that kind of jackass...
I'm a cyclist and I don't feel the way you do about drivers. However, if you want to spend a portion of your day sitting in your coffin pissed off at the world, more power to you. Just try to leave the rest of us out of it.