Is it my imagination or there have been more and more OS news going to page2 while non OS news make it to the front page? Is this site no longer about OS news?
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2005-07-06
Since you asked this same question in a comment about the FreeBSD Jails article, and then were kind enough to also ask it here, I will answer it in both places:
#1 - Asking "Isn't OSNews supposed to be about Operating System news? Why is there stuff about [cameras, text editors, etc, etc]" is a good way to get banned. The editors are SO tired of that question. You'd know that if you were paying attention.
#2 - The editors are also sick and tired of explaining why things are listed on page 1 vs. page 2. This time I'm not even going to tell you, you'll have to look it up yourself.
#3 - goto #1
Member since:2008-03-13
If as you state the editors keep geting this question perhaps the editors may consider revising how they are doing the category selections?
Based on your reply it seems they just have chosen to ignore those constant questions so I will just move along and find other sources for OS news.
Have a great day.
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Come on now, don't be a baby. The question has been asked many times, it's in our docs*, and we've many times since its introduction, including this week, explained the difference between Page 1 and Page 2.
* see Section 3, Number 8 here: http://www.osnews.com/docs/rules
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2007-02-17
I'm waiting to see. I don't care at all about page 1 or page 2, but I am waiting to see if stuff I have submitted makes it.
Some articles aren't really about OS news, and for those it is entirely fair enough for OSNews to ignore them. I recently submitted an article that didn't get on OSNews about a journalist who had uncovered the fact that you can not actually get a license from ECMA or from Microsoft in order to be able to run Mono on a Linux system ... but all of that is not really about any OS as such, is it? OK, fair enough.
I have also submitted an article about a "Linux United Kernel" that is being developed in China. It is entirely on topic for OSNews, and has far, far greater import and potential impact than, for example: DOSBox 0.73, StreamOS 0.21-RC1, Eeebuntu Base 3.0 or Haiku's Wifi stack.
I am waiting to see if OSNews is impartial enough to publish this one.
Then we will see if OSNews is still about OSNews.
Member since:2005-08-12
Those both sound like things I would have loved to read. It makes me angry that they were rejected.
Lately I'm finding the programming subreddit (as in reddit.com) to be much more interesting reading than all the bubbly Techcrunch aggregation crap that's forever being posted here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
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By the way, here are the most common reasons I can think of that submitted stories get "rejected."
- We already posted the story from another submitter.
- We're already working on an original story on the same topic and we don't want to steal its thunder.
- We consider the news to be "too minor," for example a point release of a Linux distribution. (there are other web sites that track those kinds of announcements)
- We think the story is too off-topic (and this can be a very subjective judgement).
- We read the linked article and either didn't understand it very well or thought it was boring or otherwise of low quality.
- We've covered that same topic a lot recently and don't feel that the submitted article adds much to what we've already reported on.
- We consider the linked article to be too inflammatory or too slanted
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I can think of another good reason stuff gets rejected: the editor working on the queue doesn't know about, doesn't understand, or maybe even doesn't care about the subject at hand.
We're not paid, so it's hard to do a good write up on programming if you're not a programmer, or a good write up on something you don't understand.
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That was what we call, in the USA, an "example." We can't get someone on board of every single subject that is ever submitted. In the fact, just about the only constant at OSNews is that no matter what we say, someone is waiting in the shadows with a smart ass remark about it. 
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