/s/SaidItWeekly - What would this proposed subsaidit be about?

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/s/SaidItWeekly

What would this proposed subsaidit be about?

A human-curated best news-story short summaries as an improved resource by those motivated to spread the truth. Weekly, crowd sourced, hand picked, best.

Target audience: For all those with busy lives, jobs, families, etc, who don't have the time, deep interest, perseverance, historical context, nor motivation to research. For non hard-core truth seekers. All for their convenience.

And a potential SaidIt community builder.

The top 10 stories (or top 20, or whatever) that the curators determine is practical, useful, and reasonably doable by those dedicated to helping share worthy information.

SHORT! 10 news stories a week with 1 very informative summary sentence each (or a short paragraph at most), plus all the links deemed worthy and necessary to make it easier for readers to follow up with minimal research and let them chose to pursue more.

While SaidIt currently has "top" sorting by time (ie: https://saidit.net/top/?sort=top&t=week), the curators would be able to improve upon the limits of the voting algorithms, and while the curators may utilize the popular voted posts they are certainly not obligated to use those, especially if other posts cover their topics better. The SaidIt algorithm list of posts is okay, but a lot of titles aren't particularly great or informative, limited to 300 characters. There need be no change to SaidIt or its policies. It's not about most popular posts. This is about cleanup and convenient presentation of the best information for a really classy sub.

/s/SaidItWeekly might only post once a week. The active discussion and drafts may take place in the wiki or a new /s/SaiditMagazineCuration sub dedicated to the purpose, where they can decide their curation culture and decide if they want to do daily, monthly, quarterly editions, etc, and whether they like to use the wiki for drafts, etc. Or discussions could happen in the wikis, like on Wikipedia talk pages, but on SaidIt folks aren't big wiki users (yet) and comparatively the SaidIt wiki has many limitations and potential document conflict problems.

All news items should link to SaidIt internal posts to offer opportunities to the reader to engage in the comments if they like. External links might be utilized for supporting information, but that's up to the curators.

Following the best of the week list, could be SaidIt-related news, surveys, and announcements.

Following the best of the week list and SaidIt-news, there may be a feedback section for everyone to weigh in on the curation process. For example, Weekly readers may want less or more sports content, or only important updates on ongoing topics (ie. endless Russiagate), or less MSM and propaganda, or more political and media analysis, opinions and essays, alternatives and solutions, or... The comments section has great potential to shape this beyond what's here. Maybe folks might write editorials and other content to be linked to.

For comparison, the front page of Wikipedia features several curated sections.

Other variants: SaidItDaily ; SaidItWeekly ; SaidItMonthly ; SaidItQuarterly ; SaidItBestOf (vague) ; topical ; etc

For posterity, SaidItWeekly was initially conceived by /u/JasonCarswell over some time but finally outlined in chat with /u/d3rr early 2019-03-27. JC wrote it up but is not interested in heading this project as he'd rather read the Weekly or Daily news while focusing on making SaidIt commercials, and possibly doing an animated weekly show using the Weekly list as it's foundation. "SaidIt Weekly News Show" ?

d3rr: "sounds like way too much work tho"

That's what most people say about starting a high quality website or professional animation. They're not wrong, but it's also worth trying to achieve greatness. I can't make a news show without help from somewhere. It's a potentially terrific community building idea. As much as I like it, I can't just keep Saiditing and wiki stuff forever. I'd do it myself but I need to follow my other calling and use my mad skills to animate and bring eyes to the truths on SaidIt.

To all writers and aspiring writers: Can you write 1.3 great sentences a day? Just 10 sentences a week. Plus curation, where much of the work will be.

Sometimes it's crass to talk about money. But it's an unavoidable necessity. One day near or far SaidIt intends to have a cryptocurrency system. When that happens you'll have a better chance at a slice of that pie if you have a proven history with a valued product or service.

Build it and they will come.

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[–]Zombi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have worries that this can cause people to abuse the shorthand nature of the summaries. It's very easy to jump to conclusions/take things out of context within that format. Hell, we see it on reddit all the time where news stories are boiled down into a single sentence, leaving no room for context/explanation.

I like the idea, but I just wonder how you're going to solve the issue of the headlines being actually true or just opinion pieces meant to grab attention. Moderation would be the first solution, but if this site every grows to where there are dozens of posts within 30 minutes, moderation would be extremely taxing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I concur. That's why I recommend drafts to be collectively edited and refined, not to mention the /s/SaiditMagazineCuration sub dedicated to the purpose of discussing, debating, and collectively publishing. Down the road folks may even fork to do left, right, and truther versions - or focus on any number of issues, technology, scientism, gaming, whatever.

Some readers won't want to read every post, so a sentence is how they'll determine that. A single sentence or short paragraph should cover the basics while the post can provide context. If you don't even know of it's existence then the basics is better than nothing and the context available is even better.

To keep if from becoming political, click bait for votes, or whatever, it would depend upon heroes (like you?) to maintain quality.

How folks organize themselves is up to those doing it. Democratic voting? Meritocracy? Rotating list of chief-editor? You get more say if you actually do it. Anyone can be a critic.

If there is a torrent of posts, the existing voting system may help and be the first filter for quality content.

[–]sawboss 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What /u/d3rr said.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Too much work? Maybe.

Maybe you'll be fortunate beyond belief and have greatness land on you without any effort at all.

I know what I'd bet on.

If you don't try you'll never know.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Too much work? Maybe.

Maybe you'll be fortunate beyond belief and have greatness land on you without any effort at all.

I know what I'd bet on.

If you don't try you'll never know.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Would you like to be self-employed?

It took magnora7 and d3rr almost a year and a half to just have the expenses covered by donations on SaidIt.

Every YouTuber and blogger out there started from nothing.

You don't get something for nothing. There's always the risk of failure. If you don't try you'll never know what greatness feels like.

/s/SaidItWeekly is yours to build.

It won't be easy and it will require tenacity. It's very possible and others have done similar things. Provide a reliable quality service and you can be rewarded.

There's no policy on SaidIt that prohibits asking for donations for your efforts. If others help I'm sure you can organize a fair system to all. Ideally fully transparent, but that's up to you.

If your work is good enough, perhaps with character, humour, impact, truth, and a strong vision, then maybe, just maybe, /u/JasonCarswell will consider animating it, to bring more eyes and potential income to share.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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