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Re: SoylentNews founder resigns

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:52:33 -0500, wjwlsn wrote:

> Unexpected development at SN just a month after going live.
> 
> "I can no longer sustain the level of activity needed to run Soylent
> news,
> and so I have resigned as leader.
> 
> In the end, I was literally begging people to step back and let the site
> "just run" for a few days while I caught up... alas, to no effect.
> Issues must be resolved "right here and right now" continuously
> throughout my day with no end in sight.
> 
> NCommander has taken over as project lead - he has access to everything
> from the registrar down. I understand he has a different vision for the
> project, which will soon be revealed.
> 
> I'm sorry to leave like this, but there's really nothing for it. I'm
> going back to my AI studies, which happen at a more leisurely pace.
> 
> John Barrabas
> 
> (And yes, this was an amicable transfer of power. There's no hard
> feelings on my side.)"
> 
> http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/06/0238207

There is an update post from NCommander:

"As many of you have already read, John Barrabas resigned as head of 
SoylentNews, and I've taken over in his place. Many people who are not 
involved in Staff were likely blindsided on this, and the community 
itself deserves to have an understanding of the reasons and events 
leading up to this. This post exists to set the record straight.

I would like to make it clear, especially in hindsight, that the events 
leading up to this were not pretty, and that no one involved came out 
smelling like roses. Mistakes were made all around, tempers were lost, 
and to be frank, at times, I've conducted myself in a way that was not 
professional.

In the end, the changeover was amicable, and John and I are still on 
speaking terms with each other. This isn't intended as a bashfest, but 
rather as explanation to the community (along with those staff who were 
not directly involved) of why and how this change came about."

"http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/06/0728230"

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SoylentNews founder resigns wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 21:52 -0500
  Re: SoylentNews founder resigns RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-06 08:52 +0000
    Re: SoylentNews founder resigns Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-06 10:30 +0000
      Re: SoylentNews founder resigns Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-06 14:18 +0100
        Re: SoylentNews founder resigns RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-06 18:41 +0000
          Re: SoylentNews founder resigns Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-06 22:53 +0000
  Re: SoylentNews founder resigns Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 13:20 +0000
    Re: SoylentNews founder resigns RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 16:01 +0000

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