The editor
Jon Ajinga. I decide what gets transcribed, what corrections land, what commentary publishes, what stays out. Reach me at hello@filthylittleatheist.com, the contact form, or the issues tracker.
Editorial board
None. No committee, no peer-review queue, no veto chain. Decisions are fast, scope is coherent, voice is consistent — and every call rests on my judgment, with whatever blind spots that implies.
The remedies are transparency about what I edit and why (/ethics/), a public commit history, the per-work revision pages at /works/<slug>/history/ (see also /errata/ for the policy), and an open invitation to dispute anything.
How I decide
- Transcribing a new work. I verify it against the printed Conway volume, ingest it through
scripts/ingest-conway.mjs, review it against the transcription policy, and commit it with a message that names the source. - Correcting an error. A reader writes in or opens an issue; I check the printed Conway source against the digital text; I fix the text; the change shows up in the work's
/works/<slug>/history/page and the public Git log. - Publishing commentary. I draft the piece, revise it against the editorial standards, sign and date it, and commit the Markdown source to the public repo.
- Adding a feature. I either discuss it in the issues tracker first or build it on my own initiative; I document it in the changelog; I revert or revise it if the next deploy turns up a regression.
- Removing or redacting content. Almost never. The archive's value depends on stability — works are added or corrected, not unpublished. The only exception would be content I'd published in copyright error (none expected, since the source is public domain), in which case removal is immediate and logged.
Disputes
If you disagree with a transcription choice, a piece of commentary, or a feature decision, the path is short:
- Open an issue at github.com/jonajinga/filthy-little-atheist/issues with the disputed text, your alternative, and your reasoning — or write to me at /contact/.
- I respond within five business days. The reply is one of: agreed (fix lands within a week), declined with reasoning (logged on the issue), or held open pending more evidence.
- If the dispute is irreducibly editorial — a matter of taste, framing, or scope — my call is final, and the alternative is preserved in the issue thread so future readers can see what was considered.
What happens if I stop
- The site keeps running. Cloudflare Pages serves the last build until the domain or host stops being paid — months at minimum.
- The source is recoverable. The repo at github.com/jonajinga/filthy-little-atheist is public, MIT-licensed, mirrored to Software Heritage.
- A successor can take over. Clone the repo, edit
src/_data/site.js, point a domain at the build. Full hand-off at /preservation/. - You're not bound to continue what I started. Within the license, you can extend, fork, or merge it into a larger archive. (Conway text public domain; commentary CC BY-SA. See /license/.)
Funding
I pay for the archive myself. No donations, no sponsorships, no grants. The bill is small enough that editorial independence is worth more than the saved dollar.
Conflicts of interest
I have no commercial, religious, or political affiliation that benefits from any framing of Paine's work. No advertising, no affiliated products, no fundraising for outside causes. Where I hold a personal view that bears on a piece of commentary, I sign it.
Privacy of disputes
GitHub issues are public. Contact-form messages are private. I read them, reply when a reply makes sense, and don't publish the contents. If you want a message reproduced in the public tracker, say so.