in reply to Why did people vote for this?

I read your rant, tilly, and then anxiously checked if I voted original bladx node up. Thank god I did not.

I recall I read original bladx node, and I got feeling that bladx is not in position to give advice - I recall only his rather stupid proposal to put whole monastery on CD, and "Node Wars" - another stupid idea. So my gut feeling was right that this one is another stupid one - although it was not as obvious as previous ones. I abstained from voting - then.

I checked bladx nodes now - he is really into stupid proposals, like adding "chants". And it looks like bladx is not going to be easy pot-trained. S/he is a repeat offender. We can hope for a pause after this one.... :-)

I did noticed XP whoring, I still missed what you noticed about "people running the site just want to be lazy". So I voted ++ for kudra's proposition to add list of features "under construction" into Q and A section, via simple editing "powered by editors" - no coding needed; and for tilly's and tye's proposition to make development a little bit more "open" and help vroom to add new needed features.

I am strong believer to make all things via most simple means and existing tools, and most of features from original post will be possible to add by manual moving nodes around.

It will be also help for new users to have all discussions about new requested features in one place, so they do not feel urgent need to re-submit them again. I know I was in need of it when I started... ;-)

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Re: Re: Why did people vote for this?
by agent00013 (Pilgrim) on Aug 18, 2001 at 08:45 UTC
    bladx's posts may have been foolish, but ripping on him in public is not appropriate, either. Many people have already posted about him needing to think through his nodes before posting and to ascertain his thoughts before deeming them post-worthy. Yes, they may be silly ideas. Some people seemed to like a few of those posts though. I recall his "Node Wars" post making The Monastery Gates.

    -new users to have all discussions about new requested features in one place
    This in itself sounds like a requested feature. The new users won't learn that their posts are in need of improvement if the general Monk public doesn't see them and give them a helpful critique.

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      Some people seemed to like a few of those posts though. I recall his "Node Wars" post making The Monastery Gates.

      He is a friar and able to move his own nodes to the frontpage!

Re (tilly) 2: Why did people vote for this?
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 18, 2001 at 14:48 UTC
    Now let's not all pile onto bladx.

    He went way out of line. I got upset and flamed him. I don't think we need the world + dog jumping up and saying, "Me too!"

    As for the insult you missed. It is hidden in this sentence about why the people who run the site might not want to implement his proposal:

    Perhaps this type of information should not be shown to the general public, lest their secrets of ?hard work? sound more like the qualities of a Perl programmer.
    The virtues of a Perl programmer, as documented at the very end of perl, are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. In other words the accusation is that the people running this site are afraid that if we knew what they really did we would realize that they don't do much (Laziness), are unwilling to take the time to address our concerns (Impatience), and are rather arrogant about it all (Hubris).
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