why it is dumb to OK your own nodes

Because I'm in a hurry to finish the dinky script I'm working on, I quickly OK'd my own node. It is on topic, polite and complete right?

Thirty seconds later wog kindly /msgs me about a syntax error I'd introduced simplifying the script.

I go to edit my node, but I can't because it is a root node that is already approved... (duh)

I am forced to make an Editor Requests (sic) consuming the time an energy of everyone.

The irony is that juerd answered my question in less than 20 minutes and probably didn't care that I'd OK'd it or not.

The morale of this story ?

Sometimes the only person hurt by the abuse of a small power is the abuser

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Re: why it is dumb to OK your own nodes by jepri (Parson) on Jan 02, 2002 at 02:06 UTC
I'm pretty sure you can't edit a root node anyway, approved or not. In practise approval just means it can't be moved to a different section (except by an editor). So approving your nodes isn't that bad. A syntax error can always be corrected by replying to your own node, so that's not too bad either. ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]
Re: why it is dumb to OK your own nodes by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 02, 2002 at 01:27 UTC
The irony is that juerd answered my question in less than 20 minutes and probably didn't care that I'd OK'd it or not. I could indeed not care less. Unless I want to post a new root, I only use New nodes. But still, I don't think anyone should approve their own nodes. `2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas' Segmentation fault 2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$` [download]	[reply] [d/l]