I was about to consider is this a username, little confused because of the missing question mark in the node title, which I find mostly annoying. However it has already been considered. Now it has to be said that I followed the first link included here, and I noticed the following:

The janitors's job is to correct the bletcherous mistakes that monks occasionally make in posting; the goal is to keep the quality of the site high. However, janitors are not like newspaper editors: they do not fix problems with spelling, punctuation, grammar, style, tone, or fact. Node authors own their nodes, and they should be encouraged to learn how to post well and to bear responsibility for the quality of the site. Therefore: Help authors to help themselves; don't consider the small stuff.

So, now that I know, I will refrain from the temptation of considering in this particular case and in similar ones. (Although sometimes janitors do fix problems with spelling or typos, eh planetscape?) ;-P

However, in more serious situations, in which a node may have been already considered, but there's something that the person who considered it in the first place didn't notice, what should one do? Just /msg the janitors?!?

In any case it would be nice if in the Nodes To Consider page there were some room for discussion. I am aware that it is mostly a listing in the same sense as e.g. The Monastery Gates are, but in the same vein and philosophy1 as everything in the everything2 is a node, perhaps the actual consideration text, however brief it is, should be one, reachable somewhere and repliable to. I imagine this would require major modifications to the current code, anyway, and I don't know if would be worth the effort.

1 Update: thanks, GrandFather.

In reply to Multiple considering? by blazar

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