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Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:14:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> [...]
> But then LDT gets spent on weird things. Look at how much of it was spent on
> a password checker that over time due to repeated twiddling became so tuned
You talk as if you seem to know how much actual time was spent on it. Elapsed
time is a crude indicator of development time.
> [...]
> Ratings have been a big administrative waste of time so far. Time that I'd
> rather see Todd spend on coding useful features or on building or on
> sleeping, or on having fun with Suz. Or even on doing LDT for geeky, useless
> but less divisive things like that password checker.
Sorry if you feel the password checker is useless. Sorry if you feel inclined
to make gross assumptions about how time is being spent based on what you see
from the outside. We work on many different things at once. If you judge
what's being worked on by what appears as features, you'll get a very warped
view. Some things in the over are 3 years old. Some things are 2 months old.
Some things are 2 days old. The priority of every background task is
continually reassessed. The only foreground task is staying on top of issues
that arise in the groups. Writing a reply like this is a complete waste of my
time, but I don't feel that I was left much choice, since misinformation was
being spread.
> > 8. Do you feel that it is too early, too late, or the right time to address
> > these issues?
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> A bit late... quite a bit. The right time would have been before they were
> deployed, and before this brouhaha got out of hand.
Actually, many of these issues were indeed addressed beforehand. Anything
that wasn't, wasn't thought of during the original discussions... Some
things were avoided, some things weren't...it's somewhat a matter of
experience and 20-20 hindsight.
--Todd
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