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Subject: 
Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:46:24 GMT
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Tim Courtney wrote:
> I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I
> believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be
> publicly visible. This prevents links to objectionable sites, and allows another
> pair of eyes to check spelling, etc.

Sorry, this doesn't sound too 'open' to me as I fell this is 'power
centralisation' (your opinions may differ, of course).

I still think that crowd may have 'better' {and definitely faster}
decisions than few chosen ones. I think that total offtopic links would
be killed soon, in few tries. And the ones in 'grey' zone - let people
choose.

> For branding purposes, I think this is a bad idea for LUGNET. Someone could then
> advertise their site as "blah.lugnet.com," and have it interpreted as an actual
> part of LUGNET. With this content outside of LUGNET's control, the name could be
> abused.

I wonder why this doesn't happen on atari.org then?

> I know IDs are ugly, but they're a simple (technical) solution. You still have
> your site's *real* URL, but you also have a redirect available that others can
> use to link to you if they want it auto-updated.

This is the same solution, but it's _much_ easier to remember/use. (Of
course www.lugnet.com/redir/sitename would do, but it's longer,
www.lugnet.com/redir.pl?id=4095849534 is imo too cumbersome).

> Note that people will keep linking to big sites by their name. They aren't going
> anywhere. Its the small sites on free systems like GeoCities, etc that would
> really benefit from the redirects.

Of course.

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  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) "If we just ignore the spammers, they'll stop sending Email" Trust me, the above statement is completly false. I think moderation is neccessary to avoid the link page from being overrun with ads for "free" medication and "foolproof" get rich (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) Why frame this negatively with the words 'power centralization?' Think ... what 'power' would link administrators have? Approve/reject links to be made public. Its in the best interest of creating a comprehensive directory to link to as many (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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(...) Too much grunt work. The technical solution is too easy not to implement. (...) I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be publicly (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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