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Re: New review site going up...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:28:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> [...]
> Well maybe I am misunderstanding what being a curator means. Is it
> somewhat like tending links to other places (ala NewHoo before it
> changed names) or somewhat like creating and marshalling content?
Links are a part of it, although right now I don't have a web interface for
updating the lists of links like the ones seen at:
http://www.lugnet.com/cad/ldraw/tools/
So it's somewhat like tending links, plus creating new text-based content,
plus marshalling memes and other text-based content that other people create
(all under a common simple framework). Same thing that would be on any
member-page, only this is for group-common category-pages. The text-based
content can of course contain hyperlinks anywhere throughout, which means
that a degenerate case is a simple link collection on a page.
> If the
> former, great, and maybe one of the first links from /reviews/ would be
> to Mike Stanley's brand spanking new install of FAQoMatic...
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> But if the latter, and if you're the only coder, because you're
> cathedraling instead of bazaaring, is it the best use of your time at
> the mo? Your call, only you would know, and even if it wasn't, no one
> else has any right to specify it, merely suggest and cajole. [...]
Yup, it's one of the very best uses of my time right now, because there is a
very large code overlap between these category content pages and the member
pages -- almost zero code throwaway -- and that makes it the perfect
stepping-stone toward member-page functionality and meme support, both of
which are critical-path items.
A bad use of my time right now would, for example, be tinkering with the
news-posting filter mechanisms to facilitate mentor-pairings. (At this
point, that would just be unnecessary continuation-engineering. Someday
later, of course, system-assisted mentorings may grow much more important.)
--Todd
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