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Subject: 
Re: i admit i was wrong
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 20:32:05 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:37b46f3c.152373218@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.admin.general, "Adam Howard" <abhoward10@hotmail.com> writes:
There's no way to vote out a whole person if that person has repeatedly
demonstrated an inability to create parts that pass??  Why would you not
want to silence a noise at its source?  I don't understand.

Todd, I think you're making this too personal.  Vote against a part not a
person.

I thought parts were created by people.  If you vote against a person, you
effectively vote against a whole collection of parts all at once, which
seems to me a much more efficient way to filter out rubbish.

But I should stop questioning the precepts and procedures of LDraw parts
creation, since I'm not a parts author.  I'm mainly just dumbfounded by the
permissiveness and elasticity of the process and by the relatively high
levels of tolerance for ineptitude.


Any part author can tell you the reason for this.  Part authoring is such a slow
and sometimes painful process that the thought of excluding someone who is
willing to take the challenge is almost unbearable.  You keep hoping that with
just a little more encouragement, teaching, correcting, etc. the would-be-author
will start to get it and will start to make significant contributions.

-John Van



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(...) I thought parts were created by people. If you vote against a person, you effectively vote against a whole collection of parts all at once, which seems to me a much more efficient way to filter out rubbish. But I should stop questioning the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)

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