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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.
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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.
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> 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 (...) (27 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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