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In lugnet.admin.general, Jindrich Kubec wrote:
> 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).
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 related sites as possible. With a group of people responsible for curating
links, I don't see how it could be abused.
> 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.
I don't see how a bunch of people could make 'better' decisions than a few,
though I do see your point about it being faster.
And what about how to control people who want to come in and raise havoc by
deleting links maliciously?
> > 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?
Just because it hasn't happened, doesn't mean it couldn't happen or won't
happen. Historically, we've had a handful of people who have seriously abused
LUGNET. I do not want to give them the opportunity to set up a subdomain
redirect and malign it by appearing a part of the LUGNET domain.
> > 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).
You win on that one :-)
-Tim
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