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If any of you have suggestions for how to do better, I'd like to hear them. Don't open up a selection process if you're not going to accept results that aren't

If any of you have suggestions for how to do better, I'd like to hear them. Don't open up a selection process if you're not going to accept results that aren't already of the sort that your insider selection process would have picked anyway. In another thread you called Pinboard your "Boaty McBoatface scenario." The thing worth understanding is that Boaty was the best possible outcome of that poll. If they had wanted to keep to status quo of boring and vaguely-majestic names they should have never opened the process up. Boaty was not a failure, Mountain Dew's poll that selected "Hitler did nothing wrong" was. Unless you're ready to paint the giant cartoon eyes on the bow of your ship, you don't actually want outsider ideas. So why are you asking for them?

dang 10y ago
> In another thread you called Pinboard your "Boaty McBoatface scenario." No, that's the opposite of what I said. If we'd thought that, we'd have disqualified it right away for that reason. What happened is that Maciej posted some comments that suggested that his application was serious (though it obviously had a lot of jokes in it), and Kevin and I agreed that we'd rather trust that interpretation than simply reject it. We knew that it would likely win, and we were fine with that. What happened after that is where it gets confusing and sad and hard to persuade the reader that there was good intent on both sides even though there was, so let's just skip that and go straight to the apology, which addresses the key point.