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I never said I could do it better. I don't have Jimmy's pretty face to put on a web site and attract 10 MILLION dollars. I barely make enough to pay rent and
by zedshaw 16y ago
I never said I could do it better. I don't have Jimmy's pretty face to put on a web site and attract 10 MILLION dollars. I barely make enough to pay rent and work on the few projects I do work on for free.
One thing I can do though is criticize abuses in my profession and hope someone like you, someone who does have influence in the organization, actually gets off their ass and does something about it. Apparently that's not going to happen because you're waiting for me, a powerless outsider, to do your job. Awesome, well thanks for letting me know that's where donations go.
Instead, you're going to hide behind the age old defense of "Well if you don't like it do it yourself!" I'm sort of getting tired of doing that, and don't insult me like I don't attempt fixing things I think are broken. If I had more money I'd totally do more fixing, but best I can do is write a few books and some small bits of software.
Alas, I'm not wealthy and have no control. I could spend the next ten years fixing Wikipedia's broken PHP code and there would still be this stupid notability requirement. You know why?
Because, instead of fixing the technical problem of categorization and search, they created a social solution of notability and bizarre rules. Once they did that there's no putting the Djin back in the oil lamp.
- neilk 16y agoPlease see my response to knowtheory in the sibling post to yours.