I’m doing something not totally unrelated and will post in a couple days when done. For the moment, the comment from “What Would Convince Me That 2+2=3?” should point HERE.
Perhaps the next step could be to get help figuring out the equivalents for the rest of those links so that the implementation was clear (then: LW article is listed, broken link address is listed, and what-it-should-be is known in all cases).
This is in principle possible to do in an automated way via archive.org, just haven’t sat down to do it yet, and would also like to know that someone is actually willing to implement it if done.
Indeed—if the answer is that it just won’t be done… there’s no point. Though, shouldn’t there be someone to talk to who might allow you managerial access of some sort? I would think that LW could stand to have some who can do things like this… and who actually want to.
This isn’t the only thing, either. Take the discussions on getting something simple like a karma point limit implemented to stop people from selling pandora bracelets. There were several discussions on it and solutions proposed… but sometimes it seems that the “IT” types of topics echo into /dev/null.
That’s why I gravitated to scraping, It gives me the opportunity to do interesting things without needing to get permission. This post is just a side-effect I fell onto that I think is so close to the core as to have a chance of getting the LW developers activated. And the voting here is also a good signal. I’ve done my part, what they do is up to them.
I don’t mean to sound bitter or anything. I myself have a community of which I am supposed to be the technical administrator which I have neglected for years. I suppose its members are feeling the same. It’s more fun to do a guerilla project than to have to defend an existing codebase from rot.
I think the ideal here would be to have a group of programmers that were of the community so that the pain they feel as users drives them to write code. Some may say that bugs are open to anyone to contribute but there are subtle/crucial differences to what I have in mind. Mostly we need a hero that can motivate the community and has commit access.
I’m doing something not totally unrelated and will post in a couple days when done. For the moment, the comment from “What Would Convince Me That 2+2=3?” should point HERE.
Perhaps the next step could be to get help figuring out the equivalents for the rest of those links so that the implementation was clear (then: LW article is listed, broken link address is listed, and what-it-should-be is known in all cases).
This is in principle possible to do in an automated way via archive.org, just haven’t sat down to do it yet, and would also like to know that someone is actually willing to implement it if done.
Indeed—if the answer is that it just won’t be done… there’s no point. Though, shouldn’t there be someone to talk to who might allow you managerial access of some sort? I would think that LW could stand to have some who can do things like this… and who actually want to.
This isn’t the only thing, either. Take the discussions on getting something simple like a karma point limit implemented to stop people from selling pandora bracelets. There were several discussions on it and solutions proposed… but sometimes it seems that the “IT” types of topics echo into /dev/null.
That’s why I gravitated to scraping, It gives me the opportunity to do interesting things without needing to get permission. This post is just a side-effect I fell onto that I think is so close to the core as to have a chance of getting the LW developers activated. And the voting here is also a good signal. I’ve done my part, what they do is up to them.
Well put.
I don’t mean to sound bitter or anything. I myself have a community of which I am supposed to be the technical administrator which I have neglected for years. I suppose its members are feeling the same. It’s more fun to do a guerilla project than to have to defend an existing codebase from rot.
I think the ideal here would be to have a group of programmers that were of the community so that the pain they feel as users drives them to write code. Some may say that bugs are open to anyone to contribute but there are subtle/crucial differences to what I have in mind. Mostly we need a hero that can motivate the community and has commit access.