Alexandros comments on 96 Bad Links in the Sequences - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Alexandros 07 April 2011 10:39AM

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Comment author: Alexandros 07 April 2011 05:04:02PM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: jwhendy 07 April 2011 05:39:19PM 0 points [-]

I've done my part, what they do is up to them.

Well put.

Comment author: Alexandros 08 April 2011 06:09:54AM *  0 points [-]

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.