On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Andrew Trembley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Thus begins the noble experiment, "hugo_recommend" >> <http://community.livejournal.com/hugo_recommend/> >> >> This may be a dismal failure. One of the things that kept the >> BASFA/Emcit list high quality was the august participants that BASFA >> provided. There's no such quality control here, but it's definitely >> egalitarian. >> >> Register for a FREE livejournal account (if you haven't got one >> already), join, follow the rules, and recommend away. > > It would be useful if you can give those of us who decline to > participate in LiveJournal[1] a means to participate. Otherwise, > we'll > just have to go somewhere else. But thanks for setting that up, > definitely.
It's your choice to use it or not. Cheryl has offered up a few ideas on how to extend the franchise, such as using the same tag taxonomy that I defined in your own blog and searching/aggregating tags through Technorati. You could just choose to pull the RSS feed of the community through an aggregator. The downside? Technorati is an extra step, a necessary one that's worth it if you want to find out if something has already been recommended, but not necessarily worth it to do a quick view of recommendations. The other downside? Choosing to stay out of LiveJournal takes you out of adding your response to a recommendation. > Anyhow, the Internet's a _whole_ lot bigger, more inclusive, and less > inbred than LJ, and _that_ is part of what made Cheryl's setup a > success. You can cut the bullshit, Rick. I read your links. Yes, LiveJournal is flawed. I could have dug up an open-source module for Joomla and run this on my personal site. I'm lazy, though. I didn't feel like rewriting a module to make it do what I want. I didn't feel like mucking up my relatively small user- base and user management to make this work and complicating access to my restricted website sections. I didn't feel like dealing with comment-spam (I spent last week cleaning up about 300 spam comments and adjusting my gallery configuration so it wouldn't happen again, and that's nothing compared to the comment-spam that emcit got). I gave a lot of thought to doing this another way. Still, it's your choice not to use LiveJournal. You're choosing to exclude yourself, not me. -- Andy Trembley, Bull-in-Drag The Bovine Illuminati (It's the Cows, Inc.) http://www.bovil.com/ Moo! _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
