On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote: > Personally, I'm not really quite so clear on why this system is so > fundamentally different than Cheryl's. Either way, the results end up > on someone else's server. Does it really matter whose?
Cheryl's system was quite simple, and elegant. People emailed Cheryl their recommendations, or Kevin S. noted them at BASFA nomination discussions for her. She then cleaned them up, tallied the list and published it. I'm just using a bit of technology to automate the collection and tallying process. The tag function inside LJ makes it easy to filter down to a category (an analog to Cheryl's table-building). The comment function makes it easy for people to add their support to an existing recommendation (an analog to Cheryl's column with the list of initials). The big difference is that the technology takes out the middle-man. You're not depending on me, or on Cheryl, or anybody to tally or format the results. You're not waiting for "nomination season" to kick in. I (or some other maintainer) create the tags at the beginning of the calendar year and update documentation on occasion, but that's it. It's a registration-required community because I don't feel like dealing with the hassles of an anonymous-capable system. I don't feel like dealing with comment-spam. I don't feel like dealing with "Anonymous Kenny" (ask Kevin S.). This cuts the annoyance down to sock-puppetry. -- andy trembley, Bitchy Design Queen http://www.bovil.com/ "It's not pink; it's peach-colored. Pink is tacky." --Manfred Pfirsich Marie Rommel _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list basfa@basfa.org http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
