On Feb 2, 11:26 pm, "Christopher P. Boothe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Bruce Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 2, 11:10 pm, Luis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Doesn't that just refresh the maintenance page?
>
> > A piece of the site design which I find really quite irritating.
>
> Dude, you totally need to write your own Boardgame Community Web site,
> because it's obvious you don't like this one...
"Oh my god, duuuuuude! You like totally need to write your own board
game community/free unix kernel/internet/universe because you like so
tooootally don't like this one, and like, what would you possibly know
about what's wrong with it if you haven't written your own from, like
you know, scratch".
Yeah, we've all been seeing kiddies come out with this for decades.
Have you ever considered what would happen if this were followed to
its logical conclusion and everyone who didn't like *anything* about
*any piece of software* instead went off and tried to write their own?
Leaving aside what they'd write it in, because they'd obviously need
to rewrite the tools as well.
It turns out that insightful criticism (or sometimes just ordinary
criticism) of software by someone who isn't standing too close to it
to spot the gaping flaws is actually really useful. It's particularly
important as you so clearly subscribe to the 'everyone builds their
own wheel from rocks' world-view, so everyone will be standing way too
close.
Take some of my comments about BGG to do with language-neutral
searches or a sane incoming email filter for MIME. I /have/ written
those, I know very well how they're supposed to work and what was
wrong with the BGG ones. Did it strike you that any lessons at all
could be learned about BGG that did not come from a board game
community?
B>
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