let me chime in here! Holden comes across as a somewhat sanctimonious guy.
His "site content is maintained entirely by volunteers" line may sound as if all was hunkey-dorey, yet it is the types like him, who actually make sure that the NEW volunteers are being kept out! Rejection rate skyrocketed this month ! The agressive stance against new users is of course part of the plan. Not many editors fall for such a cheap trick though. Steve Holden: > AS a no-more-then-tangential reply I will point out in the defence of > anyone who might be held responsible for not "plan[ning] to mitigate this > dire situation," that the site content is maintained entirely by > volunteers. It's possible that our current approach won't scale, but it's > equally likely that there is much more relevant and recent content is > available from other sources. > > I can't remember anyone who asked for edit permissions being refused. > Certainly, responding critically to an email is sufficient proof of > sentience to merit permission to edit. Thank you for taking enough interest > to want to help. If you feel like organising a crew of willing volunteers > to help curate and maintain the content I'll be happy to introduce you to > PSF people who might be willing to support such a venture (though I can > make no commitment on the Foundation's behalf). >> Our anti-robot protection is no secret. Before anyone can edit, he or >>> she has to get explicit permission from an admin. :) >>> >> >> to most bona fide users this is actually very much a :-( _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
