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A comment on the pace of macosxhints...
There's nothing wrong with having even no hints. Better that than useless filler.
A comment on the pace of macosxhints...
Tony:
Your link was just put online today (before I read your comment, I might add). It sometimes takes me a while to get to link submissions, as opposed to hint submissions, which get most of my time and attention. This site is primarily a hints site, not a link cross reference, so I focus on hints first and foremost. However, you need to realize -- if I use a link or don't use a link, I have no way of notifying the person that submitted it -- there is no contact information given with a link submission, and I cannot assume that the submitter of the site is affiliated with the site. So links are a black hole -- they either show up or they don't show up, and I can't do anything about that. No script in the world can solve that problem, unless the core Geeklog engine is modified to require a valid email address when submiting a link. If it were, then I would use it, obviously, to let people know what was going on. As for taking the time to reply to everyone that submits stuff, I do my very best. I'll use this morning as an example. I had 15 submissions to go through. Of those 15 hint submissions ...
Regarding your "Consequently, I'm not going to bother with submissions of any kind. I still read the site, but I'm not going to submit stuff when I don't even get the courtesy of a 'No thanks'.", I must say I'm disappointed. I've received well over 100 submissions this week alone, and I've probably send 75 emails explaining why a hint wasn't going to be used (and used 20 of the other hints). If you didn't get one, it's just because I didn't have the time on that given day, and I apologize for that. But it is a manual system, and I do my best... I would welcome your assistance in creating a more structured system to insure that everyone gets something, as I certainly don't have the skills to do such a thing on my own. I know just enough about PHP and MySQL to be dangerous but not necessarily useful. So if you'd like to contact me via email, I would welcome the assistance with anything you think you could do to help improve the system. Barring that, however, I will continue to do the best I can do with the time and resources I have available -- basically, about two to three hours every morning before work. regards; -rob.
A comment on the pace of macosxhints...
Well, if I were more patient I wouldn't have made my comment.
Coding...
All of your suggestions are valid ... but there are two problems.
Coding...
Well, that's exactly why I refuse to use anything I didn't write myself on my site. It hurts me in some ways: I don't have the skills or the patience to do something like Geeklog, so I remain much less polished and awkward. |
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