Re: [spoon-discuss] A Rant.

["David E. Smith" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Glotmorf wrote:

> I think you misunderstood...My fault for forgetting "form" was defined
> in the context of the game.  What I meant was, we put together an HTML
> form on the B Nomic site that people can enter proposals into or edit
> within.  Players don't have to know HTML; they just need to know how to
> fill in a webform.

No, I understood perfectly. But at least a little HTML is necessary.

Line breaks don't just appear by themselves, y'know. You have to put in a
couple of <BR> kinda things, or else everything you write will just run
together into one massive illegible run-on paragraph.

No, you don't have to have a copy of Dreamweaver embedded in your skull,
but you do need at least a little bit of knowledge.

(There are various ways to semi-automate things in the Web form -- I've
tried 'em -- but most of the things I've seen or invented have the nasty
side effect of making the subsequent HTML either nonsensical, or
impossible to edit later on. For something where stuff doesn't change,
like the discussion forums I whipped up for www.bureau42.com, the fact
that something can't be readily edited isn't a problem. Here, though, it
IS.)

> Well, I for one wouldn't mind the occasional delay...it'll give me more
> time to argue with people.

:-)

> And, considering you don't know your schedule for the next year or two,
> and considering that even if you did you can't predict your next burnout
> period or awesomely hot date prospect, it would be far easier to make
> allowances for you to take breaks pretty much whenever you feel like it
> than to try to regulate patterns that might give you more time but that
> you couldn't make things fit into.

Again, that's not the POINT. I haven't been terribly shy about taking
breaks when necessary, but it still isn't fair to everyone else.

> Which isn't to say I'm against any attempt to distribute things among
> ministers somehow.  As long as there's failsafes in place should they
> for whatever reason disappear.

I thought that's why I was around. ;)

...dave

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