At 20:40 05/01/99 -0600, you wrote:
>charles wrote:
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>> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>>
>> > At 01:37 PM 1/5/99 +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>> > > Hello everybody,
>> > >
>> > > Here is an idea I got while talking in #conlang: to create a
Top 10 of
>> > >Conlang related web pages.
>> > > The most interesting thing in that Top 10 is that the people
who would
>> > >have to vote are... you!
>> >
>> > Frankly, I can't think of an idea more likely to sow hurt feelings
>> > and dissention. What's the point of such a list? Who is ever going to
>> > see the voting results except us on this list, and why do we need to
>> > rank our colleagues in this way?
>> >
>> > Sorry, I vote No.
>>
>> But it's only a vote on "top" URL, i.e. a web page.
>> Obviously my conlang is the best, but this vote makes
>> me spiff up the web page a bit. OK, I'd have to start over.
>> But it's all in fun. I'll vote for Borg the first time ...
>
>I agree. This vote would say nothing definitive about individual
>conlangs, only about the manner in which it's presented, which can
>change without destroying the creativity of the project or feelings being
hurt.
>
>Perhaps what might be better is if we have many different categories on
>which to vote, and not just limit it to one particular website of our
choosing.
>As long as the categories are specific so that each person voting would
>know exactly what he or she's supposed to be evaluating. When all the
>scores come in, we could average them to find overall enjoyment.
>
Okay, I think I'm going to try such a thing, but it will be long to create
good categories, so as the first vote has alreay begun, just carry on with
my original idea and I will prepare the categories for the second vote
(between March and May).
>
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