Editor Log: March 2001

created by Rancid_Pickle
(place) by Rancid_Pickle (1 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Mar 01 2001 at 8:45:02

Last Month

March 01, 2001

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March 02, 2001

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March 03, 2001

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March 04, 2001

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March 05, 2001

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March 06, 2001

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March 07, 2001

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  • Took a day off, so sue me :)

March 08, 2001

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March 09, 2001

Killed: Nothing, since the E2 server seems to take 3 minutes between page refreshes. That, coupled with the votes not resetting again, indicates to me that it's a vacation day.

March 10, 2001

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March 11-13, 2001

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March 14, 2001

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March 15, 2001

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March 16, 2001

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March 17, 2001

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March 18, 2001

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March 19-22, 2001

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March 19-21, 2001

Dannye thought you should have the opportunity to go over your old nodes (especially clicking on lowest reputation first). Why risk losing 5XP over something that you wrote ages ago in a drunken stupor?

March 24, 2001

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March 25, 2001

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March 26-27, 2001

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March 28, 2001

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March 29-30, 2001

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March 31, 2001

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(thing) by baffo (5 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Fri Mar 02 2001 at 20:00:19

These are all my editing sessions for the month of March. /msg me with complaints, suggestions and Persian Blue kittens.

I was happily slacking in Hermosillo, and while mibarra was convincing Sonorans of the excellence of PERL, the dangers of excessively permissive NFS shares and in the inherent goodness of EMACS, I axed:

chouky by Cermain, the reason being Don't make shit up, particularly if it is not funny shit.

Mon Mar 5 18:42:01 CST 2001


Today the net sucked really really bad. I have the feeling that Telmex once again poured huitlacoche into one of their routers.

Mon Mar 5 23:22:22 CST 2001

  • baroque by benj because: import from E1, just a see also.
  • baroque by Tabs because: information free (NB: "Harpsichord kicks ass", wow, how insightful)
  • cheesy pick-up lines by boodhakhan because: Like we needed a definition of a cheesy pick up line. (NB: Most of the node sucks)
  • eksil by freddy4love because: "Another misspelt word." was the whole WU content. (NB: this gives a new depth to the NFN concept)

Little hamster-shaped cookies of appreciation to Xamot for noding baroque in response to my pleading.

Tue Mar 6 22:07:55 CST 2001


This should not be just a log of destruction. I would like to mention the excellent Urban Geography of Vancouver, BC by pseudo_intellectual. He said this, which I liked enough to save it here:

I figure so many of us are ignoring the topic about which we know the most and about which the rest of us here know nothing... every aspect of every inhabited area has interesting stories associated with it. It's only through the undertaking of a project such as this that I'm provided the framework to systematically share all these stories in all their glorious cross-referentiality 8)
Plus I figure it's a handy reference for people who want to visit or might even be considering moving here 8)
now of course I've thrown the gauntlet; if you truly appreciate what I'm doing you owe it to us and to yourself to contribute similar information based on your location. 8)

Coolness distilled: I was a prisoner in a Mexican whorehouse. Embarassing honesty, well written, a good story.

Wed Mar 14 00:45:10 CST 2001


fixed some typos in Nikon FG.
fixed jwz: X Selections, X Cut Buffers, and Emacs Kill Rings, grievously broken because of huge PRE block, generated by sucky cut-and-paste technique.

Thu Mar 15 00:19:44 CST 2001


Today, for reasons unknown, for some minutes I was not able to delete nodes. This made me feel unworthy. But now all is fine.
User nonexistent is eminently axworthy.
Glory ! mdwyer wrote a good WU on Phillips screwdriver !

Thu Mar 15 22:56:00 CST 2001

  • spinal cord by BorisVian because: deleted without penalty, in agreement with user: the WU has been moved to syringomyelia, where it fits better
  • school by Jim71 because: fucked up grammar, thoroughly unpleasant (NB: ¡THOUGHTCRIME!)
  • Europe by cpwright because: superficial (I mean, a one-liner about Europe ?) (NB: superseded by Uberfetus' excellent WU)
  • Zulu by loose_cannon because: "Kick ass language spoken around Southern Africa ... Waaaay better than afrikaans." (NB: I nuked it because I could not bear the profundity)
  • Blink182 by barney_5bb because: E1 remain, little info, superseded
  • Blink182 by tftv256 because: two lines, two flames (NB: adieu)
  • war by umquam because: "War is simply a bad translation of the message of peace" (NB: Again, too much profundity made my head hurt)


I am an army of one is good.

Mon Mar 19 21:36:00 CST 2001


Just noded filter. This could be the start of another sequence of insanely boring photography writeups.
We need a good silicone writeup. And a good Aeneid writeup.
the insomnia node is in great need of an editor inspection.
I don't hate qbert, in fact I don't hate any noder.
ROTFL of the day: How to urinate standing up

Fri Mar 23 00:07:18 CST 2001


I propose that the collective noun for E2 editors be "fesnyng". After all we are not unlike ferrets: hyperactive, inquisitive and dedicated to destruction.
Nodes that need work: Laurie Anderson

Here endeth the month of March. More editorial activities and destruction under: Editor Log: April 2001.

(idea) by dmd (3.5 wk) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Mar 03 2001 at 6:08:01

Thank you, sleeping wolf!

Sleeping Wolf has provided us with a wonderful tool, currently available NOT WORKING DUE TO SOME E2 CHANGES at http://3e.org/e2/eem.cgi, which lets an Editor read one or more users' 50 lowest rated writeups all at once, with a killer checkbox by each one. When the page (a form) is submitted, all the WUs that were checked are Killed.

This will allow us to remove a considerable amount of chaff from the nodegel.

Killed:

  • VAST quantities of garbage not worth my time to describe here.
  • Dreams" the movie by bozon: There's a better writeup at Dreams, which has the advantage of not being typographically screwed.
  • Several mediocre WUs at true love. The topic deserves better treatment.
  • A handful by Shewholaughslast. Let's raise the bar a bit, shall we?

Edited:

  • A few dozen it's/its errors and broken links.
  • The first WU in source code - trimmed it down to the basics, removed a not very illuminating side comment about open/closed, added some links.
  • Added obvious hardlinks to Mohs hardness scale
In general, I don't feel it necessary to keep an exact log of every typo I fix or every HI THIS IS MY FIRST NODE, THIS IS NEAT. LATERZ, J0EN0D3R writeup I kill.
(log) by Lord Brawl (21.4 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Mar 03 2001 at 20:09:58

Prelude

After much discussion with users at all levels, I have decided to return to filing Editor Logs. It seems the question of editor accountability is of paramount concern to a sufficient number of noders to so warrant.

I will file reports on things that I remove which may affect active users, and were not done by their request. The writeups of fled users will not be logged, not will Title Edit or Deletion requests. Nodeshells will also be removed without explanation.

At the end of each month I will pull the day logs and consolidate them into a single monthly entry. This should reduce the Editor Log as NFN concerns which Wesc, among others, have mentioned.

Writeup Death Log

I killed a profusion of writeups from around April 2000, all of the form "Who wants a noun from the adjective Username?". They were stale, and added no lasting value to the database.

Numerous writeups of the form http://somelamesite.com ... unless you've something stunningly original to say, let people go to the site if they want to know about it.

Also killed about 1/2 dozen E1 era writeups by Sinergy that were duplicated by the work of dear old, senile Webster 1913. Sinergy's writeups seemed to have been copied word for word by Webster, but we'll give the old dude credit and assume it was actually the other way around.

(thing) by General Wesc (9.7 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Mar 05 2001 at 1:13:24
Comments welcome.

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  • Killed Madrid by chrishl: "The nightlife in Madrid is "de puta madre!".. and this is from a boring english person!"

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