Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:32:01PM -0700, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:32:01 -0700
But Joe User still needs to plug information into the template. Or in
the course of ordinary editing he runs into a template which is not
suitable to his subject, but it's beyond his technical capacity to trace
the problem. It's easy to say that he should ask someone more
experienced in thee things, but that detracts from his editing
experience and the genuine value that he has as a content provider.
That sounds like an argument in favor of penalizing smart users at the
expense of stupid users -- worse, making it harder for the smart users
to *help* the stupid users.
That way lies madness, and sweaty palms.
The word that describes that attitude is "arrogance". It's on a par
with a politician saying, "Trust me."
As you stated elsewhere you may very well 25 years of experience in
computer systems; I don't dispute that.
Others may have spent 25 years developing their experience in other
areas of knowledge, with only negligible experience in computer
systems. That does not make them "stupid", and should not qualify them
for such insults. Without the content, the Wikipedia that you envision
would be nothing more than an empty shell.
Ec