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Re: Sam, about the site journal...
Posted By: Sam, on host 24.128.86.11
Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 21:59:48
In Reply To: Sam, about the site journal... posted by OneCoolCat on Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 14:31:28:

> How about taking on an assistant to help with the updating? I mean, it dosen't take too much skill to sift out the funny submissions from the bad ones, and people could email you if a dumb one slipped by.

Can't do it. One, I'm much too possessive of RinkWorks to allow that -- I take pride in my work and don't want to give up credit. Two, it would be as much work coordinating with someone helping out as it would doing the work with myself, and likely less interesting. Three, it's a lot more work than sifting funny from dumb: you also have to know what the 1000+ existing anecdotes are so you don't accept a duplicate, correct grammar and punctuation, prune the verbose stories down to the minimum amount required to convey the point and punctuate the humor, format technical terms and emphasis according to the style rules of the site to maintain consistency, format the anecdotes into the standard HTML form, understand the inscrutable sorting rules I vaguely have in my head, and then perform the manual work of inserting the new stories, which includes linking up the NEW tags properly. It's only a simple task if you're not as demanding as I am about the details.

In any event, there are another one or two years' worth of backlogged submissions, so it's not like I'm going to retire Computer Stupidities anytime soon.

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