HN Yellow pages - followup
>On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Neil <kngspook@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> First, I want to thank you for coming up with this idea and getting
> the ball rolling on it. And second, I want to thank you for
> switching the HN post's link to the form/appendable version.
> Last, I wanted to ask if you'd consider making the old, publicly-
> editable spreadsheet read-only while we migrate the data from there
> to the new one (which David has generously offered to do over the
> weekend).
>
>Thank you again,
>Neil.
I did not switched the HN post's link to the form, for several reasons that has to do with forking generally being a bad idea, and community freedom for curation / wiki level editing, which you took away.
Someone else, on the other hand, did. And also revoked my ability to edit the article, or any comments I've done there.
The publicly editable spreadsheet currently has 72 entries. Yours have 43. That's the least constraints principle at work.
Based on these datapoints, I will encourage the HN community to submit to the publicly editable spreadsheet ( http://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?key=tFgepUuuBHSgfeuKPKccxTA&authkey=CIqAl7wO&hl=en#gid=0 ), and disregard the forks.
The content of this e-mail, and my reply has been submitted to HN for discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522928 . Should you have any comments, or replies, please do so there.
Regards, -SDr