On 12/4/07, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Yes, but that's an RfC from people with little to no knowledge about how the community actually functions.
True dat. That was the thing that was so frustrating about mainstream media coverage of the Essjay thing. We're a community that doesn't go in for "crediential original research". If you're a 14 years old and you make a better than a 50 year old professor, we go with the 14 year old.
I don't think I ever saw any articles that really "got" that about us. It doesn't really matter if you do fake your resume, because we don't look at your resume, and if by chance we do, we don't we don't believe your claims about your resume.
But anyway, that's a long dead horse.
Alec