On 8/23/06, dmehkeri(a)swi.com <dmehkeri(a)swi.com> wrote:
have wound up either lost in AfC, or correctly
submitting to AfC which then
promptly gets ignored. And I don't think I was being unreasonably dense. Even if
Promptly ignoring all AfC submissions is a very efficient, high
pay-off strategy that I would recommend to anyone.
I guess that the CORRECT choice from the
article-not-found page is actually
"create an account", at the end of it I wind up back at the main page. The
obvious thing to do here is to back up in the browser history, but this doesn't
help, unless I guess that I have to back up one PAST the article-not-found page
to the original red-link page and click it again! An unlikely guess.
No, you have to wait 4 days to create the new article anyway.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if it
is precisely these obstacles
which also cuts down on the nonsense.
Damn straight. :) Seriously, what gets posted at AfC is sludge. And
that's from the newbie editors who actually made the effort to wade
their way through the process and make a submission!
The only benefit in allowing anons to create articles is in stroking
their egos long enough for them to become good editors (while deleting
their creation in the meantime). We should attempt to quantify that
benefit.
Steve