Re: RFOR: Is LGDC really crap?

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Christian Reiniger wrote:
> 
> On Friday 04 January 2002 01:36, Steve Baker wrote:
> > Christian Reiniger wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 January 2002 14:10, Mark Collins wrote:
> > > > What would be good if a searchable article thing, on the site (so
> > > > they're all formated the same). I have a big binder here with
> > > > various articles I've printed out, and it's a pain in the ass
> > > > havign to deal with all the diferent layouts. I confuse easilly,
> > > > see?
> > >
> > > That can only work for articles we have control over, which is by
> > > definition only a very small minority. So I doubt the usefulness of
> > > this..
> >
> > Raising the barrier for potential authors probably isn't what you want!
> 
> What do you mean with "raising the barrier" in this context?

If you require all articles to be in a particular format then there is an
additional task for the article's author to undertake.  That raises the
barrier because some people won't want to be bothered to reformat to whatever
standard the LGDC would hypothetically require.

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