[FusionAdmin] Admin list usage (was: The New Layout -- Mockup)

[Kristian Lyngstøl]

On 7/24/07, Will Farrington <wcfarrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 00:47 +0200, Kristian Lyngstøl wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Will Farrington <wcfarrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Simply put, within hours we'd have had a Digg posting on the front page
> > > and 328793754 rabid forum-goers all trying desperately to have their own
> > > individual little request put into the theme... and as a result things
> > > would take longer and the final product would be of lesser quality.
> >
> > People keep throwing this argument right and left. That we get
> > attention shouldn't be a reason to choose a closed development cycle.
> > And I also think you overestimate the importance of this. If digg
> > people really want to read all about it, then why shouldn't they be
> > allowed to?
>
> Because it's begging people to judge an unfinished product as if it were
> a finished one. After all, it's unfair to both the person designing the
> layout as well as the project which is represented by the layout when
> people begin to assume and critique it as if it's an entirely final
> product - which it isn't.

Since I see we aren't going to agree any time soon, I'll cut it short.
Much of this discussion is based on whether or not discussions such as
the one concerning the theme of the website would generate too much
noise to be practical, if posted on a public list. It is my opinion
that it wouldn't, but I can also understand your concern.

So instead of arguing over whether using the web list will work or
not, can I ask you to TRY it? If it turns out to be the problem that
you predict, we'll have to think of something. I can think of a few
things right away, but at least it shouldn't be on the admin list, so
we'd have to create another closed list at the very least(...).

Since using the web list isn't an irreversible action, I think it's
worth it at the very least as a social experiment. Do you think you
could do this, if for no other reason than to prove me wrong? ;)

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Regards,
Kristian