re: userpages

Dan Marshall <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:25:58 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linuxquestions.wiki
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This rant/post was from a while back, so I was kind of surprised to see 
it floating up again. I'm not sure I should give any suggestions about 
what userpages should look like, since one of the factors in my post was 
that I was having the fear of logging in one day to find "We need to 
talk - some sysop" instead of my userpage. Basically, I had it brought 
to my attention that these user pages have stupid amounts of 
googlejuice, coming from how google page-ranking works. I also noticed 
that a lot of userpages were blank, or had links to their LQ profiles. 
LQ profiles give some information, but don't do much to explain who 
exactly the person behind the handle is. Basically the same motivation 
behind the community commons and the forums- "Who are all these people?" 
And here I was with my bloody life story up on my user page - which I've 
since shrunk some by the way.

I think we ought to have two policies - Definite don'ts, things 
guaranteed to get some action out of the sysops (which piratically 
nobody will read, but would be nice to point to when  you sysops are 
yelling at them), and suggestions for the ideal user page (which maybe 
1%, at most, will read, but would be nice for obsessive types like myself).