Re: User pages

> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:25:58 -0500

> From: Dan Marshall <[email protected]>

> Subject: [Lqwiki-list] re: userpages
> To: lqwiki-list-cunTk1MwBs/4hYYZOrhEC/[email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> 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).

I'll put some guidelines together on this - thanks for
bringing it to our attention - also - congratulations
on the new sysadmin opportunity you're involved with -
hope it works out well for you and leads on to further
opportunities.

--Skyline


		
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