[TAG] Time to drop the Site Map?

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:58:50AM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> [For the Mailbag.]
> 
> We (LG's editors) are thinking about deleting the Site Map page, and would
> like to get readers' input on it.

Slight correction, at least from my perspective: I'd like to get *TAG's*
input on it. Readers, well... there's no way to get a reasonable-sized
sample, so any input from readers is likely to be a) arbitrarily
one-sided and b) non-representative except by far-fetched accident. So,
while I think that it would be kinda nice to have a finger on the
readers' pulse, I don't think that there's any obvious mechanism by
which we can do that (at least, not without changing the structure of
LG) - and trying to act as though we do have such a metric benefits no
one.

I also consider the people who contribute their effort here as having
earned the right to have a say in the operation of LG - while those who
haven't, don't. That may be blunt, but that's how I see it.


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