[Developers] Freebase and the Politics of Groups

[Kirrily Robert]

On 9/17/07, Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm a civil engineer turned computer programmer, I worked for
> Geographic Information Systems company for 6 years, I've spent two summers
> as a construction layout surveyor, I'm a former national Orienteering
> champion in my age category, I've been a pilot for 12 years, and I've been
> maintaining a database of aviation waypoints for 6 or 7 years.  All of
> which makes me think that I'm qualified to speak on issues related to
> data modelling of geographic locations and aviation.  But when I suggest
> schema changes to the aviation stuff, I tend to not get any answer for
> weeks at a time (my last contribution to the discussion which included
> some questions and some suggestions was on September 1st and has not been
> responded to).  So how do I become one of those 100 people?

I'd just like to touch on Paul's point about response times on FB
discussions.  I know everyone's working really hard and trying to
answer questions as they come up, but I find the turnaround time on FB
to be really slow.  That's why I started asking data modelling
questions here on the dev list, and why I started the IRC channel,
both of which tend to get quicker responses.

I would like to propose email notification of FB discussions as a high
priority community feature -- possibly the highest priority one.  If
people have to come back to the site to check for discussions, we're
going to lose them.

(Compare Facebook, which spams me all the damn time with "someone sent
you a message" crap.  Let's not go that way!  But let's at least get
emailed copies of direct responses, watched discussions, and comments
on things that you own/administer.)

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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