aaron said:
You are assuming that all of the typographic information from the html files will be thrown out. I dare say you are mistaken.
no. i'm "assuming" that the "old" .html file will be moved to the "old" folder, which is where i found it.
And in true Bowerbird fashion, you never considered for a moment that she might have a point.
how do you know what i "never considered for a moment"? how can you say such a thing? and _of_course_ what i said was "discouraging". when you tell someone they are wasting their time, it's obvious, isn't it?, that that will be "discouraging". the whole point of _telling_ them is to _discourage_ them. the question is whether or not it actually _is_ a waste of time. if -- in reality -- it _is_ a waste of time, then you are being a _good_friend_ to the person by informing them of that reality. and i explained, giving good reasons, why it was a waste of time. it was the same explanation that i just gave here, which is that idiosyncratic files can't be leveraged, so they'll later be discarded. and that is exactly what happened to the .html file for #16663. it's been placed aside, replaced by a computer-generated version. so any time spent hand-generating that .html file was _wasted_... juliet had to "rebuke" me because she had no counterargument. i was right. she knew it, and had no response but to defame me. i let her know, backchannel, never to scapegoat me again like that. now, if you must, consider me the "bad guy" for trying to tell people that they were wasting their time by hand-generating .html versions. but i was telling them _the_truth_; the facts have already proven that. to my mind, the person (and the overall system) who would have me "be quiet, because i am discouraging volunteers" is the real "bad guy". it seems -- to me anyway -- to be immoral to waste people's time with an inefficient system when they are _volunteering_ that time. if you are paying them, fine, but if they are volunteering, i believe that you have some kind of moral obligation to use their time well. -bowerbird