On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Yours is only half of the story, the second half. The first half is:
Over the years, DP has actively steered people away that were interested in serious literature. With all that obsession about page counts and facsimile-formatting.
I don't see how obsession about page counts will deter the person interested in working on Russian literature for one second. Nor why such a serious person can't ignore page counts; I've managed to do so.
Also chick lit is using up the processing power and bandwidth that people need to work on serious literature. In consequence people interested in serious literature, whose work stuck for years in the queue, left in disgust.
Chick lit is not the word you were looking for. In any case, what have we just completed? Looking right now at the list of completed DP works, I see The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges; Blackwood 373 - 1846.11; England, Canada and the Great War; Birds and Man; The Influence of the Organ in History; Notes & Queries 1851.07.26; and Cleopatra's Needle: A History of the London Obelisk among the last 20. So obviously we're doing something other than chick lit. Perhaps you should blame history for using the processing power? In fact, I think that needs repeating. We have a very limited supply of Campfire Girls and friends, they go through quickly and are easy to process. They're having very little impact on the system. Who has the largest English language queues in P3? History. Science. Religion. Fiction, Literature and Poetry currently have no wait to get into P3. Moreover, I'd like to see a real list of "serious literature", this time looking at literature available in English in 1922. Because that's what DP does, mostly: English. And non-English material is in its own queues. Nothing is blocking German literature, but German, and we apparently don't have that many people who like working with Fraktur. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.