[bksvol-discuss] Re: friends don't let friends date Jason
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:56:57 -0700
Monica, this person is notorious for submitting junk scans, including
lots of stray characters, & leaving no way to contact her.
On 6/25/08, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wussup w/that? Do these people have no pride, or do they think just
> because they're blind, everything they do should be lauded &
> applauded, including wiping their own hiney? Sorry--as my furbys would
> say, "joke, wah!". But it does aggravate me--can ya tell? Ya think?
> Whatever happened to, "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing
> well"? The whole thing just boggles what little mind I've got left. &
> it's completely beyond my understanding.
>
> To me, it's like scripting. If I need access to a program, I might
> write a few quick & dirty scripts in order to do that. But if I'm
> gonna share scripts w/others, unless they need that access quickly &
> just want what I've got immediately, then I'm gonna clean 'em up,
> bullet-proof 'em as best I can, make good help files, message files,
> put all my constants in a header & generally bring 'em up to Freedom
> Scientific's standards.
>
> I just got finished w/a project like that. I deliberately undercharged
> the person (because he was just a student paying for scripts out of
> his own pocket) but I still did those extra things so that hopefully
> he'd experience no difficulties w/my scripts. Because, really, if it's
> worth doing, then it's worth doing well. & whether he paid me what it
> was worth or didn't pay me at all or somewhere in between, he deserved
> my best efforts on his behalf. & if folks won't give that to
> Bookshare, I wish they'd just 86 it. But folks bust their chops in
> order to validate these people's garbage, so they end up getting the
> credits they want, all thanks to the great validators who could have
> probably gotten 2 or 3 really goodsubmissions into the collection for
> the time they spent workin on the 1 crappy 1. I got burned once by
> that particular person. Never again! & it's something we as validators
> might want to consider--do we want to spend the time & effort it takes
> to clean up a crappy submission or do we simply nuke it on grounds of
> poor quality & maybe get 2 submissions in for the time it would take
> to clean up the garbage-can 1? Obviously it's a decision every1's
> gotta make, & I used to try to pull off the heroics & clean up the
> garbage, too, but realized pretty quickly I wasn't doing any1,
> including me, a service, so I quit. Maybe if these people get enough
> rejection notices... & then again, maybe not. But I do congratulate
> the validators who try so hard to clean up such messes. They're truly
> heroic.
>
> On 6/25/08, E. <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The other famous poor submitter is an instructor of braille no less.
>>
>> E.
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