[lisppaste-requests] Error in old paste

[Brian Mastenbrook]

I think perhaps you're misunderstanding the purpose of paste.lisp.org. It exists primarily to allow people to share their "uncorrected garbage" (as you aptly put it) so that other people can help them - in this case the inhabitants of the #scheme channel on Freenode IRC. Unfortunately the ircbrowse.com site is down now, so I can't point you at a log of the conversation that took place at the time. Usually once people get their code working they don't go back to paste the working version.

If you were to annotate this paste, it would cause the #scheme channel to be notified of your annotation, which I'm sure they don't care about this long after the conversation took place. This is one of the reasons why annotations of old pastes are blocked.

There are many pastes on the site that are in fact useful. Many others are just one off logs and random snippets of broken code. As the disclaimer on the bottom of every page says "pastes can be made by anyone at any time". It's a whiteboard of infinite size, not a blog.

Does this clarify things?

------Original Message------
From: Dave Bayer
Sender: lisppaste-requests-bounces at common-lisp.net
To: lisppaste-requests at common-lisp.net
Sent: Jul 18, 2008 10:16 AM
Subject: [lisppaste-requests] Error in old paste

I tried to annotate

	http://paste.lisp.org/display/46718

which gives an execution error, and is dead wrong once the execution  
error is fixed. This should take any scheme programmer about ten  
seconds to spot; please take a look before responding.

My attempt to annotate the paste was rejected, because of its age.  
There should be some mechanism for annotating old pastes, so your site  
doesn't gain a reputation as a museum for uncorrected garbage. I was  
only trying to help...

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