Thread: Making important people visible
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CrashandDie is offline CrashandDie
2009-11-15 , 19:38
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#11
Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
If someone asks if the N900 will get app X, or whether the Y advancement on Diablo will appear this century, us mortals can speculate. Nokia employees can inform. True, they're not all-knowing and sometimes aren't allowed to share, but at least it would give them some authority when saying "this will happen"
No. The default behaviour is "do not tell", because the knowledge they hold is of any potential value. But this is not the main issue. Some people in the community know more of the platform than the average Nokian.

A Nokian who spends his time designing user interfaces will not have any idea why feature X hasn't been implemented into application Y, and what the approximate timeline is to see it live. This is something this is extremely visible during meetings. When you talk to a Nokian, and ask for his opinion, he will most of the time back of nicely and be very considerate of his answer, exactly because he (or she) actually signed a contract.

Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
I never said nokia employees where the only rockstars we should idolize. I only talked about them because there's a more clearly drawn line. Council members are important too obviously, and other people i'm forgetting about (sorry, i'm just tired). I didn't want to include programmers because there's no clearly defined line for importance: if i make a hello world app, i could technically call myself a programmer too. They could have a 'developer of ...' tag, though
Nobody should be "idolised". Be it Nokian or Community Council members. There is no point in respecting anyone because of their status. One earns respect, it doesn't come for free just by doing something which pays the bills. Look at the post count, this gives an indication. Look at the number of thanks they got, and look at the ratio (someone with 5000 posts and no thanks is probably someone who idly spends his time in off-topic, or never contributes anything helpful; he just has a lot of free time on his hands).

Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
It would seem those affected are not too eager to "admit" their status. Oh well. At least adding some tags for people who do want to use them might be useful. Or just a recommendation to put anything relevant in the signature (like "i have a n900, what i say is tested")
There's a reason people don't want to have something like that stickered on their faces: because a lot of stupid people annoy them for no good reason. The same questions come again and again, and the same stupid discussions are started again and again.

In other words, this has been discussed countless times (see paragraph above), and the discussion has never been any more productive than it was the first 10 times. However, if you have any new arguments to bring to the table, feel free to open a bug in bmo.