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From: "Yi Cao" <y.cao@cranfield.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ML spring 09 contest is bothersome and offensive
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:06:02 +0000 (UTC)
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"Duane Hanselman" <masteringmatlab@yahoo.spam.com> wrote in message <grd4j9$ifr$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Yes. TMW refuses to moderate the FEX, virtually
> > encouraging the spammers to dump their dreck
> > upon it, both as files and as "ratings". At most
> > they will send a quiet e-mail to those same
> > spammers, asking them to improve their behavior.
> > 
> > Worse, they are now encouraging hundreds
> > of new pieces of useless dreck to clutter it up. 
> > 
> > I'm expecting to follow Duane soon now. It is
> > their FEX, and they can do as they wish.
> > 
> > What is sad is the FEX could have been a good
> > repository for code.
> 
> I concur completely. John speaks with wisdom.
> 
> Can someone set up a simple moderated FEX somewhere? Preferably one that only lets the moderators comment on the code. Allowing public comments always brings out the lowest common denominator. I will gladly contribute my time as a moderator.
> 
> The site need only have a few categories and allow some searching. The presented description of each submission could/should be the help text at the top of the submission, i.e., >>help filename output. In that way good help text conforming to MATLAB formatting would be required and would be consistent across all submissions.
> 
> This site would not have thousands of submissions, but rather no more than a couple hundred of the most useful. We don't need a dozen submissions that perform Gaussian elimination with or without pivoting.
> 
> Duane

Duane,

Sounds a good idea. If such a site can be set up and run, I wish to join. I am fed up with the downloading and rating wars in the FEX.

Yi