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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 16, 2023 01:17 PM UTC in reply to Joe Joyce from 06:51 AM:

Joe,

I don't know the age of every editor, but among those I do, you are the oldest. Hans and I were both born in the 60s, and David was born in the 50s, but you were born in the 40s just a bit before my youngest aunt and uncle. So, thank you for sticking with being an editor here for so long.

Many editors here have not been programmers, because editing is a different task than programming, and non-programmers can also do it. The main advantage that programming can bring to editing is that people with experience programming Chess variants will be more sensitive to gaps, inconsistencies, or ambiguities in the rules of games, as programmers need to understand a game fully in order to program it. But it also comes with the drawback that they may rather spend their time programming than editing. There is a reason why I have chosen the title of Webmaster rather than Editor-in-Chief, as Hans and David had used before me. So, it's good to have editors who are not as focused on programming as some of us are and are willing to take the time to read and edit new submissions.


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