"Making a name for myself" is a strong motivation to help out in open source and open protocols. Taking that away from people is going to inevitably discourage contributions.
Bad move.
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any idiot can write a spec. If someone wants to make a name for themselves they should write useful software or launch a valuable business.
Whoever gets discouraged from writing a spec because of this would be the right kind of person to discourage from proposing a spec.
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Yes, exactly. We already have more than enough academic type people writing retarded overengineered unimplementable and completely useless specs in the world. I heard the W3C has a role for them though.
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I misread this title as “Remove all NIPs authored by fiatjaf”
Obviously that is very different.
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@ fiatjaf
I don't know if this is a good idea, but it might be. Let me know.
I think having people's names in NIPs cause others to be afraid of proposing changes or additions to them, and also NIPs are all so heavily modified by everybody, either directly or indirectly, that these names end up not really reflecting reality at all.
I think it's a good argument, and it makes sense to take the emotion out of personal relationships. That's why SN zaps are "anonymous".
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It'll be interesting to see the impact this has on the protocol. It's a subtle change but it's a change to incentives which could have big downstream consequences.
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yes, slightly removes the incentive of people writing nonsense because they want to be a "nostr core developer"
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