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.

fiatjaf

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.

pablof7z__

nostr

Remove all NIP authors by fiatjaf

Rsync25

"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.