While it’s true, that the post does make requests, I think it’s less inconvenient than lukeprog’s demand in The Best Textbooks on Every Subject to recommend a textbook over two other textbook on the same topic.
It possible that a lower quality bar for this post would have been better because it makes it easier for people to contribute, but those decisions are always hard to make.
It’s more about the number of requests and their non-optional nature than difficulty of some key request or of making a well-presented recommendation. Inconvenience is not difficulty, for example some of the requests are asking for things that I feel shouldn’t be part of a recommendation, and it would be inconvenient to go against my own aesthetic judgement, or alternatively break the form of the presentation to object.
While it’s true, that the post does make requests, I think it’s less inconvenient than lukeprog’s demand in The Best Textbooks on Every Subject to recommend a textbook over two other textbook on the same topic.
It possible that a lower quality bar for this post would have been better because it makes it easier for people to contribute, but those decisions are always hard to make.
It’s more about the number of requests and their non-optional nature than difficulty of some key request or of making a well-presented recommendation. Inconvenience is not difficulty, for example some of the requests are asking for things that I feel shouldn’t be part of a recommendation, and it would be inconvenient to go against my own aesthetic judgement, or alternatively break the form of the presentation to object.