When my kids get their first part-time job as a teenager, I'm not expecting them to earn enough to live on. It should give them spending money, help them pay for car insurance, etc. And more importantly, the job should give them some experience working -- dealing with managers, coworkers, and customers who they may not like, showing up to work whether they feel like it or not, and doing what needs to be done even if it's not precisely in their job description. And it should probably be unpleasant enough to motivate them to do more with their life. An entry-level job at McDonalds might not be my first choice, but it would fit these requirements just fine.

If my kids are still working at McDonalds 10 years later, then I'm not going to be complaining that McDonalds doesn't pay them enough to live -- I'm going to tell my kids to do something with their life and get a real job that requires real skills. And that job will be worth a living wage.

That is all.

Indeed. This is certainly a case where honesty is NOT the best policy. Because I generally leave on good terms I've been offered consulting gigs with old employers and I get good recommendations. I also have been offered full time employment by former employers and former co-workers.

Which will hopefully, in turn, force us to create a better network. And perhaps we can start again and this time try to avoid Eternal September.

>> What better way to rank a page's relevancy than by determining which links are chosen by the searchers for a given keyword or set of keywords?

> bad side effect...

> page 1 & 2 search results will firmly become engrained there by this method as everyone clicks on the top few results normally

That could be a problem if the results fed directly into the page rank. But it would seem more logical to use this to cull bad links from the top 10. If people consistenly ignore the first link for a particular search, but instead click on the second or third links, it would be a good indication that the top link isn't very good and should be moved down the list, which could in turn allow a new link to bubble up to the top 10.