New Community: Datahoarders

[ysabetwordsmith]

datahoarders is a community for those who are interested in data hoarding and archiving data.

:D I didn't know this had a name! Awesome.


The community also has a link to a guide about datahoarding. It includes this quote:

If you type “data-hoarding definition” on Goolag™, you’ll be prompted with a somewhat negative definition, going as far as to qualify data-hoarding as a “mental disorder”, “compulsive behavior”:

In reality, data-hoarding is, in my own definition, the process of downloading and storing every single tidbits of internet media you like or come across, it is more of a value/principle and of a hobby.

Now, I agree with the hobby definition. It can also be a profession, as with archivists.

But a mental disorder? Are they not even bothering to check whether something is necessary to the survival of civilization and the species before declaring it a "problem" now? Because if it weren't for nerds hoarding data like hungry hamsters caching seeds, I guarantee you we would have neither. The jocks certainly weren't going to do it. The only reason we have more than crumbs of pre-Christian Europe (you know, the Greek and Roman stuff) is because Muslim nerds had some of it and it traveled back eventually. You're welcome, you judgmental fuckwits.

Comments

[oursin]

Their patron saint is surely St Isidore of Seville!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I recognize the title of De Natura Rerum, "on the nature of things."

[labelleizzy]

Call all my digital artists, fan vid creators, gif makers &c, data hoarders (affectionate)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm a dragon, hoarding is normal for my species. Also, the one and only thing that this level of technology offers that nobody else does? Cheap paperback books. There's a fairly narrow window where anyone can afford to line their house with books, between when they're expensive rarities and everything goes digital.

So what did I do? I lined my house with books, of course. That's my main hoard. :D I also archive data.

But yeah, this nonsense is going at the top of my list of reasons why I take everything the shrinks say with a 10-pound block of buck booster because a grain of salt is nowhere near enough to balance that much bullshit. 0_o

[crunchysteve]

In so far as I'm the laziest effer on the planet when it comes to discarding defunct projects, listicles or ideas for defunct blogposts. Not sure if this makes me a datahoarder, but, before it went offline, did my damnedest to download every piece of music from macidol.com and that definitely makes me a datahoarder. I now have so much unsigned independent music on my macbook harddrive I genuinely could not hear my entire library in much less than a decade. <-- this isn't too close to exaggeration!

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

You are awesome, fellow datahoarder. \o/