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.