I agree with this, that the added value of lists like these is that it's "curated" - a person collected these links over time, gathered from various sources including search results, while filtering for quality subjectively.
Yeah. I've also seen complaints that some lists (including my own) have _too many_ links. Yes, I'd agree that a curated list with hundreds of links can still be overwhelming, but it's sort of a repeat of the Wikipedia "inclusionists vs deletionists" argument. I'm not trying to limit my list to the "top 5" articles in each subcategory or anything like that - I'm looking at each article by itself, and deciding if it's informative, relevant, and of value. I've also done refactoring on the list over time, adding new sub-categories, breaking out separate category pages, etc, to better capture the information.
It's still very much a "curated" list, it's just that I've done a _lot_ of curation :)
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I agree with this, that the added value of lists like these is that it's "curated" - a person collected these links over time, gathered from various sources including search results, while filtering for quality subjectively.
Yeah. I've also seen complaints that some lists (including my own) have _too many_ links. Yes, I'd agree that a curated list with hundreds of links can still be overwhelming, but it's sort of a repeat of the Wikipedia "inclusionists vs deletionists" argument. I'm not trying to limit my list to the "top 5" articles in each subcategory or anything like that - I'm looking at each article by itself, and deciding if it's informative, relevant, and of value. I've also done refactoring on the list over time, adding new sub-categories, breaking out separate category pages, etc, to better capture the information.
It's still very much a "curated" list, it's just that I've done a _lot_ of curation :)