I agree. Dominic jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I tend to think this is against the spirit of aoir as i've understood it to some extent. the idea should be more that... anyone with any credential or none can provide you answers that are as strong as any others. in short, my position is "I'd prefer the collegiality of shared knowledge over credentials any day". some of our best contributors in recent years have been undergraduate and graduate students and i'd like this to continue unhindered by the burden of being credentialed.
so i'd say, no, people should not bother with credentials unless they personally feel that they need to 'represent' them for whatever reason. so we can have 'both', but there should be no feeling of compulsion or necessary association between credentials and expertise that people should assume.
but that's just me....
jeremy <snip>
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