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Re: Compromised Functionality on Lugnet and Brickshelf?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:19:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Duane Hess wrote:
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I think the admins need to seriously reflect upon what rights and priviledges
distinguish members from
non-members. I would wager that
for the vast majority of visitors the perception is that the only benefit to
be gained by becoming a member is the ability to speed up the posting
process. I would be surprised if many people even remember that there is a
polling feature on LUGNET for members.
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Very good points here. Lugnet has much greater functionality built in than is
routinely used. In part this is due to user inaction, but in part this is also
due (IMO) to the invisibilty of the functionality. For instance, there is no
easy way to find who has web pages hosted here. Occasionally someone will link
to their personal page and I’m always very surprised to find that it is a Lugnet
page (e.g. I know that Marc Nelson upthread has a page here). Perhaps if there
was some central repository of sites hosted here that could be ordered both
alphabetically and also by most recently updated--perhaps the most important
aspect of Brickshelf and MOCpages is that you can quickly see what’s newest. I
remember something from when I first joined that implied that personal sites
would be arranged on a map into neighborhoods. Does anyone know what I’m
talking about there? It’s a pretty vague recollection.
As an aside, ideally, it would be great to have some huge member-updatable
database of LEGO sites. LEGOfan.org was supposed to have this. I was involved
in the creation of the initial database, and I personally crawled through link
lists and manually entered over 400 sites. The idea was that once the
membership option was turned on, people could enter their own sites into the
database and flag dead links for the admins to check and cull from the list.
That way there would be a constantly refreshed link list (as opposed to any
static list that becomes full of dead links soon after creation). Unfortunately
LEGOfan landed with a thud and the membership option was never implemented. I
was discouraged by that, and subsequently became a classic-castle admin and so I
pretty much let the whole thing slide off my plate, so I do not know if there
are plans to go forward with that. (Jake?) But perhaps Lugnet could do this.
I would love to see the front page of Lugnet have some utility. I’ve personally
given up on the front page, and my bookmark takes me directly to the forums.
Things like “Current Poll”, “Recently updated member sites”, “Newest entries to
the master site list”, and ... drumroll please ... “This week’s Cool Lego Site
of the Week” could all be put on the front page in an automated way just as the
highlighted posts are, so once the ball was rolling would not require an admin
to come up with daily new content. These could also bring people to features of
Lugnet that are not often used (polls, personal sites), are currently dormant
(CLSOTW -- I still have hope!), or could potentially be implemented (a
member-updatable database of websites, as opposed to the full-of-dead-links
“Everything LEGO” page). Current contests (both Lugnet-based and based in other
communities) could be advertised there as well. For instance, does anyone in
the English-speaking world even reallize that the next ISCC is on again? Or
remember the great annual town contests of a few years ago?
Bruce
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