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Re: Request to move .mecha
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:20:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Mark Neumann wrote:
> We (the curators of .mecha, Mark Neumann and Eric Sophie) have been talking for
> a while amongst ourselves about moving .mecha to a location that makes it easier
> to find mecha related stuff on Lugnet.
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> I am formally requesting that .mecha be moved from .build to .space to better
> reflect it's nature and hopefully make it a bit easier to find.
> i.e. from: www.lugnet.com/build/mecha
> to: www.lugnet.com/space/mecha
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> Idealy I'd love to see .mecha even easier to find, along similar lines as .space
> or .general. But I also know that mecha isn't an official Lego theme so it
> doesnt' really fit there. And it isn't a general thing so we can skip that.
> Mecha is often associated with space, so I am hoping that people searching for
> Lego Mecha related things would go searching there. If there could be a
> shortcut on the Lugnet Home page to .mecha, I'd be just as happy.
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> I am of course asking that all the sub pages that have been created for .mecha
> follow along with the mecha page.
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> cross posted to .space and .mecha for commentary.
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> Mark Neumann
Some informal, unofficial feedback. The admins have bounced this around a bit.
As we see it there are 3 main options:
- leave mecha where it is, at build.mecha
- move mecha to a new top level group, like .trains (your request explains that
you don't expect that)
- put mecha under .space so it would be .space.mecha (which is your request)
There may be others but that was our read on the main ones.
There seems to be some sentiment among space readers that mecha doesn't belong
there. There haven't been a lot of voices raised but there were some. Moving a
group is non trivial so we're wondering why the current arrangement is not
satisfactory? Our tendency would be to leave things as they are, we haven't
heard compelling reasons for a change yet.
We agree that the curators should be encouraged to do crosslinking. A shortcut
on the home page to .mecha (and at the same time to .vignette perhaps?) seems a
good idea too.
That's not to say that there might not BE compelling reasons for the move.
Again, this is unofficial feedback, which in this case since no final decision
has been taken, ought to be OK.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Request to move .mecha
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| (...) One thing also to point out, you can put a spotlight for any group on any page, so it would be quite possible to put a lugnet.build.mecha spotlight on the lugnet.space page. Frank (20 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
| | | Re: Request to move .mecha
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| (...) My two cents here... I'm not an admin and this just my opinion. If I recall correctly, Space gets it's own newsgroup because it is an official subtheme. Mecha is not an official subtheme and unfortunately gets buried in the .Build newsgroup. I (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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