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In lugnet.build, Brian Gefrich wrote:
> In lugnet.build, Terry Prosper wrote:
> > In lugnet.build, Richard Morton wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The LEGOFan Team
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> <snip>
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> > Tell me why not contribute to the already
> > existing great website that is lugnet and proposing to help maintaining it and
> > improving it as a moderator or something in those lines instead of creating a
> > competitive site, which you advertise freely here? <snip>
> > For my part, Lugnet satisfies my needs plenty. <snip>
> > Terry
> > Paying member of Lugnet.
>
> For my part, Terry, I disagree that this is being done with any disrespect
> towards LUGNET. It doesn't seem to be some personal "Don't like the way you run
> things" reasoning, like you have with Bricklink. I think consolidation and
> resource sharing is the point.
I mean it is insulting to see someone trying to replace a website by using its
ressources to publicize itself. I see this as insulting to Lugnet. To us, I
see it as an insult that some people would want to create a website and call it
the "central hub" or whatever while we are here, every day, building this huge
community, sharing info, showing MOCs, etc. It's like we don't exist. WE ARE
THE CENTRAL HUB. Here. At Lugnet. And mind you, i'm a paying member. Not a
sysop, nor a webmaster here. I'm 1659. Yet I prefer this status to the one of
a free member of a new website that aims at replacing this one.
> You listed a number of sites that serves you well. Unfortunately, for a number
> of more casual fans, that number is a few sites too high. From my personal
> perspective, I would love have one site that contains (within the site itself)
> everything I am looking for. I can't tell you how many times I write down 3 or
> 4 different sites to a customer looking for information on something, and have
> to show them each different site so that they get the interface and terminology.
> I'm all about standardization, and if I can say, "yeah, just go to this website,
> it will let you find the piece you're looking for from the set you want, tell
> you all about it, allow you to chat in discussions about it, host pictures of
> it, and let you buy it, all on one site", then my life would be a touch easier.
>
> I might be playing devil's advocate, but I also strongly believe that this is
> not disrespect, and should not attacked as such. It is, after all, the
> sincerest form of flattery.
The problem is, a single website is prone to mopre problems than many different websites. I'm in favor of decentralization. Go to an electronic store and say you want a fax, a phone, a scanner, a printer and an answering machine. The stupid seller who wants a quick commission will advise you to byt the all-in-one package, where if the printer goes kaboom on you 13 months later, you have to buy the whole machine again, costing a fortune. The smart seller will tell you that while buying individual machines is more costly at once and maybe a bit more complicated to wire together, in the long run, it's always better. They all can work if one gets busted. They all work indepandantly from one another.
To me, this situation is the mame. While the idea of a central website
containig everything is appealing at first, it's still a bad idea IMO. And if
people really want that, which I don't see a majority desiring it, then it MUST
be with Lugnet. Not over or behind Lugnet.
I still think that the way things were done, it's a group of people unhappy with
the fact they have no control over the main community hub.
And what is sooooo difficult with browsing through 3 different websites, all
linked together? This is not an obstacle.
> Brian P. Gefrich
Respectfully yours,
Terry
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| (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) For my part, Terry, I disagree that this is being done with any disrespect towards LUGNET. It doesn't seem to be some personal "Don't like the way you run things" reasoning, like you have with Bricklink. (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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