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Subject: 
Friendliest site on the Internet
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Date: 
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:11:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
I don't believe it's a higher level anything, and to call it a meta-game
romanticizes it beyond the point of useful discussion.

I don't know what else to call it.  Any suggestions?

  I think it's adequate simply to call it a game, without any implication of
loftier motives.  Otherwise, I would suggest (to recycle a phrase used
elsewhere) treemarking.

Say, do you remember "Mandroid" in RTL about 4 years ago?  I dug up a passage
from archives tonight that he/she posted -- it went like this:

  "While I empathize completely with you, surely you have been hanging
   around rec.toys.lego long enough to realize that the MAJOR FUNCTION of
   this group is the obnoxious pursuit of capitol gain."

  Goodness! That takes me back--I had just started on RTL when that
unpleasantness began.  Wasn't that thread like a zillion posts long and full
of bile?

p.s.  Did Mandroid ever tell anyone his real name?

  I never saw it, though he might have dropped it in somewhere.  I wonder
whatever became of him...

     Dave!



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  Mandroid (was: Re: Friendliest site on the Internet)
 
(...) Ya, I meant higher-level in the math sense -- different playing field -- not necessarily better or worse. Meta topics -- topics about the community and about people and how people react and behave. Nothing wrong with that per se as long as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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