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Halcyon days? (was Re: Just great.)
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Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:54:57 GMT
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And I am disappointed to see the stereotype is sometimes embodied so
negatively and so totally that long-standing members of LUGNET look back
fondly to the time when we were a much smaller group but had a much bigger
sense of community.
Those days were good. Are those days gone?
Some days it’s difficult to conclude otherwise.
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I see this sort of comment with fair regularity and it makes me sad. Not because
I wish for these supposed “good days” but because it means people have already
reached the stage where they are forgetting/rewriting the past.
I’ve been around Lugnet since almost the beginning (lurking for at least the
first couple of years) and remember RTL from as far back as 1998. I think there
was a lot more sharing of ideas and conversation between themes etc. in the
early days. But that was mainly because there were a lot fewer people.
What I do NOT remember is an absence of fights. As far back as I can remember
there have been flamewars, public disagreements, complaints, time outs and other
forms of ‘nastiness’. They tended to die off a bit quicker (maybe) but that was
mainly because there were less interests at stake (ie. people who would have a
problem with one side or the other).
Here are some old examples I just dug up. They aren’t all neccessarily flamewars
but they certainly point towards them. The first post in lugnet.general is made
on the 28th September 1998.
“I find it a little sad that one HAS to
clarify obvious witticisms in order to avoid a flame war! Ho Hum...“ - Jan 1999
Swearing AND bad ldraw part design -
Apr 1999
Naughty threading - Nov 1999
Lots of relevance to the current
situation (and even longer) - Feb 2000
So it looks to me like the flamewars started pretty darn soon after Lugnet did.
I can understand people not liking flamewars. Personally I just ignore them if I
feel I should or participate in them if I feel I should but everyone is entitled
to their own opinion on things. I just can’t understand why people claim that
the “good ‘ol days” didn’t have them.
Something to think about.
Tim
PS. Posted to .people since that seems to be the best place for it.
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| (...) Well, all right. I don't really care about flame-wars because they're self-evidently juvenile and they tend to involve the same flamers over and over again. I myself have lamented what I will refer to as Rhinoceros Dominance (search for (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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| (...) Often in the past we have lamented the sort of "fringe group" stigma attached to LEGO as an adult hobby. An air of "geekiness" or "nerdiness" seemed to linger, no matter how many dazzling sculptures or mosaics or train layouts are displayed. (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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