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[Crossposted to lugnet.reviews & lugnet.admin.general, with followups
set to lugnet.admin.general]
In lugnet.reviews, lighthouse@bonzai.net (Janet Zorn) writes:
> I doubt that .reviews will get deluged with clone reviews. Lego makes
> probably as many sets as all the clones combined, and few here will
> buy clones to be able to review them. For those few of us who from
> time to time indulge in buying on the megacheap .reviews would be a
> better place to read a few reviews once in a great while (there's not
> alot of traffic here anyway) rather than to have to wade thru all the
> stuff in .off-topic.fun.
Janet,
Do you think a new newsgroup
lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
would be useful? Here is a related thread for more background:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.general:2307
> That's my appeal. Of course, we'll abide by whatever ruling.
What we don't want to happen is the .reviews group being used to review
individual sets from clone brands like Mega-Bloks, Best-Lock, etc. (Blyecch,
poison!)
If someone wanted to do a high-level comparison of LEGO® vs. various imitation
brands, that's a bit of a different story.
Looking back at the brief charter/mission statement for this .reviews group,
"Formal and informal reviews of building sets, games, web sites, etc."
it doesn't explicitly prohibit reviews clone brands, but like almost all the
groups here, the underlying assumption (which we apologize for not stating
more clearly from the outset) is that lugnet.com is dedicated to LEGO® and not
to clone/imitation brands or other construction toys. The meaning of the
charter for .reviews really is:
"Formal and informal reviews of LEGO® brand building sets, LEGO® brand
games, original games arising out of or in connection with LEGO® brand
toys, LEGO® fan web sites, official LEGO® web sites, etc."
I always just figured that clone brands wouldn't come up here -- except in
pejorative contexts -- because almost all LEGO® fans tend to be purists. But
if there is a desire for people to share information about clone brands in the
groups here, then I think it would be best to create a separate area to gobble
up these unwanted discussions -- just like the other areas (.debate, .fun,
.test) of the .off-topic hierarchy.
The purpose of the .off-topic hierarchy is to allow people to talk openly
about non-LEGO® things without having to leave the community altogether to
carry on the discussions. Fair enough?
--Todd
p.s. Hee hee, while spell-checking this article (I hit cancel in the middle
so I could add this), my spell-checker suggested "Measles" as a replacement
for "Mega-Bloks." :I
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