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Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:51:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
> The negative environment here has slowly pushed me away, and is
> continuing to do so. Not the policies--the people whining about them and making
> demands they have no basis making, and the people bickering over petty things
> like colors or 'TLC can do no right.'
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> Let's remember that these are LITTLE PLASTIC BRICKS we're talking about. Yeah
> they're cool, but geeeez.
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> -Tim
It is a sad fact that people in the Western world are getting more
and more stressed out, and the result is often bickering and whining
in all kinds of situations which used to be a source for relaxation,
all smiles and warm, fuzzy feelings. Lugnet, unfortunately, is no
exception.
The proper cure to this is not for all the nice people to go away,
this will only make more people unhappy, including the ones who
decide to leave. Instead, try to put the situation on Lugnet into
perspective. The community has grown tremendously over the last few
years, so disagreements and conflicts will happen. However, not
everyone is a whiner all the time. In fact, very few people are
whiners at all. This is still a friendly place, the place where
I go for fun and inspiring communication about things I like a
lot but that absolutely, positively, do not really matter at all
in any kind of bigger perspective. To me, this is the very definition
of a good and inspiring hobby. Lugnet is as much a part of my Lego
hobby as the actual building, and I still like it a lot.
I have seen stress do really ugly things to nice people.
Let's not have this happen on Lugnet, please. This, if
any place on Earth or on the Internet, should have every
possibility of being a friendly place also in the future.
We're only a few thousand people worldwide, and we share a
hobby that should make us all feel great about this place
and what we do in here.
The last time I got upset over Lego was when my cousin and
I fought over who should have the ladder for his fire engine.
We were six, and we both thought it was silly even then
and simply went back to building after a short while.
I believe a serving of milk and cookies was involved to
put the fight into perspective. Perhaps we should try that?
"You have been administered a serving of milk and cookies by
the administrators. Please get up from your computer and
come back in a short while. We'll all be waiting for you."
We *should* be able to get along, right?
Stefan G
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| (...) Hear, hear! Tim and Stefan, I wholeheartedly concur. To become stressed out over little plastic bricks--however valuable they may be--is quite silly when you think about it. We all have our differences (sorry, that's just a "duh" statement) (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Mmmm, milk and cookies! My favorite diet! Unfortunately, this might backfire by encouraging people to post things that would result in being served milk and cookies. After all, milk and cookies are a reward, not a punishment :-) Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Hear, hear. And perhaps that would cut down on the 'censorship whiners.' LUGNET is privately owned, it is NOT the public square. I really wish people would get over themselves. Anyways, it's not like I read in-depth enough for this to effect (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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