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Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:34:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Stefan Gustavson wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
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> > 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.'
> >
> > Let's remember that these are LITTLE PLASTIC BRICKS we're talking about. Yeah
> > they're cool, but geeeez.
> >
> > -Tim
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> "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."
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> We *should* be able to get along, right?
>
> Stefan G
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) but that does not mean we must muster our emotional ties to dissent.
And I second the serving of milk and cookies. Cookies *mmmmm*
- Andrew P. Saada <><
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