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Re: Outside traffic [was: Another resignation]
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:26:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Suzanne Rich Green wrote:
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Any thoughts on carrying feeds of that traffic into their respective LUGNET
newsgroups? I’m not sure why those folks went their own way, but I respect
it. However, in keeping with LUGNET’s purpose, there’s a lot to say for
centralization of the viewability of, or consciousness of, AFOL activity. I
think it’d be nice to cross-communicate - even if it’s just to allow
newcomers to see the outside traffic volume and a synopsis of that group’s
purpose/characteristics (assuming the outside groups didn’t want posts to
come from LUGNET).
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Hey,
Figured I’d throw some random thoughts out on this area. I probably should make
clear that I am not speaking here as a C-C admin, and have not discussed this
with other C-C admins. Just speaking as an AFOL with memberships in multiple
forums.
Is reflecting all FOL posts in one forum a Good Thing?
For instance, Bionicle Zone has a huge (huge!) and active membership, many
(most? all?) of whom are well under the average Lugnet member age. I suspect
that if all of the Bionicle Zone traffic got dumped on Lugnet’s front page,
normal Lugnetters would be up in arms.
Similar things could be said about languages. To really have the
“centralization of the viewability of, or consciousness of, AFOL activity”, we
would also have to stream in 1000Steine.de, lowlug, belug, byggepladden,
freelug, lugpol, kotsky, and any number of Japanese language groups that I can’t
grok at all due to character sets.
Different groups have different policies. E.g. my impression is that one aspect
of JLUG is that the language and innuendo can be of a more adult nature than is
generally the case in other groups. Or consider the very very different
attitudes of Eurobricks and FBTB towards “leaked” information. If they streamed
into the same forum it could be very confusing.
Which forums would be streamed into Lugnet? Are we just talking classic-space,
classic-castle, fbtb, and a couple of other major ones? Or are we including
every small E-Zboard forum that someone put on their personal site? How about
the feedback posts from my blog (or to take a more realistic case, Jake’s blog)?
Is this a one-way street or a two-way? Let’s say Lugnet streamed forum X. If
someone was logged into Lugnet and read a post from X, what happens if they
respond? Does the response go back to X? Or does it sit only on lugnet? If
the former, how does this fit with X’s charter (e.g. maybe you need to be a
member, or maybe they’ve banned certain people) (for that matter, what if Lugnet
has banned certain people but they continue to post on forum X)? If the latter,
that will lead to frustration because maybe the thread is continuing on forum X,
but the posts on Lugnet go unanswered because noone on X notices them.
On a tangent, involvement in one forum in no way implies abandonment of another.
I see that the 2004 noisemakers lists
includes all of the C-C admins. Some of these also have worn Lugnet hats at the
same time. Also, isn’t Purple Dave (the #1 noisemaker) a mod on one of the
bionicle forums?
Anyway, speaking just as myself (NOT wearing a C-C hat (helm?)), I figure all of
these forums are publicly viewable, so it would be okay to mirror them all in
one site. However, I think that it might be like taking all of the articles
posted in all of the newspapers of the world and putting them into one voume
that arrives on your doorstep every morning.
Just my eight cents (inflation, you know).
Bruce
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Outside traffic [was: Another resignation]
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| (...) Sorry to respond to myself (I wish there was some "edit post" function here). If I could clarify what I meant--speaking only as a member of various forums, not as an admin on one of those: I think streaming all of these various forum posts (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Outside traffic [was: Another resignation]
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| (...) I think having the *option* is a good thing. I check a bunch of other forums on a regular basis. Having a centralized place to look at them would be awesome. But I (for instance) don't read bzpower. So yes, if I saw BZP flooding everywhere, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Growth can be defined many ways. One way is number of posts (which -has- dropped from what it was four years ago). But then, those posters may have become more concise in their messages. And perhaps individual groups, like robotics, have (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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