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Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:31:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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If the admins had some positive achievements to justify their sense of
self-importance, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Most of our achievements have been in the under-lying structure of Lugnet, and
in the preparation for the Transition. Every time some big drama explodes, it
pulls us away from that it makes it harder for us to get the spirit enough to
dive back into the work.
But you’re right. The year that I’ve been at Lugnet, I’ve accomplished very
little.
But you’re wrong. I don’t have a sense of self-importance. Neither do any of
the other admins. Yes, we want people to respect our authority - to give us
some credit for being that bad-guy-police.
But I don’t care if anyone respects me or not. What I’d like is for people to
do what they’ve agreed to do (follow the ToU, PG, etc), and otherwise leave me
alone. It’s people coming out of the wood work to bad mouth me, to complain
about everything I’m not doing, and then do nothing to help - and even to do
what they can to make it harder for me - that’s what bothers me.
The Admins here at Lugnet have a pretty thankless job. And it’s a pretty boring
one too. It was difficult for me to get things done because I already have a
job - my 2nd one here eats into LEGO playing time. But Admins here, and any of
the LEGO sites for that matter, including Classic-Castle, Classic-Space Forums,
BZPower, 1000Steine.de, Eurobricks, etc - they’re doing what they’re doing to
make the LEGO Community better and stronger. It’s easy to look at them and say,
“wow, they must have pretty small egos to be taking charge of a lego site. what
they must do to feel important.” But it’s not true.
I’ll tell you what. I don’t do Lugnet, CC, or CSF to feel important. I worked
on all of those sites because I wanted to give something back.
That is equally true of Larry Pieniazek, Frank Filz, Kelly McKiernan, and Todd
Lehman. It isn’t about feeling self-important - it’s about feeling an
obligation.
-len
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| (...) Actually, I'm really happy to hear that - is there anything you can tell us about how the Transition is going? Because from an outsider's point of view (well, outside of the LT), it seems like it's been abandoned. :/ (19 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) "(URL) Apres nous, le deluge>", eh? If the admins had some positive achievements to justify their sense of self-importance, perhaps we wouldn't be in this mess. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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