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Re: Announcing the new LUGNET Link List
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:50:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> As for LEGOFan.org: it is in fact an official site, but I wouldn't mind to
> see it in both cats.
Maybe it's changed, but I believe LegoFan.org is not *really* an official site.
As I recall, LegoFan was a site that had the official "approval", and had
limited sponsorship/endorsement from the company. However, the actual site was
always supposed to be run by fans, so that the company wouldn't have to allocate
any dedicated resources to the project. Essentially, they didn't want to be
*responsible* for the site, so asked fans to do the job for them.
Hence, LegoFan was able to do as it pleased, but Lego holds *very* substantial
amount of weight over the site by offering it:
- Use of "Lego" in the domain
- Links from Lego.com (not sure if this ever happened? was certainly in the
original goals)
- Exclusive updates and Lego announcements that other sites don't get (or don't
get as primarily)
- Funding (this was always iffy, and hadn't happened last I knew, but was slated
to happen "someday, as warranted, maybe")
So, LegoFan was sort of leashed in those regards by the company. Fortunately,
I'm not aware of any differences in opinion between the site and the company
that ever forced the issue. I think the company and the site administration were
pretty much always on the same page anyway.
DaveE
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| (...) [...] (...) I agree. However, though I doubt it was ever a point of disagreement, I believe the company insisted there be no discussion of clone brands on the site. And I'm fairly sure they didn't want negative coverage of the product there (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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