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In lugnet.announce, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> [...]
> -> lugnet.off-topic.qotd (group):
> Special "Quote of the Day" group: Messages posted here start as
> follow-ups to messages appearing in other LUGNET groups, the purpose
> being to highlight an unexpectedly humorous, profound, witty/wry, or
> ridiculously silly comment for general consumption and enjoyment;
> NOTE: This group is not for making people look stupid (use common
> sense), and it is not for posting maxims, proverbs, profundities,
> etc. from outside sources; Instead, originality and (more
> importantly) spontaneity are the key ideas here.
> [...]
I may have screwed up badly on the name on this group -- and not fully
understood how people might perceive it. It seems that no matter how it's
described in its charter, people somehow still infer that it's for posting
quotes. But it's NOT a quotes group. Here's the jist behind the group --
(this is a crummy name but it gets the idea across):
lugnet.off-topic.quotes.heard-within-lugnet
Now, of course, "heard" really means "seen written" rather than "heard," but
this is the basic idea: Someone says something funny or ridiculous or silly
or profound in some random group here, and someone else posts a follow-up to
that message, directing it into the .qotd group for general consumption.
It's like a whiteboard where you write funny things someone says at lunch or
during a meeting or wherever. But it's -not- for posting quips or a maxims
or proverbs or lists of quotes from outside places -- not like that at all.
Thoughts? Is this group, by its very name, no matter how carefully worded
in the charter, doomed and destined to being destroyed and recreated under a
different name, or not at all? Once something like this gets going (if it
does), these sorts of community QOTD resources can be quite a lot of fun.
BTW, I think the immediate flood of regular quotes may be an indication that
people might actually expect and want a plain old regular .quotes group --
which wouldn't be a bad thing, but increases the chances for copyright
problems/issues.
--Todd
[followups set to lugnet.admin.general]
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Make this one moderated. You need to explore the mechanics of a moderated group anyway. Do it here where it's relatively less likely to be controversial. Get someone to moderate it for you. Seems to me that unless someone else thinks that it (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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| (...) For a "Best of LUGNET" type of event? (...) But this is the general usage of said white boards, at least in my experience. Typically, someone would write a thoughtful / silly / angst-ridden / etc. message from an *outside* source, in order to (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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| (...) I think it is a naming thing. When I first see "QOTD" it interprets as "somewhere to put cool quotes I heard" without any accompanying "on LUGnet or RTL" being intuited by my brain. I think that what you may want to do, even though it goes (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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| (...) Well, I keep thinking of all the QOTD utilities that I've run under DOS, Windows, Linux, etc that basically generate quotes of the type people seem to want to post to this group. Many of them even used qotd as the executable name, so I think (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) I thought you were pretty clear...oh well, and I think your idea is a good one (though I would perhaps expand it to allow people to pull interesting quotes from RTL and Lego fan web pages, at least if such (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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