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Scott Schurich (whatever happened to him?) used to have a "Faces of RTL" site at Perdue (it no longer seems to be working). Ever consider doing that for LUGNET? (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think this would be a great Idea. I would guess that it would just be Names and Pictures so we would know who we were talking to. I know that I have put rules up for my site when I host model pictures. I don't allow things like Ages, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Personally, I would find such a page funny. I recently checked out a page with pictures from a LEGOfest and was amused to see what people looked like. But I would hardly say that such a page is needed. If anybody bothers to maintain such a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) How about a place where people submit minifigs that look like them? I have made a minifig of myself, take a look here to see what I mean: (URL) could avoid any "bad stuff," and nobody would ever know if you were an AFOL or not. Greg (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) In addition to pictures and names (and maybe email), you could potentially allow the user to associate a link with their pic. At the end of the link (on thier site) they could putwhatever contact/bio information they wished... this could (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Harshbarger writes: snip (...) I was thinking that with Adults I would be able to link to Home Pages if they have one along with having a short Bio. Other things that could be included would be favorite Themes/Projects (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) hosting (...) contact (...) I (...) Just to throw in my $0.02 (and I'm not disagreeing with much that has been said so far): Fairness to minors is not the issue. Don't let your bleeding heart ever get in the way here. It's not really up to the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) pictures (...) being (...) Tom, Thanks, these are basically exactly what my concerns are you just explain it much better. I currently host pictures of others models and their descriptions of their models but I have had to edit much of what I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) At this stage in its development, it kind of does aim for that a little bit. That is, it's been a conscious decision to make the site much more appealing and useful to adult LEGO Maniacs than to kids or parents of LEGO-Maniac kids, while (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) This is exactly why I like it here so much. For so many years I did not build with Lego because "society" said it was a toy and a 30 year old should not build with Lego (Society and Peer presure suck some times). Then one day I was helping my (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've seen your site and it's very nice. Keep up the good work/fight. (...) It's a safer policy I have to admit. Though I do kinda like the idea that someone had of using minifigs for faces. :-) (...) No prob. I just thought I'd relate a true (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well said Eric! I agree, Todd deserves a lot of credit. I also liked your point about how society looks upon a 30 year old playing with toys. Boy did that bring back memories. I left my dark ages in 1979 (at age 26) and was thrown into the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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