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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:32:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Thus, to lessen the noise levels on the root homepage, the server now
> > "hides" messages appearing in the following parts of the newsgroup tree:
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> > lugnet.admin.*
> > lugnet.market.auction
> > lugnet.market.jambalaya
> > lugnet.off-topic.*
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> I’d argue that the problem with the admin groups is that there is too little
> participation on the discussions there by the general LUGNet masses.
That's certainly not a problem at all. The admin groups exist at all because
it's better to have things out in the open for people who care, than to have
them be completely private. People who care what goes on, will participate.
People who don't care, won't. Not everyone cares, or should even have to.
Everyone's level of dedication to the hobby is different.
> Debates tend to be dominated, normally, by the “usual suspects”.
Debates tend to be dominated by people who enjoy debating or feel strongly
one way or the other about issues.
> Anything which exacerbates this, in my opinion, is not necessarily a good
> thing.
I think it's plainly clear that it's worse to air all the dirty laundry on
the homepage.
> If the contents of the posts in these groups is “ugly”, perhaps better
> phraseology is required –
Suggestions?
> not bowdlerization.
All things being equal, bowdlerization of content is undesirable, but please
understand that it's the lesser of two evils. Most people have lives outside
of the hobby, and couldn't care less to see all the non-LEGO noise. In fact,
when the noise levels reach problematic proportions, it begins to attract and
retain a different type of person (the hard-head or die-hard as opposed to the
casual user or someone into the hobby for pure reasons).
I'd like it best if people could personalize and exchange their own automatic
bowdlerizers, and am working toward this.
--Todd
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:<Fr5sEC.L2t@lugnet.com>... (...) tree: (...) little (...) because (...) The problem is, in my opinion, not enough people care. <snippped> (...) Self Restraint (...) please (...) outside (...) (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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| (...) [Todd said] (...) [then Scott replied] (...) [and Todd replied thusly] (...) I side with Todd here. In fact, this is my first substantive post to any group in lugnet.admin.* because, frankly, I don't care to be bothered with administrative (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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| (...) Todd, Are you speaking of some type of 'preferences' cookie ? Something where I could set my preferences and have the main page include/exclude the messages based on what I specified ? Ray (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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| (...) discussions. (...) I’d argue that the problem with the admin groups is that there is too little participation on the discussions there by the general LUGNet masses. Debates tend to be dominated, normally, by the “usual suspects”. Anything (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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