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Cool LUGNET MOC of the Week (was: lugnet.announce is not for MOCs)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Jan 2002 06:17:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Not that my opinion counts for anything (since I haven't found the time to
> build a darn thing lately), but if I may, I would like to chime in with my
> support for the idea of lugnet.build.announce for strictly LUGNET-wide MOC
> announcements, for many of the reasons already discussed.
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> But further, I think it would make an awesome addition to the LUGNET head
> page, similat to the Top Stories sidebar, if there were a "Recently
> Announced MOCs" section too. This would of course be cross-genré, and fairly
> well populated and rotated (giving the head page some of that fresh content
> folks are always talking about, without having to really "do" anything but
> have the articles be automatically forwarded there from the newsgroup).
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> This would give newbies to LUGNET, especially those who just stumble across
> it, without learning what it's all about on the newsgroup side, the thing
> that they are usually looking for...access to pretty pictures of models made
> by fans. There could even be a little cross-promotion with a link to
> BrickShelf at the bottom of the sidebar (if desired).
An addendum to this idea of mine (I can't shake it...it's a good idea, so
it's rattling around in my head...):
If there were a lugnet.build.announce, everyone with a new MOC of any genré
would post their MOC announcement there and in their specific theme, with
the follow-up set to the theme group, right?
Not to poo-poo Frank's thoughts
(http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=9927), but while an announce group
for each and every theme would work, it would add alot of traffic heavy
groups to an already cluttered group landscape. While all of these groups
could, of course, feed into my head page MOC sidebar/section idea, I think
it might be too compartmentalized (C.D.S. in action...and kinda' stiffiling
the idea of posting in .announce in the first place...to reach the greatest
number of folks possible with just one post).
So the addition to my idea...
It has been discussed that the CLSotW is 1) fairly moot now, due to the
almost finite number of sites out there - most everyone has been CLSotW
once, 2) hard to keep up on a regular basis - it requires reviews, voting,
writing, etc., and 3) (referring back to 1) could likely survive as a
monthly or even quarterly voted contest.
What if instead, there was a Cool LUGNET MOC of the Week, drawn from the
lugnet.build.announce posts of the previous week? All it would require would
be drawing a random post (by formula - the 10th post this week, the 20th
post next week, etc.; by eeny-meeny-miney-moe; by whatever...though I would
avoid voting to keep it simple), the picture being drawn from wherever it
resides (in the charter for lugnet.build.announce would be the caveat that
by posting there, your MOC may be chosen as CLMOCotW, and the image will be
copied to the LUGNET server for the week to be displayed, and you agree to
this by posting). The picture and some (edited) or all of the
lugnet.build.announce post will be featured on the LUGNET head page. 10
minutes work per week for whoever gets to do it...tops. Heck, I'd even
volunteer to keep it up for a while (and it could rotate curators too...easily).
This gets the LUGNET head page both daily updated content with the
lugnet.build.announce posts being mirrored there, plus weekly updated
content again, with a fraction of the pain and work involved in CLSotW.
So whaddaya' think of the idea now? Better? I personally would love to see
this happen!
Matt
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