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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Laswell writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Eaton writes:
> > Huh-- I had actually thought that posting setup was that way by design. I
> > recall way back when Auczilla was around, someone saying that it was
> > specifically designed to be tricky to sign up for. Hence, only people who
> > were "truly serious" about it would have the perseverance to actually get on
> > the Auczilla list.
Nope! Nothing could be further from the truth, actually. To get on the
AucZILLA list, all you had to do was submit a bid -- or reply to any public
auction announcement posting. If someone forgot to include their name, I
wrote them and asked. I very much wanted as many people as possible on the
list and went to pains to make it easy.
Now, there -were- a lot of instructions to read which may have scared some
people away. But it was never designed to discourage people from signing
up, although a curious side-benefit is that it tended to weed out
less-serious folks.
> And I was under the impression that Lugnet was the same
> > way-- it's not immediately obvious how to sign up, meaning that only "real
> > fans" will sign up and post.
Nope, again, not the intention. Yes, we -do- want to weed out people who
aren't interested in being honest about their real name, but the intention
isn't to attract only certain types of fans.
> Even if that had been the intent, it would always hold the possibility
> of backfiring. I've been a read-only lurker for almost two years now, and
> every once in a while I'd e-mail someone a response to their LUGNET post if
> I felt it was important enough. I didn't sign up for membership, however,
> because one of my two main LEGO interests is Bionicle, and I was not at all
> okay with the idea of paying even $10 to sign up on a list where I'd
> probably be instantly villified for running a major Bionicle news site. If
> I'd known it was possible to sign up for posting privs without having to pay
> for a membership, I would have done so a long time ago. In fact, the idea
> that you can post without being an official "member", or being listed as a
> "guest" is a bit counterintuitive.
Ya, the current system evolved wrongly. We plan to fix that soon.
> [...] but doing it with an online LEGO fan community has the
> negative side effect of making it seem like it's a group of elitist snobs,
> and that can only hurt the overall LEGO fan community by putting them at
> odds with each other instead of encouraging them to cooperate.
Ya we don't want that.
--Todd
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