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| | | (...) Me too -- they belong right alongside regular Bionicle discussions, IMHO. The funny thing is, they belong more in a lugnet.debate than they do in lugnet.off-topic.debate. I haven't been successful yet (ever) at getting people not to have LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Ok, to be more clear about it: I would rather see this problem dealt with than see the group made to try and cause it to happen organically. I certainly agree that on topic debates moving to lugnet.off-topic.debate is bad- for one thing, that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) So if I'm willing to possibly take a lesser offer, or willing to take a bunch of sets in trade, that's an auction? If there is a group which is strictly for "this is the price, first person gets it and giving me this exact amount of money is (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) There will always be gray areas and blurred lines. The only real way to avoid them is to jump to one extreme or the other- ie: either one group (.market.anything-goes) or a multiplicity of groups (.auction.ebay, .auction.private, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) It's not -just- that, though... It's also that we don't have any "on-topic" type of debate group, just as for the longest time we didn't have any "on-topic" fun group. Uhh, that doesn't come out right. OK, what Shiri Dori wrote here: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm still not a big fan of auctions. I think/find that auctions in general (and ebay in particular) give the appearance that the market & collectability aspects of the hobby are more important/prominant than the building/community aspects of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) What about lugnet.general? That's a basic group for talking about LEGO. Human interaction (in an NNTP type forum) only comes in so many flavors, and debate is a big one. (...) Uh. I didn't say that everything else *was* an auction, I just said (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I'm concerned about seeing protracted debates in .general or other places. The .general group is (or should be) kept as "sacred" as possible as a friendly meeting spot. Well, .build should be even more sacred than general, for that matter, but (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) Umm. I dunno. If that's the kind of traffic you want to unload, then certainly a lugnet.debate group is the way to go. (...) Oh, ok. Well, then, I am useless to you, because I have no ideas. :D lugnet.not-a-straight-sale is unweildly. I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Rose Regner
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| | | | | | | Lorbaat wrote in message ... (...) in (...) Any (...) What about market.auction and market.nonauction. I of course would like to see market.auction.Ebay, market auction.nonebay, market.nonauction(sales?), or market.non auction sale.buy trade Rather (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Dave Low
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| | | | | | (...) I think that lugnet.debate would be useful for on-topic controversy (eg perennial faves "does Lego encourage violence?", "why are all minifigs yellow?", "how much does juniorisation suck?"). It should be a default skip-filter though, as should (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | | | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message <3aa3d748.171657156@...et.com>... (...) will (...) I don't think this issue is ever going to NOT be sticky - wherever you draw the line between For Sale and Auction, Todd, someone will misunderstand or disagree and stick (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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