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Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:39:22 GMT
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Todd,
I simply can't agree with this - you're basically relegating any AFOL that gets
lucky enough to be hired by TLG to Second Class Citizen status, even though they
are STILL AFOLs, just their employer has changed.
Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > Before we get too spun up we ought to hear from Todd on what the problem
> > this new posting restriction is solving actually is.
>
> What may have confused people is if they were looking to some existing
> problem that this is supposed to be solving. It's actually not about
> solving a problem. It's about avoiding dilution of what the community is.
>
> LUGNET discussion groups were founded for fans to talk to other fans. The
> LEGO Company isn't a fan -- it is a business, and its purpose in life is to
> sell products and make money. It doesn't talk like fans, it doesn't think
> like fans, and it isn't _part of_ the community it spawned, no matter how
> seductive it may be to believe that.
>
> In other words, this isn't about clarifying whether or not a given post is
> official or unofficial -- it's about making sure that official LEGO Company
> business simply stays within the ordained areas. This fits exactly with
> what we discussed with Brad Justus last year after the massive high-traffic
> threads in the .dear-lego group. I'm almost positive that we did not
> discuss LEGO employees posting to the community outside of the special
> lugnet.lego.* area. LEGO doesn't need to be able to conduct business in the
> theme groups and other groups in order to maintain a presence here and
> communicate with its consumers.
>
> We still welcome LEGO here -- that has never changed -- it just became
> apparent yesterday that we would need to reassert and reclarify the
> boundaries. If LEGO officially has issues with these boundaries, they know
> how to use the telephone.
>
> --Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) gets (...) they (...) I totally disagree with this. They are still free to post anywhere using a non-lego.com address. They're still the same person. Just as I choose to post using my personal rather than my professional address. It makes it (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
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| (...) How does it relegate them to second class citizen status? They are still more than welcome to post anywhere they want, using a non-LEGO address. And given Yahoo, Hotmail, etc, it's neither hard nor expensive to obtain a second email address (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Can you elaborate on what you mean by "sanctity"? I'm sensing that there's some problem here that you're more aware of than some of us. It may be that it's too sensitive to go into, so that's fine if that's the case. But my perception was that (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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