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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:06:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Eaton wrote:
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I found that I’d be more likely to go through the sites and vote when I knew
someone who was up for a spot.
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Good point, but I would expand “people in your LUG” to include people who post
heavily in your favorite forums. There are a lot of people (heck, I’ve never
been to a brickfest, so pretty much everyone on Lugnet) that I’ve never met in
person, but feel familiar with them through their posts.
Thinking further on this, I think that another factor, perhaps related, is
complexity. I recently posted this little Johnny Carson scene and got 13 spotlights. Now, I’m not so silly as to
imagine that this creation, as a creation, holds any sort of candle to many
awesome MOCs that got fewer votes. I mean,
Kyle’s Agressor got 9 votes. One
thing on my creation, though, was that it was extremely simple, and could be
fully grokked just from the pic included in my post, while Kyle’s (IMO amazing)
ship required you to to through the gallery of pics in detail if you wanted to
see it all. So my scene, by having very little to appreciate, could be fully
appreciated in a nanosecond, and voted on in about as much time, while Kyle’s
work had so much that you couldn’t take it all in at once.
Of course, with that Johnny Carson MOC above also garnered more attention than
it perhaps should have because it was a) timely and b) sentimental. I had very
similar response when I posted a small memorial MOC for
Christopher Reeve, with 7 votes,
though not as much with Rodney
Dangerfield (2 votes) or Janet
Leigh (4 votes). These differences may certainly reflect a greater emotional
response to Carson’s and Reeve’s deaths than Dangerfield’s or Leigh’s, rather
than any inherent quality of the MOCs themselves. I recall that various 9-11
memorials were spotlighted heavily as well
(IMO this by Alan
Findlay is the best, BTW).
Bruce
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| (...) Simple, timely and sentimental - makes sense to me. Also, highlights are about the post, not the MOC. One could argue that most of the people who would appreciate Kyle's MOC (.mecha-meisters and .space-cadets) would have already seen his post (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| (...) I think it was less the ACTUAL time it took and more of the "maybe" time it took. Despite that you might check out a MOC for the same amount of time as you might spend skimming a website, an entire website is a lot more to take in. So I think (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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