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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:45:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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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).
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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 since it was appropriately posted to those
groups. On the other hand, your post on the Johnny Carson would have been of
interest to any American, and they don’t all hang out in .town.
Finally, I don’t think people use highlighting merely as a vote on quality of a
MOC - I think they use it simply as an attention seeking device. “Take a look at
this everyone”. Highlighting behaviour would be quite different if people
thought highlights were votes for MOC of the week.
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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, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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