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| (...) By analogy with build.ancient (which is for people building stuff not covered by a current LEGO(r) theme), build.fantasy may be the best fit! Just as a check: Why doesn't it fit in space, though? If magic use is ok for .castle (IOM has flying (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I wonder how much we really need another category. I would be inclined to put most Pernese creations in .castle (since for the most part it operates at low tech, and while the Pernese dragons are supposedly creations of technology, they aren't (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) [a whole bunch of stuff, so I am going to snip this 'cuz it's a mess.] (...) Well, I think it would be a good idea to meld the Harry Potter Newsgroup, and change it to lugnet.fantasy. The newsgroup generally gets few posts, and I see a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Well, .harrypotter will stay because there is a lugnet.{theme} group for every official theme or system, no matter how frequent or infrequent the posting. The question about moving stuff out of .castle is if anyone is actually bothered by such (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) home (...) a (...) I think so... as otehrs poiinted out, LOTR stuff would fit well in there too and there are many otehr fantasy book series which people might be interested in building/talking about if (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Frank, I don't think Kevin (the original poster) is seeking to have things move out of .castle but he wants a place for the type of fantasy that he does not feel belongs in .castle nor .space in the first place. He is not seeking the (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) This is sounding like a good plan. build.fantasy Of course, this may invite space folks to request build.sci-fi... there are probably plenty of them who would argue that sci-fi = space about as much as fantasy = castle. (...) I agree. It (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Then there are those who rankle at the word "sci-fi" and pronounce it "skiffy". It's "SF", thankyouverymuch. According to such people, anyway. There is a big difference between the tacky "sci-fi" epitomized by 1950's B-movies and some of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Some questions though to ask before adding a new group are (and some good examples): 1. is it truly needed (i.e. are there complaints about where people are posting something that can't be resolved by directing the traffic to an existing group (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I have a different set of questions: 1. Does it reflect a type of posting that can reasonably be expected on LUGNET, that does not have an obvious home? Sorry, I guess that's just one question. There's little harm in creating new groups, (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) are (...) as (...) I disagree that there is little harm in creating new groups. While I am definitely a compartmentalized dork, I also realize that I will really only look at a limited number of groups (probably about 20 on a regular basis). (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) On the other hand, discussion of set 4818 (for one example), clearly has no basis in reality or history, yet belongs in .castle because .castle is about the LEGO theme Castle. So discussion of fantastical stuff does have a place in .castle. So (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) You point out someting which I was somewhat ignoring, that someone posting the material is asking for a new group, however, a quick search for Pern on Lugnet finds 22 posts, 7 of which are in the thread which Kevin started, 8 of which (at the (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) That's odd. . .I was just thinking that adding more groups might be a problem for Web readers, since that's more clicks to follow each group of interest. For NNTP it's easy (at least with Pine and, I assume, other newsreaders): if the group is (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Actually, LOTR and Pern would probably door quite well together if placed in a fantasy group. Since LOTR really doesn't revolve around castle, and is positioned so far beyond the verge of fantasy, where it really has nothing to do with castle, (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I think I disagree with your characterisation of LOTR. It is just as relevant to castle as Isle of Mist, and it certainly is not "so far beyond the verge of fantasy" (after all, it is usually taken as one of the definitive works of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) It's nearer to Castle than Space, but I started thinking about the commonality with castle and there isn't that much either. Pern has no castles (holds and weyrs hollowed out of rock faces, and craft halls, (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) So (...) I disagree, I don't feel that LUGNET is over-compartmentalized at this point, and I find it easier to add groups I want to read to my newsreader and ignore other groups, than to wade through extremely (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I use Netscape, and at work at least, used to have it only display groups with unread messages. Currently though, my Netscapes are all set up to show all groups (in fact, I don't see a way to tell it to not display groups with no unread (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Well, .castle certainly is busy, and that may be a good reason to split it. What I am trying to push though is to make sure we think about the split, and not just create a new group based on one small (currently) thread. (...) This is a real (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| Hi all, I'm a daily reader of .castle and one of those who has posted LotR creations (and in actuality there are only two of us who have posted multiple LotR creations). I would strongly argue against creating a new group for fantasy. My reasons: 1. (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| After doing some reading and thinking, I feel that a new group is not needed at this time. In fact, its addition may even lead to more harm than good. I thought Frank made some excellent points in this post: (URL) was so good, IMHO, it ought to end (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| After doing some reading and thinking, I feel that a new group is not needed at this time. In fact, its addition may even lead to more harm than good. I thought Frank made some excellent points in this post: (URL) was so good, IMHO, it ought to end (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) Build.fiction, fantasy, what's the difference? In the long run, I would consider both to really fit in the same categoory, since, they're both fiction, and of course, fantasy can really fit into any genre is you stop to think about it. (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) build.fiction makes it more clear that the group is open to both SF and fantasy (and romance, and various other "fiction" themes). Of course as you point out, most of what we do is fantasy, and is also fiction, but I think most of us would (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) needed (...) I don't think it would actually do harm, but I'm OK with it not being created, now that the discussion has clarified where the orphaned Pern thread should be located. <goes back to reading "Skies (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) I'm not sure what you mean by 'in the long run'... Just to clarify, adding a group called build.fiction would have the intent of attracting posters whose building may be inspired by: TRON, Blade Runner, Hello Kitty, Le Morte D'Arthur, Monty (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) :) !!!!! Now I want to make some Dr. Seuss MOCs. I'm not quite sure how, but there has to be a way. Bruce (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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