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Re: 2 x Armada Flagship = Armada Warship
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:01:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.terms, Larry Pieniazek writes:

> To Eric: One thing I gleaned from your replies to Jude (and I agree with you,
> thrash this out, it's good to discuss, even if you happen to be wrong about
> the
> issue itself :-) ) is that the order that stuff was posted was part of the
> problem?
> 
> Had it been posted in the other order (to pirates first, then to
> marketplace) it would have been OK?
> 
> That seems unsupportable. The order posted and the order read have only a weak
> correlation.

Ah... hmmm.

First, as I tried to hint to you earlier, I don't really think that this post
was necessarily nothing but a blatant flog.  I did think it raised an
interesting point to debate, though, because it would be easy to flog in this
manner and claim that you were "just discussing a model you built".

I certainly think that Frank's suggestion of more discussion about the building
techniques used would lend more value to a post like this in the theme specific
groups- of course, I also understand that this idea puts people selling custom
sets over a bit of a barrel- explain too much, an people will just build your
set without buying it from you.  I guess including a certai number of
hard-to-get parts would mitigate that a bit, though.

Anyway.  The order certainly set off a flag in my head, and I can honestly say
done the other way 'round I probably wouldn't have even noticed it.

However, I think the correlation between the order posted and the order read:
A) Is pretty strong (a lot of people read Lugnet every day, and even if they
don't, most of the people I know read threaded discussion groups in
chronological order) and b) is a straw man, because the order people read the
posts in has *absolutely* nothing to with the intention behind those posts.

Sorry to take so long to reply to these things, I haven't been anywhere near a
keyboard lately, and I'm about to go away again.  Ah, glorious freedom!

eric



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  Re: 2 x Armada Flagship = Armada Warship
 
(...) weak (...) but these posts were to different groups. I dunno about you, but my MO is to start reading a group that interests me from where I left off, till I reach the end, then dip into another one. Hence, the order posted, if fairly close (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.terms)

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  Re: 2 x Armada Flagship = Armada Warship
 
(...) So how would you "grade" this one? I see it as a big contribution to the theme group and not at all a flog. Eric, I think, sees it rather more like pure flog with little or no redeeming value. Some specific guidance from you, since you're the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.terms)

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