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Re: The Official "Issues List"
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:12:10 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Allister McLaren wrote:
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My main issue is with the ambassador program itself, and the veil of secrecy
that surrounds it. Far from it being a ‘two-way communication’ between fans
and the company, it seems more and more to me like it has become a buffer
between fans and the company. Regular fans are annoying to the company, so
they’ve hand picked a bunch of the more visible ones, put them under an NDA,
and then any interaction between ‘fans’ and the company can be strictly
controlled by the company.
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I fail to see how the ambassador program increases such control at all. Every
fan is still free to contact LEGO with their issues exactly as they did before,
and leak^H^H^H^H post any information they find around the place. It appears to
me reading the NDA that even ambassadors are allowed to leak information so long
as it was “rightfully obtained” and was in their possession before being
provided by TLC. Are images scraped from public TLC servers “rightfully
obtained”? I’m sure the lawyers could argue about that for years. But why not
take your own advice, and vote with your feet? If fans stop using the ambassador
program to communicate with LEGO, they will eventually stop using it too.
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I strongly encourage the ambassadors to stop all this erring on the side of
caution. I’m not asking for trade secrets to be divulged, but surely things
like fan involvement in set design, advance info on upcoming themes etc can
be announced without destroying the company.
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Probably, but that’s currently the company’s decision, not the ambassadors’.
ROSCO
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