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Re: The Official "Issues List"
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:10:33 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, William R. Ward wrote:
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Richie Dulin wrote:
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Well, community members have been repeatedly raising all the other issues
on the list...
So, should we ignore them and put saving 9V trains to number 1 regardless
of what community members are actually bringing to our attention and asking
us to follow up?
I guess we could, but that strikes me as being arrogant in the extreme:
“Lots of community members came to us with this list of complaints, but they
don’t really know what’s important, so we put this other issue straight to
the top of the list”.
I’m not sure that sort of approach would be terribly well received, either.
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I just took a look at the current list (from
http://news.lugnet.com/ambassadors/ right?) and I think there is a good
reason to place 9V ahead of all of those issues:
If none of those issues are addressed by LEGO, there is no change. If the 9V
trains issue is not addressed, things will get much, much worse for the
hobby.
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Well, the end of 9V trains would mean no change to my involvement in the hobby:
no change to my purchasing patterns, no change to the amount of stuff I build,
and so on.
By contrast, for example, if a portion of the product range is not available in
my country, then there is a pretty good chance I won’t buy.
But that’s just me as an individual. I can look at the bigger picture, and
appreciate that the end of 9V trains would probably have an affect on a number
of community members, and MAY alter their purchasing patterns and the stuff they
build.
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In other words, I think it’s more important to prevent something which will
have at least as big of an impact on some AFOLs as the color change had - I
can easily see a number of trainheads abandoning the hobby if 9V trains are
canceled - than to improve the existing product.
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I do wonder about the impact the colour change really had (and I acknowledge
that, for some community members, it meant the end of their involvement, but
there hasn’t been a mass exodus), so yes, I guess the end of 9V trains could
have more of an impact.
There’s also the possibility that improving the existing product would draw more
fans in than the end of 9V trains would lose. That is, of course, pure
speculation on my part, but then, your assessment of “a number of trainheads
abandoning the hobby” is speculation too.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
Community Member
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: The Official "Issues List"
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| Nelson / Richie, Thanks again for posting this list, and for your diligent work as LEGO Ambassadors. (I hope that you get paid for it) I think I also need to say that I am appalled by 9V Trains not being on the original list. Are you guys (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
| | | Re: The Official "Issues List"
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| (...) Richie, I don't like to attack people, but I find your view of the 9V train issue not very becoming of a LEGO Ambassador. Because you do not purchase 9V trains does not mean that everyone else does not purchase 9V trains. I'm sure there are (...) (17 years ago, 2-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: The Official "Issues List"
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| (...) I just took a look at the current list (from (URL) right?) and I think there is a good reason to place 9V ahead of all of those issues: If none of those issues are addressed by LEGO, there is no change. If the 9V trains issue is not addressed, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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