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Re: The Improve .Mecha Thread
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Tue, 11 May 2004 21:23:16 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Soren Roberts wrote:
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Like the title says. Give at least three ways to make .mecha a better, more
mindblowing newsgroup. No more half-hearted complaints, let’s thrash out just
what we want to do to rock everybody’s moms harder and longer.
Just two restrictions I’d like to apply:
1. No alternate website ideas. The idea is to improve the venue we have,
not siphon off traffic and nearly kill it like .castle.
2. No requests for massive recoding/restructuring. Sorry, Greg, but Todd’s
not gonna rewrite Lugnet so you can have your ideal community forum.
Here are mine:
Relax. Don’t worry about posting frequency, volume of models, etc. Look at
.space. Nowhere near the amount of complaining about lack of activity that
other groups have. If nothing happens for a month, that’s fine, let it go.
Foster discussion. Bring up influences on design, share details of your
process, or talk about cool stuff you’d like to build soon. Post pictures of
the half-finished mecha sitting on your desk.
You don’t have to be original, most of this has been covered before, but get
ideas flowing. Get comfortable with the others in the group. Don’t ask what
everyone else is doing to foster discussion, do it yourself. Be so cool we
can’t help but respond.
Start a contest. Build to a monthly theme. Harass people who haven’t
posted in a while. Let’s do this!
Soren
(Rude and uncouth, yes. Very probably wrong, yes. But somebody had to.)
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I heartily approve. I’ll gladly admit I have contributed very little aside from
posting my occasional finished projects because I don’t really have any
discussion history with anyone and feel a bit like an outsider, but I read
.mecha constantly and look at every single MOC that gets posted. I also have
tons of outside influences and other pursuits to discuss if people want to
broaden the discussion or also if we want to get to really specific part related
or engineering discussions. For instance, I rarely see any discussions about
joints or building styles that carry along any real clear or useful images or
follow out to an end where you begin to have a teenie revelation about another
way of negotiating space and form with the brick(s). I think some of the
builders here have a gift for creating space and form with this basic lego
language that is really astounding and it would be great to see more discussion
and participation + I’ll be the first to join in! -> .mecha is the main reason I
got back into building a few years ago - I started to realize that my
understanding of the brick as a way to express and explore ideas and concepts
could really transcend the standard “brick on top of brick” vocabulary and take
the lego aesthetic to new places - that’s what makes .mecha so interesting as a
group. So - again a hearty shout of approval, let’s get this thing kickin’.
Along with more frequent discussion it would be great to be able to see more of
the recent MOC’s in the sidebar so that it’s easier to jump around and see what
people are doing... and also great to see people post links or images of sources
of influence, etc...
::Lee::
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Lee Schulz wrote: I hate to nag right off, but could you please break up your paragraphs in the future? It's easier on the eyes. (...) I think we need to work on changing that in a big way. My perception is that .mecha isn't (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Like the title says. Give at least three ways to make .mecha a better, more mindblowing newsgroup. No more half-hearted complaints, let's thrash out just what we want to do to rock everybody's moms harder and longer. Just two restrictions I'd like (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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