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Re: The Improve .Mecha Thread
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 13 May 2004 13:43:55 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Anthony Sava wrote:
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1. No alternate website ideas. The idea is to improve the venue we have,
not siphon off traffic and nearly kill it like .castle.
Soren
(Rude and uncouth, yes. Very probably wrong, yes. But somebody had to.)
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I just did some checking before I posted this. I wouldn’t want to post
something incorrect. There have been just as many posts in frequency and
number in .castle as before and after Classic-Castle was created. I would
even argue that there has been more activity in .castle since. I had to go
through nearly 1800 posts just to get back to when Classic-Castle was
launched in September, doesn’t feel like .Castle is all that dead.
It was mentioned elsewhere in this thread that discussion of basics would be
a beneficial, and that because it has already been discussed it hasn’t been
discussed again. Because of C-C’s age and design, basic and advanced
construction techniques have been brought up and discussed many times, and
helpful and useful articles, sometimes coming out of these discussions have
and can be posted to the website for future reference.
Classic-Castle has also discovered at least 50 to 100 and maybe even 150 new
AFOLs and TFOLs that did not like or never wanted to post to Lugnet, as their
personal preference was against Lugnet’s design or community. I don’t think
you’d complain about getting 50 or 150 new members to .mecha. I could be
wrong though.
I’m not sure where you got your information that .castle was killed off
because another website was created. Larry P. even commented in the C-C
forums that the website was a perfect compliment, as opposed to competitor,
with Lugnet and Lugnet.castle, and Lar is one of the most pro-Lugnet people I
know.
He’s even flat out said that “It hasn’t killed off lugnet.castle the way that
lugnet.starwars was lessened by FBTB... lots of people still post in both
places and there’s healthy traffic back and forth.” Sorry, Lar, if you
didn’t want that quoted.
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No, no, not at all,,, in fact I,m VERY glad you quoted me... I would have
brought it up eventually, but it’s better that you did. Thanks!
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If you don’t want to make an off-site area for .mecha, that’s fine, but
please don’t deface and shoot down a working and thriving community with such
incorrect blanket statements.
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I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment there.
An off-site area is not necessarily the (or one of several) right answer(s) but
it’s not GIVEN that it’s the wrong answer either. Assuming your desired outcome
is a healthy community that shares successfully in both places. (and that’s not
a given either. maybe it is, maybe it isn’t) it is probably very doable. Learn
from CC, learn from FBTB... there are good things about both (although as a “pro
LUGNET person” I of course like how CC turned out better since there’s more
synergy), and lessons for you too, if you want them.
All that said, I think there may be more castle people than there are mecha
people, even if you factor in the lurkers out there... you could argue that as a
fan created theme there are likely to be less lurkers for .mecha (but I’m not
sure about that...), and as a relatively new theme, there are also likely to be
less lurkers.
I could be all wet though. I wish you all the best no matter what! Good luck in
your investigation. If you come up with interesting conclusions around things
that LUGNET could be doing to make things easier, and you don’t think I caught
them, please ping me, the Transition Team is very interested in this kind of
stuff..
++Lar (an anime fan if not the biggest anime fan on LUGNET)
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