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Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
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lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:39:15 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> Actually Don, I agree with all those points and am in favor of authors
> having the option to post their DAT/LDR/MPD files along with the images.
> 
> My point is that within the scope of a completed model, having a contest
> on how the model is expressed in the source files is just too shallow a
> topic to justify a contest.  Did you miss my point?

I got the point, but I'm not completely convinced.  Anyhow, I really
only suggested the LDRotM contest because I'm afraid the model sellers
might be influential enough to eliminate even the *option* of publishing
the LDR files in the MotM contest under the guise of "fairness".  On
ldraw.org of all places, the home of the LDR file.

> > But that sort of contest already has a home at The Building
> > Instructions Portal:  http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions/
> 
> This contest is a lottery.  The quality of the building instructions is
> irrelevent.

Well that may be true, but I still think BIP is a more natural home
for a Building Instructions contest than ldraw.org.

Don



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  Re: Proposed changes to MOTM Submission guidelines
 
(...) Actually Don, I agree with all those points and am in favor of authors having the option to post their DAT/LDR/MPD files along with the images. My point is that within the scope of a completed model, having a contest on how the model is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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