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Re: forum opinion
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:16:11 GMT
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I totally agree with Jason on this.
In the end, I -- and probably many, many people besides myself -- just don’t
have the time to visit all the many forums that are popping up. I pretty much
gave up RTL for Lugnet. I try to occasionally read the Bricklink forums because
it’s ultimately a better place to get your bricks than is Lugnet and I am also
interested in market factors and collectability issues. I have never gone to a
bionickles site. I do not frequent FBTB, or whatever it is. I don’t want to
bookmark these other sites because I won’t end up going there regularly anyway.
Here on lugnet I tend to visit off-topic (for debate and clones), castle, and
sometimes CAD and space too. I might do a couple of pages off the main news
page too. And then there’s all those damn people posting MOCs on Brickshelf but
not announcing them here. Or they do announce them, but only with links to an
unmodded folder and then it just escapes into oblivion.
I already have to consider very carefully how I use my time, and Lugnet and
other such places are actually something akin to timekillers in between doing
other things -- like a break around the watercooler kind of thing. In the past
I often browsed Lugnet from places outside my home, literally killing time while
a date finished getting dressed or something. I don’t actively seek to have more
sites on my plate. If it gets much worse, and the community fragments even
further, just getting the word out about something will become an excessive
timesuck.
Interestingly, I have seen people start posting MOC announcements at Bricklink.
And while it’s not the reason I like Lugnet, it’s pretty obvious that one of the
early “glues” cementing the online brick community was the simple need to
acquire. For a long time, Lugnet was a better place for that than anywhere else
except maybe eBay. With the advent of Bricklink, one needs the buy/sell/trade
aspect of lugnet less and less. Now we are here mainly for the conversation.
To my mind, unless the community tries to consolidate a little more -- thereby
saving time and resources -- I think we shall ultimately fragment into
cacophony. In a way, it has already begun...the ultimate compartmentalized geek
catastrophe, brick-style!
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I couldn't disagree more. As the community grows (and, from what I know, it is growing constantly) - having a central place to communicate will devolve into cacophony. Lugnet is such a great central place because it automatically divides (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, the .starwars forum used to have quite a bit of traffic, but FBTB forum kinda killed it. I still read .starwars and never read the FBTB forum. I think that those kinds of forums are bad for the community personally. They spilt it up. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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