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Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
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lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community
Date: 
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:53:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matt Hein writes:
> In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> 
> > Over the better part of the last year, I've done a lot of thinking about the
> > LEGO hobby and the LEGO community, trying to develop a philosophy on it
> > which I use to channel my efforts, energies, and interactions. I'm
> > interested in hearing others' thoughts on the LEGO community.
> 
> Okay, it looks like you must have had a nice amount
> of time on your hands in order to come up with such a
> question - time I would normally spend building.
> 
> > Particularly - what do you think the LEGO community includes? what does it
> > exclude?
> 
> Step back and look at the arrangement of themes. For
> some reason, the community doesn't seem the most
> receptive towards bionicles (hence, BZCommunity),
> and of course, for sellers, we have the Bricklink
> Forums. FBTB caters more to Star Wars than lugnet
> ever would...
> 
> And how do you exactly define 'community?'. Is
> it comprised out of every person whom utilizes
> lego for some purpose or another, or those whom
> participate online and discuss? I really think
> this is an ambiguous question which really doesn't
> have a definite answer.
> 
> And if a true answer doesn't really exist, what's
> the point of pondering, then?

Isn't pondering the unaswerables pretty much what philosphy is generally about?

You seemed to be interested in writing a lot in response to a question you
didn't seem to deem worthy of answering.

You seem to want to disagree with this post on a lot of points yet... merely
stating your opinion does pretty much what Tim asks.  Kind of ironic.

Sorry if this sounds critical.



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  Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) Hey Ken - Thanks for posting this. I happened across your post first, then Matt's. I was very close to posting a reply I had written to his post, but didn't want to taint the thread with something negative. I think the ideas put forth in this (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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  Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) Okay, it looks like you must have had a nice amount of time on your hands in order to come up with such a question - time I would normally spend building. (...) Step back and look at the arrangement of themes. For some reason, the community (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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