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Re: Lego(r) Master Maniac designation?
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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 07:26:14 GMT
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Steve Jacquot wrote:
> Ok, try this: a two-tier guild membership. Membership at the first
> level (journeyman?) is relatively inclusive, but non-trivial: anybody
> can get in if they're willing to work for it (something like the
> N page website might even be appropriate here). They will be self
> selected, but people who have (one way or another) demonstrated
> a commitment to the hobby. As there is no special distinction
> associated with membership, there is no invitation to abuse.
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> From their membership or (and this is the good part) from outside,
> the journeymen can elect masters, based on a collected body of work.
> This allows them to focus on true craftsmanship (as distinct from
> all the hobby stuff) and also lets them recognize people who are (for
> example) less net-privileged than the general membership.
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> They can also vote special honors for exceptional service.
I think you're on to something here. Honors for service, honors for body
of work. Separate things.
I dug up the NMRA reference:
http://users.vnet.net/paulrver/welcome.html
which describes the Achievement Program, as well as the Master Model
Railroader designation. Interesting reading. Clearly the developers of
this strived to make it the right level of achievement. They broke it
down into 11 categories grouped into 4 broad areas. You need 7 of the 11
categories, but at least one must be from each area.
One of the areas is hobby service. But Hobby service includes being an
author...
Also, Model Railroading is a huge hobby compared to ours, and many
people are NMRA members. Model Railroader, the magazine, has a paid
circulation of over 200,000 copies a month, and the RMR newsgroup gets
several times the volume of posting that RTL does. Yet in the entire
time the NMRA has had Master Model Railroader, only 280 people have
achieved it, and only 3 of *them* got all 11 certificates.
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
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| (...) The more I think about this, the more appropriate it seems. At this entry level, the objective is primarily to encourage activity, not to reward achievement, so why not let it be merit badgy? Most of the web sites people create specifically to (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Point taken, although I see nothing wrong with limiting it just to CLSotW winners, particularly since (with the 3/4 rule) that wouldn't even be a necessary qualification. But allowing the N page alternative, as if that were in some way (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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