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Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:15:33 GMT
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The speed -or lack thereof- of Brickshelf wouldn't have anything to do with
high-trafic sites using Brickshelf for all their picture content?
Duq
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3DE55B80.461BBE65@mindspring.com...
> Alfred Speredelozzi wrote:
> >
> > You are right, Jon. People need to realize that "free" is relative • anyway.
> > Sure, Kevin did a great deed in setting up the site and helping to build • the
> > community. However, it is part of a community, and it looses most of • its
> > value if the community abandons it.
> >
> > IMHO Lego fan website owners need to learn to get out of the mentality • of "I
> > provide this wonderful service, and so you should simply appreciate me." • I
> > have seen that quite a bit, in the last year, and it is discouraging. • Most
> > of us will simply move on to some other venue.
> >
> > Of course, I know what Kevin needs: money. I feel fairly convinced he
> > doesn't have the money to keep up the bandwidth he used to have (I have • no
> > inside knowledge of that fact, however). But lacking that, paying a • little
> > attention to what his community wants (less aggregious moderation, more
> > explanations for how he is running his site) would be a good thing.
> >
> > TLG should buy Brickshelf, and give it the bandwidth it needs. They
> > probably don't want to touch it because it comes with a hornets nest of
> > intellectual property problems. However, it is that kind of overly
> > conservative legalistic thinking that keeps the official Lego sites in • such
> > a poor condition that they are in. Take a chance Lego. Spend some • money on
> > Brickshelf. It could go along way towards keeping the adult Lego frenzy
> > alive. (Which, if you ask me, just makes more kids drool over Lego.)
>
> NOOOOO.
>
> You don't want TLC to buy BrickShelf. Why? You think there is moderation
> now? You think it's painfully slow now?
>
> On the other hand, TLC could (and does) support BrickShelf.
>
> Kevin could do some investigation of costs though, and come to us with a
> couple proposals for how to fund increased bandwidth.
>
> It would also be nice if Kevin would do something to streamline
> moderation. One thing which would help would be a clear description of
> what is acceptable. It would also be nifty if people could earn trust
> points, and if you earn enough, your stuff becomes auto-moderated, until
> you cause a complaint. Or he could come up with a good system to allow
> additional moderators (though stuff seems to get moderated pretty
> quickly). One thing I would like to see is the ability of a folder
> display to be possible even if the content was unmoderated (perhaps with
> a big bold "unmoderated content" label). The recent activity would not
> show such folders, and would set a flag so you couldn't drill down into
> them (or perhaps you set a flag in the URL to be able to see an
> unmoderated folder, or perhaps members can get a preference setting so
> if they are logged on, they see unmoderated folders [this way people who
> don't want to see offensive content, or want to allow their children to
> browse without being able to see offensive content would be protected,
> the rest of us could see what we want ]). A problem with all of this is
> if Kevin is uncomfortable with offensive content appearing on a page
> with BrickShelf's logo and all (a direct link still lets one host an
> offensive picture on BrickShelf, but minimizes any apparent acceptance
> of that picture by BrickShelf).
>
> Frank
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