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Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:17:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:

> Granted, Kevin owns the site, but the community uses it. Kevin can do with
> it what he wants; but the _respectful_ thing to do would be to dialogue with
> the users over any major changes or issues before implementing them. If ads
> are forced onto BrickShelf users, it will lose a tremendous amount of value
> for me (and my guess is for a lot of others), and he will lose traffic.

Seriously? I mean, you thought the ads earlier this year for stuff like
BrickFest(sm) and Milton Train Works(tm) were so bad that Brickshelf lost a
"tremendous amount of value" for you??

> Either people will find their own places to host images, or something
> friendlier will pop up in its place.

Unless it's getting free bandwidth it will sooner or later face the same
problems, I would suspect.



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  Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
 
(...) Well, yes and no there. I'm definitely in favor of both BrickFest(sm) and Milton Train Works(tm), so those I didn't mind so much (they still got filtered through WebWasher). I guess what alarmed me was Kevin's statement in this post about (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Is Brickshelf slow for anyone else lately?
 
Hi Brian - (...) Yup. (...) I'm not *that* loyal. If Kevin makes decisions about BrickShelf which severely devalue the service for me (such as inclusion of advertisements) without soliciting the opinion of the community and providing an ad-free (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)

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