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Re: Hope to help, edify and soothe, but probably won't
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Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:54:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Justin Pratt writes:
> In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:
<lil' snippage>
First, let me say thank you to Dave K., who I think wrote a wonderful post
at the beginning of this thread. Then Justin wrote...
> ...but this comes with the understanding
> that the sites exist largely at the whims of their owners. If they think that
> it's not worth it, the sites will expire, despite anyone's best wishes or
> well-written posts.
This may be true with regards to the specific sites mentioned. It does give
me reason to provide thanks and gratitude to certain people (such as Todd &
Suz & a few other 'founding members'). However, and I mean no offense to
them, my love for the online FOL community is such that I would hate to see
it ever dissolve simply because of a hypothetical future decision on the
part of any of them. I'd like to think our community is bigger than that,
that somehow these sites exist because of all of us. I'd like to think that
we as a group would find a replacement if one or more of these sites up and
closed.
It is almost frightening that our community could be shut down at the whims
of a tiny number of people. Don't get me wrong, I think that our Admins
have done a fine job of recognizing even the parts of FOLdom that don't
interest them by being relatively unbiased when operating in an Admin role.
However, there are a million reasons why they could lose heart or be forced
to turn away from their duties at some point in the future.
One wonders what could be done to prevent that sort of thing. What do other
hobbyists and clubs do to prevent being shut down if their founding members
leave the community? Do they incorporate? Do they form official
organizations that in turn legally buy the 'property' of things like
websites? One wonders... How do we preserve our community? How do we plan
for all future contingenies? ... Should we?
Regardless of all my babbling here, I will note that Lugnet and certain
other AFOL related sites are my primary reason for going online. If not for
the online FOL community, I would seriously consider saving my money and not
even bothering to have an ISP.
Whether these sites are perfect or not, I commend everyone who runs them and
everyone who contributes to them, you have transformed my hobby to have an
added dimension I would not wish to be without.
Thank you all!
-Hendo
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| (...) Agreed--this is the obvious part. I have a personal website that's been up since '94 and continues to be up only at the auspices of, well, me. Why do I have a website up? There's never been a consensus on that one ;) It'll stay up until, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Hope to help, edify and soothe, but probably won't
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| (...) We've thought about this before in rtlToronto between Chris and I and neither of us think it's enough of an issue to have some sort of "business continuity plan". If either of us aren't interested in it anymore, we figure someone else in (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have no idea how I'd 'feel', but here's what I'd think: "Looks like the bandwidth bills got to be too much. Sad, but it's time to move on." Come to think of it, Brickshelf sometimes hasn't been there before. I can't imagine the effort (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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