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Subject: 
Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
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lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community
Date: 
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:32:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Amy Hughes writes:
In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
Are there people out there that are interested in LEGO, have come by
this site and been turned away?  ...What are some of the reasons that
people have not stayed or gone away after experiencing this
community?

From someone whose interest has waned...

Lugnet and the clubs that have formed through meeting here have a collective
personality, for better or worse. I find this community to be competitive,
opinionated and territorial.

I definitely concur on that point.

That's okay. I can be competitive, opinionated and
territorial, too. Particularly the opinionated part :-)  But my participation
is limited by how much I care to be involved in contests of will, and frankly,
I'm all tuckered out ;-)

On many points, I hear ya there. I'm trying to bring discussions about the
community out in the open, since my efforts behind the scenes and in
personal projects have not been successful - partially due to those contests
of will.

-Tim



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howD all, as a professional online community manager and developer, i also agree that the lego community needs to "get w/ the program" as it were. online communities are held together by sharing standards among multiple kinds of websites re: their (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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  Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) From someone whose interest has waned... Lugnet and the clubs that have formed through meeting here have a collective personality, for better or worse. I find this community to be competitive, opinionated and territorial. That's okay. I can be (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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