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    standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Stephen F. Roberts
   Use the following message to explain why _you_ are a "Fan No More"(tm). Save this message for next year when a whole new batch of "Fan no More"(tm) messages will surface... ---...---cut here---...--- standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 [ ] (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general) !! 
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —David Simmons
     Jeez, Stephen! Granted my post wasn't positive, but I think you now look the bigger whiner here. In my post I addressed completely legitimate complaints with a product I've loved for decades (and which I feel completely justified in offering an (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Kevin Blocksidge
      (...) I thought Stephen's post was humorous. He's got a point: people need to lighten up. I know of a lot of great builders who've gotten fed up with all the complaining that goes on at Lugnet, so much so that they don't read or post often anymore. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Stephen F. Roberts
       On 20:21 07/12/2004, Kevin Blocksidge wrote (...) Hey! I'm good with the sarcastic crap! I definitely do not think LEGO is above criticism... Its mostly that its like a repeating thread. wub doesn't let too much upset him... tho "next"ing thru an (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
      
           Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —David Simmons
        Glad to see you have a sense of humor, Stephen! :-) That post just felt a little too specifically aimed and I was not laughing. :-| Let me try this one more time and then I'll shut up for good. I (and we) have watched TLG go up and down in many (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
       
            Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Terry Prosper
        I'm not at all desiring to get involved in this flame-war. I want to ask a simple question to you about this post though. What is the click-hinge conversion you are talking about? I like those click-hinge parts and I use them when I need them, but (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
       
            Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —David Laswell
         (...) It all boils down to the fact that nearly all hinged pieces are being replaced with click-hinge equivalents. One particularly noted instance is the conversion from (URL) this part> to (URL) this part>. The second pic doesn't really do a good (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
       
            Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —David Simmons
        I don't have a beef with the click-hinge parts at all as an addition to the Legoverse, but if you look at Purple Dave's post he'll give you some examples of how click-hinges are, in fact, replacing all the old fingered hinged pieces. I don't mind (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
      
           Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Tony Alexander
       (...) You owe me some new LEGO pieces. Squeeker Squeek Sqeekety Squeeker Squeeken Peace and Long Life, Tw0nst3r (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Devin Michel
      (...) better yet, two seperate BLOCS! {Live life and build it!} :-Devin (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Richie Dulin
     (...) The form letter left out a key sentence: This subject is far too serious to joke about. (...) But was he actually complaining, or just commenting? Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Orion Pobursky
     In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote: <snip> (...) I'm going to go on the record in saying that there *nothing* too serious to joke about. -Orion (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)  
    
         Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Peter Roberts
     (...) I'm with Orion. Just so long as he forgives me for what I said about studless technic. I'm young (14) and inexperienced... I didn't know what I'd started... Well, I probably did, but I didn't have enough sense to stop it. (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Kerry Raymond
   (...) While a message template is useful, I think what we really need to do is fully exploit the magic of IT and instead have a WWW form on lugnet with little drop-down lists and checkboxes etc, which is then automatically posted to a set of (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Stephen F. Roberts
   On 16:55 07/13/2004, Kerry Raymond wrote (...) You do not go far enough! We could further save bandwidth by taking everyone's generated opinions and converting them into a handy string of numbers that represent their feelings on issues. (all done (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Too many characters. Why not just do a Geek Code subset to explain how peeved (or unpeeved) you are? (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Stephen F. Roberts
   On 20:20 07/13/2004, Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) So monthly they could get a message 1 or 0 with the magic of IT, of course --- wubwub aka stephen f roberts wildbrick.com - Jain's Guide : Promoting more than just the MOC (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: standard FAN-NO-MORE complaint form v0.9.3 —Peter Roberts
   (...) How about a program to automatically write rants, you click on easy buttons which automatically enter commonly used phrases. When you have finished, it gives you a rating based on how many times you have used caps lock, underline and italics. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
 

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