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Re: A challenge to anyone interested
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 9 May 2007 11:16:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
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I don’t post here on LUGNET all that much anymore, though I lurk a good bit.
Over the years, I’ve seen (as I suspect we’ve all seen) many an eager AFOL
happily post a message to share an MOC, only to post a less happy message a
few days later when no one has offered even the slightest comment. If the
MOC is posted on Brickshelf or Maj, then the poster can naturally see the
“views” counter, but it’s somehow more satisfying to read someone’s feedback,
even if it’s as simple as “nice job!” or the like. But you know that it’s
intensely frustrating to pour your creativity into an MOC only to have it
sink into obscurity soon thereafter
So here’s the challenge, for all who check in on LUGNET once per day or so.
Each week, find someone’s announcement about an MOC and post a purely
positive (but honest) comment about it. Nothing snarky, and nothing
back-handed: no posts like “it sucks less than most of your stuff.”
If possible, make it about an MOC with few (if any) comments already posted.
This may require a bit of digging, but that’s why it’s a challenge! Poke
around in groups that you don’t normally visit. Comment on an MOC by someone
with whom you don’t usually get along.
I got the idea after seeing Simon Smith’s
HMS Inevitable go without a
comment for five months in the Boats group. Simon clearly put a lot of
effort into this ship, and it bummed me out that no one had replied.
It’s my thought that this sort of interaction will help boost the ambient
friendliness of LUGNET. And at worst, it’ll make someone feel proud of an
MOC that they’d thought no one had noticed.
If you don’t step up and say something nice, I’m going to sneak in and
replace a goodly fraction of your LEGO collection with Mega Bloks from my
stash, and I’ve got enough to do it, so watch out!
Dave!
Don’t forget to check out The Bloks Forum
for discussions of all manner of construction toys.
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Highly familiar (apart from plugging
the forum of evil) post. As you can probably guess I agree completely with you.
It really doesn’t take that much time to comment on something (except pirate
MOCs in my case). When I made my post I noticed there was an increase for a
little while afterwards but then it trailed off again (although I think it is
still a slightly better that before) so I’m going to add to your request a
request for people to keep it up for longer.
I’ve seen Lugnet accused of elitism before and with the posting habits of its
members I’m beginning to think that it might be true. There’s a difference
between being jaded by high quality and being unable to see the good in
something of less high quality.
Spotlighted!
Tim
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