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Re: Why the absence of LD in their own newsgroup?
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:46:20 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Richard Marchetti writes:
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> Could Lego Direct create a competing discussion forum? Perhaps, but I doubt
> one would get very far with any real open and honest discussion of how their
> new stuff is poorly designed and lacking any real bricks. ...
While this is probably an unneeded 'me too' post, I was also thinking about
what the LEGO-run discussion forum would be like:
- Since lego.com's audience is appreciably younger than LUGNET's, every
message would need to be monitored and censored to be child-appropriate.
- There'd be no motivation for messages that show how to beat
shop.lego.com's prices, bricklink ads, secondary set resale and the like.
- Clone-talk would be off-limits.
- Criticism of LEGO's retail arm would be off-limits, as well as criticism
of any facet of corporate policy.
- Themes that have not been welcome in LEGO's product line, like
build.military, would have no place.
- Their would be no tie-in to other message boards, like in .robotics.
- It is unlikely that NNTP and e-mail gateways would be permitted (since
it's difficult to include ads in an NNTP newsreader).
I'm just scratching the surface. Additionally, I can't imagine LEGO coming
up with competition for LUGNET's set guide. Sure, they could catalogue their
own offerings, but I doubt they'd include member rankings and comments (at
least not the negative ones).
Cary
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| (...) Right, that's the reality of discussing their product lines (of course, some of us also speak very favorably about clone brands too, but whatever). If TLC/Lego Direct were allowed to make "product placement" type comments in different (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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