Subject:
|
A New Plan (WAS Re: Whatever happened...)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
|
Date:
|
Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:44:14 GMT
|
Highlighted:
|
!
(details)
|
Viewed:
|
591 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote:
> I was perfectly for the 'ignore them' routine. The situation, however, is that
> the company of our chosen hobby has representatives here and they see the
> shenanigans and the b*tchfest going on by a vocal minority. How then can we, as
> adult fans of the LEGO community, build up a relationship with TLC? How is TLC
> suppose to take us seriously?
A few thoughts:
I was fairly active on RTL from '93 or '94 until '96, and less active but a
frequent reader of LUGNET from late 2000 to late '03. I agree that the
community and the spirit are not what they used to be. In fact, I hesitate to
recommend the site to kids or adult lurkers anymore.
I have read very little on lugnet since the end of '03. I just got fed up.
Part of the problem, though, is that when people make the same tired old attack
against TLC or Jake, everyone jumps on it... instead of a post that one person
makes and a couple people chime in on, a bunch more people take the opposite
side and it mushrooms into a huge thread that attracts a lot of attention, and
usually devolves into whether people have the right to complain or not.
The fundamental issue is that, especially in the last year, the signal-to-noise
ratio (or perhaps as one poster said on a different issue a ways back the
mouth-to-build ratio) is way off.
You can't fix that by calling out the people providing the noise. That's just
more noise. You can only fix that by boosting the signal.
My intention, therefore, is to:
-Build more
-Post more about what I build and my games
-Make favorable comments more often about the cool stuff I see, and also
constructive criticism
-Highlight more positive posts
-Not respond at all to negative posts, no matter how big a whatever-head the
poster is being
You know what? If half the people on LUGNET agreed to do these things, the site
would be better than it or RTL ever was. The whining and attacking would be
lost in the mix. The posters who say controversial things to get attention--and
they're out there--or to keep picking the scab off would eventually get bored of
their little game, and we could be proud of this community again.
Peter
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Whatever happened...
|
| (...) I was perfectly for the 'ignore them' routine. The situation, however, is that the company of our chosen hobby has representatives here and they see the shenanigans and the b*tchfest going on by a vocal minority. How then can we, as adult fans (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
|
84 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
