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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee writes:
>
> The LEGO Community is a **group** of people who form **relationships**
> **over time** by **interacting** **regularly** around **LEGO experiences**,
> which are of interest to all of them for varying **individual** reasons.
Jake,
The problem with your definition is that, superficially anyway, it comes
very close to excluding people like me. Since coming out of my dark ages
almost 3 years ago I have been one of your employer’s best supporters
(trying the understanding limits of my LTS). Yet I remain a lurker—not
just to LUGNET(although I am a member). If you hold your hands up in front
of you there is more than ample medium to tabulate the total number of posts
I have made on-line. I’ve spoken only once to another AFOL in person
(someone from SCLTC at last years San Diego Model Railroad Museum display).
Even though I have wanted to attend both Bricks West events (just a few
miles from my house) a demanding professional life and two small children at
home have made a $50 dollar investment in additional train track and rolling
stock (and playing for hours with my kids on the living room floor)
personally more attractive than the cost of admission into that
**community** [1].
So, **relationships**--don’t really have ‘em with other AFOL’s (unless, as a
lurker, voyeurism counts). The relationships I share LEGO with (my kids)
were not **formed** around the brick (the bricks were still in a storage
facility then—-mind your imagination :-) ). To the degree we (my kids and
I) DO **interact** around the brick, our relationship DOES improve, however.
Maybe it’s just semantics, but the way I read your definition, the fact that
the relationships need to be **formed** around the brick pretty much
excludes me from the community, literally speaking.
So, perhaps I’m just a voyeur in the community, but I sill consider myself
**in** the community (not to mention the fact that most communities have
deviants of some sort or another!!!)
Regards,
Mike McKee
[1] This comment is in no way meant to criticize the organizers of this or
other events, or the events themselves. Overhead has to be covered, and
organizers selflessly dedicate many, many hours of their time, without
expecting compensation.
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