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Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community
Date: 
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:32:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Amy Hughes writes:
> In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
> > Are there people out there that are interested in LEGO, have come by
> > this site and been turned away?  ...What are some of the reasons that
> > people have not stayed or gone away after experiencing this
> > community?
> 
> From someone whose interest has waned...
> 
> Lugnet and the clubs that have formed through meeting here have a collective
> personality, for better or worse. I find this community to be competitive,
> opinionated and territorial.

I definitely concur on that point.

> That's okay. I can be competitive, opinionated and
> territorial, too. Particularly the opinionated part :-)  But my participation
> is limited by how much I care to be involved in contests of will, and frankly,
> I'm all tuckered out ;-)

On many points, I hear ya there. I'm trying to bring discussions about the
community out in the open, since my efforts behind the scenes and in
personal projects have not been successful - partially due to those contests
of will.

-Tim



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howD all, as a professional online community manager and developer, i also agree that the lego community needs to "get w/ the program" as it were. online communities are held together by sharing standards among multiple kinds of websites re: their (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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  Re: Quantifying and Classifying the LEGO Community
 
(...) From someone whose interest has waned... Lugnet and the clubs that have formed through meeting here have a collective personality, for better or worse. I find this community to be competitive, opinionated and territorial. That's okay. I can be (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community)

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