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Re: Brickmania withdraws from Brickshelf
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 5 Jul 2002 05:26:48 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Daniel Siskind writes:
> My disagreement isn't necessarily directed towards Larry (and I should thank
> him for making most of my files public at a very early stage), but he
> illustrates a good point in what is wrong with this current situation. If I
> hold anyone accountable for this whole mess, I would say that Kevin fumbled
> from the get go when he announced his decision without thorough explanation.
I admit, circumstances caused the moderation system to be implemented
in a sudden and clumsy manner. Life works that way sometimes.
The alternative was to leave the gallery offline for a few months
while proper software development and marketing efforts were
persued. I took option 'A'.
> The only way I know Kevin is from his commendable service to the community,
> which up until now I never thought to question. I have read a lot of
> responses and suggestions posed since full (pre-emptive) moderation was
> announced, but so far no one has pointed out how rotten it really is.
It is dissapointing to not see uploaded files immediately show up in the
recent views. Indeed, that was one of the most wonderful things about
the gallery experience. I'm sad to see that go to.
> ... or an excuse to purge the site of what a comittee
> deems inapropriate for any reason what-so-ever?
There is no comittee. I am the only official Admin/moderator.
Because of the huge task of reviewing 15,000 folders, I enlisted
the help of a very small group of close, trusted associates
to help me clear the backlog. I take full responsibility for their
moderating decisions, which ultimately lie with me. The moderating
guidelines for Brickshelf are extremely simple (explained in other
messages) and *have not changed*. Some off-topic content is now being
deleted because we now have an efficient way to delete it, and again
if it re-appears. In the past, safe but off-topic content was simply
tagged with the off-topic keyword and left on the system. Deleting it
might have caused an escallation of inappropriateness which we had
no good way to handle. Now that we do, we can clear off the off-topic junk
that has been wasting space and bandwidth.
It is also possible that on-topic content could be deleted because
it looks like off-topic, or the on-topicalness is not apparent
to the moderator. If that happens, you might try using a descriptive
folder description to clue in the moderator.
KL
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Brickmania withdraws from Brickshelf
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| (...) I should also add that almost all of the off topic folders that are deleted on Brickshelf *would* be on-topic on Geekshelf. In fact that is one of the main reasons I opened Geekshelf. KL (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Brickmania withdraws from Brickshelf
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| Hi Kevin, in news:GyrGGo.3zy@lugnet.com you wrote (...) I don't think it would take a few months to write one short HTML page with your submission rules and put it on www.brickshelf.com. This has nothing to do with programming software. You could (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Brickmania withdraws from Brickshelf
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| (...) Have you considered the possibility that people may not have local copies of the images they have uploaded? I would be the first to admit that it is a bad idea to do so, but someone may have accidentally deleted their local copies of some (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickmania withdraws from Brickshelf
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| (...) My disagreement isn't necessarily directed towards Larry (and I should thank him for making most of my files public at a very early stage), but he illustrates a good point in what is wrong with this current situation. If I hold anyone (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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