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Re: all your base is Brickshelf's (and some random thoughts)
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Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:50:42 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Melody Brown writes:
> My random thoughts:
>
> I have read some of the more interesting and wiser postings, and have to say
> that I agree with many things that have been said, some of them I couldn’t
> say better myself, others are just plain commonsense and then there are some
> ....
> Thanks for reading what has come from my mind... I'm not expecting anyone
> to agree with anything I have said... but I feel much better getting it out
> of my head and off my chest. I could tell you all that many of you are
> behaving like a bunch of snotty nosed, dirty diaper filled, little 2 year
> olds who are long over due for a sleep… but I won’t ;) Don’t take life too
> seriously… just relax and have fun J
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> Support your clubs/organisers/groups/hosts/services… they do a lot for you J
>
> Mel
> www.brickzine.com
> “Don’t grow up, just play nicely”
These are generally my sentiments too. I hope the tone of my typing
investigating the testamentgate coverup was not taken too seriously. I
totally understand the recent developments in the online Lego landscape as
fully necessary and applaude Kevin for his responsibility. My spidy-senses
saw something pretty peculiar about all of rev's folders bottled up and I
tried to go about it with levity but with some imo well turned approaches to
a seemingly vague situation. Sorry to Rev if I put you into a spotlight..
but hey mabye all that vulgarity, you had it coming ;-)
I've only been into online Lego since January'ish and I'm totally blown away
by it all. I get this magazine called ToyFare and it had a link to SunYun's
mecha factory site. I couldn't believe my zoobies when I saw his stuff and I
immediatly did a google search on custom lego. For the next week or so I
just got up for the barest of life essentials. I think I came across a site
that had some scans of catalogs and I got excited about that and wanted to
see when some of my old technic gears came out. That's how I found
BrickShelf, then LugNet and my local VicLug and it's been a great ride since.
All this stuff is beyond magic. Imagine if we had this going on as kids, how
excited we'd be that all these grownups are making these amazing things. For
the past few years I've been moaning to my wife that I had no one to talk
with about Lego. Now she's happy that I'm not prattlin on at her about my
various minifig sub-comittee building proposals (as much). There is
practically an infinite amount of stuff to look at on BrickShelf and (like
everyone else with a link in their browser here) I check in on it pretty
much every day.
Some of the suggestions brought up here to improve how things work are
great, and some even well presented. Here's my stab at a new feature which
I've thrown out before and here it goes again: browse galleries by user
number. There's a recent, random, search, and greatest hits. I'd really like
to go through the galleries in that order so you'd know how thorough your
folder crawls really are. I sort of do that now by altering the url line and
tweaking the numbers there. It's a very rough teleport but good for lack of
better.
About all this ~ whining ~ though... before I got into online Lego I was
doing time in OpenNap, which is a opensource version of Napster. It was a
free service and we ran the servers on our own computers. The land was
infested with all manners of creeps and weirdoes so we had to have extensive
filters, filename and username blocks and occasionally filetypes. We often
had 'staff' moderators and administrators that would cop the place for
abusive users and offending file types. But 95% of our problems ended being
with disgruntled staff or people wanting to be staff. We ended up making
bots up to do most of the work using teknap, and they were as agreeable as
you programmed them to be.
I wholly empathize with this current situation. It's a free service which
has to be tuned to adapt to the online environment. I don't know anyone here
well enough to tell you to get a grip and cope, but if I did, first I'd
smack u with a large trout and then put the soother back in ur kisser.
Again sorry if I added to the angst of this nonsense. I was in an impish
mood seeing funny headlines : Rev muzzled for repeated vulgarity! I guess I
see the cup half bubbling green.
One good suggestion someone made in this post was to mention this whole
process on the BrickShelf site. Everyone on Brickshelf dosn't check here for
the dirt. Also I think we should stop fussing so much about this because
obviously Kevin is victim to acute head trauma. If you snap him out of his
stupor he might realize that what he's doing with his computer and bandwith
and seek medical aid and shut it all down. Be sensible people, leave the man
to his heavy prescriptions and double vision else he gets well.
cheers, Joseph
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