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Re: MOCpages? Brickshelf? What should I do?
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:50:10 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Didier Enjary wrote:
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Without the ldraw.org team, Ldraw would have died with Jesse. And that’s
basically the same problem with BS.
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Is this true? Didn’t Tim Courtney establish the LDRAW committee in 1999, well
after (and due to) James Jessiman’s passing in 1997? Furthermore, James was
developing an open standard, he wasn’t providing a service or a selling a
product. These are two very different things.
Brickshelf isn’t having problems because it is run by one person; it’s having
problems because it can’t cover its operating costs. That can happen anywhere.
Ford Motor Company can’t cover its operating costs either, and it has hundreds
of thousands of employees.
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But who runs MOCPages? You and you alone? Not a team?
The deal is not “can I trust this guy” but “can I trust this website”.
Tell me there is a team behind you.
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MOCpages doesn’t need a staff of employees to keep it running. I’m not without
some help, though...
At our datacenter, a team of people are paid to back up the data every day,
monitor the systems, repair or upgrade the computers, keep the power running,
install security patches, and so on. Content, like reviews, are auto-moderated
by MOCpages by detecting bad content (vulgar, attacking, etc). It forwards
anything it’s not sure about to me for manual moderation. Soon, pages and image
uploads will require moderation before becoming public... about 10 volunteers
have offered to help do this.
Am I central to MOCpages? Of course! Running MOCpages part of my
full time job. Could MOCpages transition to
someone else if I got hit by a bus? Of course.
In this regard, MOCpages is much like LUGNET. LUGNET was run by by Todd &
Suzanne for years... And they were able to disinvolve themselves and
successfully transistioned the community to Rene.
Sean
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MOCpages admin
www.mocpages.com
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| (...) Hi Sean, and thank you for MOCPages. (...) Basically, I trust people. I trust people from the start. But who runs MOCPages? You and you alone? Not a team? Without the ldraw.org team, Ldraw would have died with Jesse. And that's basically the (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-07, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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