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Re: .space Subtheme Guide
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 3 Apr 2004 00:23:13 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Brian P. Gefrich wrote:
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In lugnet.space, Douglas R. Clark wrote:
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Being in the process of developing my own subtheme, I have a few thoughts on
the issue.
First and foremost, I had a bad reaction to reading the suggestion that there
would be a vote on which subthemes were considered “official”. Maybe the
Eastern Block can back me up on this, but it almost seems a bit classist.
I’m just not a big fan of thinking that someone could put hard work into an
original project and have it dismissed because there weren’t two builders or
because it came a little too close to an established theme or something. Not
saying that there would be any hostility or elitist behavior here, but I
disagree with anything LEGO-oriented that suggests rules on anyone’s
creativity. Not trying to be harsh, maybe I’m just paranoid.
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Hey like I said, it was just an idea. I did not mean for it to come off as
eliteist or classist. I was under the impression/ASSUMPTION that these
“community accepted” subthemes would become community building projects where
anyone could build and submit mocs that conformed to the subtheme standard. To
take it one step further, you could post instructions for each moc and
eventually end up showing TLC what a real .SPACE theme could be like when their
lucas-license expires.
Its kinda like the discussion regarding moonbase standards; there is a community
accepted moonbase standard. Nothing precludes you from inventing your own
moonbase or moonbase standard; however, if your moonbase does not conform to the
accepted standard then don’t expect it to get linked from the moonbase page or
be used in a layout.
In that same manner, the community accepted subthemes would form a framework for
people to build by. It would do nothing to pre-clude you from inventing your
own subtheme. It would not discount in any way the work that you put into the
creations that formed it. The idea was to try to keep the community focused
(again with the assumption that subthemes are community building projects).
Think of it this way; the P38 contest has had an incredible response and has
inspired more cool mocs in the last two months than I have seen in a while.
However, what would the response have been if there were 10 contests running in
parallel? I don’t think we would have seen nearly as many entries.
I think it boils down to the distinction between a .SPACE subtheme and a private
subtheme. As for PCS, 3vil, Easternblock, they all started out as private
subthemes but have evolved to quazi-standard .space subthemes because of their
popularity and multitude of builders. Anyone can invent a private subtheme
anytime they want. The quality of the subtheme and the creations the compose it
will stand on their own regardless of whether or not it becomes a .SPACE theme.
Ultimately, I was also trying to think of the person who eventually ends up
maintaining the subtheme page. I would think it would be alot of work to
include any and every subtheme that someone thinks of on the page. At the very
least, there needs to be some sort of definition of when a subtheme idea has
enough critical mass to become included on the .subtheme page.
Again, just some thoughts... take them for what they’re worth.
drc
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