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From: Jason Spangler <stormwind@wombatgames.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:05:01 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence wrote:
>
> At least one person here is known to occassionally build his areas
> with lego as part of his design process (Hi Chris!). Lego (the
> company) is now selling certain brick in bulk:
>
> http://www.lego.com/bulk/
I'm going to have to place an order for several hundred trees to complete
my castle/forest/bandits area. :-)
> Those of us with small kids have entirely other reasons for going,
> "Ooooooooo yeah!"
Speaking of Lego, has anyone seen the LUGNET web site before
(http://www.lugnet.com/)? It is a very active online community that
started out as an improvement over the rec.toys.lego newsgroup. Some of
the most interesting features are:
- an article rating system in which registered users can rate a message
posted to the Lugnet newsgroups. The highest rated postings are
highlighted and are put into an automated summary of all discussions
on the site (http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight)
- a Lego set database to which users contribute data and pictures
(http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/browse.cgi)
- member home pages (http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/bylastname.cgi)
- Datsville, a virtual LEGO city being built by users
(http://www.lugnet.com/cad/datsville/)
- it is home of a discussion group focused on Lego robotics which
also shares information about reverse engineering the Mindstorms
programmable bricks (http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/)
- the Cool LEGO Site of the Week (http://www.lugnet.com/cool/), which is
voted upon by users weekly
- a newsgroup where LEGO actually has an official representative post
occasionally (http://www.lugnet.com/lego/)
- set and piece trading and auction newsgroups
(http://www.lugnet.com/market/)
It is a very successful online community with a large level of user
involvement and a fairly high signal-to-noise ratio. Perhaps we can
learn some things from it to apply to our more game-like online
communities.
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