Comments on: Nnenn’s first SHIP is godly

By: ottoatm

ottoatm — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:51:08 +0000

Complainers, complainers… Goodness, you all need to take a pill and relax… so they blog a few of the same builders a lot… get over it, there are about 100 LEGO blogs out there, and brickshelf too – not to mention some good forums with creations being posted…

Watching you whine and complain on some dude’s blog makes me think you don’t have enough problems in your life~

As for me, I tend to avoid all blogs because of posters like Unhappy and Anon and etc.

>out<

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:59:08 +0000

Haha! No, I actually did not. Thanks, Nolnet! :)

By: Nolnet

Nolnet — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:23:29 +0000

Did nobody get that the term “godly” is nothing but a well chosen reference to the SHIPs name, the “Divine Intervention”?

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:17:55 +0000

It is an interesting question, Bladi. I think it doesn’t quite fit the situation since Nnenn hasn’t been winning a contest every month or every year. For example, if the same builder won the same category in CCC or a builder was best in show at several conventions in one year, I think the Super Bowl comparison would work better.

The long and short is that I’m not going to tell the owners of this blog how or what to blog. They certainly don’t blog Nnenn (or anyone else) enough that I would stop reading. I do think calling this creation ‘godly’ is over the top, but I don’t have any other qualms or problems with its being posted here.

By: Bladi

Bladi — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:13:37 +0000

Jordan, say the same team wins the Superbowl for a few years in a row, should they not be covered by the media because that would be ‘too much’?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:50:08 +0000

For the record, Tim, I only agree with Anon in the sense that I think that you guys blog Nnenn and Legohaulic too much. I totally respect that this is not your guys’ job or anything, and that you do it of your own free will, but I think that it’s a valid complaint.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:22:32 +0000

Tim: “You can even add your own commentary in your head.”

My doctor tells me that if I keep taking my pills those voices in my head will go away.

By: Gambort

Gambort — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:12:38 +0000

Oh shit. I’m so sorry. I did an email check on all the posts and must have switched to the wrong tab when I checked the initial anonymous posts. You have my sincere apologies for that and subsequent comments resulting from it.

In that case I agree with very little of what you added to anonymous’ original post. I’ll respond to what I read as your main thrust:

We run this blog because we like to share what we find. Sometimes that is repetitive and sometimes it is not. We try to do our best. As we have repeatedly said we are open to suggestions in the suggestion email address and will do our best to check them out. Writing facetious comments on a blog post is not the way to get us to do that.

Remember too that time spent responding to these sorts of posts is time that might be better spent writing new posts. I’m off to blog something.

And once again you have my apologies for my mistake and subsequent rudeness. I assure you it was totally genuine and I now feel like a total dickhead.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:04:17 +0000

@Unhappy/Complainer: Since you've owned up to being both UnhappyReader and Complainer, I'll take your word that you're also not Anonymous. Thanks for that. The original topic of this post is Nnenn's new SHIP. Let's get back to that, and move the rest of the discussion over to the next post over.

By: UnhappyReader

UnhappyReader — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:55:16 +0000

Anon is not me. Can I make it any clearer for you?

By: Gambort

Gambort — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:51:31 +0000

alias/nickname tomato/tomato. It’s just a turn of phrase, afterall.

UnhappyReader Says “1 – Anon is perfectly right”

Do you refer to yourself in the third person in real life too or only when you change nickname/alias in anonymous posts on a blog?

I’d like to hear what others have to say too. I just prefer them to be genuine others.

By: UnhappyReader

UnhappyReader — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:46:21 +0000

Well sir, I hereby declare using two nicks in two different posts: Complainer and UnhappyReader. I’m sorry for that and will stop this behaviour since it doesn’t comply with your TOS. What you mean by ‘new alias’ and other innuendos, I have no idea, unfortunately. I’d like to stop this discussion and hear what others have to say about the original issue.

By: Gambort

Gambort — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:37:20 +0000

At least now you’re being amusing. I find Jordan agreeing with you early on and you responding to yourself under a new alias later. I also agree with your broad point so there was some artistic license in my response.

I don’t mind you disrespecting us. I prefer people to disrespect openly and not hide behind anonymity but that’s up to them. Of course people that are disrespectful can expect to recieve disrespect in kind from me. I’m not Christian and have no religious imperative to turn the other cheek.

I assure you that TBB is not a big problem to any of us and if it becomes one we will quit.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:32:02 +0000

No, TBB hasn’t become a problem to TBB contributors; a small minority of our readers have.

You must not use a display name for your account in a misleading or unlawful manner…

Using multiple display names is a clear violation of our new Terms of Service. Consider yourself warned.

By: UnhappyReader

UnhappyReader — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:28:31 +0000

> Gambort – I wouldn’t enter my email address if I didn’t realize that. My email address should tell you that there are at least several persons complaining. Of course, you can keep telling yourself it’s just a single underage boy, this is very convenient when facing problems, but leads straight to schizophrenia, I’m afraid.
I just want to say that I don’t mean to disrespect the crew, or underestimate the value of TBB to the community. I’m simply afraid that TBB has become a problem to its own creators.