mindstorms.lego.com

Feb 23, 2004 3 Replies

Hello all, I am doing an analysis of the mindstorms.lego.com website for a class I am taking on "Online Learning Communities" at Stanford. I was hoping that the good member of this newsgroup might be kind enough to share their opinions with me of that site and this newsgroup. Specifically, i am interested in hearing what you all have to say on the following matters. Feel free to answer any or all of these questions:



Why do you prefer rec.toys.lego to

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(if you do)? If you were to design your own special-purpose Lego forum what features would you want included? What do you think would be the most useful topic hierarchy for a set of Lego forums? What percentage of subscribers to rec.toys.lego do you think are male? What would you think the average age of rec.toys.lego subscribers are? What are the best internet resources for novice mindstorms users (builder? not sure what the proper terminology is - please advise). How do you recommend they use them?



That's all i can think of for now.... thanks in advance, amir


wouldnt a more accurate comparison be between the Lego Mindstorms forum and

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?? Im not saying you can't (or that people don't) discuss mindstorms here, but its not the newsgroups primary topic (my apologies if you have already posted to lugnet too)

I much prefer news over web forums, and I dislike the closed nature of the mindstorms site, in particular logging in just to see things.

Take a look at LUGNET minus the authentification.

The hierarchy is not so important, as long as the groups fit the interests of people. In particular, a german language robotics newsgroup is missing.

Internationally the lugnet.robotics hierarchy, in Germany the forum

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Plus Google for any remaining questions.

Jürgen

Small wonder, it doesn't even exist on my news server (a german one).

But actually I was talking of Lugnet, where it might even work, despite the fact that the general german group is rather dead.

Jürgen

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