Siegfried

Very nice! I love how you did the cockpit; when I was modding my 6209 I used universal joints to get a better cockpit rotation arc... ...and interestingly I thought I was the only person who used that method! (I never finished my MOC as I got obsessed with details like the holding cells and the ion cannon...) If I try again I might just borrow a lot from yours! There's only one thing I don't like; why the red axle in the universal joints?

It varies by seniority; I'm New!: 45 Vassal: 40 Citizen: 20 Knights: 15 Counts: 10 Dukes: 7 Grand Dukes: 6 Archdukes: 5

I'm revisiting this old topic to remind people of our stance on this! In summary; 1. Eurobricks is site about LEGO and as long as I am here, that will remain its focus. For that reason posting in an old LEGO topic is always better than posting in an old community topic. The entire community forum is just here so people can share off-topic interests and get to know each other better. For that reason Community topics date really fast so as a rough guideline anything older than a month is dubious. But as always, it does depend on the details. Topics like EB Members' titles archive are obviously different, as are ones like Car Talk if you've posted in them in the past. 2. Sales topics are a special example. People often bump there for purely selfish reasons and this is just not acceptable. When one topic is bumped up, the rest are bumped down. With settings of 40 topics per page there are topics in that forum covering about 15 days. Thus if someone posts a topic in there it'll be reasonably viewable for 2 weeks, so there really is no need to bump. If no one wants the items it's better to just accept it rather than being selfish and sabotage someone else's chance. What is classed as bumping in a sales topic? Well the ones in the link above are blatant examples but several "updates" in a row without any posts from other members is much the same. Ultimately the best way to tell is simple; ask yourself why are you posting. If it's really to add something you should be OK, but if you have any doubts, or if little or no interest has been shown in your post, then you probably shouldn't post the update. There are other ways to sell LEGO after all. 3. LEGO reviews don't date. Thus if you have something relevant to say then feel free to post in a topic, but if it's more than a few months old please make sure it's good.... and if it's been a few years it better be really good! For example, if you liked the review or set and want to say so you probably shouldn't. If you've got an answer to a question (such as "Does anyone have pictures of the alternate model?) then by all means post! What you shouldn't do is ask questions to the original poster; he/she may not even visit EB any more. 4. LEGO MOCs do date, but once again if you have something important to add then it's OK. It may sound lame, but knowing the original poster or being a long term member really makes the difference here. 5. LEGO or site issue topics are almost always OK to post in. For example, the Brickshelf topic or the I'm in Outline view and don't know how to get out will always be relevant. 6. Who you are and how often you do it is a major factor as well. Do it three times in a day and you'll probably annoy someone, especially if you're a new member. Do it once a month and you'll probably get away with it, even if it's for a lame reason. In short, it's all common sense and it's hard to make clear rules about it. Feel free to consider these them if you want! One thing that I need to emphasise is why reviving old threads can be a bad thing. Here's a few; 1. People come and go and times and opinions change. Quoting someone, asking a question, or just assuming something based on past posts can annoy members and cause offense. 2. There's only room for so many recent topics and each bumped one bumps out another. (This is especially in the BSTF forum.) This makes it hard to find the real new topics and can cause silly topic bumping wars and make a mess of everything. This is really annoying for people who don't have much time and find that the "new" topic they opened is really something they read last year that was bumped so someone could say "that's Kool!". 3. Some topics are just silly to post in. For example, Happy Birthday HappyOwl! isn't too relevant now... If you have any further questions please ask away!

We've got a discussion on this issue here (which I'm going to bump ) but in summary; 1. Eurobricks is site about LEGO and as long as I am here, that will remain its focus. For that reason posting in an old LEGO topic is always better than posting in an old community topic. The entire community forum is just here so people can share off-topic interests and get to know each other better. For that reason Community topics date really fast so as a rough guideline anything older than a month is dubious. But as always, it does depend on the details. Topics like EB Members' titles archive are obviously different, as are ones like Car Talk if you've posted in them in the past. 2. Sales topics are a special example. People often bump there for purely selfish reasons and this is just not acceptable. When one topic is bumped up, the rest are bumped down. With settings of 40 topics per page there are topics in that forum covering about 15 days. Thus if someone posts a topic in there it'll be reasonably viewable for 2 weeks, so there really is no need to bump. If no one wants the items it's better to just accept it rather than being selfish and sabotage someone else's chance. What is classed as bumping in a sales topic? Well the ones in the link above are blatant examples but several "updates" in a row without any posts from other members is much the same. Ultimately the best way to tell is simple; ask yourself why are you posting. If it's really to add something you should be OK, but if you have any doubts, or if little or no interest has been shown in your post, then you probably shouldn't post the update. There are other ways to sell LEGO after all. 3. LEGO reviews don't date. Thus if you have something relevant to say then feel free to post in a topic, but if it's more than a few months old please make sure it's good.... and if it's been a few years it better be really good! For example, if you liked the review or set and want to say so you probably shouldn't. If you've got an answer to a question (such as "Does anyone have pictures of the alternate model?) then by all means post! What you shouldn't do is ask questions to the original poster; he/she may not even visit EB any more. 4. LEGO MOCs do date, but once again if you have something important to add then it's OK. It may sound lame, but knowing the original poster or being a long term member really makes the difference here. 5. LEGO or site issue topics are almost always OK to post in. For example, the Brickshelf topic or the I'm in Outline view and don't know how to get out will always be relevant. 6. Who you are and how often you do it is a major factor as well. Do it three times in a day and you'll probably annoy someone, especially if you're a new member. Do it once a month and you'll probably get away with it, even if it's for a lame reason. In short, it's all common sense and it's hard to make clear rules about it. Feel free to consider these them if you want! One thing that I need to emphasise is why reviving old threads can be a bad thing. Here's a few; 1. People come and go and times and opinions change. Quoting someone, asking a question, or just assuming something based on past posts can annoy members and cause offense. 2. There's only room for so many recent topics and each bumped one bumps out another. (This is especially in the BSTF forum.) This makes it hard to find the real new topics and can cause silly topic bumping wars and make a mess of everything. This is really annoying for people who don't have much time and find that the "new" topic they opened is really something they read last year that was bumped so someone could say "that's Kool!". 3. Some topics are just silly to post in. For example, Happy Birthday HappyOwl! isn't too relevant now... If you have any further questions please post them in this topic. For the record, I saw nothing wrong with the post by Praiter Yed.

You don't need to file something to copyright it. Nothing needs to be done aside from announcing that it's your work. Many sites, such as PCS and even my own does this.

I'm really liking this new line, and I'm looking forward to them turning up locally. Thanks for the review!

I'm pretty sure (but I'm no lawyer) that is not the case. As with anything artistic you should be able copyright it. Afterall, to a LEGO artist, LEGO is just like paint, and you can copyright a painting.

It's possible, but we've made a lot of changes as of late and we should consolidate what we've done at this stage. I personally think I think the BSTF forum is readable enough as it is; you can view 14 days of topics in one index page afterall. Long term I think we could consider some changes like you propose though.

I can inform you next time I hear of a Pirate related sale if you like. They are sold out locally for me.

Fair point! It would seem that there's a dodgy name server update. Generally these things are cleared after a few days. Here's my tracert; Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Siegfried>tracert railbricks.com Tracing route to railbricks.com [68.178.232.99] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 100 ms 99 ms 99 ms x 2 43 ms 53 ms 53 ms x 3 26 ms 25 ms 40 ms x 4 42 ms 38 ms 52 ms x 5 27 ms 27 ms 41 ms Bundle-Ether11.chw48.Sydney.telstra.net [203.45. 17.21] 6 32 ms 29 ms 53 ms Bundle-Ether6.chw-core2.Sydney.telstra.net [203. 50.6.153] 7 43 ms 50 ms 28 ms Bundle-Ether1.oxf-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50 .6.90] 8 40 ms 31 ms 38 ms TenGigabitEthernetx-0.syd-core04.Sydney.reach.co m [203.50.13.18] 9 27 ms 27 ms 26 ms i-10-0-0.syd-core03.bi.reach.com [202.84.221.85] 10 27 ms 31 ms 27 ms i-14-1-0.sydp-core01.bi.reach.com [202.84.249.13 ] 11 182 ms 185 ms 175 ms i-14-0-0.wil-core03.bx.reach.com [202.84.143.246 ] 12 175 ms 174 ms 175 ms i-1-2.eqla01.bi.reach.com [202.84.251.174] 13 208 ms 219 ms 209 ms gblx-peer.eqla01.pr.reach.com [134.159.63.202] 14 197 ms 208 ms 201 ms 64.209.110.218 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 239 ms 231 ms 209 ms ip-64-202-160-153.secureserver.net [64.202.160.1 53] 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 414 ms 494 ms 619 ms parkwebwin-v02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.1 78.232.99] You've got that wrong; it's not Trace Route it's TracerT...

Indeed! It's wonderful that the internet has allowed smaller groups of people transcend borders and become large groups. You should have bought it. It's beautiful!

Mine was from the second batch (I think; it appeared, sold out, restocked, and I bought it soon after), and it had it. Once the initial demand was over they probably fixed the problem that caused this and/or ran out of the "wrong" dress.

You'd change your mind if you saw me; I've been running around with my Venator dropping bombs on people and doing (generally bad) Palpatine impersonations.

Indeed! To me LEGO is about play value. No touch = no play. But sometimes I wonder if you're the LEGO playing type...

Yeah, I've deliberately left questions unanswered in my MOCs so I can answer them a few days later and give the topic a last hurrah. The sad thing is I don't get around to it for several months in most cases and that's too late...

Yes, the search does sux. Tips: Use Advanced search. Search in topic Titles if it's a topic you're after. Restrict the forums of search to the most likely ones. Works for me. We have no choice there; spammers would overload the site if that wasn't in place. Sorry just the same though.

Take a holiday at Cloud City with your tour guide Inconspicuous! Is this LEGO Star Wars set a classic to you? See the sights!

If you want a mint BSB then I think it's worth it. But I personally don't want to buy anything that I afraid to or am unable to touch. I just don't get the concept of buying LEGO and never opening it.

Indeed you did! As it's said in that topic, everyone has oodles of pins so any piece damage is a small matter. But from a LDD point of view it's a real annoyance.

If you select the tagged image and then add a URL it's automatic.

Yeah that's annoying thing I agree, but... 1. The board supports a number and size rule, not an average or total size. If it did we might have allowed one or two to not count. 2. A few people have been putting loads of images in their sigs and this can be as big a problem in terms of page loading as big images. If you mean like my sig, here's how I did it... [center][url="http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42083"][img=http://de-classic-space.com/photo/indefatigable/link.JPG][/url] [url="http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42955"][img=http://de-classic-space.com/photo/loveship/DSC05563ess.JPG][/url] [url="http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42698"][img=http://de-classic-space.com/photo/griev/link.jpg][/url] [img=http://brickzone.net/images/eurobricks/red_moon/characters/avatars/siegourney.jpg] ([b]Siegourney[/b] in [color="#FF0000"]Red Moon[/color])[/center] ... if not give me an example!

Yes, as others have said, if you've derived substantial inspiration from another work credit is appropriate. There's no harm either way; 1. If it's a minor change then people will appreciate your honesty. 2. If it's a major change people will think you're being too kind to the other MOC!

I believe it's the 10186 General Grievous set.

Are you sure it isn't just cached by your browser?