[MUD-Dev] The morality of logfiles [was 'Wild west']

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>]

"Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On 29 Dec 97 at 11:09, Ola Fosheim Gr=B0stad wrote:
>>=20
>> Humans are likely to stretch rules as far as they can according to
>> their own norms... :-/ I don't see any reason why MUD admins should be
>> different.  Anyway, the main issue here was what kind of rules the MUD
>> should have in the first place.
>
>Well an adminstrator/implementor makes the rules and are not subject to
>them.  They may violate, bend, change or enforce them at their whim.  If=20
>players perceive injustice or inconsistency and can't abide it, they leave

I guess we are talking about MUDs and MUDs. :*)

(Some systems distinguish between implementor, owner and
maintainer. Which I think is a very good idea.)

Ola.