[MUD-Dev] Totally OT... (Or is it?) (yes it is ;)

[JC Lawrence]

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:21:13 PST8PDT 
Mike Sellers<mike at online-alchemy.com> wrote:

> Okay, this really _is_ OT (and I think Ola is no longer on the list,
> for a little while at least).  

Writing as list owner:

  The reason I have been entertaining this thread, which does stretch
the limits of topic, is that it rather centrally addresses the
question of what the user culturually expects from his environment,
and thereby what he will expect (or resist, encourage, become upset
at/about etc, champion, etc). 


> The relationship to MUDs?  Not sure. :) If nothing else, it may help
> point out some of the cultural issues we're going to see as we bring
> more and more people together from different parts of the world into
> one virtual one (as we have already on this list).  In M59 we
> definitely had to deal with this; people from some parts of the
> world saw guild-creation as a highly authoritarian endeavor ("you'll
> do what I say because I'm guild leader") while others were more than
> happy to use their ability to vote early and often until there was a
> structure in the guild they were happy with.

Precisely.

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