[MUD-Dev] Birthday Cake (or Why Large Scale Sometimes Sucks)(long)

[Matthew Mihaly]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, F. Randall Farmer wrote:

> <trip>
> 
> Sorry, Matthew, I couldn't resist. :-)
> 
> Matthew Mihaly said in one post:
> 
> > ... quite frankly, if Timmy is basing his livelihood on something so
> > tenuous that an admin of a game he plays can accidentally destroy his
> > business, then Timmy is a bit of an idiot. Can you say "risk management?"
>                                       ^^^^^ <- [pointers are mine]
> 
> And then, in the very next post he says:
> 
> >What is with this horribly patronizing attitude so many seem to have
> >towards the users? People, users ARE NOT IDIOTS.

Well, obviously some users are idiots. I meant users as a whole are not
the bunch of idiots that designers seem to treat them as sometimes.

 
> Tee hee. :-) I love it when this happens, even to me. Makes me think. :-)

Grin. 

> 
> BTW, I do not consider anything I've posted to be patronizing of users. I
> love our customers. They're good for business!

But you seem to think you know what's good for them outside of your
business?

--matt




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