[MUD-Dev] Semi Graphical Muds

[John Buehler]

Matt Mihaly writes:

> I don't think that a feeling of kinship (particularly when it's only
> one way) makes for a community.

I would agree.  A community involves active participation about a
shared interest.  The MUD-Dev list consititutes a community because
folks in it actively participate.  The survivors of train wrecks are
not in a community unless they actively participate in some way.
Their active participation does not have to involve train wrecks.
They only have to actively interact with each other.  If they go
shopping together, that's active participation, and the community of
train wreck survivors is intact.  When they start to permit people who
have never even ridden a train to go shopping with them, that
community focus is less well-defined.

Okay, next question: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

JB

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