[MUD-Dev] Total Annilation of Downtime

[Matt Mihaly]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com wrote:
> From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw at kanga.nu] 
  
>> My general reaction to being "inspected" in MUDs tends toward
>> what I suspect many women's reaction is when men maneuver so as
>> to be able to see down their blouse.
 
> Ah, but is that because you care that they are looking at your
> equipment, or because whoever wrote the mud was silly enough to
> tell you that you were being inspected in language likely to get
> your back up? If instead of saying 'xxx has inspected your
> equipment' it said 'xxx glanced at you', I am certain there would
> be less people worrying.

Not really. As soon as the players know that whatever text means
someone is "invading their privacy" they will get pissy. It's not
the words used, it's what is being done.

--matt


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