[MUD-Dev2] [Design] 4Cs (was Who to design for?)

[Michael Chui]

On 5/23/07, Sean Howard <squidi at squidi.net> wrote:
>
> If you want my opinion (or even if you don't :), the ONLY way to create a
> working system is not to figure out why the majority is the majority, but
> to figure out why the minority is the minority. Why is it that when a
> group of people TEND TO do something one way, there are a bunch who do
> not? What is their motivation? What makes them different?

I thought this paragraph was worth emphasizing. Something that is often
forgotten, it seems, is that the most solid proofs of a theory come from
examples of apparent exceptions that actually prove the rule. That the
reason a minority is different is because the key feature that makes
them different supports the essence of the theory itself. That's all;
just wielding a Highlighter +5.