RE: [MUD-Dev] Is mud research real?

["Koster, Raph" <rkoster#origin,ea.com>]

On Thursday, December 11, 1997 11:08 AM, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad[SMTP:olag#ifi,uio.no] wrote:
> "Koster, Raph" <rkoster#origin,ea.com> wrote:
> >The Julian Dibbell article on the LambdaMOO virtual rape. Sorry, I 
>
> I'll look into the Dibbell
> article again and see if it proves me wrong, if it tells me 
something
> less than obvious.

Actually, one of the reasons I find the Dibbell article valuable is 
because it isn't actually research. It's a good writer, relatively 
newbie mud player, narrating events, with some speculation. It's 
definitely not research--just a very very solid and interesting 
account of a particular administrative incident that has parallels 
with many other administrative issues on muds.

-Raph