[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun

["S. Patrick Gallaty" <choke#sirius,com>]

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From: Jon A. Lambert <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>
To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Tuesday, 07 July, 1998 21:59
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun


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> > I think we have to share the blame. For that matter, I don't consider it
> > "blame" as such as a plain old recognition of facts. I do not think the
> > average Internet gamer who plays a mud is ready for self-governance. I
> > also do not think the average real world citizen is fully engaged with
> > their local community or participates in THEIR governance either. Did
> > you vote in your last local election? I didn't, and thus I am pointing a
> > finger at myself as well.  I am not saying that I have all the answers.

> How do you both define self-governance on muds?
> The absence of administration interference?  Or something else?


I think he means governance in the classic sense -
Not 'government' so much as 'governance' which implies that the system
is designed to throttle undesirable behaviour and events through
affordances rather than intervention.

Intervention is not a scalable solution.


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