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From: Marc Bowden <ryumo@merit.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:09:56 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
--On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 07:21 -0500 Chris Jacobson
<fear@technologist.com> wrote:
[ Story about well-deserved LARTing skipped. ]
>
> Anyways, after this long story about one little instance with a
> player, what are the points?
> 1. Rewards work wonders. The majority of the MUDding community seems
> to be teenage males... and as anyone who once was a teenage male can
> tell you, friends will turn on each other for even a small prize.
> 2. When dealing with kids, strip away the anonymity, and you can turn
> the tables on even the most outspoken individual
> 3. They ARE mostly just kids...
>
And you'd be amazed how nice most school principals are when you dial
them up to complain about one of their students who's sitting in his
lab and abusing your players.
ARIN lookups are your friends.
The disbelieving sound in the kid's voice is really worth this.
- Marc
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