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9585: [MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves

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From: "Kristen Koster" <koster@eden.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:01:37 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
At 10:10 AM 2/12/99, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Bowden <ryumo@merit.edu>
>To: mud-dev@kanga.nu <mud-dev@kanga.nu>
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 6:53 AM
>Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves
>
>
>> but running any codebase at
>>all responsibly makes us brothers in arms of a sort.
>
[bbs example snipped]

>Nope. I discontinued guest SysOp privileges.
>
>And the overall average quality of MUD imms is certainly a good deal lower
>today than the quality of BBS SysOps was in 1990.

I think there's a big difference between sitting down and talking with
someone about the approach to running a mud and giving them full unbridled
rein of the place.

I personally love the people who log on for the first time saying, "I love
this place! Can I build here?" Our standard answer is "Feel free to propose
and area once you reach level 45."

-Kristen Koster
Kaige of LegendMUD
kaige@mud.sig.net
koster@eden.com