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From: Ben Greear <greear@cyberhighway.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:46:39 +0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Greg Munt wrote:
> > It's not that I personally care if someone types bad things at me,
> > but I feel kind of responsible for the welfare of my players, and I
> > don't want some young lad or lass to be exposed to senseless vulgarities.
>
> 5-year-olds hear things just as bad in the playground. You are protecting
> people from things they are being exposed to on a daily basis.
I don't consider that an excuse. The world needs more positive things
to balance the plethora of bad ones. I'm not saying I have the answer,
but I do think I have the right and responsibility to try.
> > It would be kind of like having some guests over and then one of them
> > being a total jerk...embarrasing for all involved!
>
> You would kick them out, not stuff a hankerchief in their mouth.
Aye, but having a security system immobilize them while I'm not home
is more what I'm after. I can easily ban/gag/freeze a player if I'm
online, but I gotta sleep and work sometimes....
> > Maybe even
> > put the ability to censor certain individuals in the player's hands. That
> > would be a pretty strong island, and yet the river might not even
> > notice :)
>
> That has high potential for misuse.
This may have been misunderstood. I would allow a player to
specifically block another player from communicating with them only,
not other's in the mud.
--
Ben Greear (greear@cyberhighway.net) http://www.primenet.com/~greear
Author of ScryMUD: mud.primenet.com 4444 (Released under GPL)
http://www.primenet.com/~greear/ScryMUD/scry.html
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