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17791: Re: [MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)
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From: "Dave Rickey" <daver@mythicentertainment.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:25:20 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
-----Original Message-----
From: msew <msew@ev1.net>
> Well, I guess we need a definition of "interact" now :-) *ducks*
> I have seen a couple of people on muds and on EQ that just want to
> play the game solo. They enjoy seeing the shout wars and reading
> about the game on the boards, but they really just solo and not
> group, trade, talk, hang out with others.
> So for a definition of "interact" that means just be seen but not
> heard or direct contact with that person, yes there is a set of people
> that don't interact and they probably would not play the game if it
> were not MMP (as they enjoy being voyeurs of the rest of the folks
> that are around).
Stretching the example farther: The lurker phenomenon. In any public
forum online, many more people participate passively than actively.
By passively, I mean that they read, but they don't post. And by
"many more", I mean by 20-50 to 1 poster/lurker ratios. And activity
attracts activity, the hardest part about getting a forum off the
ground is attracting enough active posters to reach critical mass.
Many people like to be immersed in social activity without actually
being part of it.
--Dave Rickey
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