Posted by Zagrathor on November 2, 2000 at 21:05:48:
In Reply to: Thoughts of the day... posted by Shokai(IMM) on November 2, 2000 at 20:22:39:
>you have a human staff running this game. We're >human, treat us like it...and for those of you who >have the anti-authority hang ups, please...we're >human. None of the immstaff is out to get anyone, we >all have people we dislike for various reasons (and >they vary greatly from person to person), but we'd be >in poor shape if we let that get in our way of >running this game. See, this is a double edged sword. You tell us "Remember, we're pretending to be gods in a game, but we're really human." Whereas, certain nameless imms seem to think just the reverse is true. That they are gods, merely pretending to be human for a few hours a day, till they can get home and log in, and be themselves. We've all seen examples of it so I'll not launch into a list of injustices handed down to myself or others. We all know it happens. Ok maybe one example, but a very general one. I've had gods accuse me of cheating before. Now, all things being what they are, I was being accused of multiiing. At the time I was running from a unix shell, and we had a few other mudders from the same site, but when we were logged in our IP came up as being the same. 3 of us were transed into the same room. The IMM in question put us through our paces to prove we were not all one and the same person. One of us had to count from 100 to 1 backwards, the other forwards, the third had to recite the alphabet. Now, our tasks were randomly switched. All in all, you'd have to be a pretty big idiot to think we were all the same person. We were all denied anyway. One by one. I was the last to go and before I did I told the imm in question "You KNOW we're not cheating, you can't possibly think we were. Whats your problem?" I was told "I'm god. I can't be wrong." And that was that. So maybe if some people treat the immortals like they aren't human, they need to look at how people see them, and why people see them that way. What you see just might surprise you. I'm not saying some players aren't assholes, but still, this many people can't ALL be assholes. Well ok they can, but my point is still valid. :P