FIRED!!!

[Jason Allen StGabriel Jorgenson <smaal@yahoo.com>]

Greetings and salutations my fellow RPers on DuneIII.
I am Jeon, once Emperor of the Known Universe. or more
precisely I played him. Unfortunately, I have been
sacked from that role. 

This missive is very difficult to write, as I intend
to avoid a personal attack on any individual. Instead,
I should state the reason for this sacking, the admins
dislike communicating with me, and feel that I have
not sufficiently changed the character of Jeon to meet
their needs. To be fair to them, their needs would, in
their minds, be the same as the MUSH's. Some may
agree, and others chose not to. 

The reason for my sacking has nothing to do with my
running of a faction, or for going out of my way to
discourage RP. No, they dislike talking to me. They
dislike my opposition to their attempts to script the
character of Jeon. This is part of the necessity of
removing a thinking human being from the character.
You cannot script someone, when their consent is
needed. So, bye bye.

Now, I did offer to come up with a solution that
allowed me to keep Jeon, and make it easier for them
to communicate with me. But they had already met in
secret, and already decided to axe me. Now, the admins
didn't do so necessarily out of malice. Noone is
saying they were out to get me, but their plans work
better when the Emperor is controlled by the admins
and by the admins alone.

My concern is that a) they voted in secret without
giving me an opportunity to make things right. To be
fair to them, they'll say they tried for months to
compromise with me, b) they want to script a
character, any character. Many of us came here for the
consent basis of the MUSH. And whether it works or not
is not the question, it was the rule. Consent has
steadily proven a problem for them. And they have been
steadily eroding it. Now, consider for a moment what
this means. I was told repeatedly this is not a
democracy, the admin have ultimate control. Is this
why you joined Dune? I am not saying it has come to it
yet, but I see frightening parrallels. Whenever a
government, of a game or a nation, relies upon the
finality of their judgement, even against reasonable
appeals, there is something frighteningly wrong.
Imagine, if in the middle of RP, you got a page, a
little tap on the shoulder, 'We have taken a vote, you
no longer fit our vision for the MUSH, please select
another character promptly, this one will be killed.'
And remember, they already did it to a player.
Remember Lichinvar. Perhaps they have done it to
others? They are awfully secretive, it's hard to know.
They even said they'd keep my sacking a hush hush 'to
protect my privacy' in all fairness to them.

I cannot ask you to leave for me. Some of you don't
know me, and some of you have made commitments to your
facheads you should keep. But perhaps, they can be
persuaded by your words. Am I asking for you to demand
my reinstatement? No, I am asking you to express how
you feel about this, in your own words. Maybe you
agree, by all means tell them. Maybe you disagree,
again tell them. I am asking for you to take control
and make the MUSH your own, what you want it to be,
not what your paternalistic admin (who know what's
best for you) have decided for you.

Yours ever and always,
Jeon

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