Re: FIRED!!!

[Amy Vaughan <amyv@houston.rr.com>]

The way Jeon says it, it does sound as if the admins are out of line...


Puma PumaPuma wrote:

> >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.
>
>     However, Jeon was the Emperor, and therefore the most important
> character on the game. I question if said character should have even been a
> PC to begin with. Anyway, more about all that later.
>
> >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.
>
>     It _is_ their game. They built it, they run it, they listen to us whine.
> We're simply guests. Having been a wizard elsewhere before, I had to decide
> what side of the 'players or game' argument I was on. I have seen MUSHes
> come and go because a wizard had a clique of players and would defend them
> against all other admins and 'abuses' of their characters. That game fails.
> I've seen 'consent' based games where players shout that a wizard or staffer
> has 'abused' them, and the staffer is put on trial.. of course the game
> falls apart after that, because the players know that if they complain loud
> enough, someone will get fired from staff. The only way to have a
> long-running game is for the wiz-corps to put their collective foot down so
> the players know that staff is in charge. Period. If they decide something,
> that's it. There aren't layers and layers of appeals, there's not a 'trial'.
> We are guests on a game made by these people. They have graciously offered
> us a chance to play here.. they don't owe us anything. If they do something
> we don't like, we can leave. We shouldn't try to ruin their game by asking
> the other players to pressure their faction heads and admins.
>       That being said, there is something to be said about not being so
> arbitrary.. and maybe things were handled badly, I don't know.. but fankly,
> it's not really my business.
>
> >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
>
>                                       Aurelia
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