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the_logos · 09-23-2002, 08:42 PM

That's ridiculous. I'm wearing a Ring of Infallibility as we speak. (My handle is just my suffix in Achaea: Sarapis, the Logos.)

As for communities, there's no such thing as the mud community. There are communities built around individual sites and individual games, but none of these communities have any claim at all to representing MUDers generally.

I would like to see text games generally succeed, because a rising tide raises all ships, but I find it difficult to care about a non-existent community. The mere existence of a number of people independently engaged in an activity does not make a community in any meaningful way. It's akin to claiming that there is a general "computer-using community" just because a relative handful of computer users participate in some forums on using computers.

--matt

09-23-2002, 08:42 PM	#112
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	That's ridiculous. I'm wearing a Ring of Infallibility as we speak. (My handle is just my suffix in Achaea: Sarapis, the Logos.) As for communities, there's no such thing as the mud community. There are communities built around individual sites and individual games, but none of these communities have any claim at all to representing MUDers generally. I would like to see text games generally succeed, because a rising tide raises all ships, but I find it difficult to care about a non-existent community. The mere existence of a number of people independently engaged in an activity does not make a community in any meaningful way. It's akin to claiming that there is a general "computer-using community" just because a relative handful of computer users participate in some forums on using computers. --matt