@Kanye-Qwest said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:
@Thenomain said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:
Part of my question is: How do G & H know there's anything going on in the Town Square? With Bob's Party I'm presuming you were invited. How would you invite yourself to Town Square?
You don't need to be invited to a town square. It's there for people to hang out in. Not approved people. Not You and Your Friends. People. Anyone not being a disruptive dick and/or breaking laws may hang out in a town square.
But they wanted to engage the scene, not the location in the scene. That is a critical distinction that we've had small arguments in this thread about: You don't own the location just because you're in a scene there. (So yes, re-define my use of 'location' in the quoted section above.)
It also informs my opinion about scening in public: You never have to ask to go somewhere other people are. In fact, I'm going to pull a 180 from the other people in this thread: There is no place with an existing scene that you have to gain express permission to get to. All barriers are other because of IC or out of RESPECT. This is why you must have respect for the game and the players on the game.
The people there maybe would have left because their ability to follow things was too disrupted, but that's also on them, not just on you. Both of you take responsibility for it. Negotiate for it either through OOC means (page) or IC means (getting ignored). The former is explicit social contract, the latter is implied social contract.
Phew, that was a lot of diatribe there.
So yeah, @Kestrel, don't feel like you were pushed away because you weren't. You tried out the explicit social contract negotiation of OOC, and you're not used to it. So try it your way.