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Old 07-28-2002, 10:49 AM   #7
Molly
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Sweden
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The sad thing about this site is, that someone apparently put it up it just for the purpose of wrecking something that somebody else put a lot of time and efforts into creating.

So  what drives the person who runs this site?

Envy? Someone else created something that he could never master himself, so he sets out to wreck it?  Creating is hard, any 7 year old kid can destroy things.

Revenge? But on whom? This site doesn't primarily harm the Mud owner, the slander on it is too ridiculous to deserve much credibility. The people it DOES hurt are the players of the Mud, because it destroys the fun for everybody, by giving cheaters an advantage over the good players that like to achieve things by their own efforts. Again, achieving things on your own is hard, tearing them down is cheap and easy.

Power? But it doesn't give him any power, it just destroys things for other persons, most of whom he probably didn't have any quarrel with in the first place.

Fame? Did you hear the expression 'herostratic fame'? Herostratos got his everlasting reputation by burning down the temple of Pallas Athene. Why anyone should want fame like that is beyond me.

Spite? That might be it. The spite of a kid that kicks and screams and lashes out, because he doesn't get his way. It doesn't help of course. Nobody will hand him that lollipop he wants, however much of a fuss he makes.  But if he cannot have it, nobody else should enjoy it either. So he makes sure the lollipop lands in the gravel instead. Petty...

It's rather pathetic. Somebody who keeps this kind of grudge alive for years and years, must have a really sad and useless life.
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