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[addlepated]

Rosie, I don't think your concerns are out of place at all. I think there are some mitigating circumstances in the particular situation of ARGs though.

1) The mission of ARGs in most cases is to blur the line between fantasy and reality.
2) Without gratis player help, ARGs would be fiction rather than interactive fiction.

You have made some very valid points. There are other situations I've seen where active and helpful participants have been offered a moderator position in return for some sort of compensation, so it's not anything abnormal. On the other hand, I've also seen people volunteer to spend countless volunteer hours helping out with something they like.

In the context of the game, without breaking the curtain or breaking the reality that the game has created, there's really no way for "Tucker" to offer anything other than maybe some swag, since his persona is a broke 20-something.

So what could they do? They could hire a non-player specifically to watch the boards, I guess. They might not have the padding in the budget to handle that. One of the current PMs could look after it, but I'm sure they've got other stuff to do.

As for a solution that pleases everyone, I'm stumped.

[krystyn]

Dang. Clowns best be giving up the CC #'s before I deign to give them the time of day!


OHHHHH SNAP!

[FLmutant]