[(−) s0] I have an Emacs and I kinda know how to use it

[chalcedony_starlings]

♪ hmm hm-hm hmm hmm hmm ♪

@desc #1=so wizbit. much administrative. wow

Can you guess why? Guesses in comments if you want to. (It's a patched ProtoMUCK.)

Comments

[jewelfox]

I'll bite, if that's okay! Although it sounds kind of self-explanatory; you're assigning yourself admin privileges on a MUCK? I'd love to hear more about it if you wanted to go into details.

Also, I like your way of indicating who in your system is speaking. Although it wouldn't work the same for us, seeing as how there are three of us. ^^;

[chalcedony_starlings]

(−) There's others in here besides the primes, though the intersection of that with “autonomous and fronts a significant amount in practice” is pretty small (that's kinda the point of having primes, in our structure).

And, sort of. Since it's over a month later, I'll just spill it and not worry about spoilers for others: we're running the MUCK we're building on a patched ProtoMUCK. Now, ProtoMUCK usually uses the Neon/Glow style of multiple wizlevels, so rather than just Wizard there's heightening staff permissions from W1 to W5: Mage, Wizard, Archwizard, and then…

And then, originally, the very annoying Boy and Man as W4 and W5, level names of sufficient annoyingness that I have obscured them here. (We actually see weak evidence that the history in this context is not as bad as it sounds and was an extrapolation of a more specific usage, but we still Don't Want That Here.)

So I patched the C code to change them to Patrician and… Doge. W5 is only used for object #1, which leaves us either in pseudo-Venice or on certain parts of the Internet, and the ambiguity as to which one is amusing. And that's why I set the description of the #1 object in the minimal database to that. ^..^

(We're aware that etymologically “patrician” can also have an awkward lean, but it's well below the obtrusiveness threshold for us, especially since those levels are only used for very infrequent administrative functions and aren't pervasive user-facing parts of the world. So we like the overall feel of the word in this context.)