Okay, so this isn't exactly part of the original thread, but it concerns MUD's, mine in particular. I decided to revive our MUD during one of my frequent "I'm bored with WoW" moments. They last a month or so, sometimes. I hired a couple area builders, people I know from another, dying, MUD. Our coder is a very good friend of my wife's.
The situation: I wrote a note concerning the clans/religions on the MUD, and what I have planned for them. This prompted one of our builders to ask the coder for permission to create a clan. He was unaware that I didn't want any created, and so he gave her trust at the same level as he is, which is the level for clanedit. This is one level below max level. When I found out about it, I deleted the clan (which I had stated was my intent to do with the few existing clans and religions), lowered her trust to her own level, and changed her OLC security from what he had changed it to (8), back to what I had it originally, (6). For some insane reason, this pissed her off.
I'm not necessarily asking for advice, although you are more than welcome to give it. I've had situations like this before, and while I do need area builders, I do not need them bad enough to put up with someone's bull$*&@ temper tantrums.
I have no problem listening to people if they need to talk about their problems, I'm a good listener. Sometimes I've even been known to give sound advice. But if people are going to come to a game I've put countless hours of work into trying to prepare it for its destiny of being one of the best non-graphical games on the internet, and bring their whiney high school drama on board and try to suck me into it, they can leave. Because I have more important things to do, like rant on the Allakhazam Multi-Game Forum boards.