[Ansteorra] Recognition (WAS: Travel)

[Michelle Dodd]

SOME people leave, not because they don't get awards, but because they don't get acknowledged or thanked for the things they do.For years I played because I loved the dress-up & hanging out with friends. Then I started learning things. (Something I value.)Then I started doing things for my Barony. I recently received a service award from my Barony. That gave me almost as big a thrill as when I was called into court to receive my AOA, the only other award I've received.I do however receive thanks for most of the things I do & the things I don't get thanked for, I know are still appreciated.So I will continue to do the dress-up, hanging with friends & learning things. Along the way I will hopefully continue to contribute to my Barony. And most importantly, I will continue to thank the people  I see do things for others. Tho too often these people are ones I have grown used to seeing do for others & my eye starts to pass over them, for that I apologize & thank them now.Awards are wonderful to receive, but quite often a simple show of appreciation, like a thank you or a well done, will go a long way in making a person want to stay around.That is often all the recognition most people need, even when they deserve more.
Just my opinion.Lady Gabriele
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein)

> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> From: kevinkeary at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:03:09 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Recognition (WAS: Travel)
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> I'm all for getting people recognition they deserve. The ideas being expressed are generally good.
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> I dislike the thought of playing this game to get that recognition, and doubt people leave, most of them, because they don't get it. People stop playing games because they aren't fun, not because they don't 'win'. And being taught that garnering recognition is how you win, and that failing to be recognized with awards equals losing the game, or not playing well, yeah, that's a great way to make the game no fun.
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> I realize there's a thousand and one ways to play any game, and none of them are 'wrong'. I didn't always, but I do now.
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> Don't teach the newbies that role-playing is wrong, that, just for instance, a song that the group at the campfire laugh and applaud and sing along with is less valuable than a period piece in a language hardly anyone understands that the Bard-Laurels love, or that play-acting the damage you think your persona would have taken in the armor he would have been wearing, even if it costs you the fight, is stupid compared to only accepting blows that are 'legal' in our rules and felt in our safety equipment. (I'm thinking basket hilts used as bucklers here.) There are examples in everything we do.
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> Those of you who enjoy grinding and leveling up, more power to you. Me, I'll keep on role-playing, and trying to make sure other people are having fun.
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> And thus I will enjoy this game.
> 
> Kevin
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