SC - Newcomers and encouragement
Phil Anderson
urizen at clear.net.nz
Fri Jun 16 02:20:44 PDT 2000
Balthazar writes:
> > My experience is that newcomers are quite often keen to be
> > authentic, and that they can lose this enthusiasm if too many people
> > tell them they "don't need to bother".
>
> My experience, oddly enough, is to the contrary. I have seen many
> newcomers enter the society wrapped up in a swaddling cloth of
> enthusiasm, only to have it ripped away by too many people saying
> things like "swaddling cloths aren't period..." :)
Regional differences, perhaps: I rather suspect that, despite the
ardent desires of our brass hats, Southron Gaard is quite different
to the groups in Central Caid...
We pay a reasonable degree of attention to authenticity; I think we
tend to attract people who _want_ to do mediaeval stuff (and expect
not to get modern food at a mediaeval feast) rather than simply to
find a social group. (For those ones, there is KAOS.) And while
we're hardly perfect in our handling of newcomers, I don't recall
seeing anyone bounced on with cries of "That's not period!"
> > [...]; I
> > _do_ want to see newcomers consistently encouraged to put some
> > effort towards doing things they are interested in authentically.
>
> Gently, tactfully encouraged??
Yes, though I'm not entirely sure we concur precisely on what that
might involve :-)
Edward Long-hair
Southron Gaard, Caid
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