[Steppes] Gate Issues (was Discouraging / Encouraging)

[Sir Morgan Buchanan]

As Baroness Alys pointed out, gate is an opportunity for bad communication 
to occur on both sides of the coin.  There's plenty of blame in this world 
and situations where the gate person is fully at fault, situations where the 
person going through the gate is fully at fault, situations where the fault 
is shared in the big grey area in beteween.  Her advise is sage.  Meet these 
situations with politeness FIRST.

Certainly there are times when a confrontation will become necessary.

But what bothers me is that people who would strive to be exceptionally 
polite in the game-side of things, just through "those doors", would not let 
the magic of the SCA change thier hearts and lives, and let that be the 
guiding light for their more modern lives, like paying real world money to 
get to participate in their hobby, or taking money so their chapter of a 
club can afford to host an event.

Do we need a CLASS for this?  Gosh I hope not.  I hope that when I fail that 
my friends will gentely remind me, and I pray I'm noble enough to recognize 
the FAVOR I'm being done.

Morgan