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--- about_the_game:guiding_principles_history [2025/05/19 21:02] – [Why We Can’t Rely on a Single Person (Even Me)] adminsteve
+++ about_the_game:guiding_principles_history [2025/05/19 21:11] (current) – [AOI History] adminsteve
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   - **[199x (?)] TBD:** Some history here, maybe Ken can chime in
   - **[199x (?)] Erabus takes over:** Erabus took the reigns for hosting/administration
-  - **[June 1999: Playerwipe]** To address the rampant cheating / ill-gotten equipment / etc., with support from the majority of players through a vote, Erabus conducted a player-wipe that erased everyone's characters, and everyone started from scratch.
+  - **[June 1999] Playerwipe:** To address the rampant cheating / ill-gotten equipment / etc., with support from the majority of players through a vote, Erabus conducted a player-wipe that erased everyone's characters, and everyone started from scratch.
-  - **[20xx (?): Cerebus takes over]** Cerebus took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[20xx (?)] Cerebus takes over:** Cerebus took reigns for hosting/administration
-  - **[October 2013: Steve takes over]** Steve took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[October 2013] Steve takes over:** Steve took reigns for hosting/administration
+  - **[April 2025] Focus on documentation & portability:** To reduce future headaches in maintaining the mud, this wiki has been started to serve as a more permanent set of documentation, and the mud infrastructure has configured to be more portable, with a more distributed disaster-recovery approach to ensure it stays up & alive.
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 I - Steve - am committed to keeping AOI alive for as long as I live — and I trust myself to do that. But it's worth planning for the unexpected:
-  - **A)** I could die.
+  * **A)** I could die.
-  - **B)** I could suffer a major life experience, or get a brain tumor, or traumatic brain injury, that alters my personality & priorities, to the point where I am no longer aligned with all of the above. (aka anyone who is not an asshole today, can easily become an asshole tomorrow due to factors outside of their control)
+  * **B)** I could suffer a major life experience, or get a brain tumor, or traumatic brain injury, that alters my personality & priorities, to the point where I am no longer aligned with all of the above.
-  - **C)** I could hand off AOI to someone currently aligned with our vision, who later experience A or B.
+  * (aka anyone who is not an asshole today, can easily become an asshole tomorrow due to factors outside of their control)
+  * **C)** I could hand off AOI to someone currently aligned with our vision, who later experience A or B.
 **The solution:**  The AOI game server, the documentation on how to make it work, and the means to run it, need to be distributed on a regular basis to ~5 or so key founding members.  As key founding members fall off the radar in interest/desire to maintain, we should consider replacing them in the circle with others who do care.