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<div>Hmm. Should we mention Arian's propensity for freezing SPR by creating infinite loops in wizbitted programs he wrote for SocioSpace, causing me to have to connect with a debugger and kill the running task? [[User:24.241.227.243|24.241.227.243]] 21:20, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)</div>24.241.227.243//en.wikifur.com/wiki/Sociopolitical_RamificationsSociopolitical Ramifications2005-09-16T21:16:30Z<p>24.241.227.243: Added some history. PLEASE, if you have any corrections or anything beyond 2001, fix it!</p>
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<div><b>SPR</b> (<i>Sociopolitical Ramifications</i> in full) is the third-largest furry [[MUCK]], after [[FurryMUCK]] and [[Tapestries MUCK|Tapestries]]. At any one time, an average of 60 to 80 furs are on.<br />
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* '''Addresses'''<br />
** '''MUCK server''': telnet://spr.ctrl-c.liu.se:23<br />
** '''Website''': http://www.sociospace.org/sprmuck<br />
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With its server physically located in [[Wikipedia:Sweden|Sweden]], SPR is known for not being restrained by US laws restricting the use of Internet for children less than 13 years old.<br />
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SPR's main 'city' is themed like a computer, with different areas named after different parts of a computer's hardware or architecture.<br />
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SPR is also known for [[SocioSpace]], a hard sci-fi minigame (similar to a MUD) built into SPR. This system includes combat, healing, and a spaceship system, programmed by the lead wizard for that area, [[Arian]].<br />
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==History==<br />
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SPR was founded by Snout and DivineVixen in 1995, announced via @shout just before one of [[FurryMUCK]]'s infamous six- to eight-hour database saves. On that first day, over thirty players connected, each of whom was given a wizbit to make it easy for them to build and attach things.<br />
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In 1997, during a fit of pique, the wizard [[Mystique]] chose to @purge, thus destroying everything that she owned -- including the page program, the say program, and a lot of other things. At this time, [[Winged]] was given a wizbit (along with [[Kathalla]]) to help piece it back together from a backup that Snout started running on another port.<br />
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Eventually, DivineVixen had to step down as head wizard due to her player's fight with Multiple Sclerosis, leaving Snout in charge. [[Syvel]] chose this time to @purge, thus getting rid of a lot of functionality that the MUCK relied upon.<br />
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It was just after Syvel's @purge that [[CATerwaul]] chose to limit the MUCK to wizards-only, for a period of some months. During this time, many wizards (who were inactive) were dewizzed, and several new rules and regulations went into effect -- including the requirement that MUCK-essential programs and objects needed to be owned by a new, wizbitted character named SPR, so that no @purge could damage the MUCK again.<br />
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Eventually, it came back for players to use, though its user base was much diminished (from a high of 191 characters connected, it now averages 60 to 80). Snout didn't want anything to do with the administration of the new MUCK structure, so he appointed three wizards to be "gods" -- wizards with the power to grant or remove wizbits. These were [[Natasha]], [[Winged]], and [[Benjamin]].<br />
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Due to internal friction (and a lot of miscommunication), Natasha ended up leaving. It was at this point that [[Winged]] became pretty much the main God character. He made several unpopular decisions during this timeframe: Space became Arian's area to allow or banish people as he saw fit. [[Zinn]] was toaded and banished for violation of Arian's banishment. [[Gud]], DivineVixen's non-wizard character, was given a wizbit, and immediately began to violate SPR's rules of ownership, yanking possession of a BDSM-themed area from its owners. When Winged de-wizzed him, he began to bad-mouth the administration of SPR in the park, and Winged @toaded and banished him from what had been his own MUCK several years before.<br />
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Winged resigned as a wizard (much less head wizard) in November of 2001, amidst complaints that he was misusing his power -- among other things, [[Syvel]] asked for ownership of her programs back from SPR (Syvel having been removed as a wizard due to her @purging), attempting to revoke the GPL that she had originally licensed them under. Winged refused, citing her prior @purge and her player's legal issues, as well as the GPL which allowed SPR to maintain its own copy of her programs.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[SocioSpace]]<br />
*[[FuzzBall TinyMUCK]]<br />
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