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@RyeNCode @mattly > The understanding I have is that original intentions mean nothing in the case of systems. What matters is what it does. agreed. what i said. > Otherwise they would have changed, removed or replaced that system. that's a stretch. they might not understand what the system is doing (disagreeing about the effects of a system is normal); they might not actually have power to fix it, for example because the ultimate effects of a system are soft. there's a story about how the lego world mmo was (eventually, reluctantly) shut down because they couldn't stop folks building dicks. you might say the purpose of the system was to build dicks; that's what it DID. but the designers couldn't stop it. just two reasons why they might not be able to change a system.