When students send messages to one another within civicmirror.com, they have the option to be email notified when a message comes in. Sometimes students reply to the support email address that sends this notification, sending it to the CM Team instead of the intended recipient. Some are priceless.
This is the first blog post in a new series titled “CM Message Mis-sends”. Note that all student names and country names were changed to protect anonymity. Enjoy!
Number 1 – School-Day Meetings
Civic Mirror can easily turn a student’s school agenda into a political one, as this exchange below shows:
Subject: Important meeting on friday
Please, meet me at the computer lab before school or at lunch on Friday, whether you’re a person who signed Steve’s contract, a member of the birthday party, or even a person who hasn’t choose a side. Please meet me at lunch or before school at the computer lab at the library regarding Steve’s contract and future plans of the Alliance. A group of people who all wish to get good marks for the course.
—
JohnDoe
To which we received the following misreply:
I can do before school, but not lunch
Number 2 – No Healthcare!
Sometimes the lessons CM teaches “first world students” about the world and the services we take for granted are harsh, as this exchange illustrates:
Subject: RE: Health Units
Thanks for the reply,
Suzie accidentally sold E/I (energy) and doesn’t have any other units. However there are a select number of them floating around elsewhere. If I was able to get my hands on an E/I unit and gave it to you conditionally to power your hospital, would you consider a trade of five health units?
Let me know,
—
Jaspreet
To which the receiving student mis-replied:
From: Monique
Subject: RE: Health UnitsUnfortunately Suzie did not give me any E/I units so I was not able to power the country’s hospital.
—
Monique
Unfortunately, without healthcare, these students’ CM Family members will not live very long at all.
Number 3 – Political Ploys
This one took us a while to figure out, but we finally realized Sam was replying to his political ally, Ken, who had forwarded him an email from someone else in his Civic Mirror country. So here’s the first email that Sam received from a concerned citizen about his “politicking”:
From: Geoff
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 12:54:54 AM
Subject: Glass PartySam, Your party is sounding way too desperate…take it easy!
Why don’t you try to advertise your advantages for a change, rather than advertising other people’s disadvantages? People don’t want a leader who distracts his own public by showing what other’s are doing wrong.
You talk about reactions, how do you want people to react after those absurd and misleading posters. Seriously, take it easy! .
Ken, Sam’s political ally, reads Geoff’s earnest (and incredibly mature) plea to Sam about honesty and integrity and shrewdly remarks:
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:57:24 -0700
Subject: RE: Glass Party
From: KenWell done! You just basically undermined his entire account without making our group seem poor! Good on you! It is really about equality. Did you email that to everyone in the class?
And these are just a few mis-sends we received over the past week, nothing compared to what goes on inside the CM Community. Sign-up for a free trial today!
