Others in the community cannot change or remove the places you've added or the things you've made. This provides local control and a source of public recognition for your creations. Teachers own their classrooms and have the ability to change ownership of objects owned by their students to support collaborative projects. Traditionally wizards are hackers. In Pueblo, power rests in the hands of the teachers and the core group, rather than in the hands of hackers who hold the technical expertise.
Places support the perception of co-presence and social interaction.
If you're in the same place with other people, you are presented with their description, you can hear what they say, see their gestures, and watch them interact with each other and the objects in that place. Communication with people who are not in the same location is also supported with mechanisms parallel to telephones and CB radios. Groups of people sometimes create private communication channels to converse with each other. Teachers and the students in a classroom are on their own channel. We turn next to make observations of actual life in Pueblo.