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It would be helpful to your cause to provide arguments that actually address the issues Matt has brought up. When he offered the Professional v. Amateur/Hobbyist standard as a poor method of distinction, many of you jumped on him for implying that they were somehow inferior because they weren't commercial. Oddly enough, that was entirely his point. Such subjective language as "professional" or "amateur" is as loaded with potentially confusing alternate meanings as the word "free" which, you may recall, is the entire premise of this thread.
It may serve your purposes to attack Matt as a person rather than his arguments, but I imagine it does little to affect the considerations of that silent majority who, as of yet and by all indications, feels no need to support a change of any kind.
Matt has repeatedly stated that he would support a classification system as has been suggested, if the classifications were specific enough so as to treat with equal concern the differences between types of commercial MUDs as it does between hobbyist MUDs and commercial MUDs. If the noble intent of the esteemed forum patrons that grace this thread is marked true, working towards such a concept should not be out of reach, and, I imagine, would go a long way towards dispelling the unfortunate image cast upon them by what has so far been an ill-managed campaign to discredit a large part of their own community.
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