Free muds are victims how exactly? The only ones expanding the market for text muds are commerical text muds. What do free muds lose, precisely?
The majority of free muds are left dead in the water because the vast majority of free muds are total garbage.
And incidentally, soup kitchens produce bad food. Free, but bad. You want the best food? Go pay for it. A lot for it. The analogy doesn't quite work in text muds anyway because while people may donate their labor, food costs are an inescapably huge cost in the restaurant business and text muds have no similar fixed cost per unit of "fun" or whatever.
--matt
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