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So are you saying there is something wrong with commercial MUDs listing themselves as commercial? Are you suggesting that commercial MUDs should get the perks of being commercial without having to announce upfront that they are, indeed, what they are? That is an example of misleading information - case in point.
Seperating the lists would help aid non-commercial MUDs(which is important for the community as a whole), could even help Syno get extra traffic by igniting more competition, and it would only hurt the commercial MUDs if their admins stopped encouraging their players to vote. It has been said before, Aethia(for example) players vote for Aethia because they love the game oh-so-much, and have ingame/website reminders to help encourage voting. That, coupled with a large playerbase produces their high number of votes. If the admins of IRE/other-commercial-MUDs changed nothing about that approach, they would still bring in the votes and achieve top site listing. Syno would still have his traffic. So why the veiled threats at "alienation"?
As far as banner advertising goes - that's not even a made issue here. Yes, commercial MUDs tend to buy most of the ad-space for an obvious reason. I don't see that as a problem, they paid their money - they get their adspace. Better IRE than seeing some porn-bar up there. : p
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