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Best is, of course, a completely subjective and personal decision. There are no 'best' MUDs. Only 'best' MUDs from X point of view.
The ranking portion of the site isn't about giving attention to MUDs that aren't popular either. It's about rewarding MUDs with exposure that have, in turn, sent traffic here.
Yeah, it's not on the front page because it's not doing as much for the site as the MUDs in the top 20 are, so why should it be on the front page? What is it doing for the site? It's not sending as much traffic here, so it doesn't get as much exposure. It's all quite fair. Spending screenspace on unpopular MUDs drastically decreases the incentive for popular MUDs (who send the vast majority of the traffic here) to participate, as they're getting much less in return. The more MUDs that are listed on the front page (especially above the fold), the less value each listing has. Decrease the incentive for the most popular MUDs and the site loses most of its ranking traffic. The top 10 MUDs combined bring in more traffic than MUDs 11-90 combined. Heck, the top 5 combined almost bring in more traffic than 11-90 combined.
--matt
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