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chaosprime · 09-09-2007, 10:05 PM

Aristotle, nothing about any option that has been proposed here is going to hurt Threshold. Seriously. Only people who already care about the issue are going to use the search option, and if someone already cares, the question of whether they're going to play Threshold has already been answered, one way or the other. All the option is doing is saving everyone some time and CPU cycles. Which is the entire purpose of a search engine.

What redounds to the benefit of MUDs as a hobby is if we're completely honest and up-front in our dealings with
money, rather than turning people off and making the entire exercise seem vaguely slimy by engaging in tactics like intentionally designing search engines to obfuscate the issue.

09-09-2007, 10:05 PM	#399
chaosprime Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Home MUD: Lost Souls Posts: 199	Re: What does "Free" Mean? Aristotle, nothing about any option that has been proposed here is going to hurt Threshold. Seriously. Only people who already care about the issue are going to use the search option, and if someone already cares, the question of whether they're going to play Threshold has already been answered, one way or the other. All the option is doing is saving everyone some time and CPU cycles. Which is the entire purpose of a search engine. What redounds to the benefit of MUDs as a hobby is if we're completely honest and up-front in our dealings with money, rather than turning people off and making the entire exercise seem vaguely slimy by engaging in tactics like intentionally designing search engines to obfuscate the issue.