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Do you think mud owners add their muds to the listings for an ego boost, or because they want players searching for specific muds to come across theirs?
Do you think mud owners post adverts to the promotion forums for an ego boost, or because they want to attract new players?
Do you think mud owners pay for advertising banners for an ego boost, or because they want to draw more attention to their mud?
Top Mud Sites is one of the most popular mud sites on the net - I'd probably guess the second most popular - and it's main "feature" has always been the "top muds" list. A mud which is in first place is going to gather a lot more attention than one which just adds a banner - and unlike banners, it's free advertising. All you have to do is get your players to vote.
Of course if the voting is unfair, then so are the results - if you do something which encourages (say) 80% of your playerbase to vote, while someone else is only able to get 40% of their playerbase to vote, it really doesn't take a great deal of complex maths to work out that the voting is giving a poor indication of what it's supposed to.
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