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Old 01-15-2009, 10:17 AM   #206
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Re: In defense of all MUDs. Our genre's noteworthiness is being questioned.

The unwillingness of some in the community to work together is one of those things that might just need to be ignored. Partial participation will continually cripple the community but if the community simply concedes to that, it's even worse. The real solution is not to give into those who would choose to exclude themselves from comparison, no matter what their reasons, especially when they fit the criteria shared by their peers.

Case in point, the RPMUD Operating Committee decided that critical reviews conducted by the site would not be subject to exemptions. Likewise, recognition would not be limited merely to those games who chose to participate in the community. In order to ascertain an informed comparison we can not exclude, whether by request or by absence of participation in the community, games which possess the similarities to their peers regardless of whether they might be above or below the average mark of the field. We realize this might upset some games, especially those who fail to measure up in comparison to their peers, but the basis of fairness is not to favor, either positively or negatively, any group either through its inclusion or exclusion from the whole. It is impossible to gain a comprehensive understanding of anything without examining every possible bit of available data.
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