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Aarn · 02-15-2006, 01:29 PM

This doesn't really seem relevant to me. For starters, everyone has input into how the muds are labeled on TMS, through threads like these. Secondly, we're on the TMS site, so it's up to the TMS people how they label things.

Also, labeling a mud as "free" or "involves money" is hardly some abstract label the communists came up with. The only reason all those labels exist that you brought up, is because muds that aren't really free keep trying to pass themselves off as free. That makes the muds that are free for real try to make their label stand out so people understand that, hey, we're really free. Unlike those people who advertise themselves on the surface as free to get you to come check them out but aren't.

And finally, there are no "mud police". When it comes to your own literature, you can label yourself however you like. If someone goes straight to your website and you write "Free!" all over it when it's really not, that's your business. What's at stake here is how TMS lets you be labeled on their site. I would argue that it's vital to the integrity of TMS as a whole that they label muds correctly, even if the mud staff is trying to pass themselves off as something they aren't.

02-15-2006, 01:29 PM	#46
Aarn Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 44	This doesn't really seem relevant to me. For starters, everyone has input into how the muds are labeled on TMS, through threads like these. Secondly, we're on the TMS site, so it's up to the TMS people how they label things. Also, labeling a mud as "free" or "involves money" is hardly some abstract label the communists came up with. The only reason all those labels exist that you brought up, is because muds that aren't really free keep trying to pass themselves off as free. That makes the muds that are free for real try to make their label stand out so people understand that, hey, we're really free. Unlike those people who advertise themselves on the surface as free to get you to come check them out but aren't. And finally, there are no "mud police". When it comes to your own literature, you can label yourself however you like. If someone goes straight to your website and you write "Free!" all over it when it's really not, that's your business. What's at stake here is how TMS lets you be labeled on their site. I would argue that it's vital to the integrity of TMS as a whole that they label muds correctly, even if the mud staff is trying to pass themselves off as something they aren't.