[cratylus]

I don't agree with this.

There is a long tradition in many muds of accepting donations
of ram, server space, bandwidth, and/or money for running
the mud, with no reward whatsoever for the individual donor
other than sharing in the improved mud.

There is a vast gulf between that and getting access to a
map system, or a sword, or gold in the game in exchange
for the donation.

The two are simple to distinguish in a checkbox, and I think
that it is fair to do so. Lumping both types of muds into the
same payment category is what I would consider unfair.

However, I don't think fairness is the point. I think that
clarity is the point. And, as keeps getting reiterated, the
tangents of "professional" or "fair" or "free" are just
the things that obscure what people want:

a clear, straightforward description of the mud's
relationship with your money:

-Crat