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One more thing about scripts and links to vote placed in the mud itself:
If you adapt some logical thinking to the mechanics of the list, I think you'll realize that it is not at all in the interest of a Mud owner that the players, who vote by clicking a link from his/her own site, (or even from inside the mud itself as some apparently do), actually VISIT this webpage. Quite on the contrary; they would prefer it if the player just clicked the link and got the voting over with as soon as possible, preferably without even looking at the list.
Why? Because obviously they have already GOT that player, since he/she voted from their mud. So they have absolutely zilch to gain by the player starting to browse the list. Because if they do, they might just become curious enough to try out another mud, and maybe even find that they liked that one better than the one they originally came from.
The only 'traffic' to the page that the Mud owners are really interested in is the one that comes to the site by OTHER routes than their own voting link, for instance through search engines, because those are potential new players for them. Obviously they are also interested in their own position on the list, because these potential new players are very likely to first choose from the muds on the top of the list.
Hence the last line on the script that started this thread, which closes the window immediately upon voting.
And this is also why I think it would be interesting to know if any of the existing voting links from inside muds have this same 'feature' too. Maybe someone should check that out, because if this is the practice, that too is something that should be outlawed.
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