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As I see it, voting is meant to be something a player does because they think their MUD is excellent. It should be IN NO WAY pressured by the MUD. It shouldn't even need to be suggested by the MUD, other than providing some possible websites at which to vote!
That's the spirit of the rules of this site, as I see it, and if you can't tell that Medievia's system, even as they changed it twice, was breaking the spirit of the rules, then you are blind.
This voting system is not intended to be some kind of free advertisement service. Just because the Medievia staff is frustrated because they sunk their money into a PC Gamer advertising scheme that has failed to net any new players doesn't mean that they should be allowed to abuse a free service put here to allow the PLAYERS to give their opinions to the world.
Incidentally, Soleil failed to mention that "vote idonotvote" will only pause spam for a month, which is worse than an opt-out system, in my opinion. It's not even close to opt-in!
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