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Well, I was thinking they'd look cute together side-by-side, actually. There is no reason to ellevate one above another. And if the commercial MUDs are at the same "height" of the website, then they haven't really lost their promotion space. There's just more promotion space, another slot to support the non-commercial games. Again, if you did it correctly, the implementation of split-lists would only increase voter-turnout, inspiring more competition amongst the non-commercial MUDs. This would get Syno more traffic, and therefor more money. The only reason that the site would lose traffic is if the commercial MUDs resented having to be on a seperate list(which does not harm them, and only helps non-commercial MUDs), and encouraged their players to vote less. That is the leverage being used by some to help influence control over the site.
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And Atyreus; sour grapes? Nah. I've staffed MUDs that have reached a hundred to a couple hundred players before. I feel more accomplished with other projects than those - I don't dislike RoD, though I agree that it might play down to the common denominator. I don't even dislike some commercial MUDs and even get involved with some such projects. What I dislike are admins and companies that use misleading advertising and use money to strong-arm themselves into a dominant position in the community... when infact, they are most concerned with finding ways to maximize money-made, and not interested in ways that could help promote the other MUDs of the community as much as possible.
That's all. There are a very select few that fall into such category, but it really burns me and many other players around here.
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