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Fern · 12-26-2005, 01:24 PM

The idea of seeing the list split into two categories is appealing, especially to those of us who used to regularly make it onto the first page and are now lucky to make it to the fourth. Please note: I do not begrudge the success of those who are now "always on the front page", not by any means. The profile of the marketplace has changed, and that's just a sign of healthy competition and market share.

I can also see why there might be resistance to change to a split system. Where does TMS get the staff, time, funds, energy to police and patrol the split, make the necessary changes to the entire place, write the new webpages, write the code, and arbitrate the predictable gripes about who goes on what list and why?

Without opening the usual can of worms by mentioning specific names and fueling yet another flamewar... from all I have heard, the instant a ROM/Diku MUD were to place itself on the Commercial list, they essentially wave a red flag at the license police: <span style='color:cyan'>Here I iz, folks, taking money for boon! </span> Something tells me the Commercial list will be occupied by a small list of games jostling with each other for top slot each day/week/month/whatever cycle is chosen. And that's ok too.. until the namecalling starts.

Almondine War:We've seen similar dropoff in voting at TMS and some months consider ourselves lucky to get enough to make it onto the fifth page. Ironically, we are almost always able to get onto the Top Ten at MudMagic early in the month and hold a good position consistently, which would invite a comparision between the two voting systems, if we had all day to address that. I prefer their method which allows the game admin to choose which vote method into which their game falls.

The MudMagic system has its downsides as well: a person must be registered before he can vote, and crossvoting (voting down the competition with a very low score) is countered by banning at the domain level.

12-26-2005, 01:24 PM	#39
Fern Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 156	The idea of seeing the list split into two categories is appealing, especially to those of us who used to regularly make it onto the first page and are now lucky to make it to the fourth. Please note: I do not begrudge the success of those who are now "always on the front page", not by any means. The profile of the marketplace has changed, and that's just a sign of healthy competition and market share. I can also see why there might be resistance to change to a split system. Where does TMS get the staff, time, funds, energy to police and patrol the split, make the necessary changes to the entire place, write the new webpages, write the code, and arbitrate the predictable gripes about who goes on what list and why? Without opening the usual can of worms by mentioning specific names and fueling yet another flamewar... from all I have heard, the instant a ROM/Diku MUD were to place itself on the Commercial list, they essentially wave a red flag at the license police: <span style='color:cyan'>Here I iz, folks, taking money for boon! </span> Something tells me the Commercial list will be occupied by a small list of games jostling with each other for top slot each day/week/month/whatever cycle is chosen. And that's ok too.. until the namecalling starts. Almondine War:We've seen similar dropoff in voting at TMS and some months consider ourselves lucky to get enough to make it onto the fifth page. Ironically, we are almost always able to get onto the Top Ten at MudMagic early in the month and hold a good position consistently, which would invite a comparision between the two voting systems, if we had all day to address that. I prefer their method which allows the game admin to choose which vote method into which their game falls. The MudMagic system has its downsides as well: a person must be registered before he can vote, and crossvoting (voting down the competition with a very low score) is countered by banning at the domain level.