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Nexty · 12-26-2005, 12:14 AM

You can not say the top 20 are not the best MUDs for a specific player. What makes a MUD "the best" is a personal thing and therefor fully subjective.

Or they may think it is subjective. Do you have any real data to suggest that a strong majority of people who come to this site view the MUD rankings as anything more then subjective?

For what purpose? How would you even go about doing such a thing? What makes "the best" MUD? There is no way to create an objective way to say one MUD is overall better then another or that one feature is better then another or one MUDs way or doing something is better then another MUDs way of doing something.

Because those who invest money into a game can't appreciate quality? Personally I don't think I'd invest any money into a game that didn't have qualities I enjoyed. And yes, the fact that one could spend money to advance could be a quality that I value over other things and that's just as valid as any other reason to play any particular MUD.

How does an interest in the welfare of the MUD community have anything to do with how well the MUD is in and of itself?

Do you fully understand the difference between a subjective and a objective observation? The objective observation is when you see the exact same(or similar enough) feature on both a pay and free MUD. The subjective observation is saying a pay MUD is inferior to the free MUD.

Which is not nessisarly untrue. A high rating MUD may very well be better for that specific player as what is a better MUD for a player is a subjective thing.

The service works exactly as intended as far as I can tell. The service ranks MUDs based on player votes. The more players vote for a MUD the higher that MUDs ranking is. The only thing the rankings do is tell a perspective player that a particular MUD seems to have players that vote. The flaw would be reading into the rankings any more then that.

Any solid evidence to suggest that most potential players stop at page 1? And if they are doesn't that suggest that they have found a MUD they enjoy within those first 20?

12-26-2005, 12:14 AM	#30
Nexty New Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2	You can not say the top 20 are not the best MUDs for a specific player. What makes a MUD "the best" is a personal thing and therefor fully subjective. Or they may think it is subjective. Do you have any real data to suggest that a strong majority of people who come to this site view the MUD rankings as anything more then subjective? For what purpose? How would you even go about doing such a thing? What makes "the best" MUD? There is no way to create an objective way to say one MUD is overall better then another or that one feature is better then another or one MUDs way or doing something is better then another MUDs way of doing something. Because those who invest money into a game can't appreciate quality? Personally I don't think I'd invest any money into a game that didn't have qualities I enjoyed. And yes, the fact that one could spend money to advance could be a quality that I value over other things and that's just as valid as any other reason to play any particular MUD. How does an interest in the welfare of the MUD community have anything to do with how well the MUD is in and of itself? Do you fully understand the difference between a subjective and a objective observation? The objective observation is when you see the exact same(or similar enough) feature on both a pay and free MUD. The subjective observation is saying a pay MUD is inferior to the free MUD. Which is not nessisarly untrue. A high rating MUD may very well be better for that specific player as what is a better MUD for a player is a subjective thing. The service works exactly as intended as far as I can tell. The service ranks MUDs based on player votes. The more players vote for a MUD the higher that MUDs ranking is. The only thing the rankings do is tell a perspective player that a particular MUD seems to have players that vote. The flaw would be reading into the rankings any more then that. Any solid evidence to suggest that most potential players stop at page 1? And if they are doesn't that suggest that they have found a MUD they enjoy within those first 20?