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How exactly does it aid the community to alienate and run off the MUD that send the overwhelming majority of the traffic?
That's calling killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Right now, smaller muds have the enormous BOON that is TMS. The popular muds on the list did not have anything like TMS to help them out. Smaller muds have an opportunity to be listed on a site where traffic is sent from tons of MUDs (which means the visitors are self selected to be interested in MUDs).
Since almost EVERY SINGLE player of every MUD tries out other games eventually, this means every small mud has a shot at these players from all of these muds.
But you WILL run off popular games if you continually push for these unfair, communistic ideas like two side by side lists that give equal prominence to games that are not sending traffic.
Why should one mud send thousands of its players here, to earn a placement that another mud can earn by sending a handful of players. That makes no sense.
If you were to get your way, traffic would drop and that benefits nobody. That doesn't help the community at all.
What helps the community is driving as much traffic to a site that provides information on MUDs. That grows the community.
By the way, you seem to only consider "the community" to be small muds. You realize that the majority of the mudding community probably plays about 10-20 muds total, right? So things that benefit the big muds still benefits "the community" of which they are a part.
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