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I don't think it's fair to apply that set of standards to every decision made here. For example, when various MUDs were caught stuffing the TMS ballot box illegally, no one deamnded that level of investigation. (IMO, the evidence that Medievia is at least guilty of plagiarism is more complete and compelling than the evidence that those MUDs needed to be booted from the voting list, although I agree they should have been booted.)
If Threshold wants to sponsor an external resource, more power to him to list whoever he wants, just as it's Synozeer's decision who can be listed here. There's a plus (more options makes the resource more valuable) and a minus (the 'meth dealer' effect of grouping the other games with Medievia) to be weighed.
You, me, and others are, of course, free to discuss that weighing, so long as it doesn't devolve into repetitive back-and-forth like the previous, longer thread eventually did. If you feel that the list is devalued by his leadership of it, you could sponsor your own resource.
If he plans to use this site as the resource, then I think it's fair to question his "ownership" of it. (His initiative is welcome, but it's not as if he was elected/appointed by anyone.) For example, I'd be willing to sticky a pair of lists (free/commercial) on the Advertising forums if I felt they were sufficiently useful and fair, so TMS users could readily locate their preferred flavor of MUD. But then you open up a can of worms about who decides what is/isn't on those lists, as this thread illustrates. External resources skirt this problem nicely enough, but other solutions are possible, particularly if we involve Synozeer.
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