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Perhaps you should read the title of this thread. "Text mud promotion to the outside world." It doesn't say, "Creative writing." Creative writing is great. But this thread is about promoting text MUDs, and promotion is about numbers. If you're honestly concerned with promoting text MUDs rather than simply putting stories out there for the sake of putting stories out there (not that there's anything wrong with that at all), then it's all about numbers and hits. There's not really any arguing with this. Tracking the results of your promotional activities is one of the first things a marketing class would teach you, as without tracking them, you have no idea if you're wasting your time or not.
Again, if you just want to put out stories, I think that's great. But if you're really concerned with promoting text muds (which is what this thread is about), then I suggest you look at it from a marketing perspective rather than a writing perspective. And from any perspective at all actually concerned with promoting text MUDs, ensuring you can track whether you're wasting your time or not is crucial. In fact, I'd challenge you to find me a single reputable marketing text that urges otherwise.
I mean, if it turns out there's just no feasible way to track it (for instance, perhaps Andrew and Adam don't want to help track how many visitors are coming from the fiction site) then so be it, but to dismiss the idea of tracking your marketing results is extremely naive.
--matt
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