[Lasher]

I wonder if we're over complicating this whole thing. Many valid points on both sides:

1. "Professional/Non Professional" has implications other than their dictionary meaning. Not a good choice when you have to check the box that isn't labeled 'professional'.

2. "Payment rewarded in game" is too vague and has implications of a game stacked in favor of donators where that may or may not be true. MUD owners don't get a chance to explain.

3. Any label can be sidestepped. Back to the "Sword of uberness is now available without donations, for just 89 billion gold pieces" example.

Maybe a better and simpler option is a text area, something like "describe your payment model". MUD owners write in there whatever they want. Things people might write in there:

"Our MUD has a fully paid staff and requires a monthly subscription"
"Our MUD accepts no donations of any kind, free means free"
"Our MUD is financed by player donations, rewards available include X,Y,Z (note: these are also available without donating)"

Will it be completed honestly? I don't know. Will it be completed at all? I don't know that either, but if the information is important to a searcher and it isn't completed they'll move on to the next in the list. If it isn't important to them then it doesn't matter.

If there's one thing this thread makes very clear it is that whatever we call this field in the search it has different meaning to everyone, so maybe a descriptive field is better. Then again maybe not, just an idea I haven't seen on here yet.