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If a Threshold player or administration were posting here purely out of self-interest, why would they oppose your color coding scheme? After all, the info Threshold has provided for this site already includes a statement that it is "per-per-play" so really the only way it would add to Threshold's information here is to make, under the color scheme proposal, that fact color-coded for the illiterate visitor, and illiterate people don't really enjoy text-based games in the first place. If the variation on this site "enhancement" were to only add another category in the site information about business model, Threshold's information would remain unchanged, but one sentence would be moved to a new slot, so I fail to see how this would have any impact on Threshold, per se. If you are talking about the search option, Threshold would STILL be unaffected, unless you are wanting IRE's games to come up in the seme grouping, which doesn't seem to be what anyone has proposed.
In fact, if I were posting out of pure self-interest, I'd want this scheme (in the variation where only a new category line is added in the info for each MUD) because I suspect, if implemented, the main impact would be to harm IRE's games, to the possible advantage of Threshold. Even if TMS implemented the color scheme model, it would still not harm Threshold, as far as I can see, since Threshold already highlights its business model, and it only wants players who are planning on paying in the first place.
The real reason I am opposed to this idea has already been mentioned in my other posts on this issue. Such a scheme would do nothing to prevent MUDS from misidentifying themselves as free when they are not free, if I even agreed that is what IRE does, which I don't. The information provided already provided by MUDS here CLEARLY isn't standardized, confirmed by any independent person, or adequately policed by the community itself. Moreover, despite the feelings of a few posters, it's obviously not at all clear that "free to play" means "all game features free of charge" so even if the site WERE to implement some sort of category option for business model, it would only create confusion. Finally, when we read this thread, it becomes obvious that the real desire is to see IRE labeled everywhere possible as "pay for perks" and to change the whole site just to harm one company's ability to market themselves here is shortsighted. Any change to this site, in my opinion, should be for the purpose of improving it overall, and so far, the posters for this change have all been people whose primary motive (to screw over IRE) makes me highly dubious of the value of any change they propose.
The fact that you are dismissive of anyone who plays Threshold or IRE games speaks volumes about your mindset, and this mindset, if shared by the others who support your position, probably explains why this thread has gone on for so long, rather than being sufficiently covered in a few pages. Given that, this will be the last post I make on this subject, unless someone addresses me specifically in this thread.
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