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Nobody's afraid of that happening, but on the other hand, it reduces the value of TMS by allowing MUDs who do less for the site to benefit equally to those who do more for the site.
What does it matter whether a MUD is commercial or non-commercial? Pk or No-pk? Bashing or social? What TMS does is reward a MUD for sending traffic here. From that point of view, can you understand why it makes little sense to give up valuable screen/promotional space for a MUD that does less for the site vs. a MUD that does more for the site? It makes little sense to use -any- metric besides "How much does the MUD help TMS by sending traffic here?"
I mean, fundamentally, when you send traffic here, what you're doing is exposing your players to other MUDs. There is no point in doing that unless you're getting something reasonably commensurate in value back. Those (like a certain poster) who claim that sites below the top 20 don't get traffic are pretty clueless. All one has to do is look at the list beyond the top 20 and you can clearly see that the ratio of 'out' to 'in' is not substantially different from the top 20. In fact, although I haven't run any sort of analysis, from just looking at them now, I think the MUDs below the top 20 may actually enjoy a BETTER ratio of 'out' to 'in' than the muds in the top 20.
You're placing all this value on being in the top 20 per se, but the value is in the traffic that is sent back to you. If a MUD doesn't send much traffic to TMS, why should it get much traffic back?
--matt
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