Ted McGregor Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Yes ... can you feel the pain ? Awful, innit ? ... :robotindifferent: Hence the return of one them still sounds to me like Lurch calling : "You rang ?" Did you ring ? .. Please tell me you didn't ... :robotmad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Suspiria Finucane wrote: Your fallacious assumptions are based solely on conjectural malice. Your most unidiomatic conclusion about promoting a friend is grasping for straws at best. I posted a reply to you thinking civility was the prevalent doctrine, it won’t happen again. Please leave the fifty cent words to people who know what they mean and can use them correctly. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoro Philipp Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 it seems it is more than 5% covered, althought it may look too much exposed to certain cultures. Linden Lab is offering its product to a global audience, it must be more careful about what image it wants to give, for some potential users it may reinforce the myth that Second Life is mainly about sex, since many percieve the lack of enough covering as sexually attractive. Linden Lab should be more prudent with its technique to appeal to a multicultural audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoro Philipp Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 the best option is to be between the extremes of what your target audience consider acceptable, and to try to preserve what is more important to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PudgyPaddy Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Candor Philipp wrote: the best option is to be between the extremes of what your target audience consider acceptable, and to try to preserve what is more important to them. What? This is not communist Russia! The "best" opinions are founded in reasoning and logic. I don't write opinion(s) to placate readers with flowery words so as to not offend misplaced sensibilities or to not cause emotional instability. I don't write opinions to win friends or win a popularity contest either. Going forward, whenever I read *your* opinion I will know that you didn't mean what you wrote--you just want to look good to the rest of us or the one. This is perhaps the worst statement that could have been written on an open and public forum. PS The OP didn't offer an opinion. The opening post asked a direct and specific question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Griffin Ceawlin wrote: Nice and sexy feet :matte-motes-big-grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 PudgyPaddy wrote: Candor Philipp wrote: the best option is to be between the extremes of what your target audience consider acceptable, and to try to preserve what is more important to them. What? This is not communist Russia! The "best" opinions are founded in reasoning and logic. I don't write opinion(s) to placate readers with flowery words so as to not offend misplaced sensibilities or to not cause emotional instability. I don't write opinions to win friends or win a popularity contest either. Going forward, whenever I read *your* opinion I will know that you didn't mean what you wrote--you just want to look good to the rest of us or the one. This is perhaps the worst statement that could have been written on an open and public forum. PS The OP didn't offer an opinion. The opening post asked a direct and specific question. As Canoro was discussing a "target audience" it's pretty clear to me he was not talking about opinions. He was talking about sales. Sellers do indeed placate buyers with stories that are likely to induce them to purchase their goods and/or services. There is a term for this sort of placation, it's called "marketing". Going forward, whenever I read your opinion, shall I make greater allowance for the possibility that you didn't understand the subject and that you just want to look good to "the one"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Marigold Devin wrote: Nice and sexy feet :matte-motes-big-grin: LOL. Yeah, that might be a big draw for some people. Me, not so much. :smileyvery-happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoro Philipp Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 you probably are not getting paid for your opinions, so you dont care much about how many people accept it, Linden Lab is trying to be attractive to as much potential users as possible, so it must adapt to what the majority might consider acceptable. as Madelaine said, i was talking about business marketing strategy rather than personal opinions. i answered the OP question, and i also added my opinion about a company marketing strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 The ads (pictures) can be targetted/customised based on the location of the user. At the Vatican they'd probably see pictures with little boys in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 If someone, somehow, found that picture not acceptable (i.e. morally objectionable)... do you really think that person is LLs target audience? Sex is, whether you like it or not, a big part of SL. It's not what brought me to SL and I find the whole pixel sex thing rather comical, but the Lindens were previously quite open about sex being a big part of it (I don't know where they stand now...). That outfit is pretty tame by Western (and SL) standards. Do you think it would be better for LL to pull a bait-and-switch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoro Philipp Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 the person that find the picture objectionable due to cultural values, may also be wanted as a potential customer, Linden Lab is probably trying to have as much users as possible with the hopes that they will bring more income, so Linden Lab must be trying to see everyone as a target audience. you are right, Linden Lab has been very relaxed about the morality of their users, they probably have about the same point of view currently, they evade getting involved with what their users do, they get involved only when its neccesary, like griefing. bait-and-switch seems to be very used in marketing and many people dont seem to care, when i was a kid i played videogames, the cover of the games had graphics very different of how they actually looked like in the game, and i dont really minded, i knew the enhanced graphics was for presentation purposes, i accepted that the graphics were not as good as the cover of the package. i remember a video of Second Life where a woman changed outfits like magic, not going to her inventory, everything happened in a second, Linden Lab has done that, is very common in marketing, and to a reasonable level, acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncommonTruth Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Perrie Juran wrote: The ads (pictures) can be targetted/customised based on the location of the user. At the Vatican they'd probably see pictures with little boys in them. :matte-motes-bored: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Perrie Juran wrote: The ads (pictures) can be targetted/customised based on the location of the user. At the Vatican they'd probably see pictures with little boys in them. :matte-motes-agape: *** I got an ad for fruit and nuts delivered to my door, maybe they think I am a little fruity or nutty ?! :matte-motes-wink-tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspiria Finucane Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Theresa Tennyson wrote: So this is what the old "lively' forum was like? Not really. Comparing now to then would be similar to comparing yoga to Ultimate Fighting. :matte-motes-agape: It was "lively" to say the least. It had really good times though. I am happy to have been a small part of it. The forum in its current form is exactly what LL wanted. Long gone are most people who had very intelligent discussions about interesting topics. There are are some left of course and I’m sure there are new ones I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting. I doubt new people will ever see the forum return to what it was before. After all, now the forum has rank. What more could anyone want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspiria Finucane Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Griffin Ceawlin wrote: Suspiria Finucane wrote: Your fallacious assumptions are based solely on conjectural malice. Your most unidiomatic conclusion about promoting a friend is grasping for straws at best. I posted a reply to you thinking civility was the prevalent doctrine, it won’t happen again. Please leave the fifty cent words to people who know what they mean and can use them correctly. Thank you. Simply superlative isn't it. The day an accredited English professor shows up here to indicate any improprieties, I may consider a revision. I'm not interested in any "help" you have to offer thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspiria Finucane Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Canoro Philipp wrote: it seems it is more than 5% covered, althought it may look too much exposed to certain cultures. Linden Lab is offering its product to a global audience, it must be more careful about what image it wants to give, for some potential users it may reinforce the myth that Second Life is mainly about sex, since many percieve the lack of enough covering as sexually attractive. Linden Lab should be more prudent with its technique to appeal to a multicultural audience. Cultural cognizance :matte-motes-smitten: Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Suspiria Finucane wrote: Simply superlative isn't it. The fact that you'll continue to use words incorrectly? Yeah. Superlative hilarity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Ceawlin Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Suspiria Finucane wrote: After all, now the forum has rank. What more could anyone want. Still butthurt over that, huh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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