clivesteel Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 I have an excellent suggestion for LL. Create a new forum which will serve as a GoFundMe for SL, where residents who need some financial help can ask, and receive L$ payments inworld. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Evanier Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Please No. There are enough begging for L$ trolls inworld 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireschen Hesten Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 No way there's enough beggars and begging bots in world i think such a thing will just encourage more people to wave their begging bowls around hoping for handouts 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT Kingsley Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 I do need L$1250 for my rent right now… I'll pay you back later… Honestly… 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Evanier Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 4 minutes ago, KT Kingsley said: I do need L$1250 for my rent right now… I'll pay you back later… Honestly… Tomorrow or it's not happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT Kingsley Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 9 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said: Tomorrow or it's not happening! Sure. Tomorrow or yesterday, but never today. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 43 minutes ago, clivesteel said: I have an excellent suggestion for LL. Create a new forum which will serve as a GoFundMe for SL, where residents who need some financial help can ask, and receive L$ payments inworld. of course there are people who don't have a lot.. but there are jobs in sl, or get a skill in rl that reaches over to SL ...and there are many people in SL who have everything they want and need without ever spending a single rl dollar, but know what?... thát takes lot of patience, and time... and the poor souls often don't want thát. We want it , and we want it now, and it has to be the same as the ones that dó have skill or spend money. Well that's not likely going to happen. but... strange thing is, for SL you need a quite powerfull machine to run, a quite good internetconnection and electricity... and name more... want a forum for that too? Begging leads to one thing only... banned from many places, and blocked by 99% of the sl community (the remaining 1% are the beggars themself wondering what happened in that very quiet world0 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 18 minutes ago, KT Kingsley said: I do need L$1250 for my rent right now… i tried to wire it to you, but my bank doesn't provide L$ transactions 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syo Emerald Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 So I assume you want others to pay for your enjoyment/hobby without any return/benefit and because a tiny part of your mind knows that would get you into hells kitchen under normal circumstances, you request a forum to be made that also sounds a little nicer than begging? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 1 hour ago, clivesteel said: I have an excellent suggestion for LL. No you haven't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walelu Summerwind Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 There is(was) an org. in SL that you can join to "sponsor" disabled members. I used to be a member and sponsored a person. That was a very long time ago. A GoFundMe is a very bad idea.. but, I think that the OPs idea is coming from a good place.. though maybe a little naive 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 36 minutes ago, Walelu Summerwind said: I think that the OPs idea is coming from a good place.. though maybe a little naive Highly unlikely. Read OP's post history. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillith Hapmouche Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 (edited) Adequately elaborating on the quality of the OP's idea could easily guarantee a forum or even inworld ban for a couple of days. So well, yeah, what Phil said... ... and that's from someone who suggested to mod the Arma 3 - Altis Life criminal justice system in such a way that it would also act as wellfare and benefit the victims of robberies and so on. The scripter of that server stopped talking to me for a while, dunno why. Edited May 25, 2018 by Lillith Hapmouche 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Meriman Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 So many things I could say, especially with the uptick in beggers Gofundme's lately. But, I like my forum and in world accounts not being banned, so I wont make mention of the many SL HopeFor____ scams. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrah Abattoir Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 For a second i thought the OP wanted to setup a GoFundMe for Linden Lab. 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 I ran into a person today that was discussing doing such because "I wont trust any company with my card information" so they wanted to do just this so "others can support their habit" lol! fail on the highest levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hintswen Guardian Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 9 hours ago, Kyrah Abattoir said: For a second i thought the OP wanted to setup a GoFundMe for Linden Lab. I actually clicked the thread thinking that is what they meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardus Raymaker Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 17 hours ago, KT Kingsley said: I do need L$1250 for my rent right now… I'll pay you back later… Honestly… If you lent me 2500 L$ first i can lent you 1250 L$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImaKinky Cyberstar Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 18 hours ago, clivesteel said: I have an excellent suggestion for LL. Create a new forum which will serve as a GoFundMe for SL, where residents who need some financial help can ask, and receive L$ payments inworld. I actually wish LL would start banning this sort of thing from SL. Let's look at two examples of "unfortunate" residents needing help recently. 1. A creator and store owner in SL who needed "help with burial costs" for her deceased mother. A fundraiser was held in SL, as well as a gofundme page (or so I heard) and where did all the money go? Well if SL secrets and Plurk are to be believed, she had a fabulous RL shopping spree and finally got driving lessons! 2. Another creator and store owner in SL who was evicted from her home along with her special needs son. Instead of turning to RL help organisations, she turned them away due to having too much "pride" to accept their help and instead turned to the virtual world to fix her problems, and has received over 1,000,000L from SL residents. So far she has only been able to cash $2,000 out of SL due to cash out limits, so where did this go? Well $1,500 of it has gone to a lawyer to battle to get LL to allow her to cash out more Ls instead of on housing for her and her son. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 Lets not, and say we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saz Ninetails Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 There is the Pixel to Pixel foundation which gives a stipend to certain residents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukubia Scarmon Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 10 hours ago, ImaKinky Cyberstar said: I actually wish LL would start banning this sort of thing from SL. Let's look at two examples of "unfortunate" residents needing help recently. 1. A creator and store owner in SL who needed "help with burial costs" for her deceased mother. A fundraiser was held in SL, as well as a gofundme page (or so I heard) and where did all the money go? Well if SL secrets and Plurk are to be believed, she had a fabulous RL shopping spree and finally got driving lessons! 2. Another creator and store owner in SL who was evicted from her home along with her special needs son. Instead of turning to RL help organisations, she turned them away due to having too much "pride" to accept their help and instead turned to the virtual world to fix her problems, and has received over 1,000,000L from SL residents. So far she has only been able to cash $2,000 out of SL due to cash out limits, so where did this go? Well $1,500 of it has gone to a lawyer to battle to get LL to allow her to cash out more Ls instead of on housing for her and her son. If it's true, that's disgusting. I wish there were actual laws against stuff like that. Aren't there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillith Hapmouche Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 23 minutes ago, Sukubia Scarmon said: Aren't there? Depending on the circumstances: fraud in criminal terms, civil law cases for the rest. And hopefully an overdose of bad karma. I think the most disgusting example was a case over on a private SL forum. One highly liked poster unexpectedly died, her online partner for years overheard it on voice communication. Money was raised to allow him to travel to her funeral, during which he was mentioned and thought of as if he had been her spouse in daily life. But he rather thought it would be cool to spend the money for stuff he always wanted, but could never afford. Like, everything a mediocre successful adult would have, but what that douchebag failed to get on his own. Lesson: don't trust anyone and always be ready to expect getting tricked and cheated on. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForrestChild Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 On 5/25/2018 at 4:39 PM, clivesteel said: I have an excellent suggestion for LL. Create a new forum which will serve as a GoFundMe for SL, where residents who need some financial help can ask, and receive L$ payments inworld. Next week: Nailing jelly to the ceiling. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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