Be a Mesh Mentor - it's very satisfying!

[Pamela Galli]

You are missing the point of mentorship.  I cannot tell you how many hours, days, weeks I spent trying to find some tutorial or forum that could answer a specific question about some skill without which I could procede no further -- until I met Nacy, who (I tell her), seemed to just drop out of heaven. There is a big difference between having a teacher and not having one, even with a plethora of tutorials and forums out there. Nothing Nacy has taught me is special secret knowledge -- it's just the specific stuff she or I identify as a sticking point for me. There may even be a lot of tutorials out there on that subject, but they may all skip over something because they thought it was too obvious or that "everyone knows" already.

 

 

[Nacy Nightfire]

Clearly you are too busy with your real life responsibilities and your Second Life projects to read carefully.

My op was never a suggestion that everyone MUST participate in a mentoring relationship.  I have shared with the general public here what I've learned from own satisfying experience mentoring a talented, intelligent, willing and eager "student/friend" I met here on the forums.    I am encouraging  those who are too shy to contribute to the forums or unable to make public videos they can make a valuable contribution by teaching on a one to one basis.  And yes, via IM, because that's what its there for.

Its impractical to bring each and every project that we do to the forum for evaluation by all  forum members.  And for many reasons,  its not a particularly good idea.  And we can't always get past our learning hurdles with generalized information.  Some learning has to be project specific.

Newcomers to 3D are fully formed adult humans with the same maturity and life skill set as anyone else.  They are not "newbies" in the prejoritive sense.  This is not some bad Hollywood movie about High School hijinks where the seasoned characters berate the freshmen.  Newcomers (either to SL as a whole or to an aspect of SL they are new to such as 3d mesh)  need the same help to participate in this unique social enviroment as the more seasoned members received (and often conveniently forget they received). In any way that works. Classes, videos on youtube, the forum and private instruction is valid.

Now tell me.  This post has been up for a while. How many thousands of enthusiastic yet impolite mesh beginners have IMd you to rudely demand your mentoring service, thus interrupting your bliss.  I've had none.    

 

[Masami Kuramoto]

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Nacy Nightfire wrote:

Clearly you are too busy with your real life responsibilities and your Second Life projects to read carefully.

My op was never a suggestion that everyone MUST participate in a mentoring relationship.

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I don't remember misreading you like that.

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I am encouraging  those who are too shy to contribute to the forums or unable to make public videos they can make a valuable contribution by teaching on a one to one basis.  And yes, via IM, because that's what its there for.

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That's fine. I have no issue with it.

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Now tell me.  This post has been up for a while. How many thousands of enthusiastic yet impolite mesh beginners have IMd you to rudely demand your mentoring service, thus interrupting your bliss.  I've had none.    

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I've had one polite request to help install Blender and the Primstar scripts on a Mac. It didn't bother me (although I couldn't help), but I know for a fact that these requests bother others. Some in-world groups even have a no-IM policy because of that.