Arduenn Schwartzman

SL used to have something like this for residents, ratings for 'Behavior', 'Appearance' and' Building' (skills). I vaguely remember it used to cost 1L$ to rate someone. It's last remnants can be found on the Linden Scripting Language Wiki page: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/DATA_RATING

First thing I did in SL was to go into Edit Appearance and move all the sliders to one side, because, in a virtual world, surely, people do not judge one another by the cover. Me ( on the left) with my homies in Calleta, AD 2007 Me (middle), desperately wanting to look like my SL avatar

[Somethingsomething] Sideways

Yes, but it just got infinitely worse for no reason. I'm not even angry that my own products end up lower (basically out of sight all together, but whatever). It's just infuriating that the top search results are beyond ridiculous. A random grab from the database would come up with more relevant results. I wish I was joking with that statement, but it almost seems deliberate. I can't go into specific details because of the forum ToS, but just to give a few vague examples: Search for 'game'. First result: I don't even know what the hell this product is supposed to be. No picture, no sensible description. It has nothing to do with games. And it comes up at #1 in Relevance. Second result: a Squid Game mask that screams copyright infringement. Third result: a 3D model of a gaming console that does absolutely nothing. The object description is pure sarcasm (which, in its own right, I can appreciate): "The sleek design of this game console [it's a black plastic box, ffs] will fill your Second Life with endless hours of fun and joy. Invite your friends over to gaze at the wonder. Take pictures and show your family. Fill your social media feed with image after image of this amazing piece of modern art." Search was fine. it was not perfect. But now it's not even broken anymore. It's anti-search.

I'm pretty sure that many, after two or three pages of utter irrelevant search results, customers will simply give up. Sure, the L$ will end up being spent on something else all together, most likely in-world, where LL does not receive their 10% commission.

Somewhere at the beginning of this year, LL decided to 'improve' the Relevance-based search algorithm on MP. This was, in my opinion, a total failure. About two months ago, they seem to have decided to roll it back to its old form. As of yesterday, September 16, 2023, they seem to have re-introduced it. Same, in my opinion, dysfuntional upgrade. Same utterly irrelevant* search results. What the hell, Linden Lab? Do you think no one notices? Surely even you must see a substantial decline in your 10% commission revenue as a direct result of your experiments? ------- * Mostly very old items that are in many cases only marginally related to the search keywords

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The tastiest malts are single malts.

The list needs more Polish names, like Prlwytzkofsky.

I like Labs. If I could change my name into Arduenn Labs, then I'd pay fourty bucks for it. I kid. Not really.

Don't feed the crypto trolls, people. I think they're too busy getting filthy rich in [insert trendy metaverse du jour - as seen on TwitterX].

Here's a thing that's very good about Second Life and Linden Labs, because it hits many birds with a single stone: you can save time, energy, screen space and keyboard wear by spelling Linden Lab correctly. (As a bonus benefit: it triggers fewer people with OCD tendencies, like me.)

Wait, that's a good thing, right?

Raytracing can look good in dark wet/metallic environments with lots of light sources all around, like Cyberpunk 2077. In dry rocky and leafy places (say nature/forest/deserts, but also dry urban places during daytime, the environment with RTX on does not differ noticably from that with RTX off.

A good blogger grabs all the stuff from the blogger room, rezzes everything out in front of a backdrop, little bit of shuffling, rotating. And then it's time for the scanner HUD, which convenienetly lists the object names that have been meticulously placed all around, and, if it's a really fancy HUD, adds their respective store names. and then it's time for a snapshot. Nice and big, 7500 pixels wide, so you can see a hint of the stuff tucked behind other stuff. And then it's time to upload the picture to Flickr. And copy paste the item name/store name list from Local Chat in the Flickr description. And then comes the hard work: (i) submit the art to at least one thousand different Flickr groups, (ii) 'Like' a whole tonne of related pictures from blogger friends on Flickr in hopes of reciprocity. And Bob's your uncle. The written word is for boomers. Pictures are worth a thousand words and Flickr is King. What makes a good blogger? If they write stuff that I enjoy as a reader, I guess. Most importantly, listing a bunch of pros and cons of the product in question. What I really miss, though, is, when I take a bloggers criticism to heart, and I improve upon it, it's practically never that these improvements get a follow-up in a blog.

Am I correct in concluding that the following is the core of the problem? "Avatar/cloud stands too close for too long near other avatar." After all, since there are options as Block and Derender, all other details of this debate topic are trivial. It doesn't matter what role the adversary plays. When they are blocked, you can't see whether they're a ninja, a zombie, a pirate or a vampire. Also, it does not matter what they IM to you. Once they are blocked, you have been liberated of their verbal harassments. So, the only thing that's left is an invisible physics bean and a little cloud of particles that invades your personal space. In the worst case, they might even push your avatar around when you are afk. And, gee, I wonder how one could solve that problem.

Shhh! Don't mention... them! They are listening! [Edit] This thread is some good Streisand Effect sh*t. I had never even heard of Progeny vampires before. (Not that I'm looking into it any further, of course.)

Read The [Friggin'] Notecard

This Halloween is going to be a good one for signatures.

Got it. So I'm already rushing to update my new sig with an SL pumpkin.

So, signature quotes about unnamed cheating golf players aren't allowed . There goes my plausible deniability.

Yes. It's keyword spam You're right. I didn't consider that. Keyword spam is rampant, more so than miscategorization.

Boo! Election interference! /s

Oh, you meant roleplay politics! (I see that a lot, confusion between roleplay and real world matters in SL.)