[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

32 minutes ago, Wendy Starfall said:

This forum topic is not the right place to complain about that. The way I reach out to my community is off-topic.

However, as there are a lot of people bringing it up, I will respond to it despite it being off-topic:

I'm sending news to my community whenever I feel it is something relevant to the many people who are part of my community.

The majority of these people are using cost-free versions of my product, or they use my source code, also cost-free.

There is a detailed privacy policy that explains the news, and there is a button to turn them off.

https://www.opencollar.at/privacy.html

There are many businesses who abuse their customer lists to send them ads.

My feature doesn't use any lists, or customer data at all. It is ethical and clean. Anyone can disable it.

I'm trying to look out for those people in my community who are off the worst, and who need all help that they can get.

If you are really this dissatisfied with that, and rather warp the topic at hand further instead of just turning off the news feature, you can always just not use my products.

I don't care if you buy anything, or download anything for free. It doesn't matter to me if you choose another collar, AO, or whatever else was brought up.

I don't benefit of this. You do because it adds content with fun features to your SL.

I care for those artists who need my feature set so their beautiful creations can be and found more easily and made more appealing to customers by offering popular features.

Now, I think it would be reasonable to return to the topic at hand, if you forgot what that was, you can always download the news item through your collar for the original link and read the original post. ❤️

No, I think this is quite the place to talk about it as it is the topic directly linked in your news push, if you disagree please, feel free to report my posts. Ultimately, it is not "your" community, it is an open piece of kit for anyone to use, most of whom aren't even aware of the news feature. While I appreciate the work put into it, and see the value of the news to give product information, I did not buy anything you made, so I do not expect your agenda, whatever it is, to be pushed onto me.

You are neglecting to address that, pushing this onto people without their consent, people who are trying to avoid the topic because it is stressful, and sometimes anxiety/panic attack inducing to them, is just plain irresponsible. I also never said you abused, I said you misused, and it's also ironic you ask people to be less rude, after such a rude reply to my comment.

You claim this is for the benefit of others, so have some decency and consideration for others, don't push this through the collar scripts. Which are used by hundreds of other creators in their products, going to likely hundreds if not thousands of SL users, who will will not be aware there even exists a news feature to disable, least of all expect it to be sending them updates on a global pandemic they are coming online to avoid.

I'm not going to continue this, but I am asking you to just have some consideration for others, which apparently, seems a lot to be asking.

[Please lower or waive Second Life® fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.]

55 minutes ago, ABoysPlaceMall said:

Please stop spamming through the collars and AOs about this stuff.  

I second this. I wear heartcore, I can't edit the scripts to rip this out myself. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but if I wanted updates/news like this I would join the relevant groups, this behaviour just makes me resent it, so please stop sending this kind of thing through the products themself.

To add to that, enough people are finding this whole thing stressful, and anxiety inducing, they come to SL to escape from it, the last thing they need is to be reminded of it when they come to SL via an object they have no control over. This is a misuse of the ability to push updates to people.