Melita Magic

Movie is working at my 2 locations if you are (or if anyone is) interested in public domain G rated entertainment. Also in case anyone wanted to check if they can see other forms of video. (It is not you tube.) I think at least one of those locations is in my Picks.

Thank you for the tips. I know I'm tired and it's probably been said but where on the dashboard do I locate my feed? Now that it's been brought up, I'm curious.

LOL! I wonder if he meant me...you didn't ask anything stupid. Czari thank you for the tips on how to adjust the feed. But where is it? LOL

En Francais, s'il te plait. C'est meilleur comme ca.

Hasn't been my experience...when something's big there is a timely response. Look how many in staff vs. how many logged in at a given moment. There was a guy who used to try to get people to rally against not having enough Spanish speaking places in SL or something like that. I can't remember his avatar name now, though. (Your post reminded me of him.)

Reeva Hax wrote: Melita Magic wrote: About reviews and IMs. I've seen that said in the forums too, that customers have an obligation to creators or merchants to IM them first. No, they don't. They just don't. Have your product ready or don't sell it. It's not a matter of obbligation but common sense, IMHO. I have my product ready (and often more than double checked). Then some people buy it and there is a missing piece in the box, or the permissions are wrong/screwed up, or the texture is grey(*). Why go straight for the review instead of contacting the merchant/creator to warn about and/or ask a fix about the issue? If you buy something boxed in a real store, then at home you see that was of black color instead of red as marked on the box... you first write a bad review on a website/local paper/whatever... or you go back to the store to warn them and resolve the issue? Unless someone prefers to rant instead to have the correct items that wanted to buy in first stance... I mean... If there are issues that can't be fixed in a present product without making a new version (as in the OP case), or the product is not as advertised, or something in it is really bad, ok, go for the review alone. BUT IF the problem can be a mistake/bug or can be fixed in 5/10 minutes, why choose the long way instead of the short one? (*) Missing parts usually appears back after a relog (client or connection problem?). Permission issues can be a genuine merchant mistake (it's a series of boxes to tik. Often in a sequence. You don't click well enough or don't have the mouse really right over the box and the change is not applied), or SL that again messes up things, as same for the texture. In the last 2 months we had perfectly loaded & applied texture to poof into nothing from objects as well as permission suddenly changed from copy to trans only, or to no perms at all. (typo edited) I know sometimes people post about things that are SL glitches and not the product's fault. But I think the majority are savvy SLers and are posting about things which relate to the merchant or product. Anything that was part of their customer experience is relevant in the review, note I said customer experience, not SL. I wanted to reply next specifically to this part: "I have my product ready (and often more than double checked). Then some people buy it and there is a missing piece in the box, or the permissions are wrong/screwed up, or the texture is grey(*). Why go straight for the review instead of contacting the merchant/creator to warn about and/or ask a fix about the issue?" No offense but not all merchants do have the product quite ready or as advertised. Some are inexperienced. Some may have less experience in SL than the customer does. Some may have thought it was all finished and the product does not work as it should once the person gets the product. In short the customer isn't always wrong. Those things you just named are all things wrong with the product. The customer has no way to know it is SL's fault (and the merchant does not either, in some cases, they could have made a mistake.) It could very well simply be that the merchant was not careful or did not know what they were doing. Not all listings in marketplace are by experienced creators and even they can make mistakes. It's true SL and marketplace can glitch, yes. But what really matters is that the customer did not get what they paid for. The review IS the proper place for them to give feedback. Not all creators or merchants will reply, some make people go through a long elaborate process talking to a chain of others about the issue, some make people go through a sim size shop looking for a little thing to click on. In short sometimes the merchant can be a bit difficult or unreasonable themselves. Meet the customer at least halfway. I realize the people who are very very busy with their shops in SL can't do all of that, but some have smaller shops and still can be very tricky or egotistical or complicated to deal with from the customer point of view. So a review is only permissible if the product is completely different or needs to be completely changed? I disagree. Any flaw in the product can and should be mentioned in a review. Even if it is not the merchant's fault, the other customers have a right to know that's how things currently are, before they buy. Why wouldn't a missing piece be grounds for a mention in a review? That's a major flaw. "If you buy something boxed in a real store, then at home you see that was of black color instead of red as marked on the box... you first write a bad review on a website/local paper/whatever... or you go back to the store to warn them and resolve the issue? Unless someone prefers to rant instead to have the correct items that wanted to buy in first stance... " So reviewers just like to rant? I don't agree. If I review something I am taking time I could spend on something else and trying to help the creator and customers by writing detailed feedback. I try to lay out the pluses and minuses in an objective way. I give more stars usually than I'd like. I don't think I've ever given fewer than three stars, because I know it's hard to do what creators and merchants do - time consuming at the very least. But I'm not going to say a product is as advertised if it is not, or works if it does not, or is full perms if it has no perms, etc., etc. I'm going to say what I just experienced. No I don't go back to the store and 'warn them' of the issue in real life (I also usually do not Yelp. It has to be extreme.) I do not work for the store. There are numerous quality checkpoints along the way to the customer. If they have sold a defective product and won't return it or are very difficult to deal with, those are valid things for a review, just as the opposite would be. The customer's place is not to work for the creator or merchant in RL or in SL and alert them to every problem. If any do that is a favor, not an obligation. Giving public feedback in a place designed for that is the customer's right. I'm very puzzled why anyone would think otherwise. "I mean... If there are issues that can't be fixed in a present product without making a new version (as in the OP case), or the product is not as advertised, or something in it is really bad, ok, go for the review alone." The customer can say anything in the review they wish. Ideally it should be fair detailed and accurate. But they aren't being paid by the merchants, and have no obligation to 'warn' them the product is bad. It is the merchant's obligation to themselves to test the product with alts, to try them again in the wake of an SL disruption or marketplace change, and to write detailed descriptions of their product. Tell people if it's mesh or not. Tell people if it's sculpty or prim. Tell people which parts have which permissions. Tell people if the item is resizeable by hand or by script. Things like that. If that isn't in the description and the person is disappointed in what they receive, they have a perfect right to say why. I wouldn't have gone to these lengths had you not insulted my 'lack of common sense.'

jwenting wrote: Melita Magic wrote: Yes. A while ago I left - not even a 'bad' review - I think I still gave it three stars - but said something I thought was appropriate criticism - sort of 'I wish this aspect of the product had been such and such a way instead.' Not much time went by, a day if that. I got a nasty IM from the creator. Since they are successful (or were - haven't been since) and made lovely products it surprised me. Why would they be that rattled by one tepid review? Very bad form, and, lost a loyal customer for SL ever. seen similar. Had a store owner ban me from his in world store for daring to say to the person I was shopping with that I didn't like how the demo looked on her once. Wow LOL...Well it's their land but LOL, in my opinion. Reviews are a matter of personal opinion and can include the shopping and/or purchasing experience. Can include the atmosphere and customer service issues. Those things are all relevant in a review if those were part of the buyer's personal experience in that shop or with that merchant and product.

PS post in French some of us will understand you better. This existing post is half French, half English, but not sensible.

Ban him from your land.

Pie Serendipity wrote: Melita Magic wrote: Pie you make a point but if someone is actually mentally ill, overly sensitive, or emotionally distraught to begin with, words can wound. If the person is already in a compromised state of mind or emotion, that one word could be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Also, cyber bullying is often used as a tool in conjunction with other forms of bullying or harassment. But that would have to be a person who cares inordinately about what others think of them. So everyone is supposed to go around walking on eggshells on the basis that there might be one individual who just once might decide to read these forums, because that person might have some sort of phobia about reading a word like, say, "beastiality" - the mis-spelling of bestiality, not the concept itself, of course! I don't think so. If someone is mentally ill, overly sensitive, or emotionally distraught to begin with, they should be attending the LWL Sunday breakfast in the feeds, not reading these forums - unless they put on their fantasy blinkers and stick to Hippy's "Friends" thread. Further, baseball bats are used as a tool in conjunction with other forms of bullying or harassment, but I don't see much of a lobby to stop the MLB programme. I never mentioned the forums.

Have him try a different internet browser. I had the same thing happen and it was about you tube and some videos using flash and some not. I can't remember the permanent fix any more. But that might work for now.

Griffin Ceawlin wrote: Erm... Isn't it the kajirae/kajiri who wear the silks? But, ask any of them who 'really' runs the show. Madelaine: maybe? (Note to self: enable google safe filters before searching anything with eyes.)

No, definitely not awful. I appreciate the help. I will give the tutorials a try...maybe tomorrow. I'm a big believer in intuitive controls, though. Thanks again.

I feel so out of it lately. Oculus Rift sounds like something from Dr Who. I just want my old viewer interface with the latest functionalities. Then I be happy again and sun come out and shine, shine.

Very kind of you. Thank you. I have not written a blog before. But, if I can find a topic that isn't too too personal I might give it a roll some time. Thanks again.

So, we have our individual 'feeds' and those are like tributaries going into the big stream (or cesspool it sounds like) of 'the SL feeds' in total? Can one keep one's 'feed' private or friends only or turn it off? (Just wondering.) Does anything posted on one's feed show up in the SL feeds? Do the forum topics show up in the SL feeds? It sounds awful to me and I'm not sure I understand their purpose.

BTW by camera controls I don't mean in world camera, I meant, snapshot camera. But now I mention it: I didn't understand what that camera control thing was at bottom either, or its function.

The official Second Life viewer interface will ever return to the oldie but goodie? So many functions are worse. I installed the new viewer. Not the beta, just the new one. So now I have both. I went back to the old one as soon as I could. It loads much more slowly now. Some world textures are missing. I get a frequent annoying pop up telling me some textures are missing (as if I didn't know it.) Half the people and places are big black bubbles now and I can't see windows or doors in some shops so I can't go in them (sometimes everything inside is mesh also, so I can't cam in to shop either. Nothing's rezzing.) I could not use the camera. I tried to take a photo of something and email it and although it looked fine and was framed well in the viewer camera, the result was a tiny piece of that photo blown up 1200 times or something. Looked like a drunk snapping pictures. Everything is on the left side. I am not left handed and the buttons on the left covered a HUD I have to wear. I have tried moving said HUD before and it doesn't work well. So if in the new viewer I can't operate the HUD as I should. I could not find anywhere to adjust camera controls. I could not find anywhere to learn how to use the thing. (I know there must be a manual online but I don't learn well that way. I learn by doing.) In the old viewer, I can type in the picture size. I don't see anything like that anywhere. Obviously the photos I was taking were too large, even though they looked fine while being taken. Nothing seemed to show up in Inventory, and it looked weird, when it did. I don't know how to find or use people's profiles, I don't know how to use Search. The screen covered with ads when I log in is overbearing. I don't want to use a third party viewer because I'm zealous with my privacy I guess and the growing loss of same the internet is experiencing is troubling enough. For instance I just tried to sign up for a new Yahoo (to use flickr) and they won't allow it at all now without a mobile phone attached. (How is that legal?) I know from experience how very easy it is to link everything a person connects that way and find all their little secrets in a two minute google search. (I didn't do that on purpose for those reasons.) It's insidious to me. Sorry, getting off topic - I was thinking about doing a thread on that too. Anyway. Phew. Is there a group I can join for the new viewer or, Old Viewer Anonymous meetings, or something? Even pick up/take/edit are horrible in the new one. Why not keep the new functions and just return to the old interface? I haven't met anyone who actually liked the new interface. Why keep it?

The official Second Life viewer interface will ever return to the oldie but goodie? So many functions are worse. I installed the new viewer. Not the beta, just the new one. So now I have both. I went back to the old one as soon as I could. It loads much more slowly now. Some world textures are missing. I get a frequent annoying pop up telling me some textures are missing (as if I didn't know it.) Half the people and places are big black bubbles now and I can't see windows or doors in some shops so I can't go in them (sometimes everything inside is mesh also, so I can't cam in to shop either. Nothing's rezzing.) I could not use the camera. I tried to take a photo of something and email it and although it looked fine and was framed well in the viewer camera, the result was a tiny piece of that photo blown up 1200 times or something. Looked like a drunk snapping pictures. Everything is on the left side. I am not left handed and the buttons on the left covered a HUD I have to wear. I have tried moving said HUD before and it doesn't work well. So if in the new viewer I can't operate the HUD as I should. I could not find anywhere to adjust camera controls. I could not find anywhere to learn how to use the thing. (I know there must be a manual online but I don't learn well that way. I learn by doing.) In the old viewer, I can type in the picture size. I don't see anything like that anywhere. Obviously the photos I was taking were too large, even though they looked fine while being taken. Nothing seemed to show up in Inventory, and it looked weird, when it did. I don't know how to find or use people's profiles, I don't know how to use Search. The screen covered with ads when I log in is overbearing. I don't want to use a third party viewer because I'm zealous with my privacy I guess and the growing loss of same the internet is experiencing is troubling enough. For instance I just tried to sign up for a new Yahoo (to use flickr) and they won't allow it at all now without a mobile phone attached. (How is that legal?) I know from experience how very easy it is to link everything a person connects that way and find all their little secrets in a two minute google search. (I didn't do that on purpose for those reasons.) It's insidious to me. Sorry, getting off topic - I was thinking about doing a thread on that too. Anyway. Phew. Is there a group I can join for the new viewer or, Old Viewer Anonymous meetings, or something? Even pick up/take/edit are horrible in the new one. Why not keep the new functions and just return to the old interface? I haven't met anyone who actually liked the new interface. Why keep it?

Sephina Frostbite wrote: At first I thought it was sweet because I had thought they wanted to fix the product or send me a replacement. This wasnt the case. They kept asking me repeatedly if I tried the demo over and over depite giving my answer, there was no demo. When I told him have a nice day then kept IM me saying to change the review and I will refund you. Then proceded to say they wont go away till I do. Oh, yes, I have gotten way too many IMs like that in reply to a review as well. If a review is anything less than 5 stars I don't even take the time to review it any more. What some of the folks who react that way don't seem to consider is that any review is better than none. People will ignore reviews that just seem to bash without reason; but if a review gives information another customer might buy the product because now they understand more about that product. The other customers might not agree with the reviewer's preference, but the review still has shared product information and feedback. I understand all of that, it's tough to hear criticism especially if one feels a creative attachment to something. But, if one's going to be in business, even in a micro economy - one has to behave professionally. Or what? Or lose customers and eventually get a bad reputation.

Yes. A while ago I left - not even a 'bad' review - I think I still gave it three stars - but said something I thought was appropriate criticism - sort of 'I wish this aspect of the product had been such and such a way instead.' Not much time went by, a day if that. I got a nasty IM from the creator. Since they are successful (or were - haven't been since) and made lovely products it surprised me. Why would they be that rattled by one tepid review? Very bad form, and, lost a loyal customer for SL ever.

Sorry I hadn't seen your post before posting mine. GMTA I guess? If serious I think it might be a decent idea if done just right. A cute or goth pet that a vampire could draw from like they draw from the avatars who RP 'blood dolls.' I was being facetious but, for all I know, it could make money.

Not sure how to interpret most of that, but, it sounds more like daytime shock television than the parody breedables I had imagined.

RocketMaster wrote: Guys, i'm being accused of doing something stupid by my friends. Supposedly, i changed into a female avvie and asked a user to make me pregnant. Only problem: I didn't do it. They claim i did it on voice chat, too. Some friends, huh? With those guys, i don't need enemies. Anyway, what should i do? How do i prove my innocence? If you have to prove something to your friend, they are not your friend.