Adam Spark

This would be great for me if I didn't just pay them 99 to join Premium like 10 days ago LOL

This. Adult events have every right to be in the calendar. If I'm looking for a DJ, or some other event, and I have to scroll through 200 other events that are adult or that I have no interest in, I either search specifically for what I am looking for, or I scroll through. I will never look for something and find only what I am looking for. There are too many events going on and this is a good thing for the health of the grid. Events are not spam unless they are either not events, events that have been posted already, or events listed in the wrong category. Charging money will clean the real spam up, except in the wrong category instance. And it will help make the calendar more usable and valuable in time.

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A lot of events are repeated unnecessarily. The spam needs cleaned up. I am a little disappointed that the fee was added before recurring events were, but recurring events will help tremendously to reduce cost. Just to let you know, events appear during the duration of the event. If I search during halftime, I'll still see your original post. Posting a halftime on the SL events calendar only ensures that the event appears twice, which is unnecessary.

In fairness @Asadora Summers, clubs have been paying since the beginning of the grid. Matter of fact, this cost will only increase club costs not even 5% in most cases, perhaps often not even 1%. Its nothing compared to the tier we pay.

A play list I put together of Eric Church, one of the greatest artists of all time in my opinion. You're welcome. 😋

* 39 year old Canadian paraplegic who considers himself uniquely abled, not disabled. * A firm believer in God. * A country boy at heart. I appreciate most any music, however. Everything from The Chief Eric Church to The G.O.A.T Michael Jackson. * More old school than my age suggests I have any right to be. My most prized possession in my music collection is Michael Jackson's album Thriller, purchased just last year on vinyl. Trade ya my digital collection for your vinyl one (provided I like your musical tastes, heh). * A lover of people and a hater of nobody, to a fault if you want to think there is such a thing. It might leave me vulnerable, but I prefer vulnerability over anger. This song pretty much sums me up

Thing is, it literally could have been, should have been, and still could be.

I rediscovered the forums a few months ago. Happy to be a part of this!

I may be older than prim dirt but trust me the noob stories are as recent as last week!

Great read. Thanks. I can't say I agree with much of it, but a great read nonetheless. "It’s a perfect summation of the hype that was impossible for Second Life to live up to" More like a perfect summation of the possibilities it failed to live up to.

Your link is incorrect @RaeLeeH, it leads to the wish list of whomever clicks it. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/wishlists/RaeLeeH is yours

@momomoonusagi This grid needs more stuff like this. How great a community Second Life can be if we all step outside of ourselves every now and then. Thank you for reminding me of that. You rock. Count me in. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/wishlists/Adam.Spark

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Not my opinion. I looked it up and linked to a source.

Disagreement is not bullying. This is a discussion forum. Not a Q&A forum. There is another place called Answers for strictly Q&A. I'm sorry you've been bullied and stalked and hope you get the help you need with that. But seriously, you are not getting that bullying here.

Not everyone fills out their profile. Its far from a requirement. Many alts fill out profile (some even using their profile to reveal their alt status). Alt accounts are not bad. Some of their operators are. But so are some operators of single accounts.

Its up to the venue, or in this case Linden Lab, to maintain license. It is not up to the DJ. "When a DJ plays live at a venue and mixes a collection of tracks, the venue usually pays the licensing fees for the songs that the DJ’s play, 99% of the time, to a Performing Rights Organisation (PRO for short). In the U.S., this is an organisation like ASCAP or BMI (in my country, Australia, it’s called APRA AMCOS). This means that DJs don’t have to worry about breaching copyright by playing other people’s tracks, because the venue covers you." https://djtechtools.com/2017/06/05/basics-dj-copyright-laws/ Is just like the gambling that was shut down. Nobody went after the operators of the virtual casinos until Linden Lab had no choice but to block their operation.

No wonder I feel so comfortable here. Cuckooland. 😂

Nope. Get out more in-world. The vast majority of the grid has nothing to do with sex.

Where they ask for money themselves? Or where the venues ask to tip them? If its the former, I tend to avoid anyone who asks for money themselves. Being a DJ has nothing to do with the ethics of that to me. If its the latter, that should happen. DJs should not be treated any differently than anyone else trying to do the job they were hired for and that they enjoy doing.

Not everybody has the group room to follow their favorite DJs. You may not need the info, but that doesn't mean or even come close to suggesting that nobody does. Singers get posted and nobody bats an eye. DJs are trying to attract an audience and equally deserve the advertising any event gets. Should clubs only post a full lineup? Maybe. We can debate how to structure the events. But any time a club owner puts somebody on stage for people to hear its long been referred to and accepted as an event.

Is it possible that the rest of the money charged is actually a paypal transaction fee? They have processing fees of their own. So actually, you should be losing more than 5% without any cheating

You said in your original post you are getting 4,750 USD to process 5,000 USD. 5,000 minus 4,750 = 250, or 5% of 5,000

Yes and getting to that end is the processing part. The part being processed into USD credit is the $5000 USD worth of lindens. The fee for that processing is 5% of the value.