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I am retracting my comment.  It was not well voiced.

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All right. A short reply then.

 

1. I am fairly puzzled by your 50kg sack reference, since that would seem to suggest that the LL programmers you praise to highly (and rightly so), do not perform hard work, nor do educators, health professionals, and any other folk who do not perform this particular kind of manual labor.

2. I do believe my critizism was aimed at the policy makers who institute policy that will result in shrinking the SL user base, therefore creating less job security for the programmers and other staff employed at Linden Labs.

3. For me, SL is not about making money.  I never ended the month in the plus since the day I arrived.  It is a service I use and which I can reasonably expect to be civil and reasonable adequate.  If not, I do have the right to make my complaints - which LL acknowledges.

4. Making mistakes is part of the game.  So is learning from them.  They started something wonderful which we all helped develop.  That does not exempt them from critisizm if they do make mistakes.  And they started these blogs for that.

5. My brother is also a programmer and he is teaching me, so I know it is not easy at all - and I never claimed it was.  Once again, this point is contradictory since the current policies as stated in the original blog are detrimental to the non-profit and educational sectors and beneficial to the economical forces in SL - that which you call 'the Rockefellers'.

 

Now that we have established that we agree on a great many points, let us end this discussion, since it has no further value.  I do wish you a wonderful Second Life and will strive to keep the experience of others as positive as possible.

Love & Giggles!

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Thank you for that enlightened and well-thought through and eloquently phrased input, Rocker.

We've been helping to improve SL for the 2 years that I have been here.  My commercial exploits are negligible, if any, and we've spent a lot of time, effort and money on helping to make SL a better place.

I'm just getting very tired to see that all the hard work done by us and many others gets frustrated time, time and time again by short-sighted, short-term gain politics propagated by Linden Labs.

So yes...after the umpteenth time, I get cranky.  I'm in SL and, for the time being, I will stay. It's the non-profit and educational sims I know that are *forced* to move by these price increases.

If you had read my post thoroughly, then you would have realized that.

Still, like me, you have the right to place your opinion on this website and I will not take it personally.

Love & Giggles,

 

Bugs

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Once again, Linden Labs is showing their mixture of increasing short-sightedness, greed, and stupidity.  After the CGs, the TeenSL joining (i.e. add teens to the more expensive economy of main SL where they need to spend more), we have this:  the people who are motivated by their ideals and doing right in the world, being chased out in favor of consumers.

Many of the people I heard who own sims like this, are moving to other virtual worlds, such as 3rd Rock, OpenSim, Inworldz or OpenSIMulator.

Unlike the old days, when SL was the only virtual world of importance, we now have alternatives that are growing in ever-increasing pace, fueled by residents who have gained their experience here.

Linden Labs stated that they want to reduce lag.  Chasing 75% of your residents out of SL would probably work grand.  .

What I find laughable is that the ONLY comment from LL so far is a deletion of a post.  They're not even responding to the blogs anymore, since they appear to have no answers to give.

Second Life.  It had such potential.