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    SL Bloggers - Your Thoughts

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    Yes, I take nothing away from her passion and commitment to SL and to her blog. And as much as I dislke her due to a bit of a forum fued we had many years ago,  I still read her blog whenever there is an update. so she is doing something right.

    Sarcasm aside, she does deserve a place along side those other bloggers you mentioned.

    The weirdest or funniest thing you ever saw in SL

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    Posted

    Conifer Dada wrote:

    I was in one of the public sandboxes once doing some work.  I had dark glasses and a baseball hat on and my hair tied back in a bun, and was wearing shorts and a crop top.  A very short, very fat and very ugly woman came over, wandered around a bit and then said to me 'you look stupid!' and wandered off.

    Another memorable thing was when I was at a beach.  A fat, bald man turned up, dressed in a tiny red thong.  I looked at his profile and there was a picture of him in real life - a real fat, bald man in a tiny red thong!

    I sense a common theme in your stories Conifer, and that is you seem to attract wierd fat people. Are you sure you didn't accidently sit on your dinner one day and have been walking round with a pork chop stuck to your bum ever since? that would explain it. :smileywink:

    SL is drama, period.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    I've found internet/text acronyms are evolving beyond my ability to keep up now. I was having an msn conversation with my 16 year old nephew recently and I didn't have a clue what he was going on about half the time. Thankfully I have unrbandictionary.com to fall back on in emergencies, however, I'm only in my mid 30's now, i'm worried that in 10 years time I will have completely lost the ability to communicate with anyone born in the 21st Century.

    When will Linden Lab post their Q4 2011 economic metrics?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Tateru Nino wrote:

    No, he didn't actually - though it is widely said that he did. He said that SL would remain the primary focus of the Lab - and that they would be hiring some
    extra
    people to work on non-SL projects.

    Did he? Oh. LOL. Well I haven't got time to sit around reading blogs all day learning the "facts". I'd rather pick up tit bits of misinformation from unreliable sources, run it through my Porky filter and spew it out the other end straight onto a forum with the vague pretense I know what I am talking about.

    That's just the way I roll. :matte-motes-big-grin:

    When will Linden Lab post their Q4 2011 economic metrics?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Rod told us in his blog that the Lab would be focusing on projects not related to SL. Maybe he neglected to mention that they would be spending all of Q1 focusing on new projects and would pop their heads back in to SL around Easter to catch up on a bit of paperwork.

    It would explain the eerie ongoing silence on the blog front, plus we know how LL corporate culture works, employees are generally free to choose the tasks and projects they work on, so maybe when Rod said "who wants to work on something new" everyone just stood up and charged for the door.

    Nasty Serial Stalker. Long term problem. Please Help.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Deamon Easterwood wrote:

    Why call the police when you have proof of the stocking and stuff.  Why after giving the liden labs the information have they not done anything because that is the first thing the police are going to tell you to do. Why not have these avi's spendened or deleted off for harashment. I can get permently banned for doing stupid little things yet stocking and bullying is okay?

    If indeed LL has not done anything to help as the OP claimed then any victims are left with no other course of action other than contacting the police. The OP has plenty of evidence it seems so I am sure she can prove to the police that she has already contacted LL for help.

    Flamers, Trolls, Dramaqueens and Spectators

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I couldn't care less about censorship in regards to this forum. This forum is run by a private company . They make the rules. I have a choice of either following their rules or not participate at all. It's as simple as that. If you care about your comments being censored then you should stop posting here.

    With regards to censoring the forum from the teens. I never said the current level of moderation has succeeded in protecting the teens. Of course it hasn't, and that's because of the reasons you outlined. I was simply saying that one of the reasons we have increased moderation now is because LL is trying to protect the teens. Whether or not they succeed is irrelevant to the point I was making. I am saying LL's attempt to protect the teens is a factor in the current level of moderation.

    With regards to protecting LL's reputation, you have taken a much wider view than I have. I don't for one second think that the moderation we are currently seeing will undo years of bad publicity. I was thinking on a much smaller scale. Despite the years of bad press we still have lots of new people signing up every day and some of them will eventually make it to the forum. Obviously LL would not want these new customers faced with a barrage of anti-LL threads when they arrive. It's not good for business or customer retention. So this is what they are trying to protect I believe. They are trying to protect their current standing as a service provider to new and potential customers. I want SL to succeed and grow again so this makes good business sense to me.

     

    SL is drama, period.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    I think allot of people on the internet get confused between trolling, flaming and simply disagreeing.  

    I have been active on the internet for a long time, starting out on newsgroups when that was all there was. I have been accused of being a troll many times over the years, but I can comfortably say I have never trolled in my life. Generally people mistake flaming for trolling. I have done my share of flaming but more often than not when I am accused of flaming I am actually legitimately disagreeing. There is a distinct difference between the 3.

    The more people that flood online as time goes on, the more often these 3 terms are misused, generally due to the ignorance of the user,

    Flamers, Trolls, Dramaqueens and Spectators

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    As you know Rene,...."Back in the day" when this forum was at it's most active, it was a total bitchfest. We had resmods who constantly failed to maintain order and you could essentially say whatever you wanted as long is it wasn't too extreme, i.e. no racism or overly explicit language. I used to get quite involved. I like debating and arguing with people, especially the LL cheerleaders, it's entertainment to some extent and a good way to pass the time on slow work days. I'm tactless and blunt so generally there was no shortage of people to debate with, they were normally queuing up to pull my posts apart and to offer their opinions.

    I would be active for a few months on the forum, then would be inactive for a few months as my workload increased. I saw no difference at all to my profit levels or my bottom line in SL. There is no notable correlation between my forum activities and my sales of digital content. When debating with someone, quite often they assume that I am hurting my business through the comments I make and they are smug in the assurance that they are not hurting their own business as they are hiding behind an alt. This is just nonsense.

    And in the event that my contribution to the forums does have minimal impact on my sales then it all balances out anyway. Some people may choose to not buy my products based on comments I have made. On the other hand, some people who have never heard of me before will check out my profile or MP listings and become customers. It's all exposure after all and generally there are some people that agree with what I say and some people that don't. 

    As I said before though, it's all negligible at the end of the day. The active userbase here is really small and always has been when compared to the inworld population. If people are so desperate for business that they let it dictate how they present themselves on the forums and it forces them to put on an act and not to be their usual selves, then they need to take good look at their marketing strategy and find more effective ways of reaching out to new and potential customers. I have lots of effective marketing tools at my disposal. This forum isn't one of them.

    Compared to in the past,  my posts nowadays are tame and rarely confrontational because you can't get away with it any more. We have real moderators now who actually know how to do their jobs. I take my hat off too them, they have certainly cleaned up the streets as it were.  Unfortunately the forums are allot less interesting as a result but that is the price we have to pay for helping protect the teens and helping LL protect their reputation on a publicly accessible forum.

     

    Flamers, Trolls, Dramaqueens and Spectators

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    DaiUretic wrote:

    Ever heard of the concept of burn phones?

    If the cap fits wear it, sunshine. Your reaction tells your potential clients everything they would want to know.

    Dai

    Luckily for me I'm not desperate enough to have to rely on a  forum with a small userbase to generate sales. So I feel no need to hide in order to avoid alienating potential customers.

    Infact I would have said exactly the same thing to you in world if you were a customer. If you contacted me inworld with the intention of buying a product and then laid the whole "I am elite" speech on me with a brand new account, i would have happily told you that you are talking bollocks and sent you on your merry way.

    So why are you hiding Dai? Are you just here with your alt to flame? Or are you planning on doing something that would besmirch your good business name?

    Flamers, Trolls, Dramaqueens and Spectators

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    DaiUretic wrote:

    Which one am I? I am one of the elite, look you. In fact, I am the only remaining member of the forum elite. I used to be here a lot, but that was in the days when there were posters worth jousting with here, when mods occasionally made jokes and told people off for taking things too seriously. Plus ca change, eh?

    Now, the forums are barely concealed ineffective commercial propaganda vehicles, frequented by those who don't value their reputation as highly as even their time, it appears. There are more fakes posting here than there are ex-LL staff working for Facebook. It's not worth posting anything of consequence here, not even a good trolling OP, since some pansy liberal will AR it and it will be disappeared by a bilingually semiliterate mod who won't bother to read it, or if it criticises LL a Linden will use its Godmode to eliminate the evidence without leaving a trace.

    This forum used to be a place where people came to discuss what they did in SL. Now it's a place for those who can't work out what they want to do inworld, if they can be bothered to go there at all, and the ambulance chasers use it for free promotional purposes. They must be desperate. All that happens is that anyone trying to sell their stuff in GD gets their names put on The Black List. Yes, it exists. Watch your sales plummet once you have demonstrated your lack of care for your customers here.

    The feeds are now the place to be for flaming, trolling, drama queens and poseurs. I don't know if there are many spectators there. I would like the spammers, oops, commercial forumites, to turn up there in force, which would compel LL to do something about their ill-designed and partially functioning software, and perhaps convert the Trending tab away from something that a man and his alt could game on a 24x7 basis.

    I'm off to the pub now. I have to see a man about a sheepdog.

    Dai

    That statement might have made a bit more impact if it hadn't come from an account that was made today. As it stands it just sounds like you are talking bollocks. :matte-motes-agape:

    The weirdest or funniest thing you ever saw in SL

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    This question came up in a group chat last night and resulted in some funny stories so thought I would ask here.

    For me the weirdest/funniest thing I ever saw in SL was at a town hall meeting in 2007 or 08. Sidewinder Linden was at the front in his lizard avatar talking about Havok 4, when all of a sudden another giant lizard avatar dropped out of the sky next to him. The other Lizard proclaimed his love for Havok 4 then attempted to mate with Sidewinder right there in front of us. Apparently he wanted to have his babies. 

    I guess you had to have been there to appreciate the full weirdness of the situation but that experience has always stayed with me.

    What's the weirdest or funniest thing you have ever witnessed in SL?

     

    Flamers, Trolls, Dramaqueens and Spectators

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    In this thread that you started yesterday about drama in SL, you said

    Lucinda Bulloch wrote:

    .......to be honest it was a mistake posting this question, what it has taught me is to stay away from this forum, way to many disturbed people here.

    Yet here you are again, moaning on about the same issues as yesterday in a new thread. So what happened? Did you forget the lesson you claimed to have learned yesterday?

    Why are you again seeking the opinions of the same people that you insulted yesterday. Do you think they will be less disturbed today?

    Or are you just a hypocrite with a flair for the dramatic?

    Enquiring  minds would like to know?

    SL is drama, period.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Lucinda Bulloch wrote:

    So can buy a fast car but not a 2 dollar skin, lol, lets stop here shall we, i think you just got in a pit with a pitbull, and you have a bag on your head, lol.

    Yep, bascially. as I said I am a cheapskate. My clothes are freebies as is my 2007 skin and also the free bag I wear on my head.

    I didn't get my fast car by pissing money up the wall on skins and clothing or by wasting my time and L$ shopping. I got it by focusing on building and selling, covering my basic expenses and cashing out the rest. I could have created a new skin for myself or a more fancier head bag. But that would mean less time spent working on sellable content. I rarely ever meet anyone face to face so really don't need to worry about it.

     

    SL is drama, period.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Lucinda Bulloch wrote:

    So a bag over your head is not drama then, ok, lol, what ever you say dear.

    LOL no. I Have a bag over my head because I am lazy and a cheapskate. Peek under my bag and you will see a skin from about 2007. Basically I was embarrased by the quality of my skin, and could not be bothered to look for and buy a new one. So I shoved a bag on my head. End of story.

    I am not suprised that you think SL is full of drama. You seem to seek it out wherever you look, and when there is none to be found you start inventing it. Just like in this instance with my head bag. I shoved a bag on my head because my skin looked rubbish. End of story. You look at my AV and assumed something completely different. You see drama where there is none.

    So I think we can conclude that SL is not all about the drama. However Lucinda Bulloch is.

    SL is drama, period.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Lucinda Bulloch wrote:

    Maybe you only feel at peace in that kind environment, that's fine, why not try to be someone else cos maybe being you all the time is not doing you good, don't know, you have a box over your head.

    I would disagree. being me in SL has benefited my RL a great amount, it's allowed me to pay off my mortgage, bought me an expensive car and allowed me nice holidays for the last 5 years, so I would say my current approach to SL is doing me a lot of good.

    If I want to roleplay I'lll go and play Skyrim.

    And it's a bag on my head, not a box :smileyhappy:

     

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