S0phie Sautereau

ab Vanmoer wrote: Actually it is not a Catch 22, it is nothing but complete incompetence of the highest order. At the very least the commerce team should be providing a list of words. . . . Once again the commerce team have exhibited their disregard for the merchants their customers, and callously continued on their path indifferent to just how much hardship they put the merchants through. It's probably punishment for our blatant refusal to Facebook our identities and attract bored Farmville players into shopping almost exclusively on Marketplace to dress up their browser-based pseudo-avatars. An entire calendar year of one epic fail after another from LL. Meh, I'm clicking my heels three times and putting this place on the back-burner. I won't bother fixing or re-listing a single GODD*MNED filtered/flagged ad, and when my L$ money trickles dry, so will my involvement here. Wonder how many of these jacktards have any real experience with 15-17 year olds? Do they really honestly believe that kids have an attention span or patience level that will provide the content their former SL kings of industry have created for LL FREE OF CHARGE? If they believe their current residency of content creator merchants is literally that expendable, then maybe KIDS are actually keeping the candy store.

I had only a few experiences to watch you in action at Office Hours, but I have been myself employed in corporate-based profit-driven institutions long enough to know a decent middle-man when I see one. The fact that you had more than one resident-concern program enacted that made SL users happy is enormous credit to your abilities in both management and diplomacy. It's a very hard thing to please two opposing groups of people, impossible, in fact. Your job, in a nutshell, was to serve the medicine with or without a spoonful of sugar. And if that wasn't part of your job description, then mad respect to you for assuming it anyway. That clearly shows a degree of concern about residents that you were not required to possess or act upon. There are a handful of us who fully realize that you were handed LL directives and figured out how best to soften them to make them as pallatable to the residents as you could. To do that for six years in this type of environment is evidence that you had a deeper investment than a paycheck--SL and its resident were more than just the daily grind to you. It's very difficult to be the last man standing with that kind of commitment. I don't know you personally to miss you, but I'm quite aware of the loss SL will suffer. It was inevitable as were all the other major leave-takings with a corporate restructure. So what I can do is acknowledge the dedication and true service in the face of opposition from both sides. And sincerely thank you for that.