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  1. Luna Bliss
    It's time consuming and costly and usually futile to try to put the genie back into the bottle. It would have been very different if there had been good routines for handlign such problems right fromt he start. But, well, there weren't. What should they have done differently from the beginning?
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    kammyKat, it's a complicated issue. If LL investigated ALL the problems residents have with each other on the MP it would be time-consuming/costly -- no doubt that cost would be passed on to the merchants. And we have a hard enough time surviving financially as it is.
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    I'm not sure if the issue is the difference between America and Europe. One thing I am sure of though, is that I don't want LL to leverage an additional charge on us to "get all excited about" like before, all because they have to spend immense amounts of time investigating MP squabbles..
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    What is it? It's a plane, it's a bird... no, wait it's just a smudge on the screen. Please wait for your diagnoses.....
  5. Luna Bliss
    Well ChinRey, for what it's worth I certainly have learned a lot from you (and Chic) about creating better mesh. Unfortunately I'm not sure it matters to most people. I see SL as more of a playground where people are experimenting, and few care about making something as best as it can be. I remember being sooo careful when creating custom jobs for people, making sure every texture used was a low res one, taking care to repeat textures so that as few as possible were used on a sim, and even using tints to further reduce texture load while providing more variety...even using as few sculpt textures as possible by forming them into different shapes to get variety. But then my client would come along and furnish the house with all sorts of high resolution textures, and way too many of them -- sometimes there would be more textures used in that one house they furnished than I used for the entire sim!
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    Though most customers are decent, nice, and fair I have certainly encountered the unreasonable types of customers you describe here. And it was more than frustrating. This is when mute and ban becomes your friend. I look at the phrase "the customer is always right" as just an expression and not a statement of truth, and I don't think most creators believe it as a statement of truth. But I do endeavor to help the customer feel that they are not 'wrong', as it's usually just a misunderstanding and 'right vs wrong' doesn't really fit. Plus, people don't want to buy things when they feel bad or wrong, nor will they enjoy a purchase after feeling wrong...that is marketing 101...and good to keep in mind if you want future sales. When I discover I've made a mistake often I give out something free.
  7. Luna Bliss
    I received a strange email, but not totally sure it was from Penny-Sin-Et Al. No need for Netflix the rest of the month I think.
  8. Luna Bliss
    Penny, when I see abuse on a forum to such a degree as you describe I usually confront. I did not see it here. I think you are being delusional in this thread and projecting hurt from your past onto people here. All anybody was saying was that the one asking for help in a thread ALSO bears some responsibility. Sure, they are in a vulnerable position and regular forum members have more power and so should make an attempt to be 'the designated driver' due to the power imbalance. But your position has been that the one asking for help bears NO responsibility whatsoever. This is a dehumanizing way to portray them...as if they are some sort of victim. For sure, we all need to have more empathy with each other in communication...but this is a two-way street and the one asking for help bears some responsibility in the interaction too. It's almost as if you expect we should be some sort of angelic being when responding to another person asking for help, without feelings of impatience or concerns of our own. This isn't reality. So of course you are going to get some push-back because your premise is delusional and insulting to those who are NOT being abusive, but merely human. And now that you admit to manipulating everyone you are going to get the hostility you perceive -- but you caused it, not others.
  9. Luna Bliss
    So true, and I have noticed that those who get picked on due to grammar on a forum are usually not forum regulars, so friendship plays a part in it. We tend to give our friends more leeway.
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    I agree with you in that ideally it's best not to be a grammarNazi because we don't know if the person is doing the best they can. For example, some people are dyslexic or on medication, or didn't have the opportunity for a good education, or perhaps writing is just not their thing because they are hopelessly 'right-brained' (my curse), or perhaps they can't see well, or perhaps their IQ is lacking.....so many problems might be going on that make it hard for them to communicate, and we should not make them feel like they are bad. But, whatever this shortcoming is makes it take longer for me to understand what they're saying, or with customer support it takes much longer and I have to ask question after question after question. So, if I think the person COULD do better I will get impatient, and even if I don't outwardly become a grammarNazi I sure am thinking like one when I think they could do better (for example, if I think they're just being lazy because writing clearly DOES take effort). And I can also feel impatient if it seems especially difficult to make sense of what they're saying, no matter what the cause.
  11. Luna Bliss
    If you want land in the middle of nowhere with mountain views, it's not hard to find in SL. There are lots of abandoned parcels in isolated areas. If you have a premium membership, you can request that an abandoned parcel be auctioned by sending in a support ticket. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blanda/165/101/139 Underdeveloped Heterocetra http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Simcoe/106/44/97 Abandoned mainland. Looks like the surface of the moon. There's lots more. Thanks, but I'm not looking for land as I'm feeling like I have too much of it atm (the redesigning of a 2-sim nature park on the ground level below my store is taking way too long). My comment related to an appealing aspect of the discussion between Penny & Phil....the questioning whether or not 'a view' has value, and especially if one can't access the view via exploration.
  12. Luna Bliss
    Aye, the most wondrous beauty is but a longing..
  13. Luna Bliss
    Now step back and take a breath so you can be objective...the fate of the Western World depends on our accurate solution to this dilemma.
  14. Luna Bliss
    Thanks for letting me know. One of my store sims has lots of parcels, and while the cost might not amount to a whole lot it's still a few real dollars a month I'd rather keep..
  15. Luna Bliss
    I rode through a city without any clothes on, on a bicycle. Long ago of course, when I was very young.
  16. Luna Bliss
    I assaulted a Republican on my sim making disparaging remarks about the poor by ejecting them, experiencing glee when I saw them flailing about at the sim periphery.
  17. Luna Bliss
    I think they're locked into believing that all conflict must be resolved by making one party or the other into 'the bad person', when in reality there are so many nuances and mitigating circumstances when attempting to decide who is 'right or wrong'. Black and white thinking is so much easier. And yes it really is hard to get people to change when they're addicted to black and white thinking!
  18. Luna Bliss
    Thanks for your acknowledgement, but I don't think of it as being generous and kind. It's more like I realized the OP's initial statement was so distorted that she must not be thinking clearly. If someone is not thinking clearly to such a great degree then it's likely I have the advantage (unless I haven't had my coffee yet ;0). So if I have the advantage then it's not really a fair 'fight'...and so I feel more protective of that person and my own needs are put more into the background.
  19. Luna Bliss
    I was meaning in the past...a shame she didn't get treatment...so that her life and those around her was not so chaotic and/or miserable. Interesting to think about though...just how much plasticity does the brain have...even in such late years...I'd like to think it's never too late to change but that might be too optimistic.
  20. Luna Bliss
    Competition to the end? Sounds like a lovely relationship. /sarcasm
  21. Luna Bliss
    My 96 year old emergency backup mom is like this. Everything is a tragedy, soothed only trashing those who don't give her the attention she deserves. I never noticed this behavior when I was young, but it's grown over time to the point it consumes her. I've done more for her over the years than any of her family members, to whom she now says I'm her "greatest disappointment". A trophy is a trophy, I'll take it. And it works for her too, she's made it all the way to 96 powered primarily by vinegar. It's perverse, but I suppose I hope she never sees the light. I think that would kill her. It's a shame she couldn't get treatment for it. With your backup mom it sounds like she has borderline personality disorder. I had a friend with this and she was a real pain, causing chaos within every group of people she encountered. She got treatment though and stopped blaming everyone, and is now able to function very well and earns her living as a therapist.
  22. Luna Bliss
    It could be a temporary satisfaction -- the belief that everyone else is bad while ones own self is the good one. But when that temporary power surge fades it's a very miserable state of existence to be in when one believes the entire world is a horrible place and bereft of any support or love.
  23. Luna Bliss
    wow that's really cool...if I ever make more rezzing rugs or furniture I'll look into purchasing that from you..
  24. Luna Bliss
    It seems time to lock this thread.
  25. Luna Bliss
    I clarified in the previous post and added that you must be the creator of the item.
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