Asadora Summers

Yes, that is true, clubs and such have been paying already especially regarding to land tier. It's their choice to do so. It's just another add-on to what they already pay in order to get people into their clubs. All the equipment, objects, building supplies, tier, hiring people to host/dance/DJ - all is part of the costs of running a business. And simply put, paying to have that business advertise should be a factor according to their advertising budget. For non premium, it's just 50L to post an event, which is nothing compared to the spammy gesturbating hosts and every 30min advertising shouts out. Costs to hire people than it does to post an event listing, is what I'm meaning here. But as you said it's 'nothing compared to the tier...' paid, that was the overlay of the point I was making.

I count on your calucations! You are the best linden calculator on the forum, in my opinion! If I need to balance something or figure out which way is best to save lindens via premium membership, land tier or what have you, I always look for your name on the relevant threads first. I'm premium but if I ever needed to post an event, now I know that it's worth having the premium just to pay for event listings at only 10L Thank you!!! lol Mainland is for All!

Personally, I think it's about time that event listings had a charge, because in order for the ones that use it should pay to advertise, just like content creators do. Content creators pay every time they turn around. DJs, clubs and other type events should as well. In order to 'make money' one does have to invest some money up front and listing an event is simply an investment that has been abused for far too long. And the price for non premium members I think is a fair amount: 50L for an event listing each is no different then paying a pull per gacha and no one complains about gacha costs do they? (I know I misspelled gacha, it's early, actually I'm not sure if I misspelled it or not) Listing an event at whatever price point is an unknown result, the same with pulling a gacha. You never know what you are gonna get.

Up yours!

I'll be 14 on Feb 10, 2019. Rezz date was Feb 10, 2006. I was so proud of myself when I took that picture all them years ago. Looking at it now, my avatar has come a long way and so has SL! I'm still partial to wings though still i still have those!! Whoooo! The second picture was during my days of fighting with my trusty Katana. I was about to teach the little lion how to spar. Fun times, fun times!

I had to look up the word 'weeb'. I didn't know what it meant. But now I do. Thanks for the learning!

I'm introverted and normally don't speak unless I'm spoken too; however, if someone IMs me to tell me I haven't rezzed for them that usually inspires me to strike up a conversation with them. If someone IMs me and tells me they like what I'm wearing I'll gladly tell them where I got it and for how much. Whenever I see a artistically well done avatar I'll IM them and give them a compliment with the add-on of my intention is not to flirt with them. That usually starts a conversation of 'Why not? You can flirt with me. I don't mind.' Which then I find myself at a loss for words because it truly wasn't the intention of the conversation I wanted to have. Over the last years, I've found that starting a conversation about Bloodlines is often a way to get into a conversation and if that person doesn't like Bloodlines either, then it too inspires me to continue to speak with them to find out what they do like. Talking with oldies is a lot easier than newer residents, because oldies we can talk about the old days and complain about stuff. With the newer residents, it's often difficult because they just do not know a lot about stuff and often you end up being their mentor... which is fine... until they drop you the second they become 'cool'. I suppose, I'll speak with anyone but if it's down to me starting a conversation, the outlook isn't positive.

Welcome to the Tour, Therese and to our Linden Road Community! Mainland is for All!

Yes, Prokofy did send me a notecard and I responded right away! Welcome to our Mainland Halloween Tour and to the Linden Road Community! Woooo!

Hello! Wooo! I'm here! Yes, for those that own or rent Mainland and would like to be a Host of this year's Mainland Halloween Tour, then simply just IM me in world or send me a Notecard : Asadora Summers Telling me you would like to register as a Host for our Halloween Tour and I will respond ASAP at break neck speed! Below is a some information regarding this year's Tour: When official registration closes at closing day of October 25th, 2019, a list will be composed of all Tour Host locations. The tour itself will run from October 25th to close of day November 3rd, 2019. =-=-=-> New this year! ----> This year will be costume group tours! How it works: On opening day, October 25th An organised group will meet at the LRC Hub in Tensel Moor in costume (It's Second Life, so your imagination is limitless!) We will do a short meet and greet for about 15 mins at the desired time at the LRC Hub. Once all those joining us are gathered, we will all go down the Tour List to arrive en masse at each location. It will be great fun, so dress up in your best Halloween gear and come down meet and greet and let's go touring together! If you miss it, do not worry, for there will be another tour group on October 31st! (Times will be confirmed in group notices closer to the time) Those that registered early early: Your names are already on the beta tour list - but please feel free to fill out this form to let me know that you are on the official registration list - this helps me keeps things organised. Tour Hosts will receive a Thank-You gift for their participation! Rules of the Tour: 1. Don't be a douche 2. Remember your manners, please 3. If someone asks for directions, be kind and help them 4. Remember, Mainland is for all! I hope this event will go just as well or even better than last year! Every single one of us has something to contribute to Mainland - so let's give it all we got! Mainland is for All! -Asadora Summers, LRC

I just wanted to add that unfortunately our Mainland Halloween Tour is for people who rent or own Mainland where they live. Mainland shops are not allowed. There are so many shopping events, in-world groups, facebook, twitter, instagram and other types of social advertising that shop owners can utilize to promote their stores; however for the regular Mainlander we aren't selling anything; we just want to be proud of our Mainland and network with each other to grow a inspiring community. I may get flack for not allowing shop owners and I'm okay with that. I own Mainland where I live and rent three parcels for our LRC hubs across the grid. I also have a shop on Mainland, but I have never used the LRC as a means to promote my shop. So, as I do not do it myself, it wouldn't be fair to let other people with Mainland shops do it. The following is what the Linden Road Community is about including our core values: We are a group of mainland landowners that want to make mainland better together by using the resources already provided, such as the SLRR and Linden Road system, Airways and Seaways! Goals of the LRC When Second Life was first conceived it was labeled as a 'social experiment.' There was a deep sense of community in the early days. People helped each other and the overall level of altruistic intentions were high. Over the years Second Life has changed to reflect new technology that has been introduced to the grid; from legacy prims to the introduction of flexi to sculpty maps and now to mesh. The mainland should reflect these changes whilst keeping some aspects of mainland preserved. Every mainland owner has their own style and own way of expressing that unique style. Our goal is to incorporate that individuality into the mainland whilst keeping a collaborated effort to regain a sense of togetherness and shared loved for the mainland. We believe that the mainland in some respects should be preserved, but there is also room for other aspects to be incorporated into a progressive display of how far the mainland has come since the early days. The LRC Core Values: The following core values are a set of desired principles or qualities that is essential to the nature of our community: Creativity Cooperation Exploration Respect for each other and the Mainland Unity Following the Good Neighbor Commandments The LRC is about people and the Mainland where they live and are proud to share it with the rest of us. The LRC isn't about virtual commercialism; We are simply people that are trying to inject a sense of community and togetherness on our Mainland. Kind Regards, Asadora

The tour will be held on Mainland continents, including waterways. If you RENT or OWN Mainland on any of the Mainland continents you are invited to be a Tour Host! Don't fret if you do not live by a road or waterway, you can still be on the tour! This is a free event made possible from LRC community. The more Mainlanders that participate the bigger the tour. So, it's up to you to make this happen! Requirements to be a Tour Host for the tour: 1. Own or rent land on Mainland - meaning not on a private region sim 2. Register using the form below and send it to Asadora Summers 3. All Tour Hosts will receive a special edition LRC Halloween swag bag. Included in this swag bag is our original Proud Mainland Owner sign, it would help our group greatly if you were to host this 1 prim sign for display especially year round. This sign is also in our Member Welcome Pack, anyone who is a member of our group can display this sign. Remember, Mainland is for All - let's get the word out! Official Registration Opens: September 25th, 2019 - Closes October 24th, 2019 When official registration closes at closing day of October 25th, 2019, a list will be composed of all Tour Host locations. The tour itself will run from October 25th to close of day November 3rd, 2019. =-=-=-> New this year! ----> This year will be costume group tours! How it works: On opening day, October 25th An organised group will meet at the LRC Hub in Tensel Moor in costume (It's Second Life, so your imagination is limitless!) We will do a short meet and greet for about 15 mins at the desired time at the LRC Hub. Once all those joining us are gathered, we will all go down the Tour List to arrive en masse at each location. It will be great fun, so dress up in your best Halloween gear and come down meet and greet and let's go touring together! If you miss it, do not worry, for there will be another tour group on October 31st! (Times will be confirmed in group notices closer to the day) Tour Hosts will receive a Thank-You gift for their participation! Rules of the Tour: 1. Don't be a douche 2. Remember your manners and respect other's property and land 3. If someone asks for directions, be kind and help them 4. Remember, Mainland is for all! We hope this event will go just as well or even better than last year! Every single one of us has something to contribute to Mainland - so let's give it all we got! If you would like to join The Linden Road Community group secondlife:///app/group/1c3f99b1-71c8-b919-fbe5-3e06f3a424ca/about Visit our Main Hub in Tensel Moor to learn all about what the Linden Road Community is about and what we do! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tensel Moor/9/47/76 Mainland is for All - together we can make Mainland better one parcel at a time! -Asadora Summers, LRC secondlife:///app/agent/10d8a8e6-d40c-45e3-9d69-92177bb766bc/about

Cause you'll never get that houseboat!

Remember, that where people spend money or not, is their choice. No one forces anyone to buy or maintain ownership or rentalship of anything. It is a choice. And when a person makes that choice, they would be a fool not to realise the consequences of such.

There are few who are able to govern themselves according to the guidelines. There are many who do not regard the guidelines simply because they are just that - guidelines. Guidelines are simply just that, to guide - and for the most part, they are not enforceable, thus why they are guidelines. We did all agree to the TOS in order to log into SL; however, not everyone reads the TOS or at least not enough to make it towards the end of it. We who have been in SL for eons, have seen the changes over the years to the TOS, so we are pretty familiar with it already. But the newer residents are not. I'm just adding my .5L here that's all.

@Bitsy Buccaneer Haha! So glad to know that it's not just me! I don't have any problem with people using my land when I'm not there; however, I just do not want to know what they do! lol Every guest should always wipe after themselves, especially if they have done anything uh.. wipeable XD Woooo! Yours was a good idea too. Though I think that what really got their attention most likely was: 'Your name has been recorded.' I don't think people pay much attention to what is or what isn't a private residence anymore... I suppose that short sentence is TLTR hahaha

I dislike ban lines very much. And I'd rather use the prim for something pretty other than wasting it on a security orb, so I don't use those either. I do not mind people visiting my land, not at all, even whilst I am not there. But, what I do mind is that they don't wipe the balls clean when they are done using my furniture. I came home one day and saw that the poseballs on my couch were left out. And they were left in the sexual poses. It annoyed me because they didn't clean up after themselves. This particular piece of furniture doesn't have it's own security system built in. So, what I did was make a 'moocher dector', by using a simple greeter. I don't like to ban people from my land, as Mainland is for all I've always believed, but I have no problem what so ever with shaming people off my land if they can't even wipe their balls clean when they are done! 😂

Even old information is still relevant, it's called history. How something was originally done to how something isn't done anymore. Some people like to know the history of something or even the history of a information chain where there are different degrees of input to which can sum up the overall user ability factor of that function regardless if it's still active or not. Personally, if I am searching for a particular answer to a question, regardless if it's two to five years old, I still am interested in reading that thread. Because it can and it has provided me with answers of either using the right name for what I'm looking for or trying to do. Old threads are springboards of information that despite being 'dead' still provide even limit amount of information to whomever seeks such on the relevant topic. Some people would find it useful. Others would not. This is called individualized perception. Regarding posting to these 'dead threads' I do not personally, see a problem with this. If information is relevant to that thread then yes it makes sense to post it. Adding new to the old, where it's in a more suitable place than another thread where someone asks a question regarding that topic within the last year to have no replies to their question of: 'I have a computer and I use it to log on to Second Life. How do I make money to pay for my computer?' (or some such) And if there are replies to that thread then it will most often be people linking a previous thread on the matter that was dated from 2003. (It's early and the coffee hasn't sunk in yet). Anyway, if the issue here is necro posting clutters up the forum, then isn't posting about necro posting doing the same thing? Maybe a year to two years from now, someone will make another thread regarding this same topic. Making the whole 'anti necro posting' a reincarnated annoyance, one of the things that is being complained about by some. Locking down threads to prevent further comments on 'dead threads', LL has many times locked threads not to receive any further comments on threads that has caused more than a usual fair of forum drama. Or locking down threads with an explanation of 'Hey, thanks for your input! This thread is now closed!' So, if LL wanted to ultra police the entire forum that way, they would not have the time to work on the proper things for us... like the promise of giving us the ability to change last names.... whenever that 'later in the year' shall come. There are a lot of actual general user in-world features that could be worked on/fixed/implemented that would benefit the whole instead of the few. Personally, the former is far more appealing to me than the latter. This 'stop the necro posting' is surely not one of them.

SL is not a game, it's a virtual world.

I certainly agree with that - LL does need to start being more careful with what they promise, how quickly that promise will be delivered and giving us more of a this is what you will get if you do this - upfront.

Give it a few years and we will know then, maybe, what is on offer if we do upgrade. Still waiting on the ability to change non display names.... '...later in the year' Suuurrreeeeee. Which year?! lol All in good fun, cause we're paying for it XD

It's 2:56am and I'm sitting here replying to this long thread. Normally I wouldn't do this; however, from reading all the previous posts, I thought this would fill my self imposed quota for the week of being social. Salutations! I'm Asadora! I'm old! An ancient in-world and 42 in the physical world. I'm an anxious introvert with PTSD, but I use live streaming to help gain confidence in my own voice again. I find it really difficult to 'just' go out and meet other people, meet them well enough and long enough to actually have a productive conversation where each can share and learn from the experiences that they share. Btw, have you ever noticed that whenever you add the word 'just' to anything, it suddenly makes it easier... or at least most people think it does... well it doesn't. I'm a self taught builder. I actually enjoy sorting through the abyss that is my inventory, it truly is like orgasmic candy for my brain. I love all things brainy, it's just the social aspect of that brainy where I tend to have problems. So, that's all me! Oh, and I also have therapy once a week, so any one thinking that I wouldn't be the good friend material, don't be scared of the fact that I have mental health issues. That is what the therapy in the physical world is for!

My land is in Urqhart, Corsica. I own both sides of Trendone Rd in this part of Corscia. I bought this land a year and a half ago. I love the rolling hills around and being able to look out at the back of my Epic Tree House to see the ocean. My land is 5056sqm at the max of me and my land alt's tier levels at $17 USD a month. I am a true Mainlander. Love all things about Mainland, the good, the bad, the ugly and the questionable. I tend to use natural terraforming skills to create a more realistic organic flow around me. I'm very proud of living on Mainland and being able to show it to others, so thank you for this thread! Anyone is welcome to come for a visit:) The Epic Tree House and most of the landscaping I hand built and lived streamed myself doing it and I enjoyed every minute of doing it. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Urqhart/212/95/31

More like years away:-p This time next year we'll be still waiting for the superdupershineynewpremium. XD

Lines that annoy me the most... ban lines... badda bing! XD