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Kampu Oyen

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  1. Toysoldier Thor wrote: The question I will ask you is to turn your statement around - after all these years of having jira, now would anyone else at LL be behind this? What would compel any other LL staffer "with enough authority" to execute this stupid move? Do you honestly believe that the general LL staff want to see jira gagged? LL has used the resident jira and all the vounteer efforts / participation from their own customers for years to help them identify and solve their problems faster and more effectively. LL staff has often used the jira as a way to sluff off annoying customer problems, bugs. and proposed features by telling customers to "file a jira" and then go and ever look at the jira. LL effectively uses it as one of the most effective direct open methods of LL / Customer communications. In fact I see it often in the LL User Group meetings where the entire agenda is based on local chat referencing JIRA # for the group to talk about. So..... why would any other LL staffer NOW want to gag it? It must be someone new to the game at LL and someone with motives that do not relate to years and years of current operations and a person with high enough authority to be able to veto all the LL staff at lower levels that would have been against gagging jira.... RODVIK. Rodvik is from EA and in his old world - the entire concept of direct open communications and interactivity with their customers is a huge no-no. EA would not allow a customer to see as much of the inner workings of their operations. EA would not allow customers to have so many direct personal multi-lateral communications with their customers like what has been the entrenched culture at LL since its inception. Rodvik has taken his entrenched EA culture to LL. It must make Rodvik's skin crawl to see all his staff having so many direct communications with its customers. In the first 100 days of Rodvik's rule at LL he came in and pretended to be an open book and join the LL culture by directly communicating with all his customers is so many ways. But it was only an act so that he could "learn". But if you look back in the past year, you will see a lot of evidence of Rodvik putting a stop of have his staff directly interact with LL's customers except via "customer classed" restricted formats. The Commerce Team has been one of the first to be gagged as they do not communicate with Merchant at all. LL has backed out of more and more SL inworld events - they did not even participate in their own SL8B birthday (which they have in all past years). And not the Customer JIRA is being gagged because Rodvik does not belive that customers should see - much less actively participate in - LL's product/service bugs. That is like airing a company's ugly secrets. Rodvik hates this. This is not a theory - Rodvik "IS" executing a "close up communications with the customers" policy. The evidence is clear. It doesnt matter to Rodvik that logistically speaking - his staff has been using the countless person decades of free skills and effort to help LL develop and support its own service. Rodvik dont grasp that. Rodvik just wants his customers not to see the inner workings of LL. As such, dont be surprised when Rodvik shuts down LL User Groups. Dont be surprised that a lot of the SL Blog and Forums get removed. The blogs are rarely used already. Rodvik will be shutting down any "rogue" communications and at worst replacing them with highly restricted systems. Rodvik's "convert SL into a gamers platform" is another critical reason why Rodvik directly executed this move. He is integrating into STEAM in desperate hope that the performance hungry Gamers will come streaming into the SL grid. He doesnt want the Gaming community to see any evidence of all the countless service bugs on file at LL. To Rodvik - this is embarassing. I am very confident is saying that not only are LL staff not the ones that suggested gagging the Customer JIRA, but there likely was an intense internal feud / debate between LL staff and Rodvik and his inner circle of cronies that are executing Rodvik's policies. But that the JIRA Gagging went thru anyway makes it really clear that Rodvik is the one to blame for the gagging of the Jira. There is only ONE PERSION THAT ALL FINGERS POINT TO...... RODVIK. 1) After all the years of JIRA, CTL would want to kill it because the JIRA make CTL look much worse than Rod, especially if you read all the commentary attached to them (such as my own). CTL has a massive number of open JIRAs assigned while Brooke, like Rod, mysteriously has none. Didn't Brooke used to handle some JIRAs? This is a point which Valve had specifically been asked to scrutinize in SL user email. While JIRAs were still being assigned to people who legitimately closed them, the JIRAs were a great system. But that changed - not with Rod's presence, but with the shifting of JIRAs from Brooke to CTL. Moreover, the JIRAs were exposing Rod as a bad manager, but they were gradually exposing someone else as a calculating criminal - charitably put, if not CTL, herself, then someone else for whom CTL is going to take the fall when the sh## hits the fan over the lost Steam deal. Who do you think would find the problem more urgent to solve if user email had specifically directed Valve to scrutinize one person's behavior in connection to the content of the open JIRAs, and specifically as showing a pattern of calculated criminal intent? None of what happened would require a decision from Rod. All it would require is for Rod to do nothing about it. The individual currently identifying as CTL is the person who writes the bad code, "investigates" the bad code, explains the bad code, and cotrols what people can say about the bad code. That Rod really controls much of anything that is important to merchants is pure fantasy. Allowing CTL access to teh JIRA system is pretty much a foregone conclusion. At this point, he might as well just hand her his testicles in a jar and get this whole process over-with. A more important point, though, is really just that Rod must want SL to be profitable in order to be seen to be doing his job, whereas The Malefactor only needs SL to produce some amount of revenue which might be made larger, even if the amount from which it is to be derived might have to be made smaller in the process. That is, letting Rod look bad is incidental to more effectively squeezing a smaller and smaller turnip if it means more juice in the end. The Malefactor must be in a position in which the ultimate failure of SL doesn't stand as an important personal career threat. Rod is not in such a convenient position. Which process do you see actually happening so far? 2) I DO recall how many freudian slips Rodvik (not unlike Brooke) also made during the early August 2011 video. He kept saying things like "getting Second Life through our system" when he apparently meant to say "getting mesh through our system". But this is not the mannerism of someone scheming to turn SL into WOW. This is the mannerism of someone whose mind is just not putting stuff together well enough to accomplish much of anything at all. Watch the video again. Something is wrong with Rod, yes. But it's not calculated. If you listen carefully to what everyone in the video says and how they say it, it should become clear that Rod has simply fallen asleep at the wheel and the LL ship is now being just as often steered by someone much more alert and much more sociopathic. 3) The very fact that Rod could somehow become deluded into the belief that SL is or will be in any way close to ready for Steam by the time it's supposed to be is just one more indication that his mental condition is not up to the task of doing the kind of sometimes pretty subtle stuff that's being done with SLM code to reward and punish specific merchants. The person who is doing stuff like making the sorting tool work properly only when I'm looking at my own store with my own account logged in wouldn't necessarily have any reason to care whether or not the Steam deal would go through, at least without user input to make it in some way complicated for her. If the deal had gone through straight, there would have been some more legal dangers for her, but that might be offset by the larger revenue pool from which to "derive benefit", at least until the LL ship finally goes under and it's time to vanish off the map, leaving someone else holding the bag. If the deal had not gone through for some minor, unrelated lack of agreement between LL and Valve, there would still be plenty of money around for a little while, and she could at least for a while worry less about anybody (like Valve) conducting anything better than a shameless travesty of an investigation of her activities. Note that the indifference toward discusssion of the Steam deal on this forum ends, chronologically, not with Valve's legal dogs being put onto Rod's scent, but onto CTL's scent. Moreover, the hiding of the JIRAs was preceded by a flurry of desperate actions by CTL including thread deletions, banning, and even a JIRA "update" announced by CTL during which all and only the Merchant JIRAs became inaccessible. Why all and only the merchant JIRAs? Was Rod trying to make it look like CTL was deciding what to hide?
  2. Now that I'm no longer the only person having mesages deleted from this thread, I'd just like to point out to that other person that this is just one more example of how her own tolerance for opportunistic moderation is being abused. She has allowed herself to become a tool of the very person she has defended. This is hardly the first time, but now she should be able to see that this is absolutely true. Sometimes we only think we are making our own decisions. Of course, when you have one person both producing the SLM code and policing how people are allowed to talk about how it's working, it's not much of a surprise that messages get deleted and contributors get banned if they point out even things which will seem to be beyond dispute to most readers if they simply look at what has been provided by LL employees; especially things that are beyond dispute... Such as the fact that using 2 accounts attempts to mask the fact that CTL has told all of you (words to the very real effect that): "I have investigated the code I produced to see whether or not I'm using it to steal from you, and I have determined that I am not using it to steal from you, regardless of all that you've documented that can't otherwise be explained." It's been nice conversing with you people, and I'm sorry that I have to get banned yet again in order to point out to you how really far out of hand - criminally out of hand - CTL has got in the last year. Be sure to keep an eye out for this account getting closed and all the pertinent messages being deleted when CTL shuts off your magic boxes on 1 October without having solved the DD permission problem, as I have now very repeatedly told you that she will.
  3. I'm still betting that the boxes will be shut off on 1 October, even though the "problem" hasn't been "solved". Your likely instructions will be to simply open a store in-world if you want to offer no-copy items.
  4. I can at least agree it's possible that Rod is really driving the objectionable decisions. But if that should happen to be true, then it's really just even that much more important for the owner for the Marketplace product to get onto the next flight to Venezuela, since she's perfectly lined up to take the fall for Rod any time now. Toysoldier Thor wrote: There is only ONE PERSION THAT ALL FINGERS POINT TO...... RODVIK.
  5. There's no point in Valve taking separate cuts of every type of transaction in SL when what they're really after is just a cut of total SL revenues. OTOH, "total SL revenues" IS a matter which nonetheless touches upon the question of where money goes when someone pays for and receives something through the SLM, but the merchant doesn't see the transaction and doesn't get paid. My guess is that Valve's accountants might not be as "flexible" as LL's have been. Just in case of that, at least, CTL might be well advised to have her bags packed. Venezuela has no extradiction agreement with the US. I hope that helps.
  6. I'm not unsympathetic to the idea of making SL more gamelike. But hiding the JIRAs is too weird a thing to select as a first step (toward making SL more gamelike) that we can't easily think it's merely coincidental that Valve had been specifically directed by two or more SLM merchants to see the JIRAs before agreeing to the Steam deal. That the sudden unexplained urgency is more than coincidence is an idea not exactly unsupported by the fact that someone would be permanently banned from this very forum merely for mentioning that Valve should look at the JIRAs first. But I don't think Rod is behind this. Rod 1) is not a moderator of this forum, 2) is assigned no open JIRA's , and 3) has no documented record of straight-up lying to merchants [as 1) is 2) has and 3) does the person I think is behind this]. Moreover, there's no compelling reason for Rod either to hide the JIRAs or to ban merchants for talking about Valve looking at the JIRA's.... A) There's no compelling reason for Rod to do such things, because, if the Steam deal doesn't go through, Rod can also blame a bunch of other stuff on the individual he will then be in a position to show caused damages to LL, thus protecting himself from some degree of scrutiny on those other points, provided he can get everything smoothed out quickly enough. OTOH... maybe we shouldn't rule out Rod so quickly... B) There's no compelling reason for Rod NOT to do such things because if the Steam deal goes through, he'll finally have enough revenue flowing to sue the pants off of the individual currently identifying as CTL, thus solving the same problem for Rod, if perhaps not as quickly. And now that (User Name) already has CTL desperately scrambling to do futile and inciminating things like ban people and hide JIRAs in order to get the Steam deal to go through, it is here, finally, pointed out that maybe she shouldn't want it to go through anyway if it means both more incriminating evidence and more money for Rod's legal people to sue her with. Congratulations to her for the overreaction. Maybe she can fix it by unhiding the JIRA's? I doubt it, but what can it hurt at this point? Maybe she can try to convince everyone that they were never hidden in the first place. Maybe?
  7. Pamela Galli wrote: 1. What bunch of ppl? I can think of two. And hardly a big surprise to anyone. 2. I bet I am not the only one who has only the vaguest idea what this conspiracy is that you harp on in every thread, and wishes it would stop. 1) The one someone apparently had banned opportunistically for being their competitor and at least 3 others unrelated, if they might like to come forward since th ban has been lifted. 2) You're the one talking about a conspiracy. I'm talking about one bad egg at LL gradually infecting everyone around her with complicity in her bad decisions. Probably because the revenue losses she has caused puts them in a bad place to try to contest her legal position with them; a legal position in which she "owns" a bunch of code on the basis that she has decided how to make them try to modify it for her after it she decided to buy it off the rack, either without really thinking things through like a mentally healthy tech professional, or with an intention to do deliberate harm to LL. Why are you continuing to subtly side with this person instead of with her critics? What's in it for you, exactly?
  8. And now we're seeing the same old hopeless bag of tricks being applied to try to keep certain users too busy to tighten the snares. Hundreds of items have become unavailable from the SLM and just don't want to seem to be made available. Really, the last time we saw something like this was right after a bunch of threads got deleted from this forum, and the people who contributed to them were banned. And the time before that was pretty similar, too. It's almost like the deletions and bannings were causing the items to become unavailable. But that's impossible... right?
  9. I think Wade's contributions to this forum are great. Meanwhile, wind-down or not... FACT: At least one Linden not normally assigned to do such things recently began testing the reliability of listing enhancements. Is Rod not doing much else just because he's been too busy preparing legal action against the individual self-identifying as "the product owner for the Marketplace"? One can only hope, eh.
  10. Darrius Gothly wrote: At any rate, It just flabbergasts me that anyone at LL could even begin to think this "improvement" will have anything other than massively negative consequences. I think you may have missed the point that the only result that matters to CTL in this change is to prevent Valve's people from seeing the bugs and deciding they can't risk the Steam deal.
  11. Phoebe Avro wrote: LL just created themselves 10,000% more work! It's only more work if they do any of it at all. But why would they?
  12. Ceera Murakami wrote: How in the world can we avoid duplicate JIRA's if we can only see our own bug reports? One could start an external bug tracker and link the contents to LL's own bug system.
  13. Trix Braveheart wrote: Just unbelievable. The support we could give each other when reporting, following and watching a JIRA has been lost, or at least that's how I read it. Now, you're just a voice in the wilderness. Yes. And especially after playing CTL's game all this time by using a bug forum within her control rather than doing it externally and linking the content. But, y'know - I bet someone has all the JIRA stuff backed up outside LL. Wouldn't that be interesting.
  14. Dartagan Shepherd wrote: Next is the part where they claim it's due to people asking for it, or because of the lack of participation. Yes. And after that, the arbitrary destruction either of the accounts or of the utility of the accounts of people on CTL's personal blacklist. But no one should imagine that at least some of us have not already thought at least 2 steps ahead of that. There's actually no problem for some of us to telegraph at least certain moves in this process, provided that all we do is provide an incentive to LL to start respecting its customers. Any time now would be just great. Meanwhile... CTL's OODA loop is dilating while the loops of others continue to contract. One way or another, LL will soon face the end game. Of course, LL could just start being transparent and acting like adult professionals or something, instead. That might have been easier from the start, but I guess there's just no helping some people.
  15. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: :matte-motes-agape: Looks like they are trying to hide then number of bugs there are! The timing is easy to understand. It's a pretty transparent attempt hide the bugs from Valve´s legal department; an attempt the audacity of which might almost be admirable if it were not already way too late for that. (You're welcome)
  16. Czari Zenovka wrote: Kampu Oyen wrote: http://tribes.tribe.net/secondlifemarketplaceproductsearch/thread/2ddce358-ef5a-4dfa-8022-061e9f36cd44 My reading of that didn't assume that the word "prim" was the keyword spam. Of course I have no idea what keywords you used, but the only listing of the word "prim" in that letter was within the name of your product. "Prim" was the only keyword used, as anyone would have been able to see from checking the source code. That word has since been removed from fields other than the extended description, and that is why you are no longer seeing it. Of course, this is a slight improvement over the delisting for alleged keyword spam for items that are conspicuously use no keywords at all (as has been done in previous efforts to distract merchants from other types of abuse), but we haven't seen this in so long, we should have hoped it might not happen again. But of course, this is September, and unprecedented numbers of SL users will be having their 65th birthdays on the 13th, 14th and 15th, successively, so there is a lot of social security moneyfor which LL may want to deprive itself again this year. Any little bit of fail helps their cause, am I right?
  17. http://tribes.tribe.net/secondlifemarketplaceproductsearch/thread/2ddce358-ef5a-4dfa-8022-061e9f36cd44
  18. Just a "heads up", everybody. I guess this is sort of an important thing for Linden to enforce - right? Because a prim isn't a prim unless it's a prim, except that now it's not a prim even when it is a prim, apparently. Let's be glad that they have nothing more important to do with their time at this point than to remove prims that are listed as prims. This is also a pretty good warning that an approximate replay of last September may already have begun. One more thing to be thankful about, I guess.
  19. I'm guessing it was Playboy. You might ask them, at least.
  20. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Sales are so far down in SL due to the RL economy that a lot of creators have just closed their stores period. SL was somehow doing OK 13 months ago when Rodvik gave his big speech about how SL was somehow doing OK despite the RL economy. You'll notice that he didn't give such a speech again this year. What happened in-between wasn't any abrupt shift in the direction of the RL economy. What happened in-between is that Lindens broke a bunch of stuff and then, while saying they were fixing it, mostly just also broke a bunch of other stuff.
  21. Darrius Gothly wrote: Is anyone else noticing that all the Marketplace issues .. in fact the entire Marketplace component of the Web Project is gone? That's a really sneaky way to reduce the number of bug reports on Marketplace. LOL Wouldn't that be a really weird coincidence if, during this period of unavailability, Linden Labs was also having some kind of meeting with Valve to specifically address the matter of open technical issues before moving forward with the plan to put Second Life on Steam? If Valve were unaware of that and found out about it later, that would be pretty funny, huh.
  22. >Next up is the phase where people start pointing out the problems after the damage is done about what's wrong with it, the pretending to fix some trivial bits, and the final ease into less resources and more sluggish sim behavior. Maybe they can become even more cost efficient by gradually cutting back on color resolution. Of course when people complain about the new 8-color "efficiency upgrade", LL will naturally have to accomodate user demand by going to a grayscale monochrome format. Maybe by the time they've finally "upgraded" to an all-text format, they'll also finally have purged their user pool of any cynical naysayers who still think that simply committing more processor rescources might have been a better direction to go in from the start.
  23. >UPDATE: the associations to Madstyle are now gone but since I finished updating totally to DD perhaps that did the tric One more reason why DD is "necessary", huh? I actually found I could get the hanged keyword effect to go away after a while by other means, but not before some items were permanently removed. Now all that removed stuff is going out in a secret bonus box on the contents tabs of some newer items.
  24. >I agree with the order of the transaction Sassy but what if there is a failure within a step - specifically step #2? It's still better than the other model. Resolving a documented payment problem is a lot easier than resolving a documented delivery problem. Normally, if money is sent that should not be sent, it can just be sent back. It's even possible (or was at one time) for a user account to have a negative balance of Linden money. But if a product is sent that should not be sent, it might be copied, modified, transferred or deleted before the problem is caught and corrected. (edit) Just for more clarity, I don't see any reason why payments couldn't be held in a merchant escrow account until the product is confirmed delivered. That way, LL still sort of has the money, but it doesn't just disappear.
  25. >the magic boxes are not involved in processing the payment. And thus they also cannot fail in a way that makes money mysteriously disappear. One more reason why LL should want us to prefer DD.
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