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Originally Posted by Khamon  The second half of the meeting was more confusing to me. It's simply not true that LL won't stomp ad farmers because they don't want to harm legitimate inworld businesses. That doesn't wash considering their behaviour over the past four years. Maybe it just pisses me off that they treat us like children by smoothing over the rough edges of world management because we can't handle the truth.
In any case yes, I'm running out of reasons, but thought that was just me. Are other landowners feeling that way too, enough to make a difference? LL's opinion seems to still be that there'll always be someone else to pay the tier. |
There's a lot of people who have tiered down and gone to renting or couch surfing. I have tiered down completely and might get a 512 just to stop renting. But I see myself in a process of gradually leaving
SL.
The thing that started the process of leaving
SL for me, was the mass confusion over verification, land ratings and morals policy, and the initial foolishness over VAT. While I have had a sour taste in my mouth ever since the GOMing of GOM, I hung in there because I was running a large group I enjoyed. I wanted to believe the subculture the users were creating would make up the difference for the indolence of LL. But my group had started out as a cross between a swinger's group, a club and a support group. It had the X rating seasoning to keep it interesting. Trying to keep it going only as an R rated club and a support group was a step toward making it irrelevant in a world still geared heavily toward sex. But I didn't feel I had much of a choice after the LL morals blogs.
Finally I handed my group over to a commercial website working in the same field and went on vacation from
SL. The last group IMs I overheard seem to indicate no one is really doing much with it, but my RL has taken over and I can't really take up the mantle again.
LL's unwillingness to make anything but vague pronouncements is poison to anyone who's trying to interact with the residents as a whole, instead of only their own friends or employees in their own walled garden. By extension, projects which attempt to provide community to the residents as a whole are always dealing with uncertainty. Until LL grows up and understands their actual Source is their residents, all I can do is cross my fingers and hope a decent
SL substitute matures before
SL itself goes the way of something like ActiveWorlds.
Irrelevance.