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Originally Posted by WarKirby Magojiro  That's precisely my point. Too many people would love to talk to a linden, usually screaming FIX BUGS BEFORE FEATURES at the top of their lungs. |
Why is that, I wonder? Are those people being unreasonable? Are bug fixes, indeed, being given priority over the array of wonderous and mind boggling new features that enhance our
SL existence? I DON'T THINK SO!!!
SL still lags like crazy when the hordes of free accounts sign on during peak hours, teleporting fails about 1/3 of the time. Inventory losses are ramapnt, financial transaction often fail and there is still that oh so amusing giggle inducing hair and shoes up the butt little joke that LL so enjoys.
I am a well mannered person. If I ever met a Linden in world or in RL or in a social setting, I would not, as a matter of common courtesy, bring up these problems. That doesn't negate their existence, though.
The simple truth of the matter is that (1) LL is demonstrably unenthusiastic about fixing ANYTHING; (2) Screaming about it is about the only thing that gets them moving, albeitly reluctantly to do, or more accurately pretend to do anything about bug fixes; (3) the expression "resolved" as taken its own meaning [we fooled around with the problem, didn't fix it but are going to pretend that it is to shut you people up] which is FAR different from its usual meaning.
Now about Phillip Rosedale. YES!! I am not one of those who signed into the halcyon days of 2003, 2004, 2005 or even 2006. I have never met him.
I'm a bit unusual though. I tend to make my determinations about people based on what they DO, not what they say. My opinion on Mr. Rosedale is based mainly on the following: (1) He is the GENIUS who opened the floodgates to millions of free, unverified accounts despite tons of advice that such an action would make the amount of users impossible or difficult for the hardware to service and that it would encourage anti-social behavior such as griefing, scams and frauds; (2) He said that LL would insitute some controls to prevent unverifieds from logging on when peak usage started to negatively effect performance. I'm still waiting; (3) He has continually promised better efforts toward bug fixing and grid stability and , to my viewpoint, has not delivered; (4) He is CEO of a company that has almost ZERO customer service and arbitrary and capricious enforcement of niggling TOS violations while turning a blind eye to an amazing array of scams because the perpetrators are capable of writing cool code. The list goes on and on.
Flip, the rest of you guys can be as impressed as you want to with him, having met him. I believe the guy is a charismatic charmer. For myself, I would not believe him on anything of importance. I believe he is either incabable of differentiating between the truth and fiction or doesn't care.
I know you didn't say so in your post Flip, but just because some of us didn't join
SL until 2007 or later doesn't make us idiots. It may be that not falling under his great one on one personal charisma, we can see it a little clearer?
Sooz