Meaning no offense to Sarah, but this thread has given me sympathy for those who say that people with a dissenting opinion get beaten down here.
I have a visceral response to a lynch mob, even a virtual one. Goodness knows that I've shot Linden Lab the finger several times. Last time I was in San Francisco, I offered to deliver a help ticket wrapped around a brick through a window.
But honestly, this thread is making me feel queasy.
I know a few Lindens. Not in that "zOMG, I know a Linden, I'm so fucking special" kind of way, but just because I'm old like dirt.
There are even a couple of folks who read/post on
SLU in their regular identities who are Lindens. I can't help thinking of them when I read that it's OK and even righteous to verbally abuse the Lindens, because Linden Lab is EVIL.
I don't buy into the relativistic school of behavior. Someone else's crappy behavior isn't an excuse for me to emulate them. It's evident that's not a popular stance.
What I'd like to see is everyone here who has called for the blood of the Lindens, sitting down and writing an e-mail to LL stating their opposition and objections to this policy. It might not be as warm and fuzzy as a forum fuck you, but it would be more likely to have some effect.
I guess I'm going to see now how my street cred at
SLU is.
*puts on her asbestos thong*