The Chosen Ones Have Been Announced

Whether you intend to marginalize or not or intend to use FIC offensively - it is what you are doing and it is the perception of quite a few people who have responded to this thread expressing the same thing.

zOMG Enabran wins the forums

I've heard you, Crucial, and I think you make as much or more sense as anything anybody has said in this thread.

I think that doing things like this, though, ultimately harms, rather than helps, their business.

coco

So nothing to do with residents then? A free yet pointless focus group? (If you pick your focus group yourself, you're wasting your time.)

Exactly in what way?

surreal has a point. if i tell a blind dude, "hey blind dude, you can't tell me the color of this balloon. you obviously can't see it," it's not untrue just because the remark directly relates to his personal ability to see.



oh man, that's so awesome

so glad the newbie house business is rollin'



oh wait

LOL
you could of found a pic of pennys dated 2006 come on man get with it

I've seen him do a lot better than that, he was phoning that one in. Sorry, mate.

Well, I suppose a little self-delusion isn't exactly out of the realm of possibility.

(Still sticking to "silly PR thing" as it gives LL the benifit of the doubt.)

i'm so glad you're back

this is the day the lord has made


i'm in the city at the end of the month, let's get a drink

"So nothing to do with residents then? A free yet biased and worthless focus group? (If you pick your focus group yourself, you're wasting your time.)"

That was the way it read before you ninja edited it.

You think it's worthless, pre-emptively. You're writing it off before it's had a chance. I get that. But why?

Let's here the whys.

I don't drink anymore, but I'll bring some blow.

I agree that it is REACTING to their success in the beginning. But it BECOMES a reason for their FURTHER success. And that isn't a bad thing. But since it is such a powerful thing, it shouldn't be arbitrary and whimsical. This new advisory board is the epitome of unfair in that respect.

And I don't "viciously" do much of anything.

coco

Yes, Enabran has had many great moments in the forums. Still this one cracked me up though.

come on, yo

what do you want from enabran? i'm writing from the delta terminal at JFK -- you try coming up with something better while your flight is delayed

That was one of the things I was thinking.

"Oh, we listen to residents, we REALLY DO"
"Uh, do we?"
"No! Yes! We do! Look, we'll, uh, get some of them in here!" *points at jet-lagged SLers staggering in through door* "Look! See! Residents! And we'll talk to them in conferences and stuff!"
"Sorry for ever doubting! Hail Philip!"

ahem

Now you're saying that without those hand-outs they wouldn't remain successful? Good gravey, you may not do much viciously, but what you do viciously, Coco... you do it well and truly so.

Oh, cynicism is such a powerful argument.

Kitten pics are nice... but no substitution for face to face. And a picnic is nice, but it's too removed from the day to day actual work. Slaving away for some faceless entry in a database somewhere gets rather old very quickly. It helps to connect in reality. (The rough treatment folks give each other in the forums seems to be evidence enough of that.)

Ultimately, I think I disagree with you on a matter of degree... you think that this will have no useful effect. It think it will have some effect. Probably less than they're hyping it up to be... but I still think it will be positive.



Come on... You know the answer. Say it with me.

"Because it seemed like a good idea at the time!"

I have so missed Jillian Callahan aphorisms.

Yes, well, I'm not him, and I haven't single-handedly kept the term "FIC" alive on these forums (in fact prior to this thread, I've been reluctant to use it, but hey, the forming of an official feted inner core calls for it).

And Nolan, I'm not going to NOT respond to Jennyfur calling me (or those with my viewpoint) names because someone else (not me) calls other people names. So forget that. I am my own person here.

Of course I "openly agree" with many of his sentiments. Just like I "openly disagree" with many of them.

I don't see how you are not getting it. The Summa Cum Laude was an opportunity for feting anyone could try for. The University didn't just pick out people they thought were pretty good and give them that award. That is what I am getting at.

coco

P.S. And by the way, all this is beside the point. The point is what Ordinal has said several times now. The chosen part of it is kind of secondary to the fact that LL actually thinks they are going to learn anything beneficial from a hand-picked group. If indeed learning is what they have in mind. And I don't think it is. I think it is more what Crucial said.

Awww.

And I've missed your acerbic, picture-posting humor. I'm glad you're back!

In my opinion it has nothing to do with residents in a general sense. it has to do with what Linden labs thinks these residents can contribute to Linden Labs and help make there (Linden Labs) business better in some way

so you see these veteran residents as having absolutely nothing of value that they can contribute to Linden Labs in Making there business a better one?

if I'm not mistaken it sounds like you think Linden Labs would be better having a dog and pony show then inviting residents they believe have knowledge that may make there business a better one ?

it's not viciousness

look

when you accept mediocrity as natural state of being, you assume everyone else has, too. this premise granted, of course you'll believe success is impossible without a nipple to slurp at. it would never occur to you that excellence and personal initiative could allow people to rise up and claim rewards. it never occurs to such people that well-connectedness and prosperity could come as the gifts of hard work, rather than as the pittances of some karmic lottery. you assume everyone else has spent their life either luckily falling upward or hopelessly falling downward, just like you have.

it would suck to think that way though

Well, then my apologies if anything I have said has been taken as a slur on residents (Never!!!) or any indictment of their talent.

coco