RL spam in-world?

Lets return the favor and put camping chairs in their RL HQ.

Oh nim Please tell me its a Joke............

Nope! Check out their location in-world.... I don't... quite... understand it.

It really is RL spam in SL. Check out "Area Camping Chairs". So they are pushing that advert using camping chairs.

Imagine if more companies like this put sims up for this purpose?! Our top most popular places would be RL stuff that has nothing to do with SL. At least the SL spammers were unique to SL previously.

This company is putting some amount of $ to get people to spend time in their sim thus push their add to the top.

They didn't send it to your IM inbox, did they? If not, it's not spam- its just advertising. That looks like a classified advert to me- you searched for it, you see it: don't like advertisements? Don't look in classifieds or popular places.

And advertising real world stuff in Second Life shouldn't be any surprise to anyone here at all. American Apparel...Universal Records...they buy a sim, set up a big billboard in the form of a nice looking building, and maybe take out a classified ad. There will be more of this: anyone who doesn't expect it has been living under a prim rock for the last year.

Oh Nim...I was scaried this crap would happen...........we ahd otehr versions of this crap inthe past. But this is just too much. Lindens WHERE ARE YOU...........I know looking down Nims pants heheh joke nim

What you think is this person protecting him Nim

Cheap advertising to a 1/4 million (at least according to the active member numbers) potientional customers.

3D web, be careful what you ask for.....

HAi they might get "CUBED"

Doesn't mean that we have to like it or accept it. There is no reason why SL has to be destroyed simply because of real life corporations, with more money than the average player, getting in the way of legitimate quality.

If a place is popular simply because of camping chairs, then it is admitting that it doesn't have any quality or redeeming features whatsoever to get people to visit.

Whenever I see any real life companies abusing our game like this, I make a mental note never to buy any of their products.

Lewis

Hmm, last time people abused the popular places list they took away DI. Now RL companies are abusing it. Think they'll take away traffic (which is easy to game anyways)?

Yes! It's the wave of the future! It is what LL wants! Let us rejoice and be glad!

coco

Then they take over the classifieds.
what we need is guidelines of what can be in popular places and what cannot and be removed

No chance. I have a pop up blocker for my internet browser to stop all the unwanted advertising crap, when will Second Life upgrade itself to compensate?

Lewis

Never..
If SL isnt to be sold outright this is a way for it to be sold bit by bit..

This is coming. LL will do nothing to stop it because it will make them money.

As CoCo said.. this is indeed the wave of the future. This is what it is all heading towards.

I don't think this is spam at all. They didn't dump a notecard on you (have had that happen a couple of times) or slam you with unwanted group IMs (an almost daily occurrance for me lately). They just placed a classified ad.

Now, the quality of the ad, and the build itself (I visited just to check it out) are definitely open to discussion. Personally, I've seen far better builds. And I'm with you guys on the camping chairs--it seems like a kinda sleazy thing to do. I imagine 99.9% of the people who do the camping chair thing couldn't care less about the content of the sim they're in.

I'm all for in-world education opportunities, like the ones this sim is supposed to present. What's so bad about that, whether it's SL related education or not? Where I live in RL, there is limited opportunity to take certification classes like Cisco and MSCE. The possiblity of getting at least some of that training in SL is exciting to me. If only Apple offered their technician certification in SL, I'd be a happy camp... um... boy!

It's in the popular places list, not classifieds. They pay camping chairs so they can get higher on the list to get more views.

Now about the classes thing. I put a question mark because I was not sure what the sim was, I went there, but still couldn't understand.

If this is truly the future... then Linden Lab have most definitely lost their vision.

Advertising crap polluting the world is about as far from the true potential of SL as I can imagine.

Who in their right mind is going to pay money each month to be bombarded by unwanted advertising at every turn?

A sad turn. Unlimited potential, unlimited creativity... and this shit is the best they can come up with?

Lewis

It's continually entertaining how you have a completely different view of SL than LL does, yet somehow tout yours as if it's factual. LL has said repeatedly that their ultimate goal is Web 3.0, the internet in 3D. Real world advertising and real world companies getting a foothold is probably exactly what LL wants to see.

It has always been their vision, Lewis. We regular players were just a means to that end. As Philip said recently, he had the fun stuff in the beginning just to get the population up and the world going.

coco

Wow, that was my homeschooling company during HS...weird. When my mother was having money problems they offered one very low price to pay off my entire education program and really helped me out. You probably encountered their textbooks if you went to US public schools. I found the quality of their education and support to be exceptional, though not for everyone. I wonder if they are using SL to expand into an online college forum.
Maybe they feel they have a large target audience in SL, and are testing the waters. I don't understand how it's hurting anyone, if anything it just makes SL look like a more respected medium in general. You can't expect a company not to advertise, and perhaps for a company new to SL, the popular list seemed like the most obvious choice. They only learned this method by the example of other places on the list, just because it's a big company doesn't mean it's suddenly wrong when they use an old trick.
Having had experience with this company, I doubt they are using SL as a means of profit rather than ingenuity.

If that really is the case, Second Life is dead already, and the lag ripples we are seeing are just the death twitches.

Lewis

No, it's not. That might be crap, but I've been working for RL organisations for a while now, building their projects, and will be for a while yet. I'm not at liberty to describe them any more than that they involve science and education. RL organisations and companies are doing some very interesting projects in SL, and coming up with some wonderful applications of it.

Thing is, none of these islands are open to the public (that is, the ones I've been working on), so they're not usually going to be seen by the residents at large. But they are there, they are part of SL's future, and they are excellent examples of SL's unlimited potential and unlimited creativity.