Idol Linden or Beggar Linden?

Just one problem. Early on, someone insulted him for even asking. Oh, there were no swear words and there wasn't any name-calling... but the statement was clearly a shot at the original poster. So the guy gets a little steamed and tells that person to take the ego somewhere else. Honestly, it was a nicer response than some of the ones I've seen on the forums.

This person asked peoples opinions. I stated my opinion, he attacked me personally. I feel it was unnecessary to post in public forums, grand standing, rude and tactless. I stated I would not do the same thing. It was my opinion. I did not insult the original posted. I outlined clearly what I would or would not do and the poster brought my suppsoed ego into the issue, which really had no place in the thread since I was posting my opinion as asked.


If people don't want the opinions of others, they should ask for them. And as the old saying goes, "If you can't run with the big dogs, keep your ass on the porch".

Not true. It belongs to the creator.

http://lindenlab.com/press_story_12.php

it's not self righteousness; it's that the lindens are steadily being bashed for being human people (assuming they're all human) that appreciate the abilities of given personalities, designers, debuggers, scripters et cetera. any time we let people know that a linden is involved in something, or favouring someone in any way, all hell breaks loose as people scream of nepotism and corruption of the true and stable fairness that is our utopian world of second life!

so we generally deal with lindens on the side and just don't say anything about it. it's what they expect because it's what they need from us.

Um, there's a simple thing you do here. You direct the Linden to your store where they may purchase your object for the price set on it for the market and the general public. This isn't Animal Crossing where we're selling to Tom Nook, and not the Middle Ages where the craftsmen society barters and trades. This is the modern world where prices are the lynchpin to bring a willing buyer and a willing seller together rapidly and successfully. If someone would prefer to play haggling bazaar, a more conservative and ancient tradition, where my personal connections and my relationship to your wife's brother play a role in that price transaction, then play bazaar. Let the Linden, with his godlike custodial monkey-wrench powers, pay a higher or lower price depending on how you view him. I find that an obstacle to the game's modern free economy, but hey, it's your game on your lot.

I got an Easter teddy bear from a Linden. Imagine! I heard a tenant talk about it, and IM'd that Linden just to see if it worked for any of the common folk. I got the bear merely because they were left, I think, not because that Linden thought I might scream on the forums (I might have). Now I'm mulling it over, and I think I'd like to pay that Linden for that bear. So I will pay her $50 which is about what it is worth. She's going to return that $50 to me saying that she can't accept financial gifts and her huggy bear is just a huggy bear *hugz*. But I will tell her that if her company can make thousands from the ebay sponsored links, she oughta make a little on the side from her hugzy bear.

First of all, please don't start any personal attacks in this thread. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, so please simply agree to disagree.

OK, as a Linden myself, I have had residents give me products for free to test out or experiment with. I have also purchased things myself from residents.

Linden accounts are not allowed to run businesses or participate in contests where we could receive goods or money as prizes. We all have a little "spending money" provided to us, but that's the only source of income on our Linden accounts. Which means we might not always have enough $L to spend on items we might want to purchase.

Yes, we have "god powers," but we don't use them to "take" whatever we want from residents in SL.

So, I guess I'm trying to say...if a Linden asks for something for free, it means we are genuinely interested in the item and most likely simply don't have the $L to buy it from you.

So -- as per the rules of the Forum, please keep the opinions flowing my fellow avatars, but leave the interpersonal snipes and negative drag-downs out of it. If you feel you must communicate in such a way, please take it to a more appropriate medium like private messages inworld.

thank you for the link. that's a cute article and a very good idea, however

until we can export object data to a local disk in a standard 3d format, that a program such as maya can import, we don't own anything that we create inworld. the tos clearly states that ll doesn't guarantee correct storage of our inventories. even if you did, our accounts still belong to you and may be cancelled at any time "for no reason" effectively denying us access to our creations.

invoking the spirit of creative commons makes a good press release; but it's not a practical truth for the residents of second life.

invoking the spirit of creative commons makes a good press release; but it's not a practical truth for the residents of second life.

until we can export object data to a local disk in a standard 3d format, that a program such as maya can import, we don't own anything that we create inworld. the tos clearly states that ll doesn't guarantee correct storage of our inventories. even if you did, our accounts still belong to you and may be cancelled at any time "for no reason" effectively denying us access to our creations.

I think this is right on, but it probably belongs in a fresh thread to exhort the Lindens to let us export our hard work.

Fire is currently undergoing beta testing. Along with "phlogiston" (my own personal project).

Thank you for your interest. We'll keep you posted.

I tried this a while back. Strangely enough, back then, the sentiment was that we 'didnt need this', and that LL's system could be trusted to retain all of our content. That was, of course, before any incidences of data loss.

I believe there are other reasons, political, for LL to not allow data export. I don't think we'll see it any time soon.

However, a modeling program that would use SL's primitive paramaters would be a help for both design and in-out of world transitions.

I believe there are other reasons, political, for LL to not allow data export. I don't think we'll see it any time soon.