The Former Galleria Sims: A Point of Utter Annoyance

Oh my, you thought I meant *you*.....wow, now I don't know what to think. Hmm, seems I unwittingly pressed a sore button, my mistake. Lets continue talking about badly managed mall sims

Yes, I thought you meant me. Sorry if I misunderstood that. When I was new in Second Life I was holding Lovemaking classes and since those did not receive Linden support I charged some modest tuition fee. I thought teaching was one good way to earn some L$ so that I can also go to shop buy nice things. But as result of this some people have been very very mean to me, trying to punish me for charging tuition instead of working for free. So, yes, very very sore button.

As for running malls, maybe we can work on some code of conduct every mall owner should follow and might add to rental agreement?

Seeing how contracts aren't enforceable in SL, I see that as a extremely poor suggestion, business-wise. Perhaps we should stop pretending that in-world is the same as real life, it would make things a lot easier.

but if we dont act like RL then how would we get nething done in SL... RL is the only way of doing things we know of, we don't know of ne other way to do things other than the way we do them lol so how could we do something that we dont know how to because we've never done it...

yes that sounds stupid. im not trying to be funny, its a seriouse post and i hope you can get what im trying to say

You can't 'act' like a contract is enforceable when it isn't. That isn't business, its tomfoolery.
Unless that suddenly creeps into the next release, then....there is no basis for any contractual planning.

I agree that enforceable contract would be better. But I think something non-enforceable is better than nothing. It may at least help make things a little more explicit and serve as something to measure business person against.

So maybe "contract" is wrong word. It would rather be business promise.

Problem is, if it isn't enforceable, it might as well be nothing. At best, its a false sense of security.

I am simply blown away after reading this thread in it's entirety.

I think it is better than nothing. Think of it as a Code of Ethics. It may not be legally enforceable, but an unethical landowner can be held accountable by the citizens if not by legal means. A Code of Ethics could be used as a reference tool to more easily identify violators and those to avoid.

Patrick Playfair

I decided to start one thread on the economy forum: /130/c1/31715/1.html

An unethical landowner can already be held accountable by citizens. Honestly, I'm surprised people are still doing business and eagerly handing their money over to some of the landowners who have already proven themselves to be questionable, at best, and downright nasty at worst.

This is not the first time a mall has imploded and left the renters with their hat in their hands. It's not even the first time it's happened with this particular mall owner. If experience doesn't teach us not to do business with people who take our money and leave us with nothing, a Code Of Ethics won't teach us that either. Only common sense can do that.

I want to thank all the actors that partcipated in this as this was a good read up to this point looking forward to more...continue dramatic play...<<gets nother hand of popcorn.