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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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02-17-2005 11:09
The thing is that EVERY single listing in Find is an ad. Do you not use find at all? And see my reply to Ingrid, I agree with you about a useful listing. I just don't think it needs to be an either or situation. Actually no, not really. Except the people bit if I need to IM anyone. _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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02-17-2005 11:51
Just to make it clear Cris, I was not bashing with starting this poll. Just was curious to see how successful it was. Could it also be that maybe you have had an increase in sales lately due to the fact that you have recently released various new products within the last month? How can you be so sure that it is because of the advertisement? Huggerz, MJ  During the first 2 week period i had not released anything new - and there was a 300% bump in sales for that 2 week period - so I can pinpoint it to the ad or just a lot of people suddenly clamoring to dance upside down. _____________________
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Emma Thorn
Voice of Treason
Join date: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 139
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02-17-2005 12:04
Good morning MJ. It's true. Totally true! This list has zero value to me. The Linden Top Picks, whilst not updated often, was at least of some use. And everyone whined about playing favorites and stuff. So they replaced it with yet another pay for service that makes it effectively useless, and yet no one seems to be whining that it favors the fetid money changers yet. I guess they must all be still busy whining about ratings DAMN those fetid money changers! How DARE they spend time and effort making interesting and creative things that I want and not give them away for free! _____________________
"When it comes to choosing between two evils, I always prefer the one I haven't tried yet."
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Jonquille Noir
Lemon Fresh
Join date: 17 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,025
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02-17-2005 12:07
I've never looked. It just never even occured to me.
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Unhygienix Gullwing
I banged Pandastrong
Join date: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 728
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02-17-2005 12:17
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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02-17-2005 12:18
I've never looked. It just never even occured to me. You should consider a spot there if you can get one cheaply - I love your store - Siggy's slow dance cannot get enough promotion in my book. _____________________
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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02-17-2005 12:20
DAMN those fetid money changers! How DARE they spend time and effort making interesting and creative things that I want and not give them away for free! Damn right! It's a hell of a drain on my account having to continually buy all this cool stuff  I mean, I earned my money fair and square. Why should I have to now spend it on other people's content?! Where's my free money, Lindens???  _____________________
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Emma Thorn
Voice of Treason
Join date: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 139
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02-17-2005 12:32
Damn right! It's a hell of a drain on my account having to continually buy all this cool stuff I mean, I earned my money fair and square. Why should I have to now spend it on other people's content?! Where's my free money, Lindens??? YEAH! If I stop getting all my free money, how will I spend it on things that should be free anyway? We should all get 50,000 lindens a day, so we can sit around and have nothing to spend them on! I want to pay my $9.95 a month for nothing, god damn it! _____________________
"When it comes to choosing between two evils, I always prefer the one I haven't tried yet."
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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02-17-2005 12:53
Nope, but then again I never looked at the Top Picks either....
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Cubey Terra
Aircraft Builder
Join date: 6 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,725
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02-17-2005 13:10
I really like the Sponsored Links tab. I think it's important to have a place for SLers to advertise what they do or make -- besides the telehubs, I mean. Obviously it serves a very different purpose than the old "Top Picks" tab, but it it's a nice service to have.
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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02-17-2005 13:13
I agree.
I also don't think the point of the ebay thing is for revenue (at least for now) but for a way to filter out the spam. _____________________
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Aces Spade
Raise you One♠
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,774
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02-17-2005 13:26
What is the Top Picks List??
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Olympia Rebus
Muse of Chaos
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,831
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02-17-2005 20:04
I think you mean GIANT CUBE. As in, "GIANT CUBE cured my athlete's foot!!" I suggest they put some kind of jumping bean script in a big cube. Then they could advertise it as a GIANT HYPERCUBE  har dee har har _____________________
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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02-17-2005 20:07
HAHA GIANT HYPERCUBE!??! Let's get some hot tesseract action going!
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Silly Magpie
Likes Shiny Things
Join date: 26 Dec 2004
Posts: 12
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How about Hamlet's NWN?
02-17-2005 21:21
I haven't been here long enough to miss the Top Picks... but Hamlet's blog does highlight new places from time to time. Anyone have thoughts on how they compare?
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Essence Lumin
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Join date: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 806
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02-18-2005 05:34
The thing is that EVERY single listing in Find is an ad. That's debatable if you think of an ad as something you pay a significant amount of money for. It's a listing maintenance fee. A listing in find comes out to about 25 US cents for two weeks. A little different from $20+ US dollars which definitely qualifies as an ad. |
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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02-18-2005 05:47
That's debatable if you think of an ad as something you pay a significant amount of money for. It's a listing maintenance fee. A listing in find comes out to about 25 US cents for two weeks. A little different from $20+ US dollars which definitely qualifies as an ad. The purpose of any listing in Find is to attract users to that place - be it a store, park, club, or whatever else. Whether the fee is $0.25 or $25.00, it is still advertising, hence an ad. Free ads are still ads - so are low cost ones. The sponsored links are more expensive because of their placement - but they are no more or no less of an ad than anything else in the Find-->Places listings, or the land for sale, which does not even have a fee. _____________________
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Ale Bukowski
Gnomes Landscapers Master
Join date: 2 Apr 2004
Posts: 129
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02-18-2005 11:49
Look a what??
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Jonquille Noir
Lemon Fresh
Join date: 17 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,025
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02-18-2005 15:57
You should consider a spot there if you can get one cheaply - I love your store - Siggy's slow dance cannot get enough promotion in my book. Thanks a lot, Cris! I'm really glad you like the store, and I agree that Siggy's dances are great. (Just wait until you see his next one! I'm so excited, but no spoilers!) I'm notoriously cheap though, as far as RL money is concerned. I don't really have a personal opinion on the sponsored links one way or another since I've never remembered to check them, but I don't think I charge enough for my items to warrant the extra expense. I'd have to have a HUGE increase in sales to make them worthwhile for me. If I sold expensive items, I'd probably give it a shot. _____________________
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Jenna Fairplay
Sim Sales Broker
Join date: 8 Aug 2004
Posts: 374
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02-18-2005 18:34
I wanted to pick mmmmm pie so that question is a bit hard. What if u dont look at the sponsor links and like pie? x.x why do u toy with our minds like this??
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MrsJakal Suavage
Purple Butterfly
Join date: 18 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,434
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02-19-2005 02:36
I wanted to pick mmmmm pie so that question is a bit hard. What if u dont look at the sponsor links and like pie? x.x why do u toy with our minds like this?? Sponsored Links? is it some type of new charm braclet? hehe I added Mmmmmm pie as an option because if I didn't there would have been some very upset Pie lovers out there mad at me lol. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE |
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Omerna Bunderfeld
Second Life Resident
Join date: 12 Jul 2004
Posts: 14
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sponsored links
02-19-2005 07:37
i like the sponsored links a lot, i try to check all of them out and buy stuff from all of them. i figure if they pay to sponsor a link, i will try to find something to buy from them.share the wealth.
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