SL must move beyond the Techi Wiki culture

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That figure looks like the Bizarro love child of Charlie Chaplin and the Buddha... no offense intended to either Marcos or yourself. It's a lovely poster amongst an entire series of lovely posters.

I wish the FIC logo looked less like an abstract speculum or "jesus fish"I don't know what those are called, that's the best I could do-- sorry).

It kind of looks like a broken infinity symbol, or the symbol that indicates proportionality. Perhaps they're supposed to be stylized salad tongs, because the FIC is always busy plundering the common salad bowl for the delicious little radishes... why won't you elitist bastards let all of us have a bite at the radish?

That's what the techi wiki culture of SL has to do. It has to stop thinking about cool LSL scripts and sharing the latest prim torture and stroking each others egos and start thinking about the unwashed masses. What do they want? What will get them jazzed and want to hang out and enjoy SL? I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty sure I know what it isn't: It isn't going to be contributing to the techi wiki.

What the fuck? So Da Vinci didn't paint the Mona Lisa without 40 layers of middle management above him?

Sales and marketing isn't innovation; marketing is a tool to drive sales, which is a result of someone making the product. Dittoheads and corporate managers don't make products, they generate paperwork.



Which one is design-oriented and which one is sales-oriented? Dell doesn't invent anything, they take commodity parts and slap "DELL" on them. They are the "worse" company, in my opinion.



Pardon my techi-wiki feted FIC perfectionist designer ignorance, but why do we need them? Why does someone need 3 middle managers each pushing the "bottom line" into their face whenever they want to script something?



So basically you want to piggyback on top of the content creators so they make you rich while you "shift the new paradigm and accentuate the true market potential"? No, sorry. That works in RL, but not in SL.

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It isn't all just about "you and your fierce loyalties to my tribe" and shut up if I'm not in your tribe.

I've got plenty of interest, plenty to do, and I need no help from anyone. That's why I feel perfectly obliged to engage in really needed and legitimate critizism of this skewed world.

It's only skewed in your mind. You mentioned in response to Coco that you had difficulty in getting scripters and builders involved in your projects. Do you ever stop for a moment to consider that the reason for that is because from the moment you got here you declared them enemies of the people and they may just not like you? Not people who fall into your demographic, but you personally? You can blame it on there being some kind of divided class system in SL, but since there is no divided class system in SL then it's far more likely that it's because of the way you behave. You simply refuse to put it in the proper prespctive because it requires taking personal responsiblity.

Bingo. I know if this person approached me for help, I would be much less likely to give it due to their incessant shit-stirring and malcontent. Not discontent, mind you, malcontent.

This is what I distill from the proponents of this thread:

"You geeks need to stop enjoying your esoteric form of fun, and get to work making things to entertain the rest of us."

My response:

Who the hell do you think you are to tell me what I should do with my free time?

My understanding of the original draft of the logo is that it is indeed a broken infinity, symbolizing the motto of "Almost Infinite Corruption." Isn't it corruption? Almost infinite something.

I like it. It's clever.

As far as I know the concept of a "techi-wiki" category of SL residents has not been introduced in LL design meetings, formal or informal. I foresee no need to ever bring it up -- it appears overcomplicated and my instinct is to discard it based on some mutant variation of Occam's Razor. Therefore IMHO the question as to whether the "techi-wiki" is "holding SL back" is based on a false premise.

The LL model of the SL population and how it would grow was always much simpler. From the start the theory was that SL would become an increasingly interesting place as its population grew. In the beginning would be the "early adopters" who were excited about virtual reality in general. Eventually some artists and programmers would find the feature set complete enough to express their creativity and these "content creators" would build stuff. As the content became more interesting some casual explorers would find the content compelling and would buy some of it -- "consumers". A population of consumers would provide a market for those content creators that wanted to make real money -- ta-da, a market is born that only gets more interesting as it grows.

Every person on Earth has some threshold of features/content at which point they will find SL useful and/or interesting enough to login. As SL grows more and more people will fall into the subset whose threshold has been passed. The grand plan is to push the feature set of SL and allow the population to expand until nearly everyone's threshold has been passed.

It was always the intention to start SL small and let it grow. SL 1.0 was not launched ready for 1 million residents, and it is still not ready for that many. SL is growing at a very healthy rate. In fact, LL's main challenge is to develop the platform fast enough that SL's architecture can handle the next season's population. At the moment don't see many reasons to speed up the growth rate -- if SL were to "tip" and suddenly become the next big thing such that hoards of people were joining up, then LL would be forced to throttle new accounts until SL's fundamental system was more ready.

So, even if there were some minority of residents that were "holding SL back" then I might not be inclined at the moment to ask them to let go.

What the fuck? So Da Vinci didn't paint the Mona Lisa without 40 layers of middle management above him?

Sales and marketing isn't innovation; marketing is a tool to drive sales, which is a result of someone making the product. Dittoheads and corporate managers don't make products, they generate paperwork.

Which one is design-oriented and which one is sales-oriented? Dell doesn't invent anything, they take commodity parts and slap "DELL" on them. They are the "worse" company, in my opinion.

So basically you want to piggyback on top of the content creators so they make you rich while you "shift the new paradigm and accentuate the true market potential?

This is what I distill from the proponents of this thread: "You geeks need to stop enjoying your esoteric form of fun, and get to work making things to entertain the rest of us."

Find me a present day Da Vinci and sign him up for SL. I'll pay for his account and cover his tier costs. Da Vinci was a rennassiance man and was much more than just a painter.

Tinkering and creating things are not innovation either. That's my point. It takes a combination of skill sets, rarely all found in a single individual.

I'm not surprised. I respect both companies. Apple gets my vote for invention but Dell is the better innovator. I don't like Starbucks, but I respect the business people that figured out how to revolutionize public opinion on $5 coffee.

Andrew Linden has made a profoundly troubling intervention here, sanctioning the throttling of his world by arrogant tekkies, and I think this really calls from some more robust response.

Almost all of the innovations in SL have come from single people, or most two. Rarely have groups been very successful.

That's not innovating. That's just better marketing. It's convincing people innovation has taken place when, in fact, it hasn't. Innovation would be somehow making that coffee WORTH five bucks a cup.

To that I say, it's worth five bucks to the people that buy it. You and I may not think its worth $5 but nothing is based on what people not willing to buy are willing to pay.

The marketing didn't make it happen and I think we agree on that part.

Andrew Linden has made a profoundly troubling intervention here, sanctioning the throttling of his world by arrogant tekkies, and I think this really calls from some more robust response.

Andrew Linden has made a profoundly troubling intervention here, sanctioning the throttling of his world by arrogant tekkies, and I think this really calls from some more robust response.

I think Andrew's statement was dead on, except in one respect - the techi wiki *do* exist.