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Berios Sholokhov
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01-16-2006 05:16
From: Maxwolf Goodliffe There is nothing wrong with this punishment. If I was stuck in a place with other people that messed up just like me I would not want to be there. Sure they would sit in there and talk some crap about the L's and try to make themselves look good but they are still in the cornfield. Maybe they could create another land called "GOOD FUN" and it's just a black room with a bunch of colored lighting Hello Kitty pictures all over the place and loud pulsing techno music in the background that never...never stops. You cannot trade, buy, sell, build, sit, throw, puke, scream, commit suicide, and definatly no push scripts  You could even do something as so far as to put a button that slides all over the room, that says "Turn Music Off" but when you finally figure out the pattern it uses and you press it the music shall only get louder and faster and the button now in a new pattern EDIT: This "GOOD FUN" room would have it's own server! I could donate the box for it! 500Mhz Intel Celeron (before they put the L2 cache in them), 256Mb of RAM, 20Gb HD. Does this sound like POWER to you or what? What! Hello Kitty? Nah... it's gotta be the BADGERS!!!!!! Or Miromi from Paranoia Agent. They prisoners end up sleeping around a giant Miromi doll, unable to move, in a pretty green field, like this: http://gallery.sirkain.net/albums/mjsstorage/pa01.jpgSpeaking of "Jail" and punishment on SL... I actually like how liberal and freindly people have been. Lately I've ended up using weapons a few in areas like Sandbox Island, and it did bother some people, but nobody really punished me, I just got a warning and apologized (I'm new still, so I have not found a space dedicated to combat yet.) -B. |
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Selador Cellardoor
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01-16-2006 06:55
I'm a cornfield atheist. I don't believe there is such a place. The only person who has reported it might be considered unreliable by some. And when it comes to the theory of Intelligent Design with regard to Second Life, I will not offer an opinion.  |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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01-17-2006 08:39
From: SuezanneC Baskerville The sever used for the cornfield could instead be used to allow people to enter one at a time to run benchmarks tests, the limited access being a way of having some degree of standardization from test to test. The purpose would be to get text results from actual user equipment in the field to text the effects of different cache sizes, etc. A use which I wouldn't say justifies the ongoing expensive of keeping a sever up one ounce more than what it's currently being used for.
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nimrod Yaffle
Cavemen are people too...
Join date: 15 Nov 2004
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01-18-2006 23:07
From: Selador Cellardoor I'm a cornfield atheist.
I don't believe there is such a place. The only person who has reported it might be considered unreliable by some.
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
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01-19-2006 01:14
Forgive me, but such a place makes perfect sense.
1) Consider the case of an avatar that must be modified in some way. Perhaps it is wearing banned material, or some such.
- The cornfield can be a specific place to put that avatar until it is corrected, either by the Company or the user. No 'fussing with it' somewhere in-world, as a potential spectacle for passers-by.
2) Consider the case of several individuals protesting in an inappropriate (against service terms) manner.
- The cornfield serves as a place where you can take the person or group, and speak with them, even while they might be otherwise violating service terms in-world. It may even be a 'peaceful' protest - but this allows the Company to deal with it in a professional manner.
3) Consider technical support. A user gets suspended, but still has technical problems, which were in process of being resolved when the suspension was issued.
- Must a customer lose all customer service during suspension? It may well depend upon specific circumstances.
I don't doubt that *some* issue will cause residents who, under normal circumstances are good people, but may decide to 'break the rules' in the spirit of a higher cause.
Perhaps it will be a Company policy decision, or perhaps abortion will be banned in the United States or some other relatively major real world change. There are times when some regular folk may choose to do other than the rules, for honourable reasons.
The 'cornfield' may actually be less of a joke, and more of a mechanism by which customers can be treated with a little bit of dignity when warranted.
I see it to be a valuable asset, myself.
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Selador Cellardoor
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01-19-2006 03:59
From: nimrod Yaffle Robin is an unreliable source? Actually, I don't blame you. |
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Berios Sholokhov
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"What Is the Cornfield?"
01-19-2006 13:51
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