New blog post on LL's Content Management Roadmap

And what about common usage? This is the forums after all, not a smoking room for would-be Bertie Russells and their ilk.


You really ought to get out more, Argent, and I don't mean go swim in the lake.

*botscoughbots*

Seriously, this program just proves that LL has learned nothing about human nature. If they create a scale, it will be gamed!

Edit to add: If this is what was meant by making traffic and thus bots irrelevant, they have much to learn from their own past.

Yep, cuz it pretty much ensures that there will be very little new innovation brought into SL, but will allow the existing long term folks control the markets. It won't take SL long to crash and burn then.

I never said anything about selling anything at first. I question the long term viability of this entire idea and SL in general now and therefore question my time in learning the content creation well enough to be able to sell quality stuff.

I think I am really glad that I never ever had someone like you for a RL teacher or mentor.



If that is your opinion, why are you still here rather than over at Blue Mars?

If you care to look up all of the various discussions about the LL's TAO approach, then you would get a better feel for the sarcasm in my statement.

But then, I look at things, with a critical eye, from all sides -- never through rose-colored glasses. And these days, I never believe anything that LL says will truly result in good anymore.

(fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me)

Common usage of "organic" is like the poetic use of "energy" and "chemistry" to describe emotions and relationships. It's evocative, but when it shows up in a definition that's a red flag. We might as well be talking about Platonic Forms.

I don't agree. It is my opinion that everyone of us is creative - RL, SL or whatever - but I would qualify that with the observation that a baby grinning happily after a successful dump may merit a kind smile but I'm not going to reward him or her with a dollar everytime they soil their nappy (or diaper for those of a Murkan inclination).

In the case of SL, I see a lot of residents trying their hand at texturing, animation, sculpting and (God forbid!) scripting but, while the results may be tremendously rewarding on a personal level as creative endeavours, more often than not they prove to be dissappointing, puerile and downright hazardous to consumers when proffered through a vendor.

I do not accept any qualification of sales ability as an immediate restriction on creativity. To labour the point, I think that there is far too much emphasis within SL on sales ability as a measure of creativity, which is patent b@llocks in my humble opinion.

You want to be serious about creativity? Ditch the dollars and cents bullsh!t first and we'll see how it goes.

Yes cause NO ONE can be creative with money... its evil heh

I say I got a hard-on, only an idiot will fail to get my meaning. Same goes for words like 'organic' or 'holistic' for that matter. Allowing for a little liberal thinking, of course.

Yeh, I know what you mean by "holistic" and "organic". I just said that. You don't agree with my definition, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong, it just means you're not looking at things holistically enough.

Yep. You said a whole mouthful there. But I won't have words like 'creative' and 'innovative' and 'remunerative' thrown at me all at once. Get the picture?

Maybe you don't.

BTW: patent bollocks means you're in danger of an inguinal hernia.

Ephraim Kappler roars laughing.

Why not? I've had them shined often enough.

PS:


I'm looking around for a sharp knife or scalpel. I'll work through the issue of hunting you down later.

Maybe I should have said no one w/o a brain can be
Get the picture?

No I don't. Commerce and creativity are not commensurate terms for me.

No thanks, I'm full.

Aw look, I was only sh!tin ya.

Then ya have very little ability to be creative.. your skill lies eleswhere I think lol

Apologies. I missed your response there. Why do you question your time spent on learning about content creation in SL?


I totally agree. I would be an utterly sh!te teacher. I know this, painfully, from RL experience. Teaching is a vocation and I don't have it. But we digress because I have never set myself up or even posed as a teacher. I would say that I was blessed with a tremendously brilliant teacher in RL so I know what I've got in terms of being an objective creator and I surely understand what I'm missing in the mentoring stakes.


I've invested two years of my time in getting to know SL and what is possible within the medium. I can deal with it now and I can offer stuff for sale without feeling like I'm taking a stranger's hard-earned cash in return for lumbering them with inept bullsh!t.

That good enough?


Lol yasself.

Well, I think we have a clear indication of how well, or how poorly, Linden Lab is going to listen to Resident concerns and feedback on the new Content Management roadmap. I just fought my way through all 70+ posts in that horrid blog-based excuse for a forum's "discussion" on the Content Provider approval program, or whatever they feel like calling it.

The only Linden to reply in that thread, and only once, as the last reply there, was...

Blondin.

Who I am sure will do the same stellar job of "listening", and providing half-baked and mostly innacurate "responses", as he did in the Adult Content debacle.

Turn out the lights, folks. Nothing's listening to you but a store manequin.

Might be better off. At least then you won't get an answer you don't want to hear because we know thats coming from LL.

Or they want to play favorites for some form of officially sanctioned content.

Re: the content seller program --- the requirement for a "minimum number of transactions" is ludicrously easy to game, no matter how they actually define it.

What do you think of LL contracting with a "shopper" agency, like RL businesses do, to vet merchants who apply to the Seller Program? It would cost a little money, but that could be indirectly charged back to merchants who apply, and would eliminate any dependence on size of customer base.
?

The showcasing should certainly be entertaining. Even though you feel unable to apply, there are plenty of makers of adult products who either do know where all there stuff comes from or who won't be so scrupulous as you about verifying the intellectual property on all their textures.

I think it's going to be a great hoot seeing all these people showcased as Linden Labs Approved Suppliers of bondage gear, slave collars, torture implements, sex beds, scripted genitalia and the like.

Well he did cut and paste the same reply to each of the sections