Anthropological research on netiquette in SL

And don't think we Californians look back on our independence without a certain amount of nostalgic longing...



I like it when everyone is having good clean fun.



By now I'd think there would be lots of SL anthropology thesis papers for sale floating all over the webs.



The theme this year, I believe, is Sci Fi/Horror.

Where is the money from that venture/outing of yours? Surely you had good donations. Turn it over, now please.

Deira is a pony. Garter?

Melita is the patron saint of patience.

Treasure (Proprietress of the Home for Wayward Ladies)

You have misunderstood.

Pep (I was collecting the wayward women.)

Oh. In that case, keep your donations.

I can't force anybody here to do anything, but it seems what I say here encourages people to reveal their real selves. I have been astonished at the extent to which people appear unable to control their emotions in an uncivilised fashion, and I have been even more astonished at the lack of remorse or regret they appear to have.

Pep (Isn't the truth awful sometimes?)

Oh, I don't intend to *keep* the wayward women . . .

Pep ( . . . in any sense of the word.)

Well just out of curiosity's sake what do you plan to do with them now you've collected them?

As with most things, after use I return them to where I found them.

Pep (It is a habit I encourage in others.)

"Take only pictures...leave only...uh...EWWW.

You are much more easily astonished than I. The truth certainly is extremely unpleasant sometimes, and at other times extremely pleasant and everything in between. Can't have light without shadows, enjoy eating without being hungry, blah blah blah, etc.

It seems to me that one of the real or imagined purposes of my life is seeking truth, along with learning humility and eating as much chocolate as I possibly can.

LOL!

(This was added in later; I'd have missed it had Treasure not quoted it.)

Well, it isn't a racket, that's all I can tell you. Lol.

& thanks Treasure.

(Saints require three miracles. My first will be...lag. You'll all know when I'm done because you will race across the grid with one step...whooosh!)

I never asserted there was much more to come. I asserted that there could be.

Your logic is flawed. There's a difference between not assuming anything that's not presented here and assuming that nothing exists unless it's presented here.

I do that all the time now--but then, suddenly, I snap back to where I started from....

Melita's a third of the way there already.

LOL Kaimi!

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I didn't say "assert" I said "assumed." Not only did you project your interpretation into the OP's query, but you go after me for being 'wrong' when you know no such thing.



Can I have some of what you've been smoking? You do not even make any sense.

And for the record...here is what the OP actually asked, again:



So what "certain" rules are we to "assume" they mean, for a start? Before we can say whether we "consciously" follow them, don't we need to know what those are?

And which "specific manners or etiquettes" do they mean, as well?

The question is so completely vague as to be - not quite meaningless I guess, since people can read into it whatever they wish - but hardly scientific since that would mean comparing responses against something, well, specific. One can't just SAY the word "specific" and think it means anything.

And now I am done with this back and forth because it is giving me a specific pain in the kiester.

In case nobody has asked this yet (since I don't want to read through 3 pages +), I want to know who "we" are?

But Czari...that's part of the scientific data that we are all to assume is still to come. ;p

(I assume "they" are velociraptors from outer space.)

Oh yes we have netiquette here in SL. Things like don't friend people without talking to them first. I don't think that's written down anywhere but most people in SL think that's rude. Pushing people by walking into them is also considered rude. Jumping onto the blue poseball when you see a couple moving toward a poseball set. That's rude too. These are all specific to SL.

Actually, you did:


Continuing:

Which part don't you understand?



No, they're asking us to identify the rules. If you can't think of any, fine, that's your answer. Other people may come up with other answers. For example, from previous threads in this forum, it's clear that some people believe that friendship shouldn't be offered without first getting to know the person.


Again, that's what they're asking. The question is clear, even if the answer isn't.


Who said anything about comparing responses? Or what sort of comparison are you expecting?

I think you have an overly constrained view of the way certain forms of research take place. Research doesn't always begin with a precisely defined hypothesis to be proved or disproved, although it may intend to get there. Some stages of research are used purely to gather raw information and build initial models, without trying to draw any conclusions.

Or let me put it this way: If you're going to say that it's unscientific, you'll have to be a bit more scientific in your approach to proving it. What precisely is unscientific about it? Their sample space? Their model (which probably doesn't exist yet)? Their conclusions (which clearly don't exist yet)? The reliability of their questions (which isn't always necessary)?

"We" are us, as distinct from them, Czari.

Will you by any chance be opening a nunnery? I can think of a few candidates that could use a stint there to reflect upon their choices. I believe Caledon was considering sponsoring one recently.

My teenage daughter had to visit the hospital the other day and when she was checking in she was asked her religion. She said that she wasn't particularly religious, so the nurse asked if she should put down "none", to which my daughter replied that actually she wanted to be a vet.

Pep (I had to intervene before they both became *really* confused.)

I understood that this was a certainty - I've already done the walk with hands in sleeves and the kneel praying pose. Now don't say it's been cancelled!

I believe it to be a needed inevitability.

pst, Dearsie, I am just trying to get this Mellita involved. Apparently she has some benevolent project to help new citizens. She'll be kept so busy with that noobfoolery and be churning out requisitions and pleas for additional nuns at such a rate that Desmond won't have time to notice what *we* are getting up to at our embroidery evenings.

Very good point - at least _we_ remember our SL netiquette (the prime purpose of which is to give a correct appearance to our activities at all times). Melita will need a 24 hour rota of volunteers.

I was just feeling a little put out beause is is very difficult to get this work looking ok - what with different arm lengths and shoulder widths. Any movement that involves bringing the hands together can be problematical. I'll start the embroidery one next ...wink, wink.