Philip Linden's roadmap

I didn't really feel that it said anything, and I think the timing was horrible.

Thanks for the thoughtful post. I appreciate the fact that you owned up to the hamfisted implementation of VAT.

Your mission statement is lofty, and lofty missions come with lofty responsibilities implied with them. SL is a wonderfully addictive place, and I understand wanting to spread it far and wide. But do not underestimate human nature here - for the experience to be rich and robust, it needs constraining in certain places so that it is fun and safe for all. You cannot speak of a safe SL from one side of your mouth and then ignore the rampant fraud in the other. How can SL fully improve the human condition when certain frauds in game are permitted to exist? I speak mainly of the financial crises that have taken down several of the large financial institutions, leaving thousands of residents without hundreds of thousands of real dollars.

No one wants a nanny state, and I understand the libertarian principles behind LL's stance about free market economies, but you cannot allow fraud like that to go on with tacit approval. If you are serious about protecting people from certain dangers to the point that you are implementing IDV, you need to make sure that the illegal banking activities in this game are banned because it's not really play money being lost here.

Additionally, you need to do something about the bots, land bots and camping bots especially. I don't believe they should be banned, but there needs to be some control over them. Malbots are ruining the SL experience by lagging us down, swooping opportunities and mistakes, invading privacy, and cluttering up the relevance of the search tools under development by gaming the search system. It's out of control. I do believe that bots in general have some very useful applications, but the destructive tendencies are far more prevalent and LL needs to do something to rein in these tendencies, if not the bots themselves. If you want to improve the human condition in SL, you need to make sure that humans are making conscious choices in the game.

Thanks for listening.

When would be a good time? After we're all gone?

I wonder if that means no more new continents for awhile?

Hopefully it doesn't mean that. Like currency, land supply should be managed with an eye to keeping its value relatively stable.

Of course, if the grid keeps collapsing I'm guessing new land is not on the top of their list.

Our mission is: “To connect everyone to an online world that improves the human condition.”

By the way...the new mission statement is creepy. It is better than the old one in that it is concise and shorter. When I hear mission statement, I automatically think of some kind of church mission statement; I don't know why. Linden Lab's sounds so cult-like.

Resistance is futile you will be connected and improve your human condition.

Thank you for the improvement borg queen.

It would seem half of the comments are people saying "I can't get in". Unfortunately if their avatar is not old enough, it's not going to let them. The timing of the Philip & Windlight posts was indeed terrible. These comments are somewhat wasted as LL is aware of the problem, but they are not going to fully fix it until sometime late tomorrow because of the holidays. I wish more comments were allowed to be made also; 500 was good. People can vent and give more thought out suggestions that way. I started posting on the blog more lately and happened to be lucky enough to post when it was relatively fresh.

Sounded to me he was just telling us what he thinks we want to hear. Heard it all before and here we are today with an even more messed up SL.

The question is if they are going to follow through this time.