Who is ginsu and what's up with this post?

Also signed but as a ex-BF player.

I played all the BF games until 2142. That's it, though. Never again will the people at DICE get another cent from me. I find my life happier since I flushed them.

I think it is because happy drivel is the fuel that LL itself functions on.

Read the Tao - it forbids "politics." They pass around "love notes" when they like something each other has done. Nobody is ever told what to do. Nobody HAS to do ANYTHING. (Which apparently includes clueing each other into what is going on.)

Read the Tao for mentors (on the SL Herald) - mentors are expected to accentuate the positive in any horrid situation.

It's all a sort of positive think gone mad.

Here is my answer to Ginsu's post, posted by necessity on the blog entry below it, about the rolling update:

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MY POST FOR THE BLOG ENTRY “LIGHTS ON AT THE LAB”:

Note that I couldn’t put it where it belongs, due to the fact that LL employees somehow can’t face more than a relative few responses to a blog entry.

Here’s the deal, Ginsu. Nobody is home at LL.

Take this issue: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-156, regarding the BBC code being turned off on the forums.

From June to October, Torley himself is incapable of getting any answers from anyone at LL. And Torley is an EMPLOYEE.

There is certainly no transparency about that.

Worse, there is NOBODY HOME. When your own employees can’t find out the slightest answer over the course of four months, you have a communication problem not only with us, but among yourselves.

I have never seen such a mess, at any company, anywhere.

These things are really not that hard, really they aren’t - unless all your employees are hiding from each other.

And do tell, what is the point of turning off these blog responses? If you can’t handle the responses, quit trying to have a blog. Or at least set them to a number that gives more people a fair chance to be heard - like 500.

Don’t talk about wanting to communicate on the one hand, while at the very same time, limiting responses to an absurd 100 (or some other arbitrary figure, like 150 in this case) - not to MENTION never even bothering to say why, and refusing to discuss it.

coco

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I then posted an amendment on that last sentence, as this thread called Robin's comment to my attention.

coco

/me brushes up her resume. Again.

Mari

Here is the whole problem, y'all. In a nutshell.

LL employees are supposed to have a good time. They are supposed to be happy. That is the most important thing, and always has been.

Everyone there is autonomous.

coco

Those bastards!!

I read the TAO. It made my ass get big and gave me diabetes.

Lol Mari, you sure you want to apply? I hear the job title for this position will be "Target".

Guess they are not allowed to read this forum.

Didn't someone say that that's why they don't read the forums, it upsets them?

I blame google for all this being happy at work malarkey.

Philip said that. He said it depressed the employees.

No, I didn't save the link.

coco

I blamed this forum for me being happy. Then the one thread that was making me smile today got locked...

Yes I remember that.

And thats why the General Forums (general, sand box, land and economy) all got removed.

Happy's a very vague word. Humans in community will have disagreements. *shrug*

In environments where direct conflict isn't allowed, people find other ways to get what they want. You'll get passive aggressive behavior, avoidance, people who realize that they can verbally attack others since their target is the one "creating" conflict when they respond, people who overcompsensate and try to do everything themselves since they can't expect others to help out... I hope they put regular effort into teaching conflict resolution and general communication skills.

I don't know. The positive sides of the Tap are very tempting. A well picked team will have people with a variety of skills and preferences. I've worked with people who love work I loathe, and ones who've stared at me like I'm insane for loving debugging and rewriting multithreaded code. Working with people who love and believe in what they're doing makes going in to work each day a delight.

Well, there's this built-in flaw in that formula.

When the customer dissatisfaction overwhelms the individual Lindens' satisfaction, then the individual Lindens can no longer be happy.

In other words, if the customers ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!

Now, for all we know, they have already de-emphasized the Tao. For all we know, they have new management trying to turn it around.

I just say that to be fair. Because I figure if they have done that, they ought to be telling us about it, and I haven't run across anything to that effect.

coco

Yup! The Tao and the Love Machine ensure that nobody will every raise a concern about anything inside LL.




http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/casestudies/linden.jsp
"We think the Love Machine is one of the most interesting cultural things that we've done, and I know that many other companies are going to adopt it. I eagerly tell people about it whenever I can. The Love Machine is built around the idea of generating a token of appreciation for any other person in the company. It is a horizontal, decentralized way for employees to give each other mini peer reviews, which in turn they can use when they go to do their own quarterly performance reviews. So, anyone in Linden Lab can send a little 80-character piece of email that says, for example, "Thanks for a great job this week," which makes both the receiver and the sender feel good. If the right people are thanking you for your help, you know you're doing the right things."


WANKERS!!!!
Self-deluding narcissistic amateurs!



And by the way, the old SL avatar rating system was done away with because it was deemed an abused and useless thing.
Hello? Residents can't have a Love Machine because it's a load of baloney??
But LL still use it????



http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14306294/second_life_the_nets_virtual_paradise_heats_up/print
"Throughout the day, Lindens post little affirmations to each other online. "Thanks for having too much integrity for one single person," reads one message to Rosedale. "It feels wonderful," he says. "

VOMIT!!!!! He should have sacked that smarmy brown-noser.


http://valleywag.com/tech/philip-rosedale/second-lifes-love-machine-242445.php
"Employees of the Benchmark-backed firm -- a curious mix of hippie utopia and hype-mongering scam -- can allocate love points to their co-workers. At the end of each quarter, the "love machine" calculates bonuses for staff who've received the most love points."


Yes children. That's why we have the traffic system.
It's a clone of the Love Machine.
And we all know that the Traffic system produces really meaningful results, don't we?


I keep living in hope that some professionals will take over at LL.
(No. I don't mean lawyers )

You're rarely happy-sounding here, Ray.

"Thanks for having too much integrity for one single person,"

I just posted that as a Blog comment.
Wow! Wouldn't it be great to have a Blog posting in which all the comments were just that sentence???? LOL!


I couldn't get into the Ginsu posting, as they cut comments at 150. So it's in the Rolling Restart comments along with all the other non-rolling-restart comments.


I noticed that the comment count on Ginsu had dropped to 149.
No. It wasn't Robin's comments that got deleted. I don't know which one then.

Don't let it worry you. But feel free to pray for the folks in my household.

sorry robin, i dont believe you.
we've been through this numerous times already, most recently with the 'open letter' response.
ever heard the story of 'the boy that cried wolf'?

I would direct their attention to Project Open Letter. the concerns expressed there are widespread and have not been addressed in any coherent fashion. It was sidetracked by the age play thing and has been left in the dustbin. I will believe LL is SERIOUS about fixing problems when they start addressing Project Open Letter again. Until that happens, I regard their public announcements as PR fluffery.

Sooz

They have a point though

LL is doing the biggest most open project like this ever done, and they are doing it first.....

This isn't a god bleess LL post

They've made some HUGE PREVENTABLE errors....
Not announcing upcoming changes
overreacting to legal issues (and making users paranoid)
not researching implications of business actions...

but they are also taking this "game" places other companies never have:
open soucing an already popular product
offering a global virtual environment
offering a virtual business environment
more customization of personal content and protection at this scale than any other product.... with more interactivity than any similar product of this scale

is it surprising they are growing too fast to keep up sometimes?
they run afoul of legal and social issues that other games just don't have, and garnered more attention because of it

I guess they are overwhelmed by the complaints... it's like working in govenrment, if you do your job right with no mistakes you'll never hear a word of thanks.... but if you blow it, you'll never hear the end of it

the areas they need to work on most are the ones above.... Tell users about upcomming changes, or plans.... don't just drop them on users... research business options thoroughly, avoiding one problem one way may cause more another.... don't overreact to legal implications, stick to the minimums and tell users about it in a matter of fact way....

I guarantee those thing would go a long way to making happy users...

Except this is what she promised six months ago, and six months prior. All of her bullet points should have been in past tense.

I really liked "expanding the number of [blog] comments". Great idea, because if the first 150 people to post their dissatisfaction aren't listened to, the next 50 certainly will be.

I think it can be told now: the senior staff at LL have been replaced with defective automatons.

waits for Pocket Fisherman Linden....

We could catch fish, clean them with our ginsu's and cook them on George Foreman Linden. It would be great. Much better than putting them in Juiceman Linden.

but Juiceman Linden will at least get all that pulp outta there.....make the stuff go down smoother yanno