Oh no, Infohubs

* If LL is going to use infohubs as the second landing point after Help Island, they should not also use them to reroute traffic from crashed sims. Almost every unattended infohub has a collection of ghosts and stranded avatars at the rez spot.

Is there a secret to getting IN to Moose Beach? The first week it opened, I spent 10 minutes waiting for someone to leave so I could get in to help out. Since then, I haven't had the patience.

Just butting in here with something OT.

Any chance that Carl can get a seat on the board, and Mari a job as a user focused Linden? I love reading their posts - and they both do good stuff for the community. These are the kind of folk the Lindens need to listen to.

/me shuffles off now.

Maybe the Cartel should just adopt an existing Infohub, it sounds like there are some in need of patrolling and help. We could make a Google calendar and sign up for shifts to provide help/coverage - be a good time to sort inventory, if nothing else!

Should go visit the Violet infohub ... did Ingrid build it, or what?
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I'd volunteer if we had firepower. It's pointless to go, try to help, and be overwhelmed by poofers, gestures, and griefers without the ability to freeze/eject/ban. I've done the volunteer thing many times at different InfoHubs and it's just darned depressing.

Ah cool, I think I know the plot. Chev and Zia might be at least amenable to some NCI involvement near Moose Beach. They and Lad are the owners fronting the location.

Just butting in here with something OT.

Any chance that Carl can get a seat on the board, and Mari a job as a user focused Linden?

I'd volunteer if we had firepower. It's pointless to go, try to help, and be overwhelmed by poofers, gestures, and griefers without the ability to freeze/eject/ban. I've done the volunteer thing many times at different InfoHubs and it's just darned depressing.

There is a reason no one can return to Orientation Island.

Over the past few years I have tried to get new rezzies away from the Linden owned'Infohubs' I liken them to a ad for LL's form of SL... people need honest help, 24/7 such as NCI, Oxbridge University and many others. As far as neww people are concerned, they get no actual help at infohubs, they are simeply mini Welcome Areas, which should be called 'Unhelpful Areas. When LL comes to realize it takes people to run help areas they will continue to fail at it.

Yes. It's because LL no longer has any Orientation Islands in the new resident arrival process.

Hmmm, infohubs...

1: Get rid of ahern and watershed, they are a waste of time and space and populated mostly with blingtard show off morons. Whenever i go there to peek around its the same thing time after time, loudmouth on voice thinking he's god, all the little blingtard morons surrounding him/her/it and the obvious noobies standing in the corner wondering what to do next.

2: The rest of the info hubs, like bear, the hubs ran by NCI (although NCI has its problems with some people thinking they are god as well), and all the new info hubs popping up, set up a new group which has the lead staff of ALL the info hubs in the same group. Have the info hubs STAFFED by a linden at least during the weekend when its more busy. Give the info hub head staff more powers and say in what infohubs should be about. With the new group any problems/greifers/issues can be spread across the entire infohub network within minutes.

3: Have the mentors be a part of the info hubs more so than they have in the past, 2 mentor groups, one front line at the help and OI sections, and one group in the trenches at the infohubs.

4: More info then the scant info already at the info hub...heck, maybe get torley to make special info hub greeting videos with his over enthusiastic happy voice.

Thats off the top of my head in the first few minutes of me thinking of my own personal experiences in the idiot infested hubs i've been to in the past. The first time in 2006 i spent 2 days at a hub, lost, confused, shouted at by loudmouth blingtard morons and quit.

The only reason i came back last year was due to ill health and some of my friends being on SL.

Thanks for the response, Blondin, very clear. Can you share any stats on how many new residents are using each of the gateway destinations?

I don't see how LL can improve the 1st hour experience when you have so little control over where it takes place, but - thank the primal cause! - that is not my problem.

LL does use some NCI content at Help Islands: our networked FreebieNode freebie walls and SLInfo walls.

Mari--could you arrange an introduction for me? I'd really like to talk to them about renting some land adjacent to Moose Beach.

InfoHubs are implied to perform a different function - a more socially focussed one - and one primarily directed at new users.
I really don't think that anyone with an elapsed login time of X (?) has any business to be in one unless they are there to actively assist newbies.

InfoHubs are implied to perform a different function - a more socially focussed one - and one primarily directed at new users. I really don't think that anyone with an elapsed login time of X (?) has any business to be in one unless they are there to actively assist newbies.

The need for that social function doesn't magically disappear for residents who have been in-world for a while, though it does lessen. I enjoy stopping in at NCI or The Shelter every once in a while to meet people; it's fun to meet residents who are seeing everything with a fresh perspective. Yes, I'll help people out when they ask questions, and no, I'm not there to be a griefer. I"m not usually helping as actively as the staff does, but I believe that my presence is a positive thing when I choose to be there.

Well, it seems that the OI experience hasn't been used in quite some time. Here's how registration currently works:

A person can either register an account through SL.com or through a Community Gateway from one of their websites. If they pick the community gateway route - then that is where they will land and have their first hour experience. If they register with SL.com and follow all the steps, the first place in-world where they land is HELP ISLAND. Only new accounts are allowed on HELP ISLAND and once you leave, you can't get back. They can stay as long as they like but once they decide to leave, they are taken to either an INFOHUB or some other Showcase location. It depends on which LM they decide to use.

I am confused about 7 weeks ago I first went in world with the secondlife.com site and was asked where I wanted to start and choose The elven lands (Fairy Crossing) because of my history in other gaming. I never even was on any mainland til a good friend I made in world took me to look around cause I was curious never having been there.

I never went to another web site to sign up with second life nor at that time would I have known where to go as I knew nothing about it past what was on the web site.

If its your style I would highly recommend anyone first going in to go to the Fairy Crossing as it is nicely laid out and all the times I was there was at least 3 or 4 Meeters to help out the new folk and explain things if you didn't understand the tutorials.

I actually only been to any linden help island once (the one that anyone can go to not just the new accounts) once again cause I asked my friend about it and wanted to check it out from curiosity.

Honestly if it wasn't for the Fairy Crossing and near by regions like Elf Circle I don't know if I would have paid premium for a year cause of the friends I made quickly from starting there.