Have you ever felt sorry for a camper?

i am a camper. i need the $$ to pay my membership & tier. when i don't have time to PLAY second life i will chat my camper with other campers in the area for a few minutes. i always say hi to the regulars, either in open chat or IM, but usually IM so they surely see it if they are AFK. i have made a lot of friends in SL this way. usually, the same people camp the same spots...

i would love a better job, but i am AFK a lot, especially overnight. i do not camp in areas that allow bots... mostly because you cannot get a spot if the bots have found it. but i really do watch my campers for conversation.

oh, and to the people visiting shopping places that have campers? we hear your conversations in open chat. i tell you, the conversations i could use as blackmail that i've overheard over the past 2 years of camping.... (insert devilish smirk here)

we are not all cold, heartless bots. in fact, i hardly see bots anymore in the paid camping areas. people have really put the kabash on that, as far as i can tell.

i wish i could find a better way to generate lindens and still be AFK, but as of yet i have found none. and for the record, i have spent a lot of $$ on my camping alts and i don't mind doing so. i usually shop at the area i am camping so my alt's attire fits in to the theme.... although, not always anymore. but i gladly will if required. it makes camping more than just camping - it makes it feel like you are a part of a community. (and shoppers love when a camper chats. they always first react to us as if we are robots and are delighted when we actually have something to say, can offer advice on the shopping area, etc. i find a great deal of humor in all that, and enjoy being helpful, and have made quite a few friends that way as well - when i am not AFK)

I just assume the campers are all bots and I don't feel sorry for them at all.

model in a building I had just made for photographs for the box cover or vendor picture

.....and offered them a better paying job?

If so....is that against the rules somewhere?

If not against the rules.....at worst....would you consider it morally wrong?

Or morally right?

...and wear on the components (which is hard to quantify).

It's neither against the rules nor morally wrong, but, as a businessman, it's a bad bet.

Ask yourself, why do camper's camp?

1. For starters, they either can not or are not willing to spend RL money on Lindens.

2. They have no talent for content creation (or, more likely, they believe they have no talent for content creation).

3. They know they could create content, and are simply lazy, or are here to have fun rather than do any work, which is a choice, and if it's fun over working, that's just fine.

4. They're 'professional' campers who code bots and maintain teleport lists, etc, and are not necessarily looking for an SL 'job'.

So, what I'm saying is it's not exactly the pool of talent that you seem it might be. Personally, I go at it alone in SL, and don't employ anyone, but if I did, I'd probably tend to hire someone looking for a job rather than a camper. I have at times hired people in real life though, and translating my experience in RL to SL, I'd tend to stay away from hiring campers. However, I suppose there is some talent out there, and I'm sure it's not impossible to find a good employee there, albeit, the last place I'd be looking.

Good computer care could possibly drag it out to 10 years, dropping cost down to $50L per day . . .QUOTE]

In ten years I hope to have a neural link to the grid and a mnemonemotion wetware interface. That'll cost a bit more.

No it's not, the average pc lasts about 6 years, and the average (in the range you'd be looking for an SL capable computer), about $700 usd. That works out to 32 cents per day, or approximately $84L per day. Good computer care could possibly drag it out to 10 years, dropping cost down to $50L per day, so, averaged out, 50+80/2 = $65L a day.

No it's not, the average pc lasts about 6 years, and the average (in the range you'd be looking for an SL capable computer), about $700 usd. That works out to 32 cents per day, or approximately $84L per day. Good computer care could possibly drag it out to 10 years, dropping cost down to $50L per day, so, averaged out, 50+80/2 = $65L a day.

Yes but will you be able to camp with it and make 15L a day = p =)

I used to be a camper in my first year in sl. I loved to camp at the Gold Rush casinos 27L/2mins. AHHHHHH... the glory days. Payouts were great and the social interaction was wonderful. I found it amusing when a dragon would im me saying baby, you avie is hot blow on my dice (I know that can be taken in serveral different ways) at the crap table. LOL!

Some of oldest and dearest friends I met while camping. In addition to Gold Rush, there was Arsheba's the Barbie club and so on. Camping was a blast back then.

Now I don't anymore because sl is so much fun. Those that do camp and are real avies I do feel sorry for them to a certain extent. 1L/1hr is a downright insult.

Also, every now and then I would give a newbie 200L. I recall I was camping and this guy told me your avie is nice but I hate newbie hair . Here's 200L go to Gurlywood and buy some hair. Only you have to promise help someone else. I did and still do just that.

You can get AR'd for them, people have been here saying they've been AR'd for sending them out.

And if you are a store owner masquerading as a camper.....do NOT tease me with your PhotoShop skill resume....that is entrapment!

You also might want to jack up your pay from 3 lindens an hour to something a tad less "pitiful."

If an av forwards my conversation with them to another av....and the other av is the same person as the av forwarding it .....is that a violation of TOS?