So I just had a thought...
If you donate tier to a group, the group gets a 10% tier bonus.
LL's official info on starting a group is "first create an Alt to protect your group from closing."
LL is always pushing its "total number of signups" as a marketing tool.
Is the 10% bonus really just a tool to artificially inflate numbers?
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Annabelle Babii
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11-24-2007 13:55
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11-24-2007 13:58
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Ciaran Laval
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11-24-2007 14:04
Considering that most groups probably aren't groups at all, you could be onto something!
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11-24-2007 16:30
You know too much and you talked! Now you're gonna get whacked! No, wait. That would lower their numbers. Never mind. Carry on...
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11-24-2007 21:00
Well ,if you subscribe to The Magic Prim Theory...........
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11-24-2007 21:24
Well ,if you subscribe to The Magic Prim Theory........... *Back, and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left.......* did you have the history channel on tonight too? |
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11-24-2007 22:40
You know too much and you talked! Now you're gonna get whacked! No, wait. That would lower their numbers. Never mind. Carry on... The could just leave the account open. _____________________
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11-25-2007 01:31
There are many theories we don't know yet. Where do prims come from? Who are those Linden people dressed up as nights templars? Why do they worship that avatar named Philip?
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11-25-2007 02:08
So I just had a thought... If you donate tier to a group, the group gets a 10% tier bonus. LL's official info on starting a group is "first create an Alt to protect your group from closing." LL is always pushing its "total number of signups" as a marketing tool. Is the 10% bonus really just a tool to artificially inflate numbers? no it was originally to inflate the number of paid accounts (back when you had to pay for them all) _____________________
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11-25-2007 05:46
Well ,if you subscribe to The Magic Prim Theory........... *Back, and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left.......* Nope. I read somewhere recently there was an SL recreation of Dealey Plaza in SL. I wonder if they are getting Dan Linden to play JFK.... _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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11-25-2007 07:22
Nope. I read somewhere recentlt there was an SL recreation of Dealey Plaza in SL. I wonder if they are getting Dan Linden to play JFK.... Or LHO "Happy Broadly Offensive Day, Mr. President. Happy Broadly Offensive to you!" |
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11-25-2007 07:43
There are many theories we don't know yet. I always figured most of the bigger business's in SL where owned by Linden alts. Seems to me that they would have the upper hand in everything and be able to use their privileged info and abilities to change the searches, not pay for land, uploads, what have you, to their advantage. Somewhat like legal insider information. If one had the power, one could start a business with free land and uploads, change the search to one's advantage, even go as far as take other business's off the search and claim technical issues (this happens to me often) Really, besides strong ethics *rolls eyes*, what would stop them from this? |
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11-25-2007 08:18
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Annabelle Babii
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11-25-2007 08:39
Really, besides strong ethics *rolls eyes*, what would stop them from this? Why should they go to all the work? They own the Lindendollar presses. hmmm.... work for hours making content and set up a shop, or hit the $ button.... decisions, decisions.... |
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 09:44
I always figured most of the bigger business's in SL where owned by Linden alts. Seems to me that they would have the upper hand in everything and be able to use their privileged info and abilities to change the searches, not pay for land, uploads, what have you, to their advantage. Somewhat like legal insider information. If one had the power, one could start a business with free land and uploads, change the search to one's advantage, even go as far as take other business's off the search and claim technical issues (this happens to me often) Really, besides strong ethics *rolls eyes*, what would stop them from this? I expect that most LL employees would, on the whole, prefer not to be sacked. That, in my opinion, would be a strong motivation for not doing this. _____________________
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Max Pitre
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11-25-2007 10:28
I expect that most LL employees would, on the whole, prefer not to be sacked. That, in my opinion, would be a strong motivation for not doing this. If it is, indeed, against company policy. Or maybe it's one of the company perks... |
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Yumi Murakami
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11-25-2007 13:08
If it is, indeed, against company policy. Or maybe it's one of the company perks... It used to be against company policy for Lindens to run in-world businesses, but that was changed. However, I don't believe that many of the big businesses in SL _are_ run by Lindens. The Lindens do have an interest in favouring those big businesses, though, because they pay a lot of tier, and they cause a lot of people to convert US$ to L$, and they're unlikely to leave as long as they are making a profit even if SL crashes five times an hour.  The "big-businesses-are-in-league-with-Lindens" argument is almost as old as SL itself. It used to be called the FIC. It doesn't need to come back! |
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Annabelle Babii
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11-25-2007 13:13
It used to be against company policy for Lindens to run in-world businesses, but that was changed. However, I don't believe that many of the big businesses in SL _are_ run by Lindens. The Lindens do have an interest in favouring those big businesses, though, because they pay a lot of tier, and they cause a lot of people to convert US$ to L$, and they're unlikely to leave as long as they are making a profit even if SL crashes five times an hour. The "big-businesses-are-in-league-with-Lindens" argument is almost as old as SL itself. It used to be called the FIC. It doesn't need to come back! However, anyone who has business of the sort to be able to affor the tier would turn a profit for LL - and the more big businesses, the more profit. Ergo, it would stand to benefit LL more to support ALL businesses. |
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Yumi Murakami
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11-25-2007 13:42
However, anyone who has business of the sort to be able to affor the tier would turn a profit for LL - and the more big businesses, the more profit. Ergo, it would stand to benefit LL more to support ALL businesses. And I think that's what ideally they want to do - but it's difficult to support ALL businesses when they are competing with each other. |
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Annabelle Babii
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11-25-2007 14:10
And I think that's what ideally they want to do - but it's difficult to support ALL businesses when they are competing with each other. No it's not. They only really need to do one thing. Fix the grid. |
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Colette Meiji
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11-25-2007 14:10
No it's not. They only really need to do one thing. Fix the grid. I'll bring the duct tape |
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11-25-2007 14:11
So I just had a thought... If you donate tier to a group, the group gets a 10% tier bonus. LL's official info on starting a group is "first create an Alt to protect your group from closing." LL is always pushing its "total number of signups" as a marketing tool. Is the 10% bonus really just a tool to artificially inflate numbers? Perhaps, but didn't they also drop the required minimum membership from 3 to 2? (and I am very happy for that 10% bonus tier, and have relied on it for years. _____________________
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Uvas Umarov
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11-25-2007 17:11
I hear the freemasons are really in control of the printing press button, posing as Lindens!
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 17:13
I hear the freemasons are really in control of the printing press button, posing as Lindens! I hear that the Lindens are actually the descendents of the survivors of Atlantis. and they're lizards. And so is the Queen. _____________________
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