Forum Etiquette (I think I did a bad thing)

Big Wheel!!! (http://www.originalbigwheel.com/)

/me has one of those for her Loco Poco avatars. Love it..

I never had any of those things... *sniffle*... perhaps the nitroused kawasaki I got later was a form of compensating...

The joy was all in the gears though, and the mad spins you could do. I had a Sit and Spin and a Big Wheel, but never looked back after the Green Machine

If it's any consolation, I never had one either..

Now that I'm all growned up, I'm considered having an adult-sized one built.

Well, that'd work too.

In 1977 I turned 16.

It was the end of one life and the begining of another.

It was my first real introduction to death.

It was the era of the 10 dollar lid.

Ford did not run for election so was out of office; the age of Nixion was officially over.

Now I've done it.

I've pasted that ABBA Dancing Queen youtube link to a distributor's purchase order return email, instead of the UPS tracking number.

Okay folks I think I better pay attention to what I am doing. If I didn't work for me, I'd fire me.

I hope that purchasing agent likes ABBA. She probably thinks I'm really, really strange now.

Off to pay more attention to what I am doing,

Des

Lol, I remember my sister and her friend whispering about a 'pot party' and throwing an unmerciful fit when she wouldn't bring me. I thought it was like a Tupperware Party, and was unable to figure out why she was ready to suffocate me with a pillow the longer I moaned about it.

Don't start worrying until you put the lyrics in there, too.

Well, you did mention in several threads that you were ill. Perhaps someone sent you well wishes. In that case, it would certainly be polite to read and return a personal reply. Most people here, are multi-tasking while working, just as you are.....so their time is equally valuable. You had the time to chit chat in this thread, so hopefully you took the time to reply to them personally.

You had also started a thread and asked for opinions, and if you responded to anyone in other threads, and addressed them personally, whether it be blatantly polite, or might be construed as negative....then I would assume that if "etiquette" were a concern, that it would be nice to respond to those IMs for the same reasons as above. Either someone wants to thank you or wishes to address a concern out of the thread.

Any time that I've done so....whether it be a "thank you" or "your comments suck"....a friend was made. Only one time has that not been the case....so well worth the time in responding to people who took the time to contact you.

/me has missed those.. Hope you feel better soon, Desmond!!!

/me scripts up some chicken soup.

Me too, except I don't think they've gone over my head, they've just evolved in ways with which I heartily disagree.


If it's not a friend with whom you're already in contact via PM, then no, you never owe anyone anything for an unsolicited contact.


Nope.


It's your choice


On most other forums, PM's are hardly ever justified. I turn them off when possible. Moderators can contact me via email. For others, if it's not suitable for public consumption then it's probably not suitable at all.


Sounds pretty normal to me.


Sounds like spam and should be treated as such, even if non-commercial.

Ford did run for election, but lost to Carter. I was an odd 11 year old I suppose, to know this.

Hmm, I stand corrected. Ford did win the GOP nomination.
It was a long time ago and I had a few of my own problems, of which the drugs were one. I should be suprised I remembered as much as I did.

The other day, I was chatting in IM with Khamon and building at the same time. After I accidentally linked the piece of furniture I was adjusting to the floor in my shop, I came to the same conclusion that multitasking can be dangerous


(no, you were not the person I was referring to.)

Worse, she thinks you like ABBA!

Des: LinkedIn is the most antisocial social networking tool around. You can completely ignore it, it doesn't bug you, the user interface is reasonably good, it certainly doesn't suck. For example... if enough of your connection requests are rejected you don't get to make any more. Ever, as far as I can tell.

This is probably why it tends to have people who actually matter on it.

This is why I snickered when LL had the audacity to publish a press release claiming SL is a social networking site when basic tools to stay connected are not even present.

Des, you being a public figure should probably be more connected than most. I keep a Myspace page for my SL venue and a Facebook page for my avatar. My Facebook, Twitter, yahoo, plurk and blogs are all connected. But there is no tool available to connect SL to 'The Network'.

Annoying as it is - my first two hours online is used to respond to everyone. I have my SL Forum settings so I get a e-mail and pop-up when I get a private message. I think you need to get that Facebook page setup, include a slurl to your SL community gateway there and encourage your residents to post. Perhaps hire a community manager to deal with it if it's too annoying to you. Technology is your friend and you have to keep up.

In 1977 I was 20. It had been 9 years since my recovery from the very nasty Hong Kong flu. Mexican dirt weed was $20 an oz; the good gold stuff was twice that. There was no internet; only ArpaNet and the emerging dreams of Stewart Brand's Whole Earthers that later became The Well. My green machine was a 1973 Ford Pinto (yes, it was green) that was not yet twisted and crumpled by the multiple traumas to come.

Okay... caught up with everybody I know except one, and will catch that person inworld (I hope).

LinkedIn... hmm. Isn't that for real people, not avatars? I'm not terribly concerned about "outing my real identity" all that much, other than I don't want to become an easy target of anonymous tards. Meh... and even if I did, I suppose the ultimate irony is that anyone looking to invite me can already find me without LinkedIn?

Lias, do you really think I'm a public figure? A bartender at a modestly popular real life bar would know more people by their first names than I do, don'tcha think?

With regard to hiring a community manager... well, let's just say I'm in no position to hire anybody. Maybe if I had 500 regions instead of 50ish, but certainly not where I am now.

Theoretically. I keep thinking about getting a separate account there.

What on earth makes you think that "public figures" know people by their first names? If anything, that would probably be a disqualification, judging by the RL public figures I've met.

All I know is that Prok calls YOU by your first name. And that means you MUST be a public figure.

You have people in SL send you money each month. I believe that makes you a public figure

Hypathia loves you to pieces - perhaps she will do it for you. But really, a SL assistant would happily set up and maintain your commercial network for $1,000L a week and a small home in your estate.

Re: FaceBook, MySpace, etc etc. I purposely don't have accounts there. I've got enough going on with regular email and everything else that I can't be further distracted.

Without dwelling too much on Prok (who can't respond here) ~ Prok calls me by a few other names as well from time to time, not all complementary... if all it took was a call~out there to be a public figure, SL is rife with public figures!

As far as people sending $L periodically... does that make every merchant on the grid a public figure? I still don't think I qualify.

Hypatia... is very much her own cat, and if anyone tried to tell her what to do, they would likely have about as much luck as trying to train a cat to do their will. She has estate manager powers and can do quite a bit that I can, but only for the nice and only if she feels like it. We get on well enough, but if you read too much into it you'll be rather disappointed.

I doubt anyone would last long at $L 1000 a week and a place to stay. Caledon needs easily 10 to 20 hours of intense service each week, if not a lot more. Including being irrationally cussed out by people who have simply not paid, and other ridiculosities on a regular basis.

i suspect most of those attempted contacts were from people who #1 couldn't reach you inworld and/or #2 found out you had been sick and knowing you weren't inworld thought to try you here.

*hugs* glad you are better.

and there are no PM rules. some people enable PM and keep the box full - so they'll be informed of attempted contacts but not have to deal with anyone. some just disable PM. you don't HAvE TO participate in PM's if it's burdensome.