First you like to introduce some RL analogy.
Nope. What you quoted was me responding to an RL analogy that someone else introduced.
Next, you conveniently hide behind the "it's only a game" excuse.
Nope. It was a serious question - aimed at exploring the "not an inch" attitude.
So there's a lack of consistency in this matter, on both sides of what we could call SL's own "Iron Curtain". The solution doesn't lay in insisting you're right, the solution lays with convincing LL to fix things, that while the tools provided look good on paper, that their implementation leaves room for a lot of improvement and fixing.
Granted, there are a LOT of things in SL that require fixing. Occasionally, some get handled in client and server updates. But we just don't know how high fixing this is on LL's priority list. We don't even know whether the things discussed in this thread can be fixed at all, and LL doesn't seem interrested in giving out information about their priorities or the limitations of the system. We rarely see developers or even forum moderators answering questions. The only way we know that they're occasionally here is when a thread gets locked. Come to think of it, this almost sounds like the WoW-Europe forums, lol.
Actively using official site forums doesn't seem like standard practice in customer relations. It's more like something to spend some 30 minutes on, about twice a week, to lock down the more embarrassing threads.
Something that Michael Linden once said to me implied that more senior Lindens do actually scan the forums.
And recently..
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...We do want to keep opening up routes for boating though, so keep the ideas coming. Where we can help the boating community we certainly will.
...We do want to keep opening up routes for boating though, so keep the ideas coming. Where we can help the boating community we certainly will.
Anyhoo, it wouldn't really matter if no Linden ever read the forums.
The to and fro here puts up information that may be illuminating for all stakeholders. It's an opportunity for those who never considered the factors to understand them.
That can only help in the standard of proposals that are put to LL via more formal channels.