Drama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, Ray

Ahh gotchya...
Ok, what Raymond said then

Oh and btw ... I don't recall reading many of your other posts in the forums, but I can say that you have been very articulate in this thread.

Yes. SL sort of 'levels the playing field' for us, so that both sides are having to use text to convey their thoughts as well as "emotional" overtones. Where as IRL, most people use the non verbal clues to add details to what they are saying, but I miss all those.

This.

Drama on page 1....Good Stuff later.....a switch......you might be on to something Joshooah.



If you're in a conflict inworld....isn't it generally "one on one?" In forum, you might have to deal with the behaviors that Lias mentions, and you have to deal with a crowd. Twists the whole situation.

If you're misunderstood, you have much more of an opportunity to get your point across one-on-one with another av inworld, than to battle a crowd in forum that is going off in all different directions, and in trying to address each direction that a different person ran with. You can also add significant details to explain your thoughts, in the one-on-one conversation, that you can't necessarily add in a group situation (although some do)....so that might make you more relaxed or "civil" av to av.....or at least it should.

I probably seem to be at my absolute 'nicest' here, because of the forum rules.

Can't name names, and a number of other things like that. So without the ability to speak plainly, I simply don't discuss a number of subjects here at all.

Inworld, it's rare for anyone to really get me going but I can be both a lot nicer and a lot more acerbic. 95%+ of residents are good, honest, decent to the core people. Regarding that last 5%, I won't hesitate to say what I think.

In the real world, let me put it this way. Before I started my own company, I ran an engineering department of over a dozen people. Within my tenure there that company literally doubled its multimillion dollar revenue, and the strength of its cutting edge products was a very significant part, if not just about all of that. One doesn't do that by running the engineering department like a cruise ship handicrafts activity room, or a preschool with ice cream breaks and naps.

Was I nice? The hardworking, self motivated types thought I was completely "hands off" and pleasant. Those with trouble finding self motivation got fired. In my personal life, I'm very nice to waiters (I tip 20 to 25% and never give them trouble), I'm *quite* strict with kids but am also deeply involved with my kid's lives and activities. At home I'm rather difficult to live with and always have been.



Reminds me of another favourite of mine...

What! Jesus Christ you can't spell foolishness ?

This is why I like in-world discussion groups like The Thinkers and Prok's topic-based convos (I would attend if I wasn't muted). I hope when the forums go away we have more of these in-world convos that do not turn into cliques.

1 user agrees, while sharpening her many bladed weapons.

It was a colloquialism of the day.

THIS !!!! (on all points).

I used to run around with this gal that would go to the bathroom at the bar and come out knowing the entire life history of everyone in there, and they would have been told hers as well. She was an odd one.

For many, it is just the act of waking up that does this.

I find this to be true also. IMing inworld or posting in the forums or PMing here - they all still take a degree off of the 'real person' aspect of things. Or maybe it is just that those methods result is slower interplay (at least the last two would).

That is soooooooooo not fair.

It isn't a question of "forums or inworld", or even real world. I have a different style depending on my audience. People that are a waste of time get short shrift; interesting people get my attention; discerning people get my devotion; but people that are impolite to me anywhere get it back in spades.

Pep (listens first, then acts. )

in my experience some people create their own drama and enjoy being the centre of attention......it's an adrenaline rush, a drug-like euphoria.....and purely a kick.........I also think it's self-destructive, but it's just a behavioual problem that can be addressed............
I walk away from attention seekers and go and play with my extendable attachments........

I think we all have different communication styles based on our audiences. However, do you find you get in "trouble" less in-world vs the forums, or is it about the same?

Hmm.. I guess I'm pretty much the same either way. I tend to respond, but rarely start conversations on my own. Probably because I am usually too busy reading or working.


As for drama? What drama? This is normal for the SL boards.. no, no it isn't. This is pretty tame compared to usual.

Of course I get more "trouble" in the forums!

Pep (I choose my audience in rl and inworld *much* more selectively; here just about any idiot can post. )

Using the word "audience" is rather a giveaway. That's exactly what you crave.



A hearty congratulations for succinctly proving your own point with your own post.

All the bickering reminds me of something I read online long ago.....

Fighting on the Internet is like winning a Gold Medal at the Special Olympics- Even when you "win" you're still a retard.

Ooh, Tod nooo. NOT politically correct at all.