RC Questions

The sensible thing that LL could do here, to alleviate this issue somewhat would be to flag all alts of a verified main as verified. They know who my alts are.

You have the chat log from the person I talked to in OL (see post #585) and you can buy a whole island in OL for the price you'd pay for a chunk of ghetto in SL.

I see there's 20 more posts, so here's my general reply. Read the plan, read the facts. It's not hard to understand.

Stop taking it personal, it's not. LL knows you're mad, but That has never stopped them before.

For people who are taking about being treated with respect and being open minded, I see a lot of close-mindedness, and disrespect. Ursula is not a Ghetto, it's not a Concentration camp, all of that is in your head. In a world where we have no place, It's a place we can call our own. Its a home, and I do not shy away from it, I embrace it, as something precious.

People talking about how there's 80% npiofs, yes those are all the millions of inactive accounts which will never return. Most of the active people have payment info on file, don't fall for the red herring.

You can call me what you will, but I'm determined to make it through this, and make sure my customers and those I care about make it through too. I want everyone to. But I can't take you there, you have to do it yourself. Yelling in a forum never solved or accomplished anything. Decisive Action and understanding do. But it has to be the right action, for the right reasons. A lot of people are afraid to speak up about their agreement for fear of being labeled 'sellout' or what have you, just as I have been. But I'm more than willing to take up the mantle for their cause, and fight for them, as I have been. Someone has to.

There is no shame in giving a little ground in the name of peace. Keep throwing artillery and there will be none.

The takeaways for marketers:

•Listen carefully. If you target connected customers, have a mechanism in place to collect feedback before taking major actions (product changes, new product launches, etc.). Don't act in a vacuum. Use social media to engage customers and solicit their feedback. Then, make their input an important part of your strategy.


•Be ready to act. Social networks and many Web 2.0 tools make it very easy for people to assemble around a cause. Major brands should have a rapid action plan in place to identify and address these situations before they get out of hand. In the old world, this was called public relations or crisis communications. In a new, networked world, it's good community relations.


•Respect the community. What I wrote in an earlier column about five best practices for marketers who venture into social networking still applies: "Respect the Community. It's a club and you don't really belong. Most social networks aren't about advertising or commerce per se... As an advertiser you're a guest in the club. Understand the environment and respect the unwritten rules: don't intrude on conversations or connections in a way that irritates members; don't divert users from the network to other sites; and don't disguise yourself in a dishonest way."
If this advice doesn't resonate with you, close your eyes and imagine this scenario:

You've just spent six months developing a new campaign for a major new product launch that's a line extension in a very popular, somewhat dated product line. You and your management team have high hopes for this product. You need to invigorate the product line and generate a big bump in sales. You've carefully researched the product and launch strategy. The focus group results indicate you'd add new customers without alienating your core franchise. You launch.

Within a week of launch, 126 groups have formed, all calling for a boycott because you spoiled the product with this line extension. The revolt started in the U.S. and is now moving to Europe. Angry customers are filling your inbox with hate mail. Your boss calls and asks what the heck's going on, how significant the damage could be, and what you're doing to respond. You tell him you're going to change the campaign messaging and heavy up on PR. Then, you realize that strategy won't fly. These people want answers and action -- now. You have hours. Not weeks.

Your idea to try to hire new staff for the sinking Titanic, instead to try to avoid that the ship is sinking, is amusing.

But ok, your role in this is legitimate. Every catastrophy has to offer its clownesque protagonists as side notes.



So, this is what we do: we measure Linden Research, Inc. on this.

He wrote that big mouthed statement before he was CEO at LL.

Now he can show, how honest it was meant.

End of signal. Maybe you start to meditate a bit over his sentences.

Edit add: the link:

http://www.clickz.com/3623393

For the first and last time I am actually going to ask for a bear. Just don't ask me what I'm going to do with it

Your idea to try to hire new staff for the sinking Titanic, instead to try to avoid that the ship is sinking, is amusing.

She's been very eloquent and brave in making them I enjoyed the venting and Linden bashing as much as anyone, but it is time for constructive thinking to try to get LL to see that at the very least, their plan is far from completed or even workable as it stands.

According to the blog, it has been pulled because it tripped virus scanners. Also, it crashes instantly at startup on machines using comma as the decimal point rather than dot. (You can work around that by changing your system settings, though that could mess up other programs).

Having sex is adult content if it's "public".

1. There are many homes in SL that have neither walls nor a roof. Are you honestly going to say that the G-Team will not treat these builds as "public", whether they're listed in search or not? Especially when Blondin has said that a nude beach with sex balls is Adult.

2. If some G-Team member thinks "being listed in search" means "public", then the fact that the build looks like a private house isn't going to stop them: there are many public builds that look just like private homes. These builds have been discussed, and looking like a house won't keep them from having to move to Ursula.

What's that word that describes something that's somehow comical and tragic at the same time, something-ony?

What is the G-team?

Hans.

Kind of police. They follow abuse reports by residents if someone acts against the community standards and sometimes they act spontaneous if they find something TOS-violating by accident.

It is ok that such a team exists, but sometimes they give impressions about to be not well briefed with a tend to overreactions in some cases.

Well, like any police on globe. Sometimes nice, sometimes bad.

So it's counter-productive to challenge bad ideas and bad thinking, I should simply go along with this particular herd. That's probably the saddest thing I've ever read.

Kind of police. They follow abuse reports by residents if someone acts against the community standards and sometimes they act spontaneous if they find something TOS-violating by accident.

It is ok that such a team exists, but sometimes they give impressions about to be not well briefed with a tend to overreactions in some cases.

Well, like any police on globe. Sometimes nice, sometimes bad.

Actually there's a big difference. NPIOF don't have any lindens. The ones that do, and are as you say people keeping their lives private, it's their 'main' that has PIOF, and give them the lindens. So that only strengthens the assertion that most have PIOF, since a lot of these NPIOF are backed by a PIOF main. I can agree though, it does weaken the ability to keep one's various second lives seperate. But it's still possible even with the new adult initiative.

He wrote that big mouthed statement before he was CEO at LL.

Now he can show, how honest it was meant.

End of signal. Maybe you start to meditate a bit over his sentences.

There are always exceptions, I agree. I probably should have said "they don't have the ability to buy any lindens". That would have been more along my actual intent.

Just to add another couple of words: of course i agree there should be a way to report abuse. But here in this blog we are talking about reporting adult behaviour which is a normal human activity: that's what i cannot fathom. In fact we don't really seem to have any clear statement of what is wrong and what is right anymore: unlike RL where there is a legislature and a judiciary here there seems only to be a policing policy. With no guidelines as to what is legitimate. Or at least the guidelines I have read about seem to be nonsensical. The policing policy seems to largely consist of an unworkable system for fiddling about with how search works which will probably result in it being impossible to search for things. But if this G-team really exists i think it is rather sinister. Particularly for ordinary residents like me who are not being encouraged to move to Ursula: therefore i honestly feel like i am going to be abandoned on a mainland police state when these impending changes come in. Presumably surrounded by people who are not verified, not interest in behaving like adults, and happy with a crippled search engine which omits half the English words in the dictionary.

Also this is causing mayhem in-world. All sorts of organisations are simply folding up and dying. Ursula apparently isn't ready yet and by the time it is there won't be any adults left who want to move there imao.

Well i know people will say i am over-reacting but that is how i feel.

Hans.

Even that would be untrue. There *are* private Linden exchanges out there. I have not used one myself, but I know they exist.

........ I'm less than impressed with the elitist attitude of certain posters on this thread when it comes to NPIOF being somehow second class and unworthy for consideration.