Petition Time for private sim owners perhaps?

There have been many intelligent and interesting responses to the announcement about price increases and this may not come in amongst the top ten, but nevertheless I think that while the Lindens are doing whatever it is they are doing in their apparently ivory tower and threatening the massive outpourings of creativity, for it's not just money that's at stake here, which has been expended on the sims which are being threatened, the bottom line is that we need to work together as much as possible to prevent them from doing the one thing we're pretty much all agreed that they shouldn't do; instigate an across-the-board price increase of crippling proportions. A tried and true method of stopping bad things from happening and creating space for more enlightened approaches to problems is the collecting of signatures; lots of signatures.

The idea is being considered in the area in which I 'own' and rent a void sim in Second Life New England, a collection of sailing sims in which the void sims are mostly water and have a low prim count. They are used mainly by sailboats and the area fits in well with what I think the Lindens had in mind for the void sims. If it is taken up by the owners of the 125 United Sailing Sims, the residents on both the single-owner void sims and the more residential class 5 sims would be able to put down quite a few signatures. But not when viewed from the point of view of the sheer landowning population of the whole of privately-owned SL.

So I wish to suggest this simple and effective measure to other groups of people so that it may be taken up on a larger scale and LL may at least be made to see their error and the scale of the bad feeling they've created already and not do themselves and countless residents a great deal of damage. First they must at all costs be stopped from doing the damage if possible; then they can perhaps be persuaded to take a more intelligent path forward in this issue.

I really want to thank you for your level-headedness, but, honestly? They have gotten thousands of responses to this already in various venues. Rezzable and many others are closing sims. Lots here have already abandoned their land.

I think they are well aware of both the level of hate they are causing and the losses they are going to take. I think, personally, they want everyone to abandon the servers they bought for LL with their setup fees so they can retask them. I dunno if it is wise to think there will be many people wanting to buy whatever land comes next, though. I know i won't be.

I think the only response that would make any impact now would be from the FTC, and that will be after the damage is done, sadly.

You are probably right, but I won't be able to live with myself if I don't do what I can ...

There is a petition in circulation already which I have signed... if anyone is interested.

We have nothing to lose by covering yet another possible avenue in our protest against LL! Oh and the petition will ask for a donation, it is entirely up to you whether you do or not... if you decline, your signature will still count!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SOS-/?e

Signed.

Signed......bump