Morale in SL is.......

Speak with your votes folks!

My morale hasn't changed in a long time. I am happy enough with SL, love the new land ban tool and have no problem at all with the new registration system. Somehow I think I am the only one.

Nah, I'm pretty much not bothered by this.

*ponders* Can we separate the Lindens from SL? I mean, I am still very happy with Second Life, but the Lindens? Not too sure of at the moment, all things considered.

I am at the verge of making a major land investment along with my group. Unfortunately, now that LL has left themselvews wide open to a lawsuit due to total lack of even pretending to age check, I'm concerned about teh long term financial stability of LL and this is certainly influencing any decision I make on spending money on this.

Good point. While we all love SL, the management of LL leaves little to be desired lately.

The open-registration decision may induce me to disband some of my business. My morale has never been lower.

My morale is fine. It hasn't changed any. I think the open registration thing is a mistake, but that's just an opinion and I'm not convinced that griefing is on the rise as result. All we're hearing is anecdotal evidence and since there's so much hype about it right now people automatically elevate any mention of griefing or scamming to proof when it really isn't. I've been around this community long enough to know how any hot button issue gets blown out of all rational proportion. Sometimes it seems like people want to find things to be upset about and almost relish the experience when they do.

I went and looked at the Waterhead welcome Area last night, late and saw newbie griefers.

When I logged on today I got an IM from a neighbor telling me that the sim (Meins) had been heavily griefed by a group of five people, using self-replicating objects and orbiting people left, right and center. Linden's were called, but aparently the five main perpetrators are still on today. About half of them were post-6-6-06 accounts.

I've almost never had problems in Meins before. There's very little in the way of attractions there, and the sim is owned mostly by a small number of people, so there's not much to draw them.

I've talked to my neighbors, and given two of them control over my security orbs so that they can ban people from my land even when I'm away, and we're likely going to set up a linked network, so that any one of us can ban *everyone* from most of the sim anytime we need to.

(Not a solution that a lot of people can use, unfortunately.)

Yeah, griefing *is* a problem, and particularly since 6-6-06.

Very on point.

I'm not in any way suggesting that it's not a problem. I just think things need to play out for a month or two before any correlations will be meaningful, and I get the impression that LL is intent on at least trying this out for a while to see what happens. It doesn't make sense to me to get too worked up about it... yet. I think there's quite a bit of alarmism going on at the moment. We need more data.

The game is so in the need of a sun brightness. Its a dark time inthe game at the moment.

I wasn't expecting such a sweeping endorsement from you at this time.

speaks for the whole sl?

Well, I'm going to get very exercised over two aspects of this, and there's no way for me not to:

1. Letting teenagers and children into the grid, with no means to know who they are.

2. Making it impossible to ever ban anyone, children or others, because of no means of knowing who they are.

(Heck, I have to do a lot more to access totally innocuous websites these days, if I want to do so much as leave a comment.)

During my time here, since February of 2005, I have never seen such low moral among so many, so I voted, "at it lowest point."

However, I'm good at separating concerns like this from my own personal pleasure and goals.

I have in fact bought more land, and will continue to happily do my own thing, and hope and trust that SL won't be ruined by this (via a lawsuit, or just becoming a griefer's playground, or whatever). If it does, oh well, there goes that money. Still, there are limits to that. Let's say I wanted to buy an island right now - I wouldn't.

I'm not entirely sure how well LL realizes that this is Sodom and Gomorrah here, with only Sociolotron worse in that regard. Now, virtual Sodom and Gomorrah is pretty much just fun and games - but only if everyone involved is an adult.

coco

Weedy some do side with you, others are just well...............kissy kissy hoping to reach the next level. LLabs really needs to address the important issues instead of opening the gates of people getting into the game causing harm etc.............How and why do people continue to put on rose colored glasses and see the gray skys bright?!

By god I will reach level 99 no matter what youse guys say!

i havent noticed any changes in morale. Same people, same attitude, just different subjects.

For me, it's good. I got a new apartment with doors that lock and great new shoes for only $100L (yay Surreal).

I have no faith in LL but I do stay in SL because of the people I've meet and I think we can do something about it even if LL doesn't care about greifers and things like that.

You susie never but some its so noticeble that flys are now landing on them like..............never mind

So far, 11.21% are excited, 25.23% don't see anything differently, but 63.55% are not impressed with the current situation.

That's alot. Two out of three residents being unhappy campers is nothing to be proud of.

I got roots, and I got legs, and it seems to be that we are at the beginning of a remarkable enabling technology, and it is evolving and the primary drive is creative imagination, and yes it involves our base passions but also facilatates other things and other parts of our noos, our soul spark, it seems very very platonic in its form, the shadow on the cave wall, the garden of the ID, the mythology of symbols, WOW our whole inner selves fractured for all to see and investigate, how can this not make us all better. Sure we'll bumble and stumble and screw up as usual, but the shadow of the Long Man is upon us and we better embrace it because it is us, for better or worse.
Here come the Loas.

I got roots, and I got legs, and it seems to be that we are at the beginning of a remarkable enabling technology, and it is evolving and the primary drive is creative imagination, and yes it involves our base passions but also facilatates other things and other parts of our noos, our soul spark, it seems very very platonic in its form, the shadow on the cave wall, the garden of the ID, the mythology of symbols, WOW our whole inner selves fractured for all to see and investigate, how can this not make us all better. Sure we'll bumble and stumble and screw up as usual, but the shadow of the Long Man is upon us and we better embrace it because it is us, for better or worse.
Here come the Loas.

Did anybody actually understand any of that?