Panhandling in SL

Has anyone else noticed an increase in this?

It's not just new residents either. I had an 18 month old AV IM begging for 240L this morning. In fact this morning I have had no less than 9 requests for loan ranging from 200L-10000L all this morning.

This is getting absurd

...Can you spare a dime?

As soon as I figure out how to break up a linden dollar into 10 dimes. yes

Can I borrow $200L till stipend day? I'm good for it.




There was another long thread on this topic, if you do a search. People do everything from handing them premade "newbie folders" (although this wouldn't work with older people) to telling them "get a haircut and a damn job" to showing them how to build (if they don't run away, they aren't here for trouble).

speaking of stripend, what day is that anyways?

Someone I met in the sandbox after I helped them made me their friend. A couple of meetings and run-ins later, they asked me to donate my waterfront land, or a part of it to a group they belonged to....

I was kind of floored and declined gracefully. I should have said, are you insane?

Troy

The only time I've ever been asked for money was when a friend needed some $L to upload a couple textures he wanted to show me. Do I look like a vagabond? Now that I think about it, though, I never carry a purse in-game, and I tend to dress in skin-tight leather or latex with no pockets... perhaps beggars just realize I've got no place to comfortably tuck away any Lindens? Regardless, I feel somehow slighted. Hmpf!

If a friend asks me for some L$ and I have it, it's theirs. But if a stranger asks me for some, I almost always say no. Usually I'm dirt poor anyway, so many times it's not even an option.

Once I built a castle, up to the sun, all the textures were grim;
Once I built a castle, now it's done. Sister, can you spare a prim?
Once I built a city, I walled it in,'long the edges of the sim.
Once I built a city; now it's done. Sister, can you spare a prim?


Say Kendra!, dontcha know me?, They called me Zug; it was Zug all the time.
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Excellent!

Thanks for getting me laughing folks

I have a free notecard I pass out called "How to Make Money in Second Life", compiled from my own experience here and from various forum advice given to newbies. I even put up a free notecard dispenser for it outside our club

It's my response to panhandlers - unless they're annoying like the guy who stood right next to me playing the pan flute "for tips" last night. I finally told him to STFU, I hate the pan flute.

Notecards are good for lots of things. I stole an idea from my best SL friend and also have one I use as a response to unwelcome sexual advances:

"Thank you for your application for admission to Cindy's vagina. We're sorry but all openings have already been filled."

Oh my word, that is brilliant, I will steal this!

You can't steal it if I say it's ok!

Then I'll use it, thanks!

ZOMG you dissed Zamfir!

In a wolrd where you can donate Lindens to charity, panhandling seems pretty unlikely to succeed.

Actually I was dissing Yanni