New ResMods

I think if I was a woman, I'd prefer Jason Statham in oil from The Transporter..

If you're going to be a jerk to someone as decent as Roo, who's doing the job that the Lindens asked her to do, you might want to spellcheck the important and potentially ironic words. Helps keep you on-message.

heheh sounds like my house , my wife calls me it and I use it to refer to inanimate objects - especially if I stub my toe on them... or even (as the sign off song on my radio says) to describe a particularly bad day at work

Then again - I'm Australian. Transplanted to America.

You forgot the part where I think some of your posts are worth reading, because I enjoy your point of view on many things. Ignore works pretty well until someone quotes the person being ignored.

I 'm not trying to change you at all. I'm trying to make my experience as pleasent as the one your enjoying. I did ask in a recent prop. that a profanity filter be added so hopefully that will pass. Optional of course. I like to think out side of normal "one way or no way" I don't want to stop you from speaking I do however want the option to avoid certain words you use. I hope you do understand that.

Cat

Go back over this entire thread cat - and point out my profanity.

Go back and quote them

Now if you think 'bitch' is one then I will give you that - but you and you alone used the naughty c word

I was being a jerk to you in response to your jerkiness. Furthermore I have never met Roo and don't know a 'nice' factor or not.

Thirdly.. I have dyslexia, always have. So should I report you insulting my typos as abusing someone with a disability? Not to mention I don't care what you think of me.

Of course I did I was making a point of inconsistancy in the forums. Lets be realistic here, your posting style has always been colorful Mine has too to a point, I corrected that. It's not about you realy its not its about "options".

Cat

I'm a man and I think thats pretty hawt too

But you just can't beat Rupert Everet - even with the first name 'Rupert' he still manages to be a hawty.

I'm missing the part where you weren't a jerk to her.



Cool! So do I and my brother! My dad did too, come to think of it. Also, could you point out where I was insultive? Just mentioning its more effective to call something moronic without misspelling the word itself. A protip, if you will.

it was no less 'jerky' than her interfering with the thread

if she had a problem.. report it to the lindens, no need to cause a ruckus

...and we are way off topic.

Is this a new record?

How is a gentle reminder to everyone to keep a thread on topic "jerky" or "interfering"? Sounds like she's doing the job the Lindens appointed her to do. If you have a problem with her resmodding job, it might be more effective to report it to the Lindens, as opposed to directing petulant commentary towards her.

As a resmod, that is what she is supposed to do - try to keep this thread on-topic. Nowhere did I see anything that caused a "ruckus" in her post - just a reminder of some rules. She wasn't "interfering," she was just doing what she volunteered to do. There really is no need to be disrespectful to her simply because you do not like the resmod program.

Folks, I'm going to add my voice to Euterpie's. Please lay off the private arguements/attacks or take them to private messages, or this thread will be locked.

No, I'm sure we can go another page or two before we're so offtopic that we wind up breaking through into another forum like Land and Economy. That's why that rule exists, because no one wants the other actually useful forums getting clogged when threads here get derailed and break the wall.

This thread seriously needed interrupting.

And Siggy, I usually don't get offended by your posts, but.....


RUPERT!!!!!! UGH.

Hon? Don't even bother, when he is in rare form its very akin to having a heated debate with <insert inanimate object of choice here>. I just plonked him in the finest tradition of usenet.

'sides the 'omfgz its wednesday!!11!!1!' was plucking my nerves pretty good too.

I reacted a bit harshly, I admit, reading back. Still though, I won't respect any resmod locking. Roo, you (as a person) have my apology for the way I expressed my feelings.

Edit: I don't have a problem with her resmodding job. I have a problem with the residents moderating the forums. The Lindens seem completely unconcerned with the mass of people who are against the program, so its obvious they don't really care what anyone has to say about it.

I wanted to offer a big congrats and hello to all the new Resmods. You are the only thing between keeping these forums open and full of discussion and the fall of our great forums.

go, fight, win!

Go SL Go!

"As Second Life grows and we need to scale to accommodate the sheer numbers of residents and diverse views, the alternative to ResMods is for us to either leave the forums unmoderated or turn them over to an outside moderation company like Stratics. Neither of those options is appealing to us." Robin Linden

Hiring Employee's is obviously not an option.

heheh I've been told I'd make a terrible Metro - my taste in men is utter shite, and I'll be the first to admit it.. followed closely by 3/4 of my friends both male and female

It is not fair to put that kind of pressure on anyone. It is so stupid that it is either ResMods (which has been widely and quite consistently panned by a diverse and large group of customers and yet falls on deaf ears), or they close the forums. That is just unbelievably lame. First of all, the ethics of using volunteers by a for profit corporation to do the same work they are also paying other employees is pathetic (and Linden Lab does it all over the place - support, greeters, instructors). They are not even remotely being compensated, which is stupid and those volunteering to take part in this are letting themselves be exploited by a company.

If the forums are closed, it is because Linden Lab refuses to spend money to adequately support their customer base. There is no reason even as SL continues to grow that these forums could not be moderated by a small staff of employees - but hey, it's cheaper to outsource it to your customers and here's the great part - they pay Linden Lab for the privilege! Stupid, stupid, and...stupid.

How many premium subscribers would they lose if they shutdown the forums 1000? How many wouldn't become premium members if it weren't for the forums, 1000? That's $20,000. How much does it cost to hire someone on the community team?

The economics of the forums don't make sense. Either we can keep them open and run them sanely ourselves, or we can shut them down and watch the community fragment over 3 or 4 forum sites.

Stratics.com its a gamers forum/web.

Cat

This is not ....... brain surgery. How hard is it even for one employee full time to moderate the forums? The economics of the forums make perfect sense, Linden Lab is just being unbelievably cheap. As they continue to exploit their customers, I also predict they will run afoul of California labor laws.

You can't speculate how many accounts they would lose or gain without the forums. The point is they are a cost of doing business in this environment, but like their subpar customer support, they seem to think the only thing they need to have well funded and well run is their tech department, and even that has not exactly been stellar. The myth that they can't possibly afford to run these forums as the community grows is just silly.

PS - all resmods do is shuffle around threads anyway - how is that helping at all? They cannot give you the tools to do anything more than that because YOU ARE CUSTOMERS AND NOT EMPLOYEES, yet without doing more than that, the program does very little anyway.