Second Accounts and Ethics

No, *this* is not unethical. Because you forming a group with yourself only (including your alts) does not affect anyone else. Now, there are certain things you could do with that group that could be considered wrong. But simply making a group like this is not. And, many have to do it in order to be able to buy deeded land. It used to be that you could make an unlimited number of alts on one credit card. That got abused, and they lowered it to 5. Though I've heard rumor it is now only 3 per credit card. I could understand the 3 being allowed. As 3 is the magic number to form a group.

I call it cutting through the bullshit excuse that people have to be told explicitly what NOT to do in order to know right from wrong. I also call it pointing out hypocrisy where I see it. Don't like it? Use the Ignore button.

The truth I see is that some posters here get sh*t for almost anything they post. All too often posts become about the submitter instead of about the topic.

Why won't anyone tell me if Cocoanut Koala has been suspended?

It's a legitimate question. Particularly given this ALTercation.

The TOS doesn't prohibit someone from acting like a dick either. I have managed to find a lot of people here who don't act like dicks though.

Very odd.

The reason I'm posting as Strawbearry is I got on as her two nights ago to make sure my First Land purchase had gone through.

I think kept posting as her the next day, not realizing I hadn't switched back. Eboni then said "One alt identified," or something like that, implying I was keeping her hidden

I explained that it was because of the First Land.

Then Eboni and Cristiano started ragging me for being unethical to do that with my alt. Pendari was also saying it shouldn't be done.

The idea of this being unethical was completely a surprise to me.

Your entire paragraph above saying what I supposedly think is not what I actually think.

The paranoia comes in where people start coming up with all kinds of other motives and plots when all I actually did was accidentally post on Strawbearry, and mention that I had got First Land right next door to Coco, which I thought was pretty terrific and STILL do.

Until I hear otherwise from the Lindens, I will consider buying first land with one's (real) second account (or third, fourth, or fifth - cause that's how many they allow you) to be not only legal, but perfectly ethical.

coco

It doesn't say one per account, and uses the word "you".

At any rate, it's going to be like I said. It is allowed, because (hammering again) they can't determine who is really on the other end of that account. Which again, is why this boils down to ethics, which is what we were asked for our opinions on in the very first post. Why were we asked? I have no fucking clue, because Coco had already made up her mind, and now here we are again, in an unnecessary, really redundant loop (stealing that phrase from Torley) again, which I predicted on the first page. All of this could have been avoided had Coco just asked the Hotline, but no, this is apparently more fun, and now the people who she asked opinions of who disagree with her opinion will be blamed for the recursive nature of the thread.

head asplode.

For god sake do you really mean this ?

Pendari, I am behind in my reading, and responding as I go along. Which goes along faster than I can respond anyway. I have since ammended how I refer to your input in that other thread.

coco

Spin it as you like.

But the motives are transparent.

Don't like it? Perhaps you can make a grand public gesture of putting me on ignore.

Heh. Well said. She won't of course. Mistaking shitty for witty, she seems intent upon riding the coat-tails of others to the spotlight.

It is amusing how much people reveal about themselves simply by who and what they stick up for, isn't it?

(Sorry, couldn't resist )

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I consider myself one resident, with two parts, that I refer to as "her". LL considers me two residents, for the purposes of reporting subscription numbers. I am two of those 55k people you see mentioned on the first page of this web site.

coco

And ethics aren't going to stop the guy in line ahead of you to get his extra popcorn twice, and if that happened in real life any reasonable individual would want their extra popcorn twice as well.

Ethics can't solve this problem, because the Lindens keep giving everyone extra helpings of popcorn wether they like it or not, and if you don't like it and don't eat the extra popcorn, then you've effectively paid more money for less, which in real life would make people boggle.

I really like this popcorn analogy, can ya tell?

Wait, can you define what "is" is?

You absolutely will. I would expect nothing less from you.

Right, because I've done that so many times before. I'm sure you won't have trouble finding one instance of it.

There is a rule that says you can't. Usually it is in writing. Where it is not, it is well understood by everybody.

In this case, neither of those is true - no rule, and no rule well understood by everybody.

coco

Unsurprisingly, you do seem to think things ok for yourself that you condemn others for doing. It can't have been that much of a surprise, since you were railing against others doing it shortly before you decided to do it yourself, hypocrite.



No worries. It isn't like I didn't think you a shifty, lying, hypocritical, unethical, self-aggrandizing moron before you did this.

Thanks for id'ing the alt. I'll save myself the yawns and ignore you now.

MMM not really Emma. You have to pay another 9.95 a month to get the second account to buy the First land. So you are paying more. i.e.$20.00 a month.

Two premium accounts, each holding 512m of land=$19.90/month (cheaper if paid quarterly/yearly)

One premium account, holding 1024m of land=$14.95/month (again, cheaper if paid quarterly/yearly).

Apparently, some people do like paying more.

Ahh. I see. So if something is understood by a group of people, that's what counts, then? Is that what it is now? Implicit rules are okay, as long as "everyone" understands them. Yes, I see.

Everyone but the chronic contrarians and Prokofy's hedonists seems to understand this rule.

What I mean is that it _seems_ to me, that some posters get more than their fair share of sh*t here.

Earned or not, it's pretty ugly.

FWIW, I'm not immune to it either.

I will applaud you though strawberryflavoredcocoanuts for killing the GOM panic. Brava!!

Ok, I retract the "transparent" comment.

But there is no good purpose served by piling on.