Second Accounts and Ethics

Personally I only adhere to social guidelines I actually agree with. I don't agree here, so if I got a second premium account and it were possible for me to buy First Land I simply would.

I guess that makes me a bad person, but at least I follow my own moral compass instead of someone else's, that has to have some merrit.

And now I shall vacate this thread, since dinner is ready and cold dinner sucks.

Why on earth, after "being ragged on" in another thread, would you come her and solicit opinions on this? You'd already made up your mind, wtf do our opinions mean to you then?

You know what folks, I am beginning to think we are being played here.

"You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say that's the bad guy. So what does that make you? Good? You're not good, you just know how to hide...how to lie." ~ Al Pacino as Tony Montana

Not if it's fried chicken! Everyone knows that. It's in the Manuel.

Duuuuuh.

Once you accept that every post is an effort to gain attention, nothing surprises you.

I told you I WAS one of those new residents looking for land (for Coco) during the shortage. I also told you I was given to understand that it was because people were making bunches of temporary alts in order to buy up all the First Land and resell it. And that I considered that altogether different.

We are just going around in circles here.

coco

The $65,000 Question.

One you could ask about 90% of the major Cocoanut Drama Threads of this year.

With greatest hits like:

What do you think of the FIC Problem?

and

Proposed Forum Reform


Reminds me of when I was a kid, asking questions to which I already knew the answers.

That is precisely what I said... "...wasn't intended to solve anything"

I don't think it will clarify much. Geez, I WISH it would, but I am not getting my hopes up.

I wasn't arguing anything. I was answering his direct question.

coco

Why not? I find the discussion interesting. I you don't, don't participate. Sheesh

"for some", which I intentionally inserted, did not necessarily include you

Both. Because I STILL won't consider it unethical, if the Lindens say it is fine. Why would I?

coco

You're right! Again, more apologies are in order.

Obviously, buying first land with an alt to sell it off and make money = not kosher

while

Buying first land with an alt to expand your shop and make money = kosher


Let's get those Rabbinical seals for Cocoanut's latest racket, pandastrong. Not to dally!

He knows you told him that, Coco. And considering your above statement, how can you now claim to have had no idea it might be wrong to use an Alt to gain First Land? How can you possibly claim to have had no idea, when you were one of those who complained about it before?

I'm not really sure why the ethics of this issue are nebulous to some. First Land is for newbies who've never owned land before. Think of it like free sex for virgins. If you're already an SL resident who owns land, creating an alt doesn't make you back into a newbie... in the same way that getting remarried doesn't make you back into a virgin.

All of a sudden, I have a strange craving for a chicken vindaloo.

Virgins? They still make those?

It's called hypocrisy with a little dash of schizo.

Yeah... not really... I follow my own moral compass too. It's the moral compass that says First Land Thieves are *edited*

I said nothing of the kind. I said I do not understand why you want our opinions when you have already made up your mind. Were you thinking maybe we could change your mind? Yeah, and Pluto is going to smash into the Earth on Sunday.

So tell me what is the purpose of this thread except for you to once again "expose" the "bad guys" who "say bad things to you"?

*thinks* Ahh yes, you did tell me about studying psychology in college...

As far as the Linden response solving it, I don't think so. I hope to be proven wrong, but I would bet on it that I am right.

Because - for the fiftieth time - I was saying it is unethical and inconsiderate for someone to make fifty alts to buy up all the First Land in order to resell it as their land business at a profit, and then get rid of those alts.

At NO time did I ever think there was anything unethical about each new, real, account, getting it's first land.

coco

Why is your alt account any more real than the alt account of someone else?

If you had done something you saw nothing wrong with, and mentioned that you had done it - and suddenly discover that you are a terrible, unethical person, who "gamed the system," and abused things, even though it was nowhere written that you shouldn't - then wouldn't you bring it up?

Because I'm not the only one who gets First Land with their second account. And there are lots of people coming into the game now.

If this is supposed to be something we are not supposed to do, then let's have it on the table. It is worth discussing, and it was worth your hotline post.

And whew! I am now caught up on reading this thread. I'm going to go do something else now, and wait for the Lindens to answer. It could be quite a wait, though, as I imagine they're probably pretty tied up with the GOM thing right now.

coco

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You honestly see buying up First Land to expand your shop as more ethical than buying First Land to sell it? Is the land going to remain under Strawbearry's name, or will it be sold/given to Cocoanut, or added to a group tier? If you plan on only using it for Strawbearry and not Cocoanut, then I don't see anything wrong with it. If it's a "real" account, then it will keep the land for its own use, and not for Cocoanut's use. Right? That would be the difference between a "real" alt and an alt used to game First Land.

Of course I have found many more who do act like dicks. Hehehe I figure can't beat em, why not join 'em. So I am always right, and eveyne is entitled to my opinon!