Creators of Beauty: Taking the Time to Say THANKS!

The only friend I've had here for the past year, for the most part, has been Starax, and he is no longer. I've spent the past week now either building, staring at the ground, crying, or looking for new friends. It just so happens seeing something nice said about me personally, eventhough it's just over something I've done in a game, picked me up a little at a time I needed it very much. .

I believe I am allowed to speak of myself, right? I don't think I risk any kind of warning or whatever by speaking my mind. So here it is: You cannot have a good game environment if you keep trying to cut people from the herd. "Yes, we are friendly and loving and great people and of course you're welcome to join, except, of course for you, you, you, and you."

For myself, I know that I am not supposed to be one of you, and I realize that I am expected to shut up and go away by a number of people on this forum. Despite my honest expression of my views here, and my overall attempts to be kind to people (despite a sentence or two here or there, I realize), I have been made to cry. By cry, I mean, tears want to come. That is unusual for me, and I generally get that way when I discover I have accidentally hurt someone. I am not used to feeling that way because I feel hurt myself.

So overall, I am definitely not one of the in-group. In fact, I am ostracized, and have evolved only from being an alt, to being a dazzled follwer, to being a wannabe troll. Do you think that feels good for a person like me? I've told you enough about myself, despite it sounding immodest, so that you will know I have not been treated this way before.

As far as I can tell, my induction/hazing into this forum and my resultant status of pariah and outcast and, as someone well put it above, "outsider", has resulted entirely because of my making criticisms of established game routines (such as suggesting we should have more ways to make money), and most critically, because of friendships I had prior to coming to this game and my loyalty to same.

When I get hurt on these forums, and go to my friends in the game - people you guys do not even know exist - they say such things as, "they run everybody off," or, "they're a bunch of bloodsuckers," and the like. Why are they saying these things? Maybe because people feel welcomed and allowed into the group only if they toe certain party lines.

This is what you should think about.

If I can understand Amy's position - and I do, having been there - you should try to understand mine and what I'm saying here, particularly because, though you don't like to think about or admit it - it is shared by more people than me. I have been surprised to find that my normal friends in the game have this view of the forums. One of them keeps wanting to post suggestions, but he ALWAYS, ALWAYS doesn't. He says he doesn't want to have to deal with everybody putting him down. Obviously, something is fundamentally wrong with the way people differ with someone's idea or opinion in here.

You should think about your treatment of me. Then you should think about your treatment of others, who may not be as good with words or as diplomatic as I am. Because if you think you can have a happy game, or pleasant forums, when you still put forward in every thread the loud and clear message, "but we don't mean YOU," then you never will. And this is exactly the message you put forward, and often. I happen to be one of the recipients of the message.

Until that changes, you will never have pleasant forums, and never have reasoned discourse, and succeed only in driving people away from not just the forums, but from the game.

cocopariah

When I get hurt on these forums, and go to my friends in the game - people you guys do not even know exist - they say such things as, "they run everybody off," or, "they're a bunch of bloodsuckers," and the like. Why are they saying these things? Maybe because people feel welcomed and allowed into the group only if they toe certain party lines.

This is what you should think about.

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The new guy in my neighborhood whose name I forget who has put in a wonderful, tranquil, and beautiful waterfall.

Whoever made that moving piece of artwork with the guy coming out of the computer to embrace the person at it, at the Touchstone Fair.

Do the jocks and the cheerleaders sit at the lunch table in the WA?


What is what all these high stupid popularity contests on this board lately? Lame. Totally Lame.

Even if they have no desire to be considered elite they end up feeling backed into a corner anyway. It's not a happy feeling to know that many people assume you're some kind of a jerk for no good reason.

spills rum all over keyboard

I'm also very happy with what I do. But seeing the same old people stroke the same old people sometimes gets old. There are a lot of very talented people in SL, and I just think it sucks that you have to belong to a clique to get mentioned.

That's alcohol abuse!!!

*sucks Lecktor's keyboard*

I may not make anything per se.

Yes you do. You make an excellent neighbor

Thank you for saying what I didn't have the balls to. *hugs Jonq*

I may not make anything per se. I don't build, make clothes or script. I would like to think that I bring beauty and creativity to SL with the music that I play and the sharing of myself with those listening to my broadcasts. Where's the love for those that create non-tangible beauty?

You better believe I love you and your beautiful non-tangible creations!! <3

I find it very interesting that not one animator is mentioned in any of these post(unless I missed one). What would you say the reason is?