If Someone on the Forums pisses you off, do you stop buying their products?

Just wondering. This doesn't pertain to anything specific.





For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mind you, to really piss me off you'd have to be a cocksmoker of collossal proportions.. to this date there are 3 of them.. none of which really offers anything I'd buy anyway

Cubey Terra could break down my door and kill my entire family and I would still buy his aircraft.

They're that cool.

Hey, nobody ever proved anything about that, alright. And it wasn't your entire family... it was just your houseplant. Not that I would know, because I wasn't there, right?

Hey, nobody ever proved anything about that, alright. And it wasn't your entire family... it was just your houseplant. Not that I would know, because I wasn't there, right?

I do.

It's kind of bad really.

Although, I've never really come across anyone who made stuff that I absolutely loved and then turned out to be a complete jerk. So, generally speaking, the people I would never buy something from usually don't make something I would want to buy, so it all works out.

Yes

Anyone have stats on what % of players read the forums? I'm betting its low enough that it would make almost no impact on sales even if you were a total jerk.

Most diffinantly.
Piss me off lose my business.
And I am a shopaholic.

Less than 10% on whole, and generally accepted to be closer to the 2-5% mark. But don't write off the ability of popular opinion to make a difference. Things that make their way into the culture of a game linger and affect much deeper and longer than most realise.

Please remember that we also tell our friends not to buy from assholes. The word gets around.

Nor will I go to their events if I have been insulted here. Some people never learn....

Yes. I won't buy from a few designers because of their actions here.

Hmmmm.......with my big mouth, ideal for making enemies, and my just-can't-help-it pompous british forum demeanour, I'd better pass those four nearly-completed projects over to an innocuous alt double-quick.

Pity - "Ellie's this" and "Ellie's that" might have sounded quite good.

On the other hand, maybe I needn't bother. On present showing they'll remain nearly-completed for the next six months or so, while others bubble up to take their place.

hehe.. This is my response exactly. Even the number of people.

This is very interesting as most of the people voting are saying piss me off, lose my business. I wonder if this would make any creators/service providers respond differently. Or do most, like my buddy blaze, have alts sell their stuff so they can spew all they want on the Forums?



For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

edited because mistake was corrected.

Thanks Suezanne, my brain is not all together here today.

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From: Pendari Lorentz

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April Firefly Or do most, like my buddy blake, have alts sell their stuff so they can spew all they want on the Forums?

Do you mean Blake or Blaze? Blaze is a self admitted alt all over the forums, therefore you mentioning this would not be a TOS violation. But I have never seen Blake state he was an alt or had one of any kind. So you could have just outed someone. I just really like you and wanted to give you a heads up in case it was a mistake. I see people switch the names all the time, so I can see it happening easily.

Oooh you are so right, it's blaze Spinnaker. But as I didn't mention a last name, I don't think I did any harm. I will edit my post.

FYI, when I want to give someone a heads up for a possible mistake, which I have done several times in the past, I usually doing it in PM. But then, that's just me.


For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

haha.. Yes.. I get in this public chat mode and I forget about PMs. I do try to remember to do that when giving a heads up. I'm kind of frantic today. Sorry about that!

Pendari gave April a correction which caused April to change a post, but Pendari has quoted the changed part in her correction post.

Optimally now Pendari would delete the corrective post, April would delete her response to the correction, and I would delete this post; then the timeline would be restored to it's proper path with no malformed causal loops.

I said sometimes.

It's more if I disagree with their ethics, business practices, and generally the way they treat other people.

Just disagreeing strongly on an issue or five won't do it. I can disagree with someone and still think they're a decent person. But if I see them on here treating others like shit, or constantly placing themselves above others, or belittling people because they're 'just consumers', then no, I'm not going to hand them my money regardless of what they create. There is nothing in SL I 'need', so I have the luxury of speaking with my dollars, and giving them to those I would like to see succeed.

On the flip side, I have bought items from people just because I thought they were good people and not because of the product specifically.

Hmm, there is a person here (that is, I am singling out one of many)in the forums who is extremely rude and hateful on a regular basis, exceedingly arrogant, someone who takes great pleasure in belittling those they disagree with. They appear to derive great pleasure from basking in their own brilliance, and seem to think that when their efforts to convince someone of the truth of something that is false, and easily verified to be so, fail, that they can solve the problem by throwing out an insult that is so stupid and hateful that no one would ever want to respond even to contradict, and thus they win the exhange by default.
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But enough about me.
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Seriously, there is such a person, her posts are so annoying I have just about stopped reading them.

I have a free clothing or attachment item, pretty nice looking, though nothing special, that I was wearing; I read the object name in inventory and realized it was made by this person.

I didn't replace it with something else instantly, but I will probably delete it once I take it off. I think I am still wearing it inworld.

There is a chance that they may make other items I would like, but I won't be seeking them out.

Althugh my taste in this matter is not the most common, there are other sources for similar items made by people that haven't impressed me with their unpleasantness, or better yet who have impressed me favorably with their words, so why not buy from one of them?

nope, if someone pisses me off Ill still buy their katanas. I mean products.

Siggy..... this is going in my sig. I love it ~

Yeah i have 3 too. I absolutely avoid them at all costs including purchasing anything they sell or host because they habitually look for trouble and take everything said to, or done around, them as some sort of personal attack. But generally no, getting along with people, even when they occassially hurt my feelings or piss me off, is not hard to do. Most of the griefing complaints I hear are from people being just as childish as the perp. Sometimes it's even hard to feel sorry for them.

That said, I do not agree that the forums are seperate from the world. That's like believing that the person cheating on the their spouse with me won't cheat on me after we're married. I'm too old to waste time arguing such protracted rationalizations just to justify acting like an ass in the forums but expecting people to treat me well inworld because it's "different." That only makes me look like a silly boy.