Revision of 'Partner' function to include polyamorous relationships

Lost In Translation

Could not a group affiliation perform most of the functions of poly-marital or poly-sexual relationships? You can share land, money and property, add or exclude people, have exclusive areas, share communication channels.

I would shell out ANY amount of lindens to have my marriage to my SL mates 'officially' recongnized, rather than just as a description in our profiles....


ANY amount! Do you hear me LL????

on the "seperate but equal" doctrine : http://grove.ufl.edu/~ggsa/gaymarriage.html

Yeah, you need to check your facts.

Sorry to jump into the fray; but I just noticed the quashed proposal on the voting tool and felt like chiming in.

Multi-partner relationships are rapidly becoming more common.

I agree that the "group" function takes care of this wonderfully.

I also recognize that people want special recognition for their committed relationships.

Do you think there would be a way to put the word "multiple" in the partner field?

Or to somehow flag a group (have the name appear in red for example) to show that it represents a multi-partner relationship?

Thoughts?

I don't want to sound negative or down on you guys, but catering to the romantic/sexual needs of what most definitely /is/ a minority is not exactly a priority considering the state of second life at this moment. I'd stop worrying about being able to fill your partner box up and worry more about losing the horrendous lag or perhaps fixing the dozens of other bugs that annoy us on a regular basis.

I'm not against it, just bring this proposal back when BASIC features work.

Yes. That would work too. I also like the idea of web tabs.
I suppose all of this debate is due to the fact that an additional feature was added that is exclusive to a certain group. If the feature wasn't there, you wouldn't hear any dissent about it....

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of using the group feature. Someone could start a trend of calling their group "Family [x]" or "Partnership [x]" where [x] is the name of their family or partnership. Then they could put a full description in their group info page and their partners could join up. This is much more flexible than a simple name tag on the profile page and it also helps them to send messages to their partners simultaneously.

I guess the only thing left to do if we all start doing that is to get rid of the oudated institution of the "Partner" tag.....

Then don't....

Really? Are you sure?
I would want to see some statistics on that. SL statistics. Perhaps we need a poll....

I'm not worrying. And I won't worry about the lag or other bugs. The Lindens will see us through all of it -- with their expertise and with our input. I'm happy to know that there are different Lindens working on different features -- so that we can contribute interface suggestions and know that it won't affect development of key core technologies.

One thing I do worry about is intolerance and hate. But I do my best to set a good example and hope that one day everyone will be a bit friendlier to each other.

If you're attempting to imply I'm intolerant or hateful, I take great offense to that. I'm simply stating that I've seen this pop up about ten thousand times on feature requests and I think it's time to give it a rest right now as we can't seem to go a day without a major grid outage. I'm simply being logical. I don't care whether or not you have multiple partners, it doesn't involve me.

I'm simply trying to say that it may seem easy or a negligible change, but there may be more to it. I'm sure Linden Labs knows about your request as they've responded to it umpteen times in feature request and when they're ready they'll get around to it.

Not everyone who disagrees with you is trying to persecute you.

This is true and I see a lot of people doing this. However, I like the proposal to enable a poly partner list. It's something people quickly look at and it would clarify who is a spouse vs. the long lists of friends that wind up in people's Picks. Plus you don't always want to make group memberships public, but the partner list would be.

Hey folks,
I ran a simple poll over at sluniverse and the response seems to have topped out at 42 responses.
Results:
Of the 37 stating a preference, 28 (76%) prefer single-partner relationships, while 9 (24%) prefer multiple-partner relationships.

So, yes, those preferring multiple-partner relationships are in the minority. Although, is this minority insignificant?

Is the gay population insignificant at 10%?

No, but gay relationships are entirely possible within SL's existing framework. If being gay on SL required more code, I'd say the same thing. Bottom line is this is a real luxury feature with little-to-no real importance in the grand scheme of things right now.