Poll: Business Owners & Camping Chairs - Patriotic Duty to the nOObs of SL

I'm happy to announce that I'm still offering high paying camping chairs to help the nOOb players of SL in all my store locations. I feel that as stakeholders in the SL world, business owners have an obligation to give our nOObies a decent way to make some L$ so they can enjoy the virtual world without having to dip into their pocketbook or scrounge around in clubs for handouts.

I am curious as to how other business owners have reacted due to the DI termination announcement: As a business owner, since the announcement have you eliminated your camping chairs? Kept them? Added more?

How does the community at large feel about the issue?

We shall see!

It would be neat if camping chairs had a listen function to only reward people participating in the conversation.

Then again, instead of the zombie epidemic you might have people sitting, twitching, and saying "drooool" over and over again.

My general feeling about the camping chairs is that they were a cool innovation, that don't effect me in any way.

I thought in SL that was generally referred to as clubbing?

I prefer helping noobs by giving them freebies and advice, personally.

Camping Chairs!?

*swears under his breath*

There will NEVER be any sort of camping chair, money dance pad, money ball, money tree or any other such thing at West Trade Imports.

Ever.

Period.

Nor have I needed developer incentive, dwell, or any of that nonsense.

Oddly enough, I manage to scratch my income out of the dirt, somehow, with my one location in a PG sim.

Camping Chairs. Pfft!

Ah, so this is where the extra $ from selling free items is going...

Only if they are nekkie with wings and bling.

wouldnt simply being in Live Help, Mentor, Instructor or Greeter be helping new residents? Ahhh I get it, none of those would line the pockets of the ones placing the chairs under the pretense of helping new residents, kinda disgusting.

Yes, because its so much fun to watch the newbies sitting lifelessly, with their heads slumpled, in chairs for hours, sometimes days, on end.

Some even dance with their heads slumped.

That looks so nice.

Oh and and not to mention that it does such a good job of putting the best face forward to even newer players who are exploring SL for the first time, and looking for engaging and stimulating LIVE conversation from LIVE people, only to find instead...

a bunch of fine needy newby lifeless zombies.

I never have and never will endorce or aprove of camping chairs.. But if people want to provide/use them.. Fine by me..

However..

Camping chairs are bad for the economy, as SLs self apointed economic mind, you should know that and try to remedy the problem..

I preffer to help new people out by teaching them a trade (building in my case) and showing and explaining the world of SL to them, so they can have a pleasant experience here.. If there was someone spending time with newbies for every camping chair in SL, I'm sure the newbies would be a lot happier and have a better time all round..

In our old Jouppi lands I did indeed have camping chairs. My thank you to people who came and played games with us. Shut off unless a game was going on.

When I picked them up in preparation for our move to Dragon Isle I discovered just how much lag they were creating. As a result there will never be Camping chairs at Dragon Isle. We love our lag free environment.

I prefer to see them in a cage, doing funny stuff for money ;D












Yes I'm serious. Visit Newbie Zoo in Gemmed. lol.

I think you're a disingenuous shitheel...

I did my 'patriotic duty to the noobs' as you put it - you used it to fund your stores.

Does that answer your question?

Speaking with my socio-political business head on, I *love* other people putting out money chairs. They take a whole chunk of money from one wealthy person and distribute it across (hundreds?) of other people who probably didn't have much spending power. In my eyes, that means, the money of one guy - who probably wouldn't have spent any of his wealth in my store anyway - has been redistributed to hundreds of other people, some of whom might actually come to my store and spend their chair-l3wt on my stuff.

But... speaking with my aesthetic/practical head on, I think they're a blight on the land that's turned SL into a nation of zombies - and it really doesn't paint an appealing picture of the game's culture when you're trying to lure in new users. They also tend to be lag magnets - I suspect if they moved into *my* back yard, my businessman's love for them would soon evaporate. Oh yes.

So, mark me down as being thoroughly bi-polar on this issue