Purple Cube of Death in the New World

There has been a lot of confusion about what a "cube of death" is. I think this thread may help clear it up:

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Um, no poison ivy here, but a couple of blackmailers perhaps? You've been AR'd for violating the TOS.



That's helped fuel their anger with false reports and malice.



What is a "story" for you might be a real virtuality for others. Try to be aware of that and more considerate.



Your concept of newbies as wilting flowers needs to be revised. How about that wilting, shy, scared newbie you were so keen to pressure into believing that she was being "hustled by Prok" merely because she was asked if she wanted to sell her land? Is this your friend from TC?? That wilting newbie today, with the help of a boyfriend evidently, bought up all the first lands in sight, put all the parcels together, and today have a huge chunk of land for sale at a very healthy price. They probably aren't so new, if they were able to land within minutes of the opening of the new continent and get 4 first lands out of the blue, probably just by getting 5 new accounts, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to do. So new or not, they are not the fragile creatures you suppose but in fact hustlers themselves -- it is so hilarious that you can't see that. You might see it if you treated land not as a mere construction site, but for some people, a home in which they remain and follow the events of the neighbourhood.



This is total crap. Nobody "separates a newbie from their first land". Newbies are grownups, and can compare and contrast different offers. And when you find some willing ear to bend with malice, of course you can shape their impressions. Let your friend come forward with their actual testimony and let her actually prove that she was in any way pressured or scammed -- you'll find this isn't the case. Our program offers newbies the chance to:

a) get help in identifying the best first land out there -- something most newbies have no clue about and are only eager to get help with
b) an offer to buy the parcel at market rates outright, i.e. $3500 which is not a "lowball" but a normal price because it is *instant* whereas they might risk the market lowering if they sell themselves
c) they are free to leave that land on the market themselves and get the price they want, and I often tell them, based on what I can see, that the prices are only going up and they can get the best deal. Ask some of my customers who have waited to get the best deal, and they will prove that.
d) after the sales are over, they can rent for a very reasonable price of $250/week for a 512 in cash, or put their 512 donation in the group. There is no risk to them. They pull it out any time. They get access to land that is better than what they had in 512 hell -- and I can't think of a single other rentals company that gives equivalent land for equivalent tier.

Honestly, Traxx, with your superior notions of "I'm an architect and let me tell you about land" and your skewed notions of "newbies," your malice towards me based on personal baggage, and your hatred of real estate agents (common in this game) you're just not getting it. You aren't seeing the reality of the situation here which is this is a service to newbies, not a scam. Not very many people have taken advantage of this offer because of your hate campaign and your incitement of others to hate (as I can see now), so there is no "tier empire" being created "on the backs of newbies" but in fact there are quite a few happy customers.

Offering help to newbies to get them their first land, relieve them of the burden of bad first land choices, helping them sell first land, finding them very cheap rentals that allows them to save -- these are wonderful services that should be promoted more and taken advantage more, not idiotically slammed as a scam by someone with personal grievances such as yourself. It is a great service, and not that many people have taken advantage of it precisely because you are out actively sabotaging it. Those who have benefited from it are more than happy, but they aren't forum-posters, so they don't come on here and flame up. Go in my group. Talk to the 512 donaters. Talk to the newbies renting land. Take a poll. Bring a Linden. Bring 12 Lindens, I don't care. You will find that this program helps newbies and is not a scam.

I just bought a ridiculous parcel in Lemon for example to help a newbie. He donated tier to my group, he got cash from me for this badland, and I then sold it at a loss later just to get rid of it. He's happy, I'm happy that I have a longer-term customer, I even took a loss. But if I didn't take a loss, so what? This program is a loss-leader on the whole, and can't possibly benefit me at the expense of even 100 newbies. You just aren't getting the math of it and the realities of the land business because you are not engaged in it day-to-day as I am.



1) when you viciously slam another player in the game to clients and potential clients, sure you will get not only an abuse report but raising larger issues of what you are doing publicly. No one should have the ability to ruin another's business reputation based on malice and slander.
2) you are abuse-reported for verbal harassment when you do that and it is taken seriously
3) notecards cannot be published outside the game, but if you have a conversation in which you took part and wish to send it to another, I honestly can't see that as any violation, and even if technically it is, you need to show that someone is engaging in malicious slander to end that slander, full stop.
4) Negrates from alts are perfectly legitimate. Especially if those alts had once given you plusses, which you benefit from each week when you cash out your stipends
5) Lindens are not going to take any of your silly posturing accusations of "abuse" and "harassment" seriously. But they do take seriously verbal harassment that is intended to demean and diminish. You can't go around and tell other players not to do business with someone, based on lies and malice.



Hey, I work hard, too, no need to posture quite so much.