SL Monetary Policy & Upcoming Changes...Discuss!

I agree! However I think the key word is REDUCTION not elimination. Yes they are paying for educational events which is great, however, alot of people do enjoy contests & such. So how about a reduction in contest support VS elimination. Cut current support in 1/2 it would make a dent. $125 for hosting fee $250 prize & maybe offer event support 4-5 events a week instead of 7. I think it's something to think about especially since stipend bonuses are also going to be cut.

The other thing is doing this is likely going to result in more mentoring & instructors & their events but I think more people will be doing it with the $L in mind rather then the idea of helping out new residents. Perhaps I'm naive or too idealistic but I hate thinking that L$ should be the only motivation for someone to become a mentor or instructor.

This might have been nice Malana. But you should also consider administrative overhead for Lindens. I am certain that this must also have played major role since following up with 40+ events every day cost time. Elimination instead of reduction definitely made one or two Lindens less busy now and we can hope that their working time can benefit Second Life in some other way.

An upopular opinion I'm sure I'm about to give again, but back in the day I even proposed that *no* money be given to event hosters at all. The exception being Mentors and Instructors being given money to give away at events they host under the "Mentor and/or Instructor Guidelines" only. My reasoning being that you would then start to see more creative events hosted by those who really wanted to host events and not do it just for the money involved. It may also encourage some to start charging for events. I know I would certainly pay to attend certain events if I felt the quality was going to be worth it. I'm certain I cannot be totally alone in this train of thought.

I have not listed an event as Linden supported for over 8 months even if there was a contest involved, and even when I still gave out money at the event for one reason or another. I stopped when I did two different events (within two weeks of each other) that qualified but that I never did get my payment for. I sent the necessary info a few times, then just chalked it up to the Lindens being swamped and not able to get the "payback" to me. It got to be a chore and the money was not the reason I was hosting the events in the first place. So I just stopped asking for assistance. It hasn't kept me from doing events thus far, and I can't see that changing for me anytime in the future.

As for prices on goods sold, I have always sold items at a lower price than most of my "competitors". I charge what I feel my items are worth, or rather what I myself would be willing to pay for them. I am not opposed to people charging more for their items at all. I think variety in prices and quality of items is a great thing for the economy and the consumer. The more the Lindens leave us (the residents and business owners of SL) to our own methods for raising money, determining prices, etc. The more realistic our economy will be.

Those are my thoughts at least.

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Lordfly, the petition states that 2 days is not sufficient time for the community to discuss a patch that will have potentially a huge impact on the SL economy. What that impact is, positive or negative, we don't know - but that's the point I'm getting at - we need time to figure that out!

Linden Lab, when rushing patches in the past, has had major problems. They promised they would give us sufficient test time. 2 Days is not.

This move is entirely greed based and ill-concieved. I think it's sad. I want to enjoy SL, not deal with the same corporate greed that I deal with day to day in RL.

Sure this move will cut down the huge amount of fluff events, but it will also cut out some very fun and original ones as well. Those that already have alot of money will benefit while those that are already poor will have a harder time in-world. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Gee..what a suprise.

Personally, I'm through putting alot of work, effort and money into SL. I'm selling as much tier as I can, will no longer being doing any prize-oriented events and will spend my time building and socializing.

Perhaps this is a quick way to slow down things in 2nd life. In talking to Philip Linden today he said they want more educational classes and that 250million L are spent in world monthly and only 1 million on events, how that impacts the Lindens themselves I have no idea. Personally I think 2nd life has grown so much, so fast in just the few short months that I have been here that they are trying to find a way to slow it down. I also beleive they are trying to discourage ppl from buying the non-monthly package. Lastly, Philip pretty much said they are trying to clean 2nd life up, which with all of the SEX stuff I can understand that, but they themselves let it get this far out of hand. I think limitiing each club to 2 or 3 events per day would have been much more reasonable then what they are doing now.

I think there are some other Morale Issues that need to be addressed..

I figured it out.. The Republican Party gave SL $8/million to revamp this world of its decadence and ungodly people. lol

No offense Alby. But your favorite political party better take care of decadence and ungodly people in their own leadership.

After dumping $3,000 into this machine less than a year ago? I think not. I'll cancel my account before I waste money on a new video card to play sl.

Same here - I continue to view SL as an opportunity to artistically create interesting things and meet interesting creative people. It will be interesting to see where this all goes. Less of a stipend for me may mean that I tier down but I'll just sort of wait and see what happens.

Personally, I would have set positive ratings at half the price of neg ratings. So if you want to rate someone's build or appearance it will cost you $10 L and to rate someone negative it will cost you $25L.

As a panarcho-libertarian conservative but pseudo-Keynesian whacko, I approve of the changes planned to the economy.

I have a comment, though : after the 1929 economical krach, it was not deflation that saved Western economies (on the contrary it sank it a bit more) but forced circulation of currency (budget spending).

Interesting idea Rose - I like!

Jesrad, I'm very sad to hear your a Keynesian.. Come over to the Right Side and join with the Hayek Supporters.. We know how to make a dollar.

Friedrich A. Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992, at the age of 92, was probably the most prodigious classical liberal scholar of the 20th century. Though his 1974 Nobel prize was in Economic Science, his scholarly endeavors extended well beyond economics. He published 130 articles and 25 books ranging from technical economics to theoretical psychology, from political philosophy to legal anthropology, and from the philosophy of science to the history of ideas. Hayek was no mere dabbler; he was an accomplished scholar in each of these fields of inquiry. He made major contributions to our understanding in at least three different areas-government intervention, economic calculation under socialism, and development of the social structure. It is unlikely that we will see the likes of such a wide-ranging scholar of the human sciences again.

Hope the leftist outthere get the message..

The Fifth Commandment sayeth "You are forbidden to believe everything you read"

I will now procede to bring you my own propaganda, after reading yours.

If the message was that you are rude, repetitive, callous and not even amusing, then we get it loud and clear.

HAIL ERIS!

Her apple corps is strong!

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Yeah I got that message.

Siggy.

It would definitely have its drawbacks. I think what bothers me the most about the reaction to these changes is the undercurrent of class warfare and the casting of successful long time players as some kind of greedy overlords. The vast majority aren't that way at all... if they were they'd never have gotten successful in the first place. That's why I suggested what I did.

Unfortunately, this latest Linden move definitely favors the rich and definitely penalizes the poor. I'm not blaming anyone but LL, but I do think this really goes a long ways toward creating a class division.

No surprise here. Every move Linden Lab has made since 1.2 had been geared towards rewarding people for owning large amounts of land, and towards reducing their direct management responsibilities. Is this a bad thing? We'll see. Perhaps the economy will thrive now that IGE and Anshe Chung own it.

Every move also seems aimed towards making the virtual economy more realistic. Another fine thing, if it is your goal to tie this virtual world into the real one. Funny though, with each move that makes this follow the same patterns as the real one - reward the owners rather than the producers, reward salesmen rather than creators, flow money from the general population into the hands of a powerful few - I wonder more and more why we even bother to have a separate space at all. The real world has all this to offer already.

I'm just not politically correct. I'll just give it to you without the sugar coat.