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Llauren Mandelbrot
Twenty-Four Weeks Old.
Join date: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 665
11-13-2006 13:38
There are various statistics about Second Life posted in various places on your web site, most notably on your Welcome Page and your log-in page for the new viewer, and I understand that there are other places as well.

As I see it, there is nothing wrong with those statistics.

As I see it, there is something wrong with how those statistics are labeled.

Some statistics are inherently meaningless. Some statistics are inherentlly meaningful. Some statistics are merely interesting. Even meaningful statistics, however, are useless if mislabeled.

Even meaninful, properly-labeled statistics, however, are useless if you don`t understand what is being reported.

Linden Lab, can you please post a page somewhere that explains your statistics, and post a link from the statistics to the explanation? Back-links from the explanations to the various places they can be found might be nice, too.

It would also be nice if you could also extend the range of automaticaly-generated statistics for those of us who find statistics interesting for various reasons. Please, though, make sure that they are properly labeled and explained!
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  1. ninjafoo Ng Says:
    November 4th, 2006 at 7:27 am
    We all love secondlife so much and were afraid that the magic will end, nothing this good can ever last…. can it?

Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
@lindenlab.com
11-16-2006 13:03
Hi Llauren, it's not clear what sort of explanation you're asking for here -- please email me at [email]torley@lindenlab.com[/email] of how you would like to see them reported, and I can forward your request for consideration to our Linden web developers and stats experts.
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