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as open and honest as possible (about resident count anyway)?

Eep Quirk
Absolutely Relative
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,211
06-14-2006 02:10
From: someone
Great question!

Internally, we count our total number of residents in a couple of different ways, all for valid reasons. A couple of these different methods are: accounts in good standing, active last 30 days, active last 60 days, etc…

Even accounts in good standing can be counted a few different ways because we have numerous status' accounts can be in, some of which can be confusing as to whether they are "in good standing".

Anyway, to make a long story short, we've decided to tweak what we felt was a better representation of what our current resident count is.

So no, 10,000 residents weren't just eliminated. We now feel they were being improperly counted and adjusted the counter as such. As always, we strive to be as open and honest about our resident count as possible.

Chris
So when will a disclaimer and/or link to how resident count is calculated added to the main SL website page? Anyone can manipulate statistics to make something seem different than what it truly is.

And I'm still waiting for the mentality behind the decision to make basic accounts unverified for age...
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
06-15-2006 18:41
I'll forward this to Chris, Eep.

And for further reasoning, you may want to read the new blog entry by Daniel Linden, "Abuse Levees Holding", in addition to Blue Linden's recent posts on here.
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