Febr. meetings with M: Have you gotten your invitation?

Since I won't use those lousy blogorums, I didn't bother posting in his little "thread", but I did write out a notecard the day he said he was going to have meetings in Feb and dropped it on his profile, requesting an invite.

Of course, I expect to never get one anyway, even if I did post, so meh.

Not sure why I would want to go anyway. All he's going to do is try out his hands-on spinmastery on those who attend. What's he going to do? Oh, he'll concede most anything and promise the Moon itself, but it won't amount to any real change going forward.

He'll probably try to sell you spray on hair or some Ginko knives.

Ewww... that will look gross over scales. <.<

Yeah, but it makes a great gift!!!!

I thought that was "Ginsu" knives?

Or maybe Geico took over the Ginsu business, and now they ARE "Ginko" knives? Sold by geckos?

Which brings us full circle to Talarus.











*Dude, we might as well go out with the Forums in full Gratuitous Insult mode!!

A pretty reliable prediction.

The art will come in breaking through his hard lacquer shell of Corporate Speak--without actually committing the solecism of being rude.

Drat your forthcomingness over the Dow/SL connection!! You would have been a perfect bellwether, given that you hadn't posted any brickbats in that set of comments.

Oh well, we will have to rely on Peggy to tell us whether an invitation has been extended--if none of us get one, it may just be Late, but if Peggy gets one, we will know we are being left outside in the cold, our little noses pressed against the window.

You're just jealous that you're not half as cool as the Geico Gecko.

That said, the Geico Gecko is jealous because he knows he isn't even a tenth as cool as me.

-- Talarus, the giant gecko with larger-and-sharper-than-Ginsu-knives for teeth and claws. :E

Makes sense to me!

I'm glad a got a reaction..........I was beginning to wonder about that.

Don't worry, I won't be getting any invitation. I read the blog and didn't even read the responses. It's useless........the same people making the same responses using the same words (sometimes slightly mixed up to look like something new). Despite what anyone may think I'm no fan gal..............I have my issues with LL too. I have voiced my concerns in the past until it dawned on me that this platform does not belong to me. It's Linden Lab's property. They choose to run things that sometimes make me want to run screaming to the neaest bridge (that's a joke............I don't take this stuff that seriously). M asked for input..........I'm sure he got some too (good, bad, indifferent). But, like any business they have their plans. If we fit in, great..........if not they won't change their plans. They own it lock, stock, and barrel...........we all use it with that understanding. We all have a choice.......use the platform under their terms or leave.

Which brings me full circle. What the hell are we still here for? We show nothing but contempt for Linden Lab.......sometimes outright hatred. I used to enjoy the stupid crap some (such as you) post about how stupid and inept LL is.......and how they grudingly continue to use this worthless piece of software. But, lately I guess I've run out of my sense of humor with a few of you. We get threads that the very basis of the subject is based on lies or misleading "facts"..........and the pile on begins. No one with a different point of view is allowed to post an opinion the might go against the grain (if doesn't have be totally against the grain.........just enough to differ from a few of the self anoited "intellectuals". I can think of one other thread started just a week ago with the same snarky, type of title.........based on ignorance of the facts. This thread is stating something as fact (no one will get an invite because they weren't "nice" to M in their comments) which is not a fact.........it's your assumption...........and assumpton born from your knowing so much more than anyone else does about the way any invites (if there is even a meeting at all) will be issued.

Every single chance you get you start these threads............with so much sugar. You're a troll dressed in pretty roses and violets. Just what the hell are you still here for? You obviously know LL is stealing your money and lying to you everyday...........why do you associate with a company like that? I think I know..........but you won't like it.

No, I won't respond anymore. I've said all I want. Have fun with your bashfest.

Of COURSE it is "their ball", and they can take it and go home at any time they want.

We ALL know that "Your World. Your Imagination." was just some nonsense corporate slogan.

What an odd claim. What leads you to believe such a thing?

Peggy, READ. Read M's post. He wrote "EXPECT AN INVITATION BY THE END OF THE MONTH [January]."

Not in all-caps, of course----I'm just trying to make it more readable.

Why would I know "perfectly well that no one had received such an invitation" when M himself had written "Expect an invitation by the end of the month [January]"???







Again, Peggy, READ. What did I write in post 18? I wrote---and this is an exact quote---"If ALL are invited I will gladly eat my speculative words."

Does that sound as though I'm claiming that it's impossible that we will all be invited? Does it not, instead, acknowledge that this is something that could actually happen?

Don't ask me why, but I have a hunch that it will be October

I figure the ones with invitations are under NDA about it. It's the New Openness.

You know, it seems highly unlikely that all LL employees are partakers of this "boot stamping on a [Resident's] face - forever" mentality.

I was very disturbed by the news (to me) that the XStreet forums, which LL had promised to archive, had been deleted instead because people had posted a graphic expressing their sadness about the forum's closing. Not defiance to LL....not insults to LL...not accusations against LL....just SADNESS.

Yet, the hobnailed boot came down.

That bespeaks a company culture based on a fundamental contempt for its customers.

Yet...I personally know at least a couple of Lindens for whom such an atmosphere can't possibly be congenial.

Times are hard, and jobs are hard to find. So I would never count on the likelihood that any LL employee or group of employees would feel free to speak up and say anything like "is this sort of thing REALLY good for the growth and profits of LL?"

But I would bet real cash that some of them must THINK it, when confronted with some directives from above------such as, hypothetically, a promise to invite all posters-in-that-blog to meetings with M being subverted to become 'only Positive people will be invited, and we'll tell them to keep the invitation secret'.

It may be that this is not the case at all--it may be that all who posted WILL be invited, and it's just a case of LL not prioritizing getting those invitations out.

But even if that's true, the other Boot stuff remains, and can't really be explained away with happy shiny corporate-speak.