Well, the tables have turned....

I quit SL,and ive come back to see that SLhas been under attack almost 24/7... it wasnt always like this.

It used to be:
Script Kiddie's were LL's B*tch's

Now it's:
LL are Script Kiddie's B*tch's

What happened when i was gone?!

The linden's dropped CC Verification....

Bye bye SL .... *sighs* You know theres moments in life when you slap yourself on the head, it's at that precise moment you realise just what you did wrong and how wrong it was....

what I find interesting is this...

the Lindens stopped requiring people to use CC's or PayPal to verify yourself before entering SL.

So if these people don't have CC's or PayPal, they can't buy L$ anyway.

So what's the point? If they're not contributing to SL's economy, they're only being a drain. So basically, every premium account holder is paying for people who are only a drain on the system.

How does that make sense?

Gentlemen and Ladies this is not the General Forum of old where you post your opinion and engage in get nowhere fights with each other forever. This is an ask a question forum about Second Life.

You all keep it up and this forum will be closed and people will have no place to ask genuine questions.

*grins tiredly* Actually, Sir did ask a question. He asked what happened while he was away to bring these things about. People are answering, albeit a bit more honestly than usual, but this has gotten a bit ridiculous.

Since when was it *required* for one to buy L$ for real money in order to be able to both produce/sell content and purchase works of others, thus contributing to the SL economy? These are two entirely different things, connected loosely if at all.

Yes he did Raudf but he added some little quips that pretty much negated any question he was asking. How come I have never met you in SL? You seem to know what is going on around here.

In any case this thread is not a question thread but an attempt to start some flames as feeble as they may be.

It's the push for 1,000,000 "residents", isn't it? Which of course is 1,000,000 sign-ups, not residents...just sign-ups...

So says the woman posting to the Linden Answers forum with a support post and no question. A bit hypocritical if I might says so.

Unverified accounts should have never been allowed. Hopefully the griefer attacks will smack Linden Labs enough so they can realise this. The vague unrealised benefits of allowing the accounts cannot compare to the realised threats.

Well since time is money and I lost alot of time today.. being quite miffed...

I passed the forum up until I hit new posts and we are at the top still.. read more so here I sit.

Q: Was it the way it was worded that got ya or did the point not make it to the dinger at the tip of the light bulb?

Woohoo! I made 2 cents back.


Signed: A paying customer

Hi Mal. The important thing to consider is did your post add anything of value to the thread. Attacking another resident never adds anything of value.

I believe the comment was for the short term. With hundreds of alts being made daily, they aren't contributing to the economy at all. Sure, the untold masses who legitimately sign up and eventually turn into business moguls contribute to the economy (either by making lots of money and withdrawing it, or encouraging others to invest more money to buy cool stuff). Before however, with validation of some sort, EVERYONE who played needed to provide a means of payment, and potentially would contribute money. With no payment options required, the majority of the new crowd (especially griefers, but also including alts) will not contribute at all.

Well in answer to your question Sir, things have gone a bit downhill since your sabatical.
First LL decided that content really no longer mattered, and took away all content incentives. Then, they decided to pump up subscription numbers by having free accounts, no varification of any kind necessary. Hence SL slid into a variable land of whores and wars, and when that got boring, grid attackers.

I am blaming all of this on you, had you been here, i feel sure you could have stopped it.

ROFLMAO

My sentiments exactly. Camping money chairs over night while some mouse macro is keeping the account from being logged out for inactivity, that's not awfully much of a contribution; even if one eventually saves up enough L$ to buy some XCite genitals.

I think it's in our hands to stop this unverified account madness: next time the servers are down due to a grid attack, we should all use the downtime to create a few dozen alts. That would quickly push the number of total accounts over the target line of 1 million, and we go back to normal (i.e. payment info required up front).

/Edit: not being sarcastic here, we should really do this... if 1,000,000 accounts is the desired goal, perhaps it's in our best interest to help LL achieving that as fast as possible. 20 or 30 new accounts are quickly created these days.

No offence to anyone, but think about this, The point exactly, How is the world? How is the Government, We pay taxes in RL so mexicans can live in the USA and not pay taxes, and live off welfare, SL must be trying to copy the world

yeah, yeah what she said......lmfao

It's quite valid, but short-term effects aren't exactly the thing business is based on, and LL is running a business after all. If we were to focus only on the 'now', then SL should've closed its door long time ago, because running at loss (which is what happens to about any business before it takes off, if it does) hardly seems to make economic sense, does it..? Same thing with the unverifieds.

Definitely most will not contribute. But a fraction of X (some of the unverified accounts that do contribute) is still more than fraction of zero (no unverified accounts to contribute whatsoever) ... especially when that X approaches few hundred thousand people. So ultimately the economy does get positive influx from them.