Bye Bye Forums

If you start a forum, and you don't have any friends you can lean on to provide preliminary posts to jumpstart it, how in the world do you get people to register and post in it? No one wants to read it since there's nothing posted, and no one wants to post since there's not any readers.

So far my idea is to create a bunch of fake accounts and simulate a bunch of posts and responses.

If you start a forum, and you don't have any friends you can lean on to provide preliminary posts to jumpstart it, how in the world do you get people to register and post in it? No one wants to read it since there's nothing posted, and no one wants to post since there's not any readers.

So far my idea is to create a bunch of fake accounts and simulate a bunch of posts and responses.

It is serious problem that light bulbs are not as hot as they used to be. EZ bake ovens are suffering seriously as a result. Just read some of the EZ bake forums for details.

I say this because RA actually died the day that Trout left.

I'm done with SL forums. Done with SL too. I choose the real world, even with its gravity and real responsibilities, because we can look into each other's eyes and hold each other's hands.

One last time:

1) Never set your land for sale "for anyone" when you want to sell it to a specific person. Even if the person you intend to sell it to is standing right next to you and there is no one else on the sim. Landbots buy land a lot faster than humans can.

2) Never abandon land. Set it a little lower than the lowest price on the mainland for sale list and it will sell in minutes.

Bye all.

Closing this forum will affect my long term plans with Second Life.

Quite sincerely,

Des.

I say this because RA actually died the day that Trout left.

I'm done with SL forums. Done with SL too. I choose the real world, even with its gravity and real responsibilities, because we can look into each other's eyes and hold each other's hands.

One last time:

1) Never set your land for sale "for anyone" when you want to sell it to a specific person. Even if the person you intend to sell it to is standing right next to you and there is no one else on the sim. Landbots buy land a lot faster than humans can.

2) Never abandon land. Set it a little lower than the lowest price on the mainland for sale list and it will sell in minutes.

Bye all.

I say this because RA actually died the day that Trout left.

I'm done with SL forums. Done with SL too. I choose the real world, even with its gravity and real responsibilities, because we can look into each other's eyes and hold each other's hands.

1) Never set your land for sale "for anyone" when you want to sell it to a specific person. Even if the person you intend to sell it to is standing right next to you and there is no one else on the sim. Landbots buy land a lot faster than humans can.

2) Never abandon land. Set it a little lower than the lowest price on the mainland for sale list and it will sell in minutes.

Bye all.

I say this because RA actually died the day that Trout left.

I can't help wondering how many Lindens have noticed how clunky and unfunctional the Blog is as compared with this place.

I have enjoyed RA, greatly, and I dont post or read any other forum for SL, but I dont see how enjoyment of SL inworld depends on it.

I have enjoyed RA, greatly, and I dont post or read any other forum for SL, but I dont see how enjoyment of SL inworld depends on it.

Imogen

It doesn't DEPEND on it, but it adds to it , at least for me. A good portion of the people on my friends list came from this forum. This forum was responsible for The Forum Cartel being an inworld group. This forum helps people stay in touch when the can't be inworld at the same time.

Also, the decsion to close it is to many people here a slap in the face from LL, another sign that they don't care about the people here, their current customers, the people who brought them this far.

Good points Brenda, and I agree with all of your former paragraph, but as for the latter, I don't agree,

I have seen a lot of positive changes in SL in my three years, and while some may believe that LL dont care, that belief has been long held, its nothing new... I could list many evidences of it in my three years, some of which have changed for the better, some not.

I am not ready to bale out ... things need to get a lot worse, or other worlds need to get a lot better before I will leave SL... Blue Mars certainly isn't an alternative for me... and I don't think any other place will fare better, ever... they have seen too many 'mistakes' that they perceive LL to have made, and the result is that no new metaverse will dare to allow the things that SL still offers ... I am happy to take SL warts and all for the freedoms that still linger.

Nor will I allow the loss of one pleasant aspect of my experience of the people of SL to allow me to abandon all of them... if I lose the forums, I would be even less willing to lose the people inworld.. It saddens me to see others willing to throw in the towel and lose everything, because the forums *might* (it hasnt happened yet) end.

imogen

I have to agree with this, and was wondering earlier, reading the 'Rime' thread in the blogrum; Wallace said an announcement will be made in a couple weeks; he didn't say what the announcement will be, we just assumed the worst, immediately. I'm going to wait and see...what he actually says, when he says it.

I would hope the announcement will be long needed improvements to the forum software.

The fact that Wallace hasn't bothered to put in an appearance here tells me that's probably not what it's going to be.

That and didn't somebody earlier in this thread say Blue recently declared that we were about to get closed?

I think there has been a wide gap in communications here between what some people are used to and what others expect. Here's what I saw:

OP: I want a quart of milk. How do I get that?

Farmhand: It's easy. There's the cow.

OP: I went to the cow but I don't see any milk. Can you describe what I need to do?

Farmhand: Don't know how it could be any simpler. Milk the cow. It's right there in front of you.

OP: Yes, but is there a way to just get a quart of milk? Quickly?

Interloper: You're too stupid to have milk.

OP: That doesn't help. How do I quickly get milk? I've been to the cow but I don't see any milk.

Farmhand: I've explained it several times, there's nothing to it, I'm sorry you can't understand it.

Bystander: You have to catch the cow, provide a container, milk the cow, fill the container, pasteurize the milk, and take it home.

OP: So there is no way to just pick up a quart of milk?

Farmhand: We told you how. I give up.

Interloper: You [expletive deleted]. Go back to where you belong. Your tiny mind can't process the simplest things. [expletive expletive]

Bystander: No, there are no stores here with bottles of milk. You have to extract and process the milk yourself.

OP: Thank you, Bystander. That's what I needed to know.

I would hope the announcement will be long needed improvements to the forum software.

The fact that Wallace hasn't bothered to put in an appearance here tells me that's probably not what it's going to be.

Blue said the plan is replace them, but he hasn't said with what that I know of. I think most people assume it's the SLA blogs.

It was Robin who always said the forums are part of SL history and must be preserved (archived). I hope whoever makes decisions believes that. It's too bad we lost all the old attachments.

At one point they were considering a conversion, but that changed back to archiving after Blue saw what a mess it made of the old blog comments and links.

One nice little thing to see: the new-ish develop.secondlife.com portal links back to the scripting library here, so someone at LL still sees value here.

They really should keep the Content foums going. I've never looked at them but they must be better behaved than RA. I'll even promise to never go there if they keep them going.

How is resident answers unbehaved (okay, that shows my secondlanguage limitations)?

How is resident answers misbehaved (okay, that shows my secondlanguage limitations)?