Self-imposed rules in SL - do you have any?

I treat others first, how I'd like to be treated, that way you can weed out quicker, those that don't know how to behave.

Always try hard to do good business, a 75% win on both sides is better than striving to acheive a 100% win for yourself everytime.

Be fair and whenever possible, not be judgemental.

Use the mute button rather than perpetuate an argument, go about your fun, leave them to stew if thats their baggage.

Steer WELL clear of drama.

Only tell the truth, one its easier to remember and two, if someone found out you had lied, how are you going to convince them it was the first and only time? A Lie is but a truth undiscovered.

Only get involved if you can still see the way back.

SL is a form of entertainment and therefore I have no compunctions about putting money into the world. I own a bit of land and fill it with content mostly created by others. I am very passionate about supporting the wonderful creative types here.

My rules to live by:

1. Send IMs to content creators whose builds I consider outstanding. They need to know their works are appreciated beyond the income they earn.

2. Be nice and helpful and all that common sense stuff . Real people are behind the avatars.

3. Log out from home.

4. IM store vendors when their shop's been griefed (I know that vendors can't check their store every day).

5. Hand out a folder of Newbie Goodies (land marks, note cards, free hair coupons etc.) to every avatar less than one month old (that doesn't appear to be an alt) I encounter.

6. Respect, respect, respect and being non judgmental. We can never know a person's reason for anything. Blatant harassment and griefing, however, earns an avatar an AR.

7. Work WITH neighbours when setting up a land's content -- you never know what can be created together to make an even more impressive looking area.

That's about it.

Oooh thanks Amimom. So, we are at least two. I have a nice game to play with my friends: goto an empty region (for example: Hahne). Note the script count in the statistics window (example: 1). Tp a friend and see the number grow. Try all your attachments. Laugh at yourself and thrash all the lag-monsters. Lot of fun.

No rules but one :

Use common sense and common courtesy just like you would in real life. I believe self set rules, otherwise known as principles, are the going assistance for a weak characters.

Wolfie

Forgot to mention earlier: I just don't do cybersex. A little poledancer-ogling and friendly flirting, maybe, but that's about it. It's not out of prudery - it's because you may know what the other avatar is, but you don't know what the other person behind the avatar is. Strikes me as creepy.

Oh! What a lovely idea! I'm inspired to follow your lead, here.

My own rules... Lessee:

1.) Treat others as I'd like to see a friend treated (sometimes including blunt honesty when they're acting like a dufus).

2.) Anything worth paying for is also worth waiting for. If I still want it desperately after a week, well, then I'll buy it.

3.) I'm never so busy that I can't take time to answer a question, welcome someone, or otherwise do my part to make someone else's SL experience a little better.

4.) Don't judge by appearances.

5.) RL always comes first.

I think that's about it from this relative noob.

Don't ejaculate onto the keyboard.

And if you do...don't tell me about it. *Now I just ruined MY lunch.)

LOL!

Try to be kind and helpful to everyone but not every day can I pull it off.
Value and Appreciate my friends here as I would in real life
Never Lie or Con
Never sell freebies or products I didn't create entirely myself or without permission of designers or co-owner
Be Ethical, put friendship, learning and creativity first before all things.
I do not have pixel sex or anything sexual with anyone in SL.
When buying products I only do with extreme caution.
Learned hard way don't spend what I can't afford to lose or don't spend what will cause me hardship in RL.
Never accept friendship request, tp's or open objects from people I don't know or haven't discussed this with prior.

I think I've broken every "rule" I've set for myself, at least once. I do try to be helpful and kind and not judge by appearances. Living in a rather offbeat infohub for the first few months of life here helped make me very tolerant, I think.

That's a great rule. I wish everyone would follow it.



A good rule as well. My personal limit is 9,000, although it's not that easy considering my backup fetish. Everyone who complained to me about inventory loss had more than 10k items. (Not saying that it would be anyone's own fault, inventory loss should never happen of course).



Makes a lot of sense to me. I don't really have the time to craft simple things like furniture and would rather buy it, but since I found out that a simple seat cushion hogged more sim resources than my most complex selfmade toy, I try to build everything myself. Or at least I buy modifiable furniture with editable freebie-poseball-scripts, so I can remove the unneeded variables, timers and listeners.



That makes a lot of sense too.



This too. Thanks for making me laugh

My own self-imposed rule, pretty much the only rule I have in SL:

Be tolerant of all cultures and all lifestyles that don't harm others, unless these lifestyles are based on hatred, ignorance and/or superstition and therefore hold back the development and progress of humanity as a whole (by raising future superstitious, ignorant and close-minded generations).

In particular, be tolerant of all sexual orientations and fetishes, in the same way as I expect others to be tolerant of my kinks.

I was first confronted with sexual ageplayers in SL when a very upset customer IMed me and complained about a "kid" testing the adult-oriented wares at my shop (who turned out to be an adult with a child-like avatar of course). My first reaction was shock and disbelief, and I was about to set up new shop rules in order to ban child-like avatars from the store, but then I gave it some thought. I often overheard visitors in my shop mocking harmless BDSM toys with comments like "Eww, that's sick", "Now that's screwed up" or even "What kind of pervert would buy this". Sometimes while another customer was testing the very article they were ranting about.

If it hurts me and customers who share my kinks to be called perverts or sickos for our harmless fetishes, how can I condemn equally harmless fetishes only on the basis of the close-minded morals of the majority? How can I, someone who's called a pervert by Joe Public too, possibly call anything perverted and wrong (unless it hurts or harms another human being)?

I really did set up a new shop rule that day, a rule about intolerance: "Respect fetishes and sexual orientations that you don't share or understand, as long as they don't break other shop rules (which deal with griefing/caging/weapon usage, harrassment and unwanted IM advances). This includes calling any person or any shop contents sick or perverted; someone who finds the wares highly erotic could stand right next to you and take personal offense at your comment. Cases of severe harrassment, like insulting others for their sexual denomination or avatar appearance, will be punished with a sim-wide ban".

Words to live by

Makes you wonder why they are in the shop to begin with. Every Christmas I go to an Adult gift exchange, that a friend from College holds. Most of the gifts are either alcohol and/or Sex related. There is a really nice adult toy store nearby, clean, high quality etc. I stopped by to buy something for the party, my friend insisted on waiting in the car with dark glasses and a baseball cap on for fear of being recognized. I told her the first question asked of anyone who says they saw me inside a "Dirty Bookstore" would be , "And what were YOU doing in a dirty bookstore?" it's amazing how we can be so Puritanical one hand and Puerile on the other when it come to sexual matters.

The provenence of originals can still be established! If I decide to sell my photo collection, all mounted on prim boards, they are recorded as created by Conifer Dada and always will be!!

My estate only has around 3 rules:
No ageplay (been that way for around 10 months)
No escorting
and
No stealing our builds....


Of course, people have duplicated stuff we've made, by taking photos of it...but...oh well