Have you thought about quitting SL? What makes you think that?

Hm.

Were I to quit forever, it would only be for the drama~laced, overblown reaction to the final, hand~to~forehead "I'm so hurt!!!!1111" emo sturmdrang forum post to be made just before my theatric exit. (note 1)

I would use a lot of capital letters, specific names, reference some incidents that few people knew or cared about and carry on for about three pages.

Of course, amongst the outpouring of love from those who care, and the reasoned folks who would try to connect the thinking part of my brain to the emotional, reactionary side, there would be snarky posts also. "Good riddance" and "I can haz your stuff?" and so forth.

This would only fuel my petulant rage, and I would carry on for fifty or sixty pages, delaying my exit until I have milked it for all it is worth. Most importantly, good or bad, the entire thread would be about me, me, me, and again me.

Once everyone was fed up reading it to the point there were no further replies, I'd probably go get some fast food and play Bejeweled mindlessly for an hour or two, delightfully sated with the drama and wondering why I haven't seen the latest bigscreen movie that's out currently.

How's that for honesty and accuracy?

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Note 1: Due to the subsequent lack of personal attention that *actually leaving* would cause, I would obviously be back in three days.

In over two and a half years I've never thought of leaving SL. In general I've been happy and haven't had any real complaints about LL.

Actually, the nearest I came to giving up was probably after my first few minutes in SL, because it was laggy, all my graphics were set to minimum by default and all there seemed to be was a little island with stepping stones. I thought this looked nothing like the pictures of SL I'd seen on TV!

I do have the idea that I will leave SL when I've spent 10 years here, though - hopefully on a high note!

Lol, Desmond.

Conifer - SL was on tv? Was it an ad?

SL5B was a bit of a turning point for me, when hysteria and subsequent LL kneejerk reactions peaked, and certain Lindens flat out lied to our faces.
Of course, it was also at SL5B a major investor pretty much told us to please leave and stop sullying his brilliant new teleconferencing software, but that was more an indication of the slowly-setting-into-motion business decisions.

More than anything, however, the OpenSpace wipeout and the Zindra relocation-if-we-feel-like-it-and-otherwise-you-can-just-shut-down has shown me that SL is simply not a stable platform to build anything on; that LL can and will pull the rug from under any project. As a result, I have increasingly slanted my efforts in directions which are not as tightly tied to SL as such, but towards more general tools, skills and designs, to be ready to jump ship with minimum hassle.

Actually, thats how i first heard of SL. Was channel surfing and happened to stop on the Tech TV channel. They were doing a bit about SL. Never gave it much thought until i was bored out of my tree a month or so later and decided to see what it was. Created an account, but ended up being stuck on Avatar Island with a bunch of other noobs who had no idea where to go or what to do. Ended up quitting for a few weeks, then came back to see if i could figure it out.

Ended up meeting a few helpful older SL people who really helped me out and pointed me in the right direction. So now, every few days or so, i hang out around Avatar Island and help other noobs get started.


However, to get back on topic here, if anything could make me quit SL, it would be LL and their incompetence in handling most matters. For some reason, they seem completely out of touch with the users, their source of income, and this just doesnt make me want to invest much time or money into SL.


Just my 0.02$ CDN, tho.

No. I'm a SL documentarian and loves being in SL.

I don't plan to quit anytime soon.

No, I have never actually thought of leaving. I expect to be here a long, long time.

This.



And this. Which he has pretty much already done. We're not even partnered anymore, but we were partnered for two years, which is a huge amount of time in SL/online, so I'm not doing well "getting over it."

And I'm currently in some kind of a total ennui about SL in general. I log in...try to think of something that would interest me...then log back out.

I've not been on more than three times in the past year or a little more and have not been able to figure out how to regain the feeling I once got with it.

There were numerous reasons, but they all boil down to the same thing. Drama. I joined shortly after severe relationship problems with destroyed self esteem and went much too far into the dream world of SL, trying to love everybody and lulled into a false sense of security by the apparent lack of consequences for one's actions.

I found eventually that I could not be the loving piece of everyone's puzzle that I wanted to be, and that the real lives of people will always invade SL by shaping the decisions they make. The ugliness comes out too, and it becomes impossible to maintain the wonder about the place.

Then the scheming starts. And the gender-phobes begin their fanatical, inexorable march towards their own version of righteousness. Chalking up every move you make and every word you say to your incredible need to deceive them. Hiring people to invade your privacy. Attempting to destroy your relationships with everyone. Attempting to track your every login and to find your phone number and address. Trying to trace you to your job.

Because the only explanation for anything must be the worst one, and nobody comes here trying to create their own peace while fearing that leaving the real life door wide open could allow strife to walk in behind them. Of course not.

So show me your real body. Show me your daughter. Prove to me you're a woman. Nevermind - I'm a mile from your house anyway. Maybe I'll look for myself.

Too many lost friends, too many tests of resolve. Too many situations that called for philosophical compromise. Too many threats, Too many psychos. First life already has all that covered, so a "second life" is one life too many.

Nah.

I remember those days in my own SL life. *sighs* (The really great person that is.)

I have. Usually it's because of, well, emptiness.

*hugs*

i'll look you up next time i'm inworld. we can mope together.

before any of that, just email me. sheesh. now i'm tired.

Awwww...*Hugs back* I'd like that

I can't quit until I have teleported to all 14000 sims in less than 4 hours. Considering that 4 hours only get me about 70 sims currently, I figure I have a very long time left here..

I've thought about it, not because I'm sick & tired of SL yet, but knowing that I need to obtain more balance in the "other" life.

But then I go and do something that ties me down to SL even more. As a somewhat trivial example, having a bunch of virtual chickens that need to be fed. There are more "serious" things too.

It appears that part of me is insistent on sabatoging any efforts I try to make to loosen my grip in SL.

I'd be lost without you, Connolly.

That's why I came back. I couldn't bear that burden.

Er.. There are closer to 30,000 regions..

Gonna keep the goal at 4 hours?

sigh, me too...better now. I hope you are too.

Me, too. I've been building, but that isn't doing it. Maybe it's just that I've been running into negative personalities even there.

"So you're building hm? Well dear don't overdo it and burn yourself out." Huh? Based upon what? That person had never even met me before that moment, only saw my name flash by in a chat room.

Or other subtler things. I'm not a very competitive person. And I don't want someone who I know IS, all over me any time I try something new. And there's someone on my friends list like that.

I struggle already against ideas like 'this is a bad time to begin something,' 'both SL and RL economies are bad,' 'there are a lot of people way ahead of me skills-wise,' etc. So when someone out there is not supportive but the opposite, it's deflating. I know. Wah, wah. Lol.

I nearly left when the Ursula stuff came to light, I thought they were letting the teen grid in and just couldn't handle that idea. I was so relieved when someone told me I was wrong.

Otherwise I get bored at times, but I dig it, I'm very attached to my land.

Definitely, yes. In fact, I've more-or-less quit SL already, and have been in this state for quite some time. The only thing that keeps me around is the money and I'm allowing that to deteriorate naturally. When it reaches a level that it's no longer worthwhile staying open, I'll close down and I'll be gone. I haven't looked at search in ages and even my store models and castle guards haven't been rezzed in ages. I'm letting it all fade away.

Two things caused it. One is that it's my nature to get bored of doing the same thing so I suddenly change what I do. I've done it before with RL businesses - just pulled the plug out at that was that. The difference with SL is that it earns money without me having to do anything, so I'm letting it fade away rather than suddenly pull the plug.

The main thing that caused it is LL. After all this time they are still unable to produce a stable platform for anything serious, and I don't believe they have the brains in the company to do it - at least not in management. I don't just mean technical stability - I mainly mean the stability that they disrupt with things like the adult policy, the homestead stupidity, and their failures in most customer service areas. Far too often, they do things that I find disheartening (literally) - even things that don't affect me personally.

That's not to say that my social interest won't spark again at some stage, but I haven't had any spark or interest of any kind for quite some time now.

the only thing i can think of that would get me to leave SL is if they officially allowed teens on the grid. I'm not here for money or relationships. It's all about being on the bleeding edge of the future. When that starts to include the pouty teens tantrums making false accusations there's no reason to stay.