Will you use SL voice for the majority of your communication in world?

-Most married people that I know of either gender arent very interested in voice.

To some, (probably many) Just being in Second Life is Roleplay, and are never Out of Character. In any case, you are entitled to approach Second Life however you wish, just as we all are.

I think voice will have many practical applications inworld, but it isn't something I'll use on a daily basis. Lectures are probably the best initial application of voice. But I'm sure some enterprising folks will find others.

As I understand it (and maybe I'm wrong), landowners will have to pay additional tier to have voice available. As such, I suspect that a large percentage of SL will remain mute for a while. So, schools and rl companies will likely be the first to offer it. Then as new applications are developed, others will.

My thoughts...

I do realize that most people in SL don't feel the same and that's just fine with me.

Ok, and there is something I do not agree with (and thus I will have this conflict in the future and must keep it in mind). I do not believe that simply because you are sitting in front of a comptuer you stop being you or are excused from your behavior. Typing is a form of behavior, as is communicating. If you communicate something that is false, simply assuming that everyone else is doing the same, you've lied by your own fault of assumption. If you want to avoid this, you should take it upon yourself to discern how the other person you're communicating with is playing.

Personally, I think there's some people who use the above ambiguity to their advantage.

I believe you are trivializing gender by comparing it to height and hair length. Moreover, I'm not saying that I believe wearing the opposite gender's shape is entirely twisted. It's a step, but it's also a long road from normal to twisted. There are many nd various reasons to wear a shape of the opposite gender.

But to pretend to actually BE the opposite gender? I don't get that and yeah, I view that as twisted. I'm ok if you don't like me for that, I really am. I'm just being honest - if you say you're a girl and you're a guy, outside of roleplaying, and in what appears to be a "real" or OOC conversation, something may be a little wrong with you (in my opinion).

Divluging real life information to someone you've met online is probably not smart. But we do not smart things when we trust people. We don't trust people immediately. Thus, if someone intentionally decieves someone else (violating their trust) I see a moral "crime" of sorts. It's a bad thing to do to someone. Perhaps they should have known better; or perhaps you should have known that some people take what you say seriously. If you say you're something you're not (in actual words, not in shapes) then that does make you a liar, again, in my opinion, and I'd rather not hang with you

I do have to disagree with you here Conan (gets ready for his 3rd AR from Conan of the day. )

Chris, is an extension of me. When you talk to Chris, you are talking to me. Even my look draws from my RL appearance. I do have alts that are roles or characters, a female and two males who are both very different than me. Chris is in relationships and friendships. The alts come out to play, have no one on their friends lists, and go away with hardly a ripple in the surface of SL.

That's odd because with people I know it would be the exact opposite.

Most of the people I know or have known online who are married are actively looking and socializing online to break out of their marriage and to get (romantically/sexually) close to someone else, in a way they can't/won't in RL. Voice is one aspect, cam is another and most of them are far more eager to do either than the single people I know because they'll never be able to take the relationship to real life.

And if most, ie. the majority, of people do not want voice, why are we getting it?

I thought that in a democratic society the majority of the people were suppose to account for something.

Where are you getting your majority figures from? The question was whether you'd use voice the majority of the time, not whether you'd voice at all or whether you thought voice would be useful.

As for majorities, in a democratic society the majority aren't always pandered to and what constitutes a majority is questionable. A British government hasn't had over 50% of the vote for eons.

Where are you getting your majority figures from? The question was whether you'd use voice the majority of the time, not whether you'd voice at all or whether you thought voice would be useful.

As for majorities, in a democratic society the majority aren't always pandered to and what constitutes a majority is questionable. A British government has hadn't had over 50% of the vote for eons.

Where are you getting your majority figures from? The question was whether you'd use voice the majority of the time, not whether you'd voice at all or whether you thought voice would be useful.

I thought that in a democratic society the majority of the people were suppose to account for something.

It was simply a matter of, "Everyones doing it and it will make the corporates happy, and it will be coooooooooooooooool"

One possible extrapolation can be made that if the percentages hold true to the total SL user base, those fearing marginalization and exclusion will in fact have plenty of like minded people to interract with.

So...you see the addition of voice chatting software (in a game where users often have ventrillo or TeamSpeak servers) as a nod to corporate money. mmmhmmm, ok, if you say so.

I think they did it because most people like chatting. Most people also avoid web boards about games too. Most. Not all, but most. We web posters are in a startling minority among all game players, not just SL players.

And for every pro-voice forum/thread/blog/that you do link that is pro-voice, I will link you dozens that are overwhelmingly anti-voice.

Actually this isnt a democrasy. Its a virtual world run on a company's servers meaning it's up to the Company to decide what we get or dont get. They own the servers, they make the rules. Simple. If they want to ban Ageplaying Gorean Furries, they are in their right to do so.

Personal experince would argue otherwise. There will be a lot of people using voice. Including large numbers of my friends.

There will be plenty to interact with im sure but Im not sure how many - it definitely wont be the overwhelming majority that seem represented on the polls.

I think the reason is simple. A lot of people who are going to be most comfortable with voice - dont do things like read forums.

Where did you get that out of what I said? That was ONE of 3 reasons I listed.

Maybe voice will be great for people with low reading comprehension.

oh really?

Was the 152 (and counting) against voice and 12 for voice in this poll the give away?

Or was it any combination of any of the other 99.9% of overwhelmingly-against-voice threads, forums, blogs and/or polls discussing this issue of voice in SL?

And if most, ie. the majority, of people do not want voice, why are we getting it?

I thought that in a democratic society the majority of the people were suppose to account for something.

There are pro voice people in this thread and in the blog. You don't have to go very far to find them.

I'm not sure what angle you're trying to play here, how may features do you think the majority of people wanted?

The majority of people would appear to be "Anti Voice now", they see the priorities of LL as being misplaced...

Perhaps,but unless your crystal ball is better than mine, no one can say for sure what will happen. You can speculate on past experiences, of which you have way more than I have to go on, but it still is only speculation. history can repeat itself, but only because people allow it to happen. And even if a large majority are voicers. How many will acommodate non voicers and how many won't? Again, we won't know until it happens.