Would you miss these forums?

Wow - many think I am sweet and innocent.... well okay, maybe not innocent

Lexie Linden: You may have read awhile back about the new blog/forum software that is coming.
Lexie Linden: This new software presents an opportunity for us to explore how we can extend the Volunteer Program and respond to something volunteers have asked for in the past.
Lexie Linden: The new forum/blog could allow us to design a system inspired by “Yahoo Answers” (Here’s the link in case you are not familiar with it - http://answers.yahoo.com )
Lexie Linden: By creating a written, searchable, live resource that can be accessed by the masses, instead of limiting help to the smaller number of residents volunteers can reach in world, we can become scalable and reach more Residents than ever before.
Lexie Linden: Some of you might be thinking we could use wiki for this. .
Lexie Linden: But, I think if you have ever spent time trying to search wiki..you may have found that it can be difficult to locate exactly what you are looking for. It is still a good resource for many things, but we can do better for our particular needs
Lexie Linden: There are some important benefits to this new idea that I want to point out for your consideration.
Lexie Linden: One is that multiple languages are supported. I think we can all agree that’s pretty important!
Lexie Linden: Also, by compiling helpful and searchable correct answers, it would be possible over time for some of this information to be picked up by the Knowledge Base in English and other languages.
Lexie Linden: The positive impact on basic account holders, not just brand new residents could also be pretty significant.
Lexie Linden: This program could preserve the knowledge, share it easily, connect the community in a new way and enable volunteer assistance to be truly accessible and global for Second Life Residents.
Lexie Linden: Our current status on this “project” is: The program extension is not something designed yet. We are looking at the options and the best way to take advantage of the new software.
Lexie Linden: So, when could this happen.
Lexie Linden: We do not have the timing set yet since we are still in the initial explore and design phase. It would not be when the new blog/forum first launches. (That could be within the next month or so) We will keep you updated as things progress : )
Lexie Linden: Here are a few general items we would hope to include and also some ways volunteers may be able to help in the launch
Lexie Linden: Please keep in mind this is in design phase and can change
Lexie Linden: As always we will want and value your thoughts and feedback. (Yes, there are surveymonkeys in your future : ) )
Lexie Linden: We would want…
Lexie Linden: A Question/Answer area possibly seeded with Q&A from current volunteers.
Lexie Linden: Some initial question categories pre-determined with volunteer input and feedback (surveymonkey!)
Lexie Linden: An initial “group/community” of volunteers within this website that have a title that reflects their participation.
Lexie Linden: and…
Lexie Linden: A “leader board” for top contributors that could show who gives the most answers, correct answers or helpful answers
Lexie Linden: A little note on that feature: Correct answers or helpful answers are determined by the person who asked the question. When they mark the answers as helpful or correct, it would update the total for each person that answered.
Lexie Linden: That’s some basics about the idea.

Its sad to say I wouldnt miss it. Its kinda addictive to type ideas down but they get so hammered these days I wonder if its even worth it. Maybe I am changing and sl is not. I change as my real world changes but there isnt real community here - not really. And no feeding of teh soul. I come here to seek "approval" of some sort, I guess, as I "entertain" myself inworld and look at how we have used a incredible machine to create a strange place to inhabit.
Forums were a place for coming up for air and saying "wow, this place is brill". An then asking a question like "Is it flat or round?" as I once did and got some irritated answers. The issue could be that from perpective of teh forum, sl is a very different place than what it is when we are there.
Reading forums now makes me feel so old wih the attitudes I see.

I'm not sure of the precise relevance of this to these forums but it seems like it might have some bearing. This is from the vteamblog.com site, http://vteamblog.com/2009/01/30/monthly-mentor-meeting-transcript-january-30-2009-10am-pst/ .
This project could be totally independent from whatever is going to happen to this vBulletin forum, I don't know.

when he [Mr Philip Linden] designed Second Life, he was thinking about the architecture of the place: how would the Big City in Second Life look like? How would people design it, create it? What tools would they need? That were his worries. He never really thought about the people that would be living in it, and so, things like using SL for psychological studies or even learning/education came to him as a complete surprise, but a very welcome one. The whole concept of people writing about how to live in the city was something he never imagined to be interesting to anyone. So, SL is the place, the social tools just came later.

What do you mean by "Continue" to support? They have to start doing something before they can continue to do it.

To answer the question:Yes I would. I enjoy the banter that goes on here. There is an interesting mixture of personalites here. I'm only inworld an hour or two a week, usually at off peak times, so I don't see too many of the people here "in the pixel".

What do you mean by "Continue" to support? They have to start doing something before they can continue to do it.

To answer the question:Yes I would. I enjoy the banter that goes on here. There is an interesting mixture of personalites here. I'm only inworld an hour or two a week, usually at off peak times, so I don't see too many of the people here "in the pixel".

I know it may be inconvenient because of teh real world situation for many who post here but why cant the group who are close to each other use teh cartel and the IM there?

It is very slow to post but why cant it be a "diffrent" forum? I know it may be inconvenient because of teh real world situation for many who post here but why cant the group who are close to each other use teh cartel and the IM there?

Jig, you have shaped your own forum experience which i feel from this post you believe to be at least a somewhat negative experience. But honestly, you invite a certain amount of negative or irritated replies when people read your posts and wonder why you are making 'teh' same spelling errors over and over and over again in what is seemingly a juvenile manner. I have never corrected your spelling and i never will, but what i have noticed is that quite a few people in a different thread mentioned this to you, thus expressing to you why they may have a negative view of you and yet you choose to ignore this social correction/sanction. I think the spelling thing with you and some in this forum is more than just an error of misplacing ones fingers on the keyboard and have probably assigned a number of negative character traits to you because of it.

Intentional alienation can never bring a good experience or a feeling of belonging to a community when the community is what you are alienating yourself from.

LOL if we were teachers you would be seeing all those little lines of correction and such on the posts (wonder what the screens of some folks look like LOL)

the only issue I have with spelling Jig, is it makes it difficult to read, when one expects the words to be spelled a specific way (sure it can be read, but not with ease)

That's all


I maen I culod sepll it all icrnorcelty and sitll be udnsreotod.

but not be easy to read.

But What is this THING you people have with spelling????? Sometiems I swear I am being haunted by chalk dust, dry erase, and school teachers.

Perhaps for all of their faults, those teachers were onto something. I appreciate your individuality, but when enough people have the same complaint, perhaps there's actually some merit to their point?

You know, i read somewhere that really teh middle letters of a word dont mean much to teh brain but teh first one and last one do. They make teh connection. Its somethign to do with the synapse or whatever its called. (No sure about the last sentence of this but it sounded kinda liek teh stuff I say in real to my friends. So its really a real Jig thing).

And I look for the secret signs of teachers here. I swear you are all hiding soemthing.

Perhaps for all of their faults, those teachers were onto something. I appreciate your individuality, but when enough people have the same complaint, perhaps there's actually some merit to their point?

I'll miss teh forums. And you know what? You'll miss me.

No we won't. Another know-nothing, delayed adolescent, attention whore who can't spell will turn up to replace you.

My answer: Probably not.

And as a side note, the amount of people who do use these forums probably amount to a minority anyway.