tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post6762857159654528095..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: I have too been playing with fifty-two cards; just 'cause I play so far from my vestEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-13412232105674215422010-11-12T03:25:50.113-08:002010-11-12T03:25:50.113-08:00Hi Emilly!
This is a terrific post and I apprecia...Hi Emilly!<br /><br />This is a terrific post and I appreciate being included in it, even if as a sidebar. You're very kind. :) <br /><br />I'm not one to hold a grudge, so I'd hate to think that anyone believed I was holding one against the owner of Caverna Obscura. <br /><br />You (and anybody else) are welcome to read Elvina's comments - left on my blog - and my subsequent response, for some clarification. <br /><br />They can be found here: <br /><br />http://glamorpuss.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/will-o-the-wisp-new-evies-closet/#comments<br /><br />I hope that helps, and thanks again for all of your efforts to disclose your favorite in-world groups and why. <br /><br />Personally, I'm looking forward to Linden Labs raising our limit to 40! <br /><br />Warm wishes, <br /><br />Evie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-48343694190180112782010-11-12T02:58:49.031-08:002010-11-12T02:58:49.031-08:00Yes, but if I leave your group, I'm pretty muc...Yes, but if I leave your group, I'm pretty much leaving SL! Which will likely make me cry a bit too.<br /><br />Nah, I'm in to stay. :)Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-84780794369453631462010-11-12T02:44:01.420-08:002010-11-12T02:44:01.420-08:00I'd cry if you left, you are part of the '...I'd cry if you left, you are part of the 'family' you've been with the group so long!sachi Vixenhttp://adam-n-eve.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-38241740963376724052010-10-24T16:15:16.329-07:002010-10-24T16:15:16.329-07:00I am so confused. I consider Evangeline Miles one ...I am so confused. I consider Evangeline Miles one of the premier fantasy designers in Second Life, with you and Kouse Singh <i>at</i> her level--all three of you produce stunningly crafted, well-designed outfits and accessories that can be worn easily in fantasy sims, medieval sims, or at home (my home is in Winterfell).<br /><br />And, you'll note, I'm <i>in</i> your group; I don't have the group space to be in the Sanctum group, and Miss Miles decided to close her in-world group, so there's <i>only</i> the subscribe-o-matic for her.<br /><br />But...if it's necessary, I'm sorry I offended you? I take it there's bad blood between you and Miss Miles?<br /><br />If so, I'm sorry to have brought it up; the point of the post was not to single anyone out, <i>per se</i>, but to outline how few of my groups I consider to be 'throwaways', and how group space is ever at a premium.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-3869314752869514542010-10-24T16:04:36.390-07:002010-10-24T16:04:36.390-07:00just saw this in the incoming links: gee, i guess ...just saw this in the incoming links: gee, i guess i should be thrilled you put me "up there with Evie's Closet" (imagine that! o.O ) who doesn't shun to "be inspired" by still more of my designs... How ironic!<br /><br />Anyway, this week i closed free enrollment to my group so that those who only join to snatch a free ride will get bubkes this time...<br />Thnx for nice words though, i'm sure you meant it good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-24761782203726620852010-10-10T19:18:52.307-07:002010-10-10T19:18:52.307-07:00It's broken way worse beyond that. On the merc...It's broken way worse beyond that. On the merchant end it's far more broken than on the buying end. The migration did not go very well. Several merchants (self included- and Dare as well) have to manually fix hundreds of listings. Further, there's issues with deliveries, tracking (as you mentioned) and payments. People are paying for items, but the lab isnt properly distributing the money, and since the tracking is messed up it can be hard to find.<br /><br />There's no way to set up multiple stores under one name- so for example if you have a store that sells clothes, and one that sells, say... poses- there's no way to set up a separate store on Marketplace for each of them under your name. (that's what my post at NFTL was about this morning.) <br /><br />A showstopper issue was reported months ago on the JIRA- there was a bug that allowed creators to rate their own items, completely gaming the system. When told about this, Brodesky Linden (who as much as people say that Jack is the most hated one, I think theyre wrong) obnoxiously said in public in the comments section that since they can't stop people from gaming the system in other ways, they're not going to bother to try, which made everyone go "You just said WHAT?"<br /><br />Marketplace is *broken*. It will take me weeks to fix what theyve done wrong to my 568 listings, and I have no confidence that they won't do something else and wipe out all the work I just did (that happened to someone else this past week.) <br /><br />-AKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-17153137550544060322010-10-10T02:14:59.313-07:002010-10-10T02:14:59.313-07:00*facepalms* So of course I forget which creator I&...<i>*facepalms*</i> So of <i>course</i> I forget which creator I'm talking to. :)<br /><br />I had heard Marketplace was non-workable from a tracking standpoint--as in, I go in, buy something, something's missing in the box; the merchant I'd send a helpful little request on to may have zero record of my purchase, even if I do. That makes it <i>beyond</i> difficult to track things.<br /><br />But it's broken worse beyond that?<br /><br />I'm still carefully keeping my pet theory to one side in all of this--the one that goes <i>Everything over the past two years has been a systematic attack on creators so that eventually, the Lindens won't have to <b>worry</b> about user content because there will <b>be</b> no user content left.</i> This used to be pure paranoid hyperbole, but the more time passes, the more it's sounding <i>reasonable</i>...and that's scary.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-60033645338750848882010-10-10T02:00:12.224-07:002010-10-10T02:00:12.224-07:00*laughing* So help me I think for real, I have to ...*laughing* So help me I think for real, I have to go *down to the store* to see which one Dangerous IS. We've reshot so many in the past six weeks or so that I can't remember which name is which.<br /><br />Aside from correcting prim parts issues on the older outfits, as we're fixing/reshooting we're also trying to solve the inworld search issues, which as you brilliantly pointed out are a *real* problem for all inworld merchants. <br /><br />You are 100% correct to point out that every single method by which merchants have relied on to get traffic/sales, have all been systematically dismantled and not replaced with anything *workable* by LL. I _get_ why they changed picks. I _get_ why they're changing inworld algorithms. I _get_ why they created the bot policy, and the pick/rewards ban. I *get* it. Honest. But what I don't get is why they haven't put anything in to replace it that actually *works*. <br /><br />I think Dare is bananas to want to try to handle all this paperwork but he assures me it's not a problem for him. Hey- it's his coffin, he can do whatever he wants, you know?<br /><br />(and then on top of that, they broke Marketplace, but Ive already screamed about that this morning.)<br /><br />-AKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-77876597409879352312010-10-10T01:41:19.487-07:002010-10-10T01:41:19.487-07:00Which is also why I'm not leaving your subscri...Which is also why I'm not leaving your subscribe-o. :p<br /><br />It does lead to some duplication on occasion--being in your subscribe-o and the Thrifty Goth group, I get a lot of doubled notices now--but that's okay. I'd rather hear about things twice than miss hearing about things.<br /><br />(And I did buy the Dangerous outfit. Tch. The lace pattern is lush, though.)Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-32119447704596656952010-10-10T01:35:37.077-07:002010-10-10T01:35:37.077-07:00This is a good post, and you should feel good.
I...This is a good post, and you should feel good. <br /><br />I agree with you about group space. It is, as always, a perpetual problem. I'm at 21? groups myself right now and am always looking for ways to drop more if I can. I want to point out in that same vein that if all people are looking for are the sale/hunt/discount/newrelease/blahblahblah fishstick notices(and there's totally, utterly nothing wrong with just wanting that- if I wasn't on the administrative end of this new program that's what I would have done) that their best bet is to *save* their group space, go down to the store, hit the subscribo kiosk and they will get *exactly that*, without having to do anything else at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com