Caution U Turn ahead.
Sometimes you have to put your hands up and admit when you are wrong. Admittedly it doesn’t happen very often but recently I made a poor assessment of a situation. My last blog was made at a time when I was very emotional about a situation in Second Life. You see what needs to be understood is that sometimes residents get too caught up in small issues because we operate in a microcosm, a delicate eco-system for small changes have dramatic effect on our second lives.
There are a couple of parts of my previous post I stand by but that I wish I had framed with altogether subtler words. I lost the reasoning that my education that i gained both in scholarly and business institutions. My main business in second life is land, now it’s a situation where you see daily sometimes hourly shifts and fluctuations because Second Life is life in miniature and sped up.
I was talking to Timo today about the open space fiasco and how in our heart of hearts we knew it was a good thing. I went so far as state the simple truth of the matter “I have been immature”. Maturity in business means not thinking about today and tomorrow or next week, you should be planning for next year, three years and five years in the future. Ok at the moment a lot of today and tomorrow comes into my plans as I build to a level where I can comfortably plan far in advance. The problem is that my concerns are not entirely the same but are shared with some of the larger “barons”. We in turn share some interest with everyone from the person logging on for the first time to the renter, club owner, Linden employee and Linden management. We all are bound to agree and disagree. The one thing we can all agree on though is that we want the grid to continue, grow and flourish. Because so many of us feel so strongly often words become heated, passions and vitriol rise. In a way it is positive that we care so much.
So I have been giving Jack Linden a hard time recently because my world, my business, was unsure. I was always making money, always had tier covered but my business is young it needs to be nurtured, small announcements that were affecting land rates were having a greater impact on me, so like anyone I looked for answers especially on matters that I felt assured about like the release of mainland, and the fact that I just taken my first open space sim. These things are of great importance to me but they are not important to the grid. The last couple of days I have felt better about the future of Second life, I feel that the open space announcement if anything has brought out some spirit and passion from people that they should look to when evaluating their second lives, what matters to them, who matters to them. It is in the face of adversity that they have come together in a spirit of unity, organising campaigns, forming groups and asking difficult questions.
Now, I’m happy that some people feel strongly and they are speaking up for themselves. I disagree with them though. The future of Second Life lies in a strong mainland, if we bring that spirit of community and set up home and business Second Life will have its second wind. Unfortunately there are many blatant lies published by estate owners regarding mainland and these lies are trickled down to the ordinary renter or small land holder. We are constantly told mainland is ugly, abandoned, and laggy. I repudiate those claims. Mainland already has unrivalled infrastructure, beauty, freedom of movement, interesting topography and potential than any private estate can or will ever have. Ok there are some arseholes. But they are everywhere. People need to look at the “save our sims appeal” which is being eulogised to by Kalyrra Heart and IntLibber Brautigan, who between them have set out to destroy mainland with negatively affecting advertising and extortion either by themselves or through their various fronts, channels, alts and pies which they firmly have their fingers plunged in. The tarnishing of mainland has been a deliberate plot to drive people to estates so that those estate owners can profit.
I started this post with an intention to apologise for my last post and point out my mistakes. I end this post with an apology to Jack Linden; however, I will qualify some of my remarks for the last post in a more fitting tone. I believe that bringing people back to mainland to make it the jewel in the crown of Second Life should be a top priority. I am dismayed that the advertising policy took so long to come into effect and that after a couple of weeks of rigorous enforcement there is a more relaxed attitude toward it. I believe that new content and areas should be being built to enhance the beauty and appeal of mainland, however, I believe the priority should be the older regions which are in need of most attention. Let’s fix what we have, restore faith and value in mainland and then work on new areas, hopefully then the great mainland myths propagated by those who are out to take your money can die and residents can start again as a community, sharing space, ideas and consciousness.
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