Imagine an official IGE or Anschechung.

The pro-Phillip shilling job by LD and Blaze Spinnaker made those two look like look like – Ta-da – fools.

Imagine that.

The Lindens as Lindens can hold land within the game, but it seems like it’s just for the purpose of making like little “offices” or homes for discussions in Ambleside. (I’m always wondering if Colin Linden is ever going to do anything with that land he owns in Nipigon). I don’t think they can collect LL in their accounts beyond certain transactions, i.e. to give out prizes. But that’s just why I put on the agenda of the first MJW letter to Phil and the first meeting with Phil and Robin the issue of their ethics, or conduct guidelines. We all sign a TOS. What do they sign? or abide by? It’s not known. It may exist…but we don’t have it yet. They’ve promised it…but it’s been more than 30 days. I’m happy to wait 120 days if they need to start from scratch and write it, I just want them to be “on it”. It’s a complicated matter. They want to be in the world to have a presence. Some of them don’t see anything wrong with the stuff with Jeska modeling or Shaun DJing or Pathfinder joining groups and hanging out. But some of us find that questionable activity, and evidence of a line being crossed.

If you came in second in the contest, and there was a second prize for the SLTV, and you didn’t get it, that seems like a really authentic beef. So why aren’t you spelling out all the details of this claim and getting the community to back it? But if you beef is that you made an alt after being banned, and then that alt got outed and didn’t get a prize or something, well, we can have sympathy in the sense that many of us here think they’re too trigger-happy with the permabans, but you won’t have that much sympathy if some kind of “workaround” was used on a ban. They’re pretty straightforward on blocking off those escape hatches and when you want to be safe from stalking maniac fucktards, you’re glad of it when it works in your favour.

So what DID these three Lindens actually do? Charging Lindens with actual theft of LL from residents’ accounts is a very serious charge. As much as I’ve seen Lindens do stuff for ideological reasons like ban people or put stuff back in inventory (as I mentioned) or seize land for Governor Linden in an internal group dispute like GIGAS, etc. — these are all sort of “God-mode” issues that are more about the game and their company’s ideology than they are an ordinary transgression like theft. I don’t believe the Lindens are thieves. So I’d like to hear you back up that claim.

I am just adding my small voice here … I am very uncomfortable with the game creators taking over these type of services. There is too much opportunity for corruption and manipulation by individuals who might game the system for their own benefit. Is there any policy in place at LL that states that employees can not play? That would surprise me.

The whole thing seems rather dangerous. I understand that the Lindens are trying to add features to make it a better game, but I think they are unwittingly damaging the game .. short and long term. We’ll have to see how it shakes out. There is a big spotlight on them right now. If things go bad, it will really shatter confidence in the Lindens, and economy and commerce in SL.

As and when one of those Linden fuckers is short of 400 dollars, he’ll come up with some excuse to perm ban you, and pocket your L100k, and easily be able to sell it on their ‘exchange’, with no questions asked, FUCKERS

Just like those pricks Adam and Colin Linden did to me, although they weren’t quite quick enough to get all of what they could have. LMAO Just as i suspect that wanker Jesse Linden pocketed L50k that should have been given to me(under a different name) prize money after coming 2nd runner up in that crappy SLTV competition, but just as i predicted on The Super Fox Show, they looked for ANY reason they could not to pay up. Hope you fucking choke on it Jesse

Those Linden fucks are the most corrupt bunch of assholes i’ve ever come accross, hopefully the whole place will implode on it’s self some where in the near future. I’ve got my fingers crossed for that event any way

TrannyPet Barmy

1. Commissions — how much? Discounts for bulk sales?
2. Float — how long will they keep my dollars after I trade my Lindens? I would think they’d want to park the amounst in the money market at PayPal at the very least for a day.
3. Spread — will they allow listings at all different prices?
4. Fixed exchange rate — they may opt to put it at $4.00.
5. Sinks — when they see the value going down “too much,” unlike GOM, which can’t do anything and really is just an exchange, the Lindens will be able to raise the price of texture uploads or introduce other sinks of various kinds — maybe the telehub sales tax they’ve talked about idly in the Linden Hotline in response to Khamon Fate’s question about telehubs. So watch out — this is where they will really be controlling the exchange — by fixing up the sinks elsewhere.
6. Stipends or dwell — they make take a look at how the exchange is doing each week, and adjust stipends or dwell payments accordingly.
7. “Chats” about large operations — do you really think that if Anshe puts 16 million on their, they aren’t going to have a chat? GOM wouldn’t be in a position to have a chat. Linden will be able to chat, given that they hold the keys to sims that we’re all really just renting, that aren’t our own.
8. “Any reason or no reason” — large movements of currency could just lead to expulsions, without too many questions being asked, and “fraud against the community” will be invoked in ways that GOM would never be able to do.
9. Being “down” — GOM wouldn’t be able to close just because it felt like it; the Lindens will be able to.
10. Customer service — this could cause price fluctations. As one person already pointed out, giving that their programming already causes considerable inventory lost, is there any reason to believe they won’t lose currency either? At least when you pay Zeppi Schlegel, there’s a transaction record to follow, and having 2 systems in a transaction like that is great for back-up — now we’ll only have the one system to track itself.

OK, do you get the idea? So please, stop all this hectoring about how the Lindens aren’t “really” in the currency selling business. They will influence it so heavily that they won’t need to be.

Jade Lilly is so confident that the price will fluctuate with the dollar. As I’ve just explained, they’ll have many ways to make sure it doesn’t fluctuate *too far* — and they’ll use them. That’s the whole reason they took over the exchange.

Imagine an official GOM. There. Ta-da.

Marsellus Wallace