Comments on: Picking the Picks People Pick: Does Dwell’s End Mean A New Face For Popular Places?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:55:51 +0000

As a prospective sl dance club builder/owner, i am now sighing a huge relief and giving myself a firm pat on the back for doing my homework first and finding out that the dwell system is near an end. Thank god for the herald, and thank god for me not just running into things again like i normally would have. AL

By: Marie Vaughan

Marie Vaughan — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:42:08 +0000

Wonderful article, thanks. I have often wished that the finder would actually find. I read people’s picks religiously, and have found some wonderful areas as a result. There is, however, much to sift through that can only be interesting to the wearer. I would love topical lists such as ‘top 10 parks’ or ‘top 10 art galleries’ or ‘top 10 extraordinary places’.

By: Laurine Witte

Laurine Witte — Sat, 06 May 2006 02:18:07 +0000

After looking around and asking about “THE WALL” in Transylvania, I found it! Across from the club on Transylvania is a 1m high wall with a ton of graffiti on it. That’s the wall…

This should teleport you to be standing ON the middle of the wall…

By: Vivianne Draper

Vivianne Draper — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:33:23 +0000

You realize, of course, that now that you’ve done this, people will start gaming their profiles to get places into the top 20 or 100. Nonetheless, good job Prokofy. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to ask Philip to search profiles.

By: Nage Archer

Nage Archer — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:52:07 +0000

I’m glad to see Nage’s Private BDSM Club made the list. For a long time, I’ve watched how places that are dance clubs that list BDSM or malls, or even places that are so nominally BDSM get more traffic. I wish there was a field in SL that listed your primary interest, or primarily what you offer, so that everyone who searched on BDSM wouldn’t see a dance club or sex club on the top of the list. Anyway, thanks for an interesting article, it gave me much to think about.

By: vw

vw — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:32:05 +0000

So where is Translvania ie the wall? A search doesnt turn it up.

Thanks

By: Leffard Lassard

Leffard Lassard — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:41:21 +0000

Good article and collection. You hardly find all the places by yourself. I knew only a few of them as I am rather new. Get them deliverd free is a good present for today and gives me a good view on where to go the next time.

Hopefully someone will be able to think of a measure that is less affectable by money in the long-run for the future.

By: Patch Lamington

Patch Lamington — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:29:59 +0000

Yeah, I’ve seen profiles where picks were 10+ pages of “Im cool and have a great RL and Im a really nice person”. First time was checking the profile of someone who’d been giving me random grief. Figures.
Anyway, a great list to get out of Philip!

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:52:29 +0000

Very interesting stats!

coco

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:09:53 +0000

You’re making an interesting point, Patch, but without doing the math, I can’t tell what would be propelled — note that the Salsa dance floor in Lost Garden of Apollo is also in there along with the main landing point for Apollo — well, people pick what they pick, it’s interesting to look at what they pick this way, too. I’d really like to see all 1,700 whatever places.

I also note that a lot of people fill picks with things like “My Business Policy” or “This is my cat” or “here’s my favourite rock band” or “My boyfriend” — and the place is insignificant or not — it’s a scrapbook. I think it’s like a hack of the avatar thinger to make a MySpace.