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In an interview by Prokovy Neva with Linden Labs CEO Phillip Linden the following exchange takes place regarding Second Life related blogs (emphasis mine): ]]> http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/08/incredibly_host.html/comment-page-1#comment-41986 Brace Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:30:48 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1916#comment-41986 Town Halls went to voice (exluding a large population of hard of hearing, hearing impaired and deaf residents) just because philly "don't type so good". And now the forums are closing cuz he has the attention span of gnat. "hasnt read the forums in a year" Talk about out of touch. I look my forum reading down to once or twice a week and got hopelessly out of touch. So his employees have been basically telling him whatevers been going on in the world - picking and choosing what issues to focus on. And now it'll get even worse with specialized blogs and specialized access and no commentary allowed. Yay! But I'm sure all that will end up as mismanaged as the forums were anyhow - only a matter of time. Town Halls went to voice (exluding a large population of hard of hearing, hearing impaired and deaf residents) just because philly “don’t type so good”.

And now the forums are closing cuz he has the attention span of gnat.

“hasnt read the forums in a year”

Talk about out of touch. I look my forum reading down to once or twice a week and got hopelessly out of touch. So his employees have been basically telling him whatevers been going on in the world – picking and choosing what issues to focus on.

And now it’ll get even worse with specialized blogs and specialized access and no commentary allowed.

Yay!

But I’m sure all that will end up as mismanaged as the forums were anyhow – only a matter of time.

(Those that don’t get arbitrarily removed before he can see them, of course.)

I’m surprised, though, that he apparently seems to think that the state of the forums just “happened,” as if it were inevitable.

The forums became a rats’ nest due directly to mismanagement, favoritism in moderation, a wishy-washy interpretation of the rules (depending on who broke them), and ultimately, neglect.

Forum negativity will inevitably ensue if the rules are applied strictly to a few, non-favored posters, while overlooked entirely for favorites, who can say “f*** you” and worse to others with impunity.

When the rules are meaningless, chaos and negativity inevitably follow.

The “design” of the forums was not flawed. Nor was the number of posters a problem. The problem was inefficient (and often corrupt) forum management.

If the only purpose of the forums was for Philip to read efficiently, then of course we don’t need them.

But if they had any other purpose, I think the more honest way of explaining the move away from them would be: “We don’t want to spend the money to run them right.”

coco

It’s like asking your next door if it’s ok to write your words on their lawn with toilet papers.

“Philip: By being in-world, reading and writing in the Linden Blogs, reading the various user-created newspapers, and possibly by reading user-run blogs. I will probably only do the latter if they somehow are built in a way or around a community that can convey a more balanced tone, and that is a hard challenge.”

Not actually true, it’s not a hard challenge… unless he was talking about a great mass of “noobs” that doesn’t have the skills to run a in-world newspapers and/or magazines, so they just find the easy way to rant their words on the forum. …Kinda like the real world where they end up using a forum on a internet after they failed to get a job at some communication business like CNN.

Phillip, if you want to close it. Do it!

It’s beyond silly to see bunch of noobs confuses with their SL forum for a chattin box instead of a communication & support.

Hard to draw the dividing line. Still, people are free to set up their blogs, E-Zines, websites, whatever, and complain how much they want, in the style they prefer… so there is no “stifling of free speech” — just not “official encouragement of rudeness”