I was honestly surprised to see you analysing my little philosophical rant. Don’t take me too seriously with that stuff… it’s just personal perspectives, and not directed at those too busy arguing to ponder these things.

Before I get into what you’ve said here, let me request, please, that you not make assumptions about my unstated agenda. Let’s just talk about the points raised, ok? If you want me to admit to something, let’s get that out of the way: EVERYBODY, I’M A BIG ASSHOLE. I SAY AND DO EVERYTHING FOR THE WORST REASONS. There. Now let’s talk about what the issues were…

1. I’m not at all surprised that you consider it important to give as good as you get, but I’m a very results-oriented person and I’m not seeing the big payoff there. You get a temporary adrenaline rush. Big deal. I want to move things.

Feeding people scorn makes them stop considering anything you say. You only make yourself irrelevant, your voice becoming a background noise whose content is rarely, if EVER, analysed for what it’s worth.

Striking powerfully involves clarity, brevity, and simplicity. Adding other elements weakens your blow.

2. Well, your assumptions about my personal issues set aside and ignored for now… so that we might actually deal with the issue at hand… Prokofy, you mean to tell me you live without regrets? You’ve never done anything you regret, ever? Look, this is how it works: we do something unfortunate that we feel justified in doing, awhile later it occurs to us that it wasn’t a great way to go, and then we’re faced with a decision: do we accept that it was wrong, or do we go with our original feeling on it?

If somebody comes in and starts screaming at us, it’s a lot more comfortable to assume the screamer is full of crap and we were OK the whole time. If we’re simply presented with the facts, and we’re not threatened, we can accept them. Badgering makes those facts unpleasant and makes us inclined to ignore or deny them.

I’m not saying anything earth-shatteringly insightful here.

3. The more simple somebody appears, the less accurately you are perceiving them. Even morons have layers. Denying this denies reality.

4. Well, the “we” was the people who weren’t busy screaming their heads off. (BTW, you quoted the punchline to my favorite joke.) You can disagree and argue without insults or pigeon-holing people, or even acknowledging their attempts at doing those things to you. You don’t even have to go through the effort of implying disrespect. All that stuff lacks content. That which lacks content does not shed light on the issue.

Guess not!

But hey, there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between putting out someone’s REAL LIFE NAME AND CALLING THEM AT HOME and telling the first name of their SECOND LIFE NAME which they say many people knew anyway.”

It’s still you giving out his private details, when he chose not to, in an attempt to incite action against him. I am not trying to equate the two situations, and I have no need to take a stab at that strawman.

I’m finding this hard to believe. Surely the system would have something like a “short-term memory” set up where it goes to look first, of those items that log on every day, that it finds faster, a smaller set, if you will, it tries first. Only then after it searches that does it go fetching into the depths.

I often wish inventory search worked that way, anyway, with “short term quick” memory of things always in used and “long-term memory” of things mothballed.

and lets say only one million users are still some what active (active at least once a month), this means there are 1 million users accounts that are eating up storage on the servers. more names to search through to find your account. not to say anything about the items in the inactive accounts.

so yes it doesn’t put any active stress on the servers because they aren’t logged in, it does cause a build up of trash.

I’m not to sure how LL does the log in, but I’m sure they are using some ways to cut the search time down (maybe by last name groups, as well as looking at the first letter of the first name).

but I don’t know if it would cause any noticeable difference if you took the inactive users accounts into off line storage.

Also today they redid there side of the AR system, look at the thread on the boards, everyone is jumping for joy.

And besides, what is the point of not deleting them, it’s a waste. Either way they still take up HD space, specially if they have 1000′s of inventory items.