Maybe you should get a dictionary and check the definition of “discrimination” before spewing your hate here.

Collins English Dictionary: “Discriminate (vb): To single out a particular person, group, etc, for special favour or, esp, disfavour, often because of a characteristic such as race, colour, sex, intelligence, etc.”

Translation: It’s not just about “race”.

So you CAN be discriminated against for having “No payment on file”, as you have so amply demonstrated with your offensive posting.

How much else did you get wrong in your post?

You called me a “cheap ass” and said I was “riding it” – well maybe you should go back and read my original post – my creative work has contributed to the overall economy of SL, and I spend the proceeds entirely in-world – I have to, since I have no payment info on file, I CANNOT cash out either.

Just because I don’t pay directly to Linden Labs doesn’t mean to say I am not contributing, and it’s frankly disgusting that some people are willfully ignorant and therefore too stupid to recognise that fact.

“So those of us who have “no payment info on file” should be discriminated against and treated like some kind of second class resident.”

Second Life isn’t a country, and “no payment information on file” isn’t a race. You can’t be “discriminated” against for being a cheap ass. Linden Lab is a company that’s trying to make sales, if some customers are paying them money and other customers are free riding it, then LL is going to and should give preferential treatment to the former category.

So those of us who have “no payment info on file” should be discriminated against and treated like some kind of second class resident.

I’m proud of the fact that after two years in SL I own my own island and house, paid for by my shops and other work – I have a turnover of 20000 L$ a month and it’s cost me nothing but some time and creativity – and I still have “no payment info on file”.

Thank god the bots are going, a couple of clubs I used to visit were lagged to hell because of the skyboxes full of zombies they had to drive traffic up.

However as @What points out there are ways around this – and like anything else to do with SEO technology, this will always be the case – but at least residents won’t have to put up with sims that are lagged out by bots.

As for camping, yes, been there, done that, but in my experience a conversation at a camp site is about as welcome as objective journalism at the Herald.

Yeah, I see what you mean, lol.. With fishing you are active, in the game and usually in IM.

Cheers!

LL *are* doing something about restricting new accounts. They’re preventing them from seeing/visiting all the pron , ahem, Adult content. Which is what a fair proportion of them came to see.

So then our pron hunting newbies will be told that the easiest solution is to buy some Lindens and so get “payment info used” (or some such) on their file – which will have the effect of boosting the number of $L transactions and so boost LL’s economic stats. Plus of course the bigger boost when those Lindens get spent as well.

I mean as far as people talking on voice are concerned there are few places outside the infohubs where you find a group larger than 20 speaking to one another. I’m not talking about the vast wasteland of voice disabled roleplay sims. Ideally you could teleport into any handful of sims and find some intelligent life but that doesn’t yet seem to be the case. This is from someone that has spent hundreds of hours chasing dots. It’s very rare you find anything but bots or idle chat between two or three people. WHERE ALL WHITE WOMEN AT?

I’ve also wondered why ppl choose to plant themselves on the steps and benches of the infohub they tp’d into their first day and never move. So many beaches and bars they could be hanging out in and doing the same lame chat they’re doing now, but at least pretty scenery or authentic surroundings.

Re: Only infohubs; where is everybody? Let’s say on a typical 60k night an incredible 50% or 30k are bots and campers which means 30,000 people are somewhere doing something. Ahern, Waterhead and Korea each have about 30 max; let’s make it a few hundred scattered around those sorry sinkholes. So where’s the other 29,500? Obviously, some folks have left the nest and are out doing something.

Users: DURR DIP DERPA DERP!

LL: HURRRRRRRRR!

Users: Ok.