Da der Originaltext mittlerweile durch einen suspended account auch aus dem google cache zu verschwinden droht;
hier ein Text aus einem historischen Abschnitt der Entwicklungen um " SL " / Linden Lab um 29-06-2009 herum -
referenzen: ioff.de/showpost.php?p=22523837&postcount=453 ( Der SecondLife 'allgemein' Thread dort)
http://www.slapt.me/wiki/index.php/An_Op...r_to_Linden_Lab der ehemalige Link des folgenden Textes
An Open letter to Linden Lab
penned by Kira Welty
A few years ago an idea and a dream of a virtual world where every adult could be free to be who they want and to create what they want was made: Your World, Your Imagination
Not everything was perfect, or stable, but it was Our World, Our Imagination apart from the childish games and epeen of other virtual worlds. It was a place where adults got to play dress up, RP and socialize with others of like minded interests. Somewhere we could try to be the next Calvin Klein, Sony, Mercedes, or any countless other famous or infamous business leaders, companies or artists. It was a virtual world where the adults of the world can dream and play free from the grind and daily hassles of everyday life.
Somewhere along the way Linden Lab, You Forgot This.
You forgot that your customers here on the main grid are Adults.
You seem to have forgotten that almost all of everything here was made by your customers.
You gave us a blank canvas, some paints and a few brushes...all of us together painted the world of Second Life.
Blondin, Jack, Cyn, Phil, Marty, Mark, Meta, and even you PIA Frontier
all of you are forgetting some very important and fundamental things:
- Many of your customers hold the same degrees as you do.
- Many of us have years of experience doing the same job you do.
- A lot of us have been involved with online activities just as long as you have.
- Almost none of us want to see Linden Lab fail and Second Life and the grid close down.
- Again and repeatedly you forget we are ADULTS
As with any sort of change there will be extremes of opinions, you've seen the posts, the ones that make you roll your eyes and question that poster's sanity and/or reasoning. But for the most part there have been numerous reasonable suggestions and questions about these changes from day one. Yet you still forget we are adults.
The best approach you can take is to be as open an honest as to the motivations behind these changes. What has been stated as your reasons do not match up with what you are saying and doing. Don't forget we are adults, and very few of us are the idiots you seem to be treating us as.
If it is a simple "clean up the grid superficially to attract more customers" then why do so many of the things you aren't going to change remaining in place? Many in the very first places someone gets to as a newbie.
If its not as simple as that open up and give us some credit, we helped build SL, and we can help SL get through these changes, but not if you treat us like children.
Give us the facts as you can, not the embarrassing comments like Meta's "birds in the bush", or Jack's "I haven't heard much of any opposition", we're adults we can take the truth. Its much better than the corporate BS we have been hearing.
If you honestly want our feedback, our concerns, and our ideas on how to make this work within your framework of deadlines and goals start by letting everyone know. Let everyone understand what you want to do, then everyone can help take this to where we all need to go to get it accomplished. With as little negative impact for all and maximum gain for everyone.
All of you at Linden Lab need to get on the same page, what each of you says and said should be reflected in the KB and blogs within a reasonable time frame, days not weeks or months. Having Blondin say one thing, the KB say another and Cyn saying something else entirely isn't instilling any confidence in Linden Lab, quite the opposite it is causing mis-information and borderline hysteria in some cases.
There are serious Issues with the Grid, the current server version and even the client, those should be your first priority, without a working virtual world it doesn't matter what you do for adult verification and content segregation no one will come here.
Let us help you help ourselves have Our World, Our Imagination, after all it was Your World, Your Imagination that started all this. Without us you have no Secondlife, without you we have no Secondlife.
I watched an incredible content creator leave today, I fear many more will go before this is all through.
What do you want Linden Lab? What are you after? Will the cost be too much?
We can help.
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