Second Life®: The Rudeness Within…
June 29th, 2009 | Author: Wyn
I tried to go to Philip Linden’s speech closing the SL6BD (Second Life® 6th Birthday Party) after catching Torley Linden’s announcement on Twitter. Maybe I should have known better than to try to jump into a 4 region event, but hope will always try to spring eternal…
Replaces images I had hoped to get at Philip's speech.
So I logged in, had issues, kept trying (took 20 minutes) … managed to get in just as Philip was ending his speech. I couldn’t see a thing except blue water and green glow. I could hear, cause I had the sound on.
While trying to listen to last moments of Philip’s speech I began getting IMs about my mike being on. My headset was unplugged at the time and my computer has no external mike on purpose. It is set up to not even see a mike when the headset is unplugged.
I fielded a few of the first IMs, still having not rez’d one thing I figured what everyone was seeing about my appearance was just Second Life® being overloaded in that region.
The speech ended and I guess it was Lindens making voice complaints about my mike, hard to tell without being able to see, and about clearing the stage, which apparently I happened to have been teleported into. Not being able to see I could not tell where I was.
Swamped with IM complaints to ‘sit down’, ‘turn off your mike’ and voice complaints to turn off my mike, clear the stage… a good example of what this would be like… if you have ever had a nightmare where thousands of people were talking all at once and you cannot see a thing! It was like that a pure TOO MUCH DATA! nightmare.
I could not log out, the RC viewer froze on me. I had to do the three finger salute (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) to bring up task-manager to kill the viewer app to end the voices & text messages badgering me.
So to all those at Philip’s last speech, thanks for being so friendly and understanding about what happens when the rez process lags or fails. If you greet such normal happenings in Second Life® such as lag, teleport issues, rez problems with such rude responses without giving the person logging in a benefit of the doubt that the issues you are seeing MIGHT just be because they are having Second Life® performance issues.
If you treat newbies/noobs, whatever you want to call them, like this I can see why people do not want to stay to experience the virtual marvels of Second Life®.
It just might be that that person is stuck in a viewer glitch and be frakin’ patient! Bombarding someone with IMs and voice requests only makes things lag more. Think twice before you assume what is happening to the newly arriving avatar, of whatever annoying behavior you can’t stand, is not necessarily doing so with intention or malice.
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I encourage people who hide behind their avatars to practice the golden rule beyond the typical means we perceive it. We are journeying into the unknown of Virtual Reality and there we experience storms of conflict that are surely alien to our existence in the Actual Reality AKA (Real Life). I’m sure we’ve all been in a position were we joined a conference late (RL or SL) and due to circumstances out of our control we might tend to annoy the crap out of people we’d otherwise dread to do so. Nevertheless, this happens and when everyone experiences the ‘odd man out’ and everyone jumps on the bandwagon to profess their dislike or discomfort for the ‘odd man out’ is taking part in a rather simple and elementary game of Henpecking. I learned this in first grade. You only need one person to notify the offender of their actions. In this case, however, everyone who blasted you with non-helpful comments about your unfortunate situation, were of a hive mind of verbal delinquency that I can only equate to an instance of ‘henpeckery’ that occurred in an elementary grade. I would ask that in the future, at these conferences, someone work on damage control to avoid such situations where an entire body of people are versus one unfortunate mild connector. Please, in the future, don’t henpeck your fellow avatar.