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Nobody, this is one of your best and most thought-provoking posts ever.

You've gotten me to consider the appropriate limits of my own efforts as I ask how much I can and should do when I have no say, and *know* that the process is capricious and biased.

Even more, you got me to realize that our experiment in Extropia is a microcosm of Linden Lab's situation with SL: our goal is to create a pleasant and safe place for socializing, creativity and business while keeping things running with as light a hand as possible. Capricious and ad-hoc decisionmaking, being reactive rather than proactive, veering between the Scylla of anarchy and the Charybdis of dictatorship - all these problems confront us as well.

"the bottom line is that Law is created where common sense and respect for others has been lost" - this is our touchstone as community managers, and so well said.

Thank you for crystallizing so many things.

I look forward to following your journey, in SL and in other worlds, through the coming year.

All my best,

--Soph