You can please some of the people some of the time ...... but then you can't please idiots ever.....
January 8, 2008 by Jezebel Bailey
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You can please some of the people some of the time ...... but then you can't please idiots ever.....by looking out for the greater good.
This is one of the 150 comments on the 2nd life blog that just made me shake my head...
Keiko Rau Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 11:01 AM PST
So basically what you’re saying is that the ponzi schemes which may have collapsed in the future at various times, are now all going to collapse in the next week, as everyone makes a run on the ATMs.
Thats going to have a wonderful effect on the economy.
While I can agree with LL creating these policies to align itself with various laws, the slippery slope that started in July with the gambling policy just got even more slippery. When is LL finally going to remove the “Your world Your imagination” from the web site? SL has become a world of regulation, not imagination.
The more regulation enforced upon residents, the more SL becomes like the real world. It is not “My Imagination” if I am not permitted to create anything that I can imagine, and that motto has outlived its use-by date.
Can someone tell me when scamming people is considered being "creative" and using your "imagination"? When you scam someone (which people try to do in RL every day to my 85 y/o grandmother) for their money knowing that its a scam.....is plain theft in ANY world.....I do not believe its an "imagination" issue. When you find "creative" ways to steal from people, and after so many losses to date on THIS issue alone...SOMEONE has to take responisbility and put a stop to it.....(we know other issues that could use some outside interference also).
Its called "protecting innocent people". Next time someone says "Your world, your imagination" Try to imagine a world without stealing and scamming and taking advantage of others.
I remember as a little girl playing monopoly with my dad....everyone wanted to be on HIS side......cuz he was the GREATEST player and always had the MOST money, land, and houses....and he was always the banker...we especially like being his partner.....cuz then you got to be on the winners side...(he would slip us those little green houses....a few extra 500 dollar monopoly monies....and we ALWAYS had more land than anyone else even though we could never remember anyone landing on that ONE particular piece of property that was needed for a monopoly....As we grew up we learned to use our imagination on ways to out trick him....
The difference I see here is we knew what my dad was doing and it was FUN.....because everytime we caught him......he would make us laugh ..... it didn't cost us a dime to lose....we always felt like winners.. Somehow using that same type of "imagination" in SL with money that is actually paid for with USD and has a monetary value...where you do not laugh when you find out someone has cheated you out of your money..in SL if you earn 1k L ( I know small potatoes) most of us literally earn it...even if virtually....EBAY is virtual isn't it? Stealing is stealing when it causes a loss to someone else on purpose, with no product in return...That type of imagination can stay out of any world I live in.
My next question is -- what did this person actually "create"? Gambling was never a new concept by anyones imagination....neither is banking and stock exchanges, or scamming, and stock market crashes.... so ummmm where IS the imagination in these issues?
Maybe he should invest in some SecondLife culture! Just a thought. (I would have responded to this person via 2ndlife blog....except the comments were capped, go figure).
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I agree...but
This is a little late, but since I had a bit of time between RL stuff and SL stuff and I finally got around to reading your well written post, I felt I had to throw in my two cents worth even though it is past history. Forgive me my indulgence.
I agree that it is wrong to scam and steal! I am the first in line to support you on that. However, there were many legitamate "banks" that were not in the business of scamming or stealing, They were trying to act like RL "banks". While this may seem to be a disconnect in SL, I believe that you cannot fault the honesty of these folks.
What LL did with their "banking ban", actually it was a "paying interest" ban, was to in effect throw the baby out with the bath water. I agree that we probably got rid of a lot of shady people, they probably closed their doors the first day of the announcement (or 3 days before in some cases), but it did hurt the people who want to do the right thing and were taken completely unprepared!
So yes, there were (and are) scammers, and there always will be, not necessarily in the financial community but everywhere in SL and RL. That is the stuff of life, SL or RL. If one believes otherwise, then they make the left most leaning liberal look like a neo-conservative! (sorry for the US political reference, I hope that it translates to other cultures). But to "blanket gloat" over well meaning would be "bankers" is just wrong in my opinion.
The LL policy was not well thought out nor well executed. I agree that it was needed but it could have been done in a less invasive manner. Some people are trying to do the right thing and are getting screwed by the spin of other people happy to see them fall! I am not accusing you of gloating, since you have brought up good points and have done so under the freedom of the press, but I believe there are several others including "leading business types" who are happy that this is happening, and they will take advantage of it given the chance. Actually some have already.
We business people are at heart wolves, not lambs. However some of us wolves have what we consider ethics. What LL has done was not well executed but needed. How some of my peers will take advantage of this, is not ethical in my opinion.
Concur on the creativity.
But I also have a feel from where the person is coming from. It isn't easy seeing that the real world and Second Life are becoming the same in many ways... but it is unavoidable. It became unavoidable when Second Life allowed people to own their own creations via copyright.
Some people just never saw that connection. Sadly, some may never do so.
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