Comments for Lex Neva's thoughts http://www.lexneva.name/blog blog of Lex Neva in Second Life Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Reputation in Second Life by Tim http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5293 Tim Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:20 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/#comment-5293 Your system basically assumes people are obsessed with checking reputations and want an orderly world. You just don't get it that what really draws the vast majority of people to the virtual worlds is their relative anarchy. People want to do what they can't get away with in the real world here because we are all animals inside and always want to eat up smaller guys subconsciously. The day SL is really stupid enough to implement any reputation system to government the virtual world like the "Brave New World" is the day it will lose out its 15 million registered users and fall into obscurity. Your system basically assumes people are obsessed with checking reputations and want an orderly world. You just don’t get it that what really draws the vast majority of people to the virtual worlds is their relative anarchy. People want to do what they can’t get away with in the real world here because we are all animals inside and always want to eat up smaller guys subconsciously. The day SL is really stupid enough to implement any reputation system to government the virtual world like the “Brave New World” is the day it will lose out its 15 million registered users and fall into obscurity.

]]> Comment on Reputation in Second Life by Carl http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5292 Carl Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:20:28 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/#comment-5292 Recent cases of the "Sim Mafia" in the Sims online virtual world who accepts payment of in-world money to gang up on a Sim by bombarding it with negative ratings have emerged. Basically it is collusion to bad mouth about someone, I think your model cannot handle this situation which could be a fairly easy to do attack. Recent cases of the “Sim Mafia” in the Sims online virtual world who accepts payment of in-world money to gang up on a Sim by bombarding it with negative ratings have emerged. Basically it is collusion to bad mouth about someone, I think your model cannot handle this situation which could be a fairly easy to do attack.

]]> Comment on Two Suggestions to Help SL Scale by lex http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/06/11/two-suggestions-to-help-sl-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-3633 lex Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:41:17 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/?p=12#comment-3633 Ooh, sweet, a Linden comment! Thanks for reading. I'm glad to hear that #1 is underway. Ooh, sweet, a Linden comment! Thanks for reading. I’m glad to hear that #1 is underway.

]]> Comment on Two Suggestions to Help SL Scale by Poppy http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/06/11/two-suggestions-to-help-sl-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-3632 Poppy Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:37:06 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/?p=12#comment-3632 I appreciate the defense, and the suggestions. We're just starting to have a system somewhat like point #1 - if you remember when profiles were selectively disabled. I'm not sure how much we're talking publicly about central service engineering, so I won't go into much more detail. I can't comment on #2, that's much more than a technical proposition. Thanks again for the positive comments in the introduction. I appreciate the defense, and the suggestions. We’re just starting to have a system somewhat like point #1 – if you remember when profiles were selectively disabled. I’m not sure how much we’re talking publicly about central service engineering, so I won’t go into much more detail. I can’t comment on #2, that’s much more than a technical proposition.

Thanks again for the positive comments in the introduction.

]]> Comment on Two Suggestions to Help SL Scale by lex http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/06/11/two-suggestions-to-help-sl-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-2415 lex Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:42:27 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/?p=12#comment-2415 I just found a little <a href="http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/06/11/second-life-login-screen-now-with-more-info-and-a-few-questions/#comment-610368" rel="nofollow">gem</a> in the SL blog comments that verifies my guesses about how Grid Status Reports get made. Here's the comment: <blockquote>The folks who post to the Status Reports are, themselves, the people working on the problems — the team designates one individual who updates that report. Sometimes they don’t post details because they don’t yet know the cause of problems. Sometimes issues are not widespread, for instance whatever had some experiencing login failure just now, and in cases like that the Status Report might not always be updated. (I don’t know what happened there, I’m simply listing some reasons I can think of why the page may not be up to date in terms of your own experience of the grid.) Thanks for your patience! – Katt</blockquote> I just found a little gem in the SL blog comments that verifies my guesses about how Grid Status Reports get made. Here’s the comment:

The folks who post to the Status Reports are, themselves, the people working on the problems — the team designates one individual who updates that report. Sometimes they don’t post details because they don’t yet know the cause of problems. Sometimes issues are not widespread, for instance whatever had some experiencing login failure just now, and in cases like that the Status Report might not always be updated. (I don’t know what happened there, I’m simply listing some reasons I can think of why the page may not be up to date in terms of your own experience of the grid.)

Thanks for your patience!
– Katt

]]> Comment on Lex Neva comic by lex http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/03/19/lex-neva-comic/comment-page-1/#comment-2347 lex Mon, 26 May 2008 03:33:22 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/03/19/lex-neva-comic/#comment-2347 :D :D

]]> Comment on Lex Neva comic by Amon26 Yellowjacket http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/03/19/lex-neva-comic/comment-page-1/#comment-2346 Amon26 Yellowjacket Mon, 26 May 2008 01:14:37 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2008/03/19/lex-neva-comic/#comment-2346 You like me, you love me, you need me! who lovs ya!? ;) -A You like me, you love me, you need me!

who lovs ya!? ;)

-A

]]> Comment on Reputation in Second Life by Lex Neva’s thoughts » Linden Lab Open Sources SL Client http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2293 Lex Neva’s thoughts » Linden Lab Open Sources SL Client Sun, 11 May 2008 02:36:10 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2006/12/27/reputation-in-second-life/#comment-2293 [...] I have no way of knowing if I can trust the person releasing it. If we had a system like the Reputation System I proposed previously, then it would be much easier for me to make a quick and yet confident [...] […] I have no way of knowing if I can trust the person releasing it. If we had a system like the Reputation System I proposed previously, then it would be much easier for me to make a quick and yet confident […]

]]> Comment on JIRA drama by lex http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2007/11/25/jira-drama/comment-page-1/#comment-1464 lex Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:59:48 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2007/11/25/jira-drama/#comment-1464 Hi, Alyx! You know, the problem with making a suggestion like that is that Prok might just take us up on it :P HE might think it's great that JIRA becomes a bastion of free speech and sticking-it-to-the-man, but it would become utterly useless for anything BUT that, within a few days :P Hi, Alyx!

You know, the problem with making a suggestion like that is that Prok might just take us up on it :P HE might think it’s great that JIRA becomes a bastion of free speech and sticking-it-to-the-man, but it would become utterly useless for anything BUT that, within a few days :P

]]> Comment on JIRA drama by Alyx Sands http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2007/11/25/jira-drama/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 Alyx Sands Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:03:08 +0000 http://www.lexneva.name/blog/2007/11/25/jira-drama/#comment-1463 Thanks for your insightful words, Lex-now I know what's wrong with *me* - "I am not normal"! ;) I still think the "self-cleaning" mechanism JIRA has with a techie user base is pretty good. Proky's rants and conspiracy theories aside, this JIRA *needs* knowledgeable people to do the cleaning-if being a good organiser and knowing about the inside workings of SL automatically makes you a conspirator, I wonder what Proky would do if you all just *left*. Heh. Thanks for your insightful words, Lex-now I know what’s wrong with *me* -

“I am not normal”! ;)

I still think the “self-cleaning” mechanism JIRA has with a techie user base is pretty good. Proky’s rants and conspiracy theories aside, this JIRA *needs* knowledgeable people to do the cleaning-if being a good organiser and knowing about the inside workings of SL automatically makes you a conspirator, I wonder what Proky would do if you all just *left*. Heh.

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