SecondLife - How To Make Money In Second Life

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Yesterday in Second Life we:

• Spent US$1,491,000 at an exchange rate of L$269.9 to US$1
• Exchanged US$242,000 at an average of US$10,100.0 per hour.
• Market buys were US$175,000
• Market sales were US$66,000
• Limit-limit buys were US$800
• The busiest time was at 2pm when about US$22,000 was exchanged.
• The quietest time was 2am when about US$5,000 was exchanged.
• On WSE US$16,100 of stock changed hand. The WSE1000 was L$1680, up L$508

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Filed under: Odds and Ends

Today in Second Life we had:

• 28,816 new signups bringing us to 6,860,302 signups total. The seven millionth signup is expected in 5 days at current rates.
• A peak concurrency of 42,835 at 1:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 22,898 at 1:29AM. Average concurrency for the day was 31,377.
• For approximately two hours today bracketing peak concurrency, grid and login-server performance was highly spotty with login servers consistently failing to respond for portions of that period.
• The public JIRA system was fixed to allow logins to work more reliably from more places.
• Linden Lab’s director of community affairs dismayed residents with an announcement about allowable content.

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Filed under: News, Stories, Linden Lab

The only limits are the ones we place on your imagination.

Second Life communication channels are buzzing with talk of intolerance, and thought crimes. The topic is humming around the grid inworld and it’s starting to appear on blogs. It’s tricky, in some quarters, to find a conversation that isn’t about this.

Daniel Linden (Linden Lab’s director of community affairs) has posted what one resident has described to me as “Second Life’s Patriot and Domestic Surveillance Act”. While it seems like it is intended to clarify what Linden Lab does and does not permit, insofar as content goes, it has left many Second Lifers upset, confused and afraid.

Robin Linden has said (quoting from the Community Standards):

Content, communication, or behavior which involves intense strong language or expletives, nudity or sexual content, the depiction of sex or strong violence, or anything else broadly offensive must be contained within private land in areas rated Mature (M).

More recently we’ve been told that the many of these things would fall under the new Adult Content Flag.

Now Daniel tells us that a large chunk of what the Adult Content Flag purports to cover is not permitted? I think there’s a communications problem here.

Something’s darned ambiguous, that’s for sure.

I spoke to a member of the Dark Roleplaying Alliance earlier today and asked for their reaction. She said, “wtfbbq”, but otherwise remained relatively catatonic with angst.

You might wonder what Broadly Offensive actually means. Lord knows, everyone else does.

Linden Lab has previously clarified that broadly offensive largely consists of what a lot of people complain about being offended by. I’m moved to wonder if that includes Goreans, Furries, BDSMers and Gays - all groups that we are inclusive of as an overall culture in Second Life, but which many dozens, hundreds or thousands of individual people can and do find offensive (more’s the pity).

How broad is broadly? A hundred complaints? Two hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand? A television documentary? Front page of the New York Times?

There’s also a note about potentially illegal behaviour. What sort of illegality? Illegal where? Do I need to go shop for a Burqa, avoid saying anything that might be interpreted as critical of certain governments, and report any of my married, homosexual Second Life friends?

I am afraid that this statement from Linden Lab overall is at best unhelpful, and for the most part fails to answer any questions, and raises many more.

Weighing in with their opinions on the matter:

• PixelPulse Magazine
• Jacek Antonelli

I am fully expecting Linden Lab to clarify this clarification before very long.

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