Second Life Resident Survey™ - Ha!
More and more frequently it seems these days, I am being asked one of those random questions at the login screen. I came across a screenshot the other day of someone’s login screen informing them that, due to a high level of people logged in, they wouldn’t be able to login. And behind it…a nice little question. “Is your Second Life experience getting better or worse?” What poor timing.
It’s happened to me a few times too and I’ve gotten to the stage of just checking the ‘worse’ button and adding my reasoning as ‘duuuuh’. The other questions asked seem completely random, the likes of ‘would you change your avatar’s name if you could?’ and ‘Are you and avatar the same gender?’
Now let’s be honest, the only time people are at the login screen is when they’re first logging in on a day or because they’ve crashed and burned and have to relog. In the first case, mostprobably want to just get in and get their work done, see friends etc. And on the second instance, well catching people in a somewhat bad mood with a service is always going to play a part in the results!
I do, however, have a suggestion for some questions Linden Labs might want to consider including on their resident surveys, however, if they intend to continue doing them this way,
1. Are you relogging because you crashed?
2. How pissed off are you right now?
3. How many cars do you reckon Phil has? Is it A) 10, B) 50 or C) 100
4. Would you rather have pretty reflections from the water of a functioning game?
5. Would you rather be stuck in game unable to pay for items or stuck in there unable to teleport? **This is a trick question.You’re actually stuck in there with BOTH.
Anyway, ramblings done. Yawn. Goodbye.
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Oh my I’m reading your blog having responded to the one about competition, and can I say a resounding YES about the damned survey?
I don’t have a Mac. I don’t run Linux. But I STILL can’t say ‘why’it’s getting worse in the little box (on the rare occasions I’m not relogging after a crash, that is).
You want my best experience (well… most unbelievable so far)? A friend of mine sends a ticket because there is a MAJOR problem on his land. We are standing there as he does it, on 16,000m2. Three days later, we get “sorry, but this parcel does not exist and has never existed”. On assuring them that it did indeed and has an average of 100 visits a day, up pops a Linden in friend’s avatar - which I happned to notice as the friend is French and the Linden was…. not. And said ‘I am a Linden investigating a ticket’. Righto. Except the problem still existed, despite saying ‘your problem is resolved’.
Small wonder that land was sold a few weeks later and we moved to a private estate. Different problems, sure,
but the sim owner does actually agree that we exist
Lol, that’s crazy!!
You have to wonder how reliable their database system is when they tell you that where you are standing doesn’t exist!