Mark Kingdon Interview With PC Pro
PC Pro is a website I slated a while back…largely because they wrote a bullshit report with few facts and just basically declared Second Life to be a virtual world built on sex and otherwise empty spaces.
Anyhow, it seems Mark Kingdon (AKA M Linden) also decided to speak to PC Pro. You can read that interview here.
One or two points jumped out at me. Firstly, his comments on the adult grid:
“About 6% of the regions in Second Life are zoned ‘adult’ and we’ve looked at adult very extensively over the last year, through many different lenses… and we’ve found it a very average in terms of the prevalence of adult content.”
Now, it’s great that they’ve done all that and zoned it and whatever (actually, I’m not sure that’s great… it’s, well pointless) but there is still adult material on the mainland. Still. Still people having pixel sex on virtual beaches and whatever else. And, as with the “no traffic bots,” rule this is another case of bringing in a regulation for the benefit of most of the residents and then doing f**k all to enforce it.
The other thing that made me chuckle was Kingdon trying to refute claims that parts of Second Life are empty. He blamed it instead on “poor search tools,” and the fact that most places are on their own islands.
Erm… no Mark. It’s just that there are a alof of empty places. Open the map. Take a look!!
Anyway, regardless of that, I think it’s a great thing that Mark Kingdon has taken the time to speak to PC Pro following their article… at least it shows he gives a shit. Bravo on the proactive approach M! And while you’re being proactive, could you change your Linden name to something that’s searchable? One character names aren’t. No particular reason… it just annoys me a touch.
/me wanders off for some toast.
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Tymmerie Thorne
That infuriates me – there is an escort/strip club on the corner of my sim on mainland.
Grrrrrr!
Adric Antfarm
It is refreshing I must admit to know the captain of the ship is not under stress with the burden of reality.
Quaintly
I always thought the reason that so many places were empty was because I was visiting at strange times (not US/Europe-friendly). I tend to think though that the parts that are empty probably won’t last long, because if I owned a sim that nobody used and nobody visited, I’d eventually close it.
HBA
You’re not alone in your hatred on one letter names being non-searchable, I recall seeing many posts agreeing that it pisses them off as well.
As for M’s reply on the emptiness of SL, he should have quoted what Hamlet said on the matter rather than try and bullshit about it. Huge swathes of SL are fucking ghost towns minus the fucking ghosts. But that’s the same as anywhere on the web – at any time Amazon will have thousands of visitors there, whilst my blog will have 2 if I’m lucky. The joy for visitors is in what both have to offer and the journey between them – same goes for places in SL.
HBA
Blimey! The last half of the interview is just him pushing his (expensive) mini-SL for businesses – we plebs can fuck off!
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