Following Up Visits…. Another Rant.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I have blogged on my irritation with group inviters before, especially those with short term memory loss that invite fifteen thousand times in the space of a three minute visit to some random shitty location whose description just happens to contain a keyword you searched. But what irritates me more is when you visit a place and then the owner sends you an invitation afterwards manually. No IM, no contact at all, just a group invitation.
Erm… so there are hundreds of thousands of places across the grid. I teleport to maybe 20 or 30 different places a day. I have 25 group spaces and no patience for spam. Do you still think I want a group invite from every single place I visit? I went to a place yesterday and there was a MASSIVE sign at the landing point saying ‘Click here to join our group’. I did not click it. I DID see it but I chose not to click it. I obviously didn’t realise that I was in a click dictatorship and failure to click on the aforementioned sign would result in me being chased up by some over enthusiastic owner desperate for another avatar on his group list. Needless to say I declined both his group invitation and his note card. I would like to take this opportunity to inform Second Life™ location owners who do this that I CAN read. I’m not actually as stupid as I look and I really can make an informed decision for myself. I am deemed of sound mind and feel capable of deciding for myself whether to click the group sign. If I don’t click your sign it’s because I don’t want to. It isn’t because I forgot or that I’m indecicive. In not clicking your sign, I am not playing hard to to get, I don’t want you to chase me or serenade me with spam. It really is not necessary.
And what is with sending everyone on your visitor list notecards about sales for all eternity? It actually pisses me off to receive things from people whose location I might have visited once six months ago and now my avatar name is on their stalker database. I was once sent a landmark from someone for the place of theirs I had been to the month prior because I hadn’t been back!! If I didn’t go back there was probably a reason!!! Again, it isn’t me playing hard to get!
But anyway, rant over. Second Life spamming gets my goat…. in case you hadn’t noticed.
