RightasRain, like so many of the haters of a populist, mass culture in SL, who is promoting your own elitist company-town model for SL business, you have a very skewed notion of traffic, and you will swiftly be proven wrong as concurrency will not be dropping. And you better not see traffic dumped out of the viewer completely, or the destruction of the economy will be complete -- including your own.
Even without popular places, clubs and malls will continue to use bots. Popular places only had 20 slots for "gaming" -- and many people took one look at it, saw it consisted merely of tacky newbie free money joints and sex palaces and gave it a pass. But they did see the sort by traffic in search/all and of course search/places.
Of course, search/places still has the traffic indication and sort by traffic -- and thank God for it. And while some of those top returns will remain gamed, if not by bots then by camping, most of the returns there are useful, most people shop by search/places, especially when they encounter the idiocy and frustration of search/all, and that is the engine of the economy (even the engine of some of your personal economy).
Camping will continue regardless of the excision of popular places and even if traffic is removed completely, due tothe limit -- and cost -- of classified viewable space, camping will remain as the poor man's classified and ad campaign to physically bring in eyeballs to click on and spend on vendors. It's just that simple. Impossible to stop. People want a cheap entree to the economy -- camping gives them that. Businesses are desperate to find attention -- campers give them that. Traffic is ultimately irrelevant to those in that sector of the economy. Fiercely competing clubs will likely even keep bots to keep dance poles filled and giving the place a busy look or to have automatic greeters and group inviters.
Most traffic-infusion bot users aren't on the popular places but spread out beyond it -- but of course, not anywhere near the number that people imagine on the more than 22,000 sims of Second Life (I don't think they exist on more than 1 percent at most due to the cost of getting them and maintaining them).
Linden Lab profoundly doesn't care about the "resource drain," which is merely a users' lament, because it gives them reliable load testing on their eternal beta. They could have charged for bots, which they can and do identify upon log-on, but they decided not to go that route as they are obsessively committed to encouraging artificial intelligence.
I have to chuckle at someone who has been on Showcase for weeks and weeks on the web page version dumping on it as only reflecting 50 sims.
And another big laugh at dumping on skin makers who spend more keeping Rezzable in an ads arms race. I don't see how the Lindens could be "managing" this in the putative "name of the community" unless they ration or play even more favourites than they are playing. Of course, I've always suggested they enable the purchase of ad space on Linden land in welcome areas, infohubs, and along some roads. I raelly don't see what the Lindens can do to "fix" the classifieds (selling of key words in SL will be a disaster I would imagine) other than making it so that clicking to go to the next page really pages down to the next level of paid advertising, not to the middle of the entire set of ads, i.e. currently people are enabled to spend far less because of this glitch in order to show up on page 2, and those spending a little less than the top page 1 buyers are put into invisibility.
The hilarious thing about Showcase is that for all this pimping, the venues still have low traffic -- you just can't drive people to go and sit on boring sims that are meant to be "good for them" educationally or culturally.
RightasRain, like so many of
Thu, 07/31/2008 - 15:42 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)RightasRain, like so many of the haters of a populist, mass culture in SL, who is promoting your own elitist company-town model for SL business, you have a very skewed notion of traffic, and you will swiftly be proven wrong as concurrency will not be dropping. And you better not see traffic dumped out of the viewer completely, or the destruction of the economy will be complete -- including your own.
Even without popular places, clubs and malls will continue to use bots. Popular places only had 20 slots for "gaming" -- and many people took one look at it, saw it consisted merely of tacky newbie free money joints and sex palaces and gave it a pass. But they did see the sort by traffic in search/all and of course search/places.
Of course, search/places still has the traffic indication and sort by traffic -- and thank God for it. And while some of those top returns will remain gamed, if not by bots then by camping, most of the returns there are useful, most people shop by search/places, especially when they encounter the idiocy and frustration of search/all, and that is the engine of the economy (even the engine of some of your personal economy).
Camping will continue regardless of the excision of popular places and even if traffic is removed completely, due tothe limit -- and cost -- of classified viewable space, camping will remain as the poor man's classified and ad campaign to physically bring in eyeballs to click on and spend on vendors. It's just that simple. Impossible to stop. People want a cheap entree to the economy -- camping gives them that. Businesses are desperate to find attention -- campers give them that. Traffic is ultimately irrelevant to those in that sector of the economy. Fiercely competing clubs will likely even keep bots to keep dance poles filled and giving the place a busy look or to have automatic greeters and group inviters.
Most traffic-infusion bot users aren't on the popular places but spread out beyond it -- but of course, not anywhere near the number that people imagine on the more than 22,000 sims of Second Life (I don't think they exist on more than 1 percent at most due to the cost of getting them and maintaining them).
Linden Lab profoundly doesn't care about the "resource drain," which is merely a users' lament, because it gives them reliable load testing on their eternal beta. They could have charged for bots, which they can and do identify upon log-on, but they decided not to go that route as they are obsessively committed to encouraging artificial intelligence.
I have to chuckle at someone who has been on Showcase for weeks and weeks on the web page version dumping on it as only reflecting 50 sims.
And another big laugh at dumping on skin makers who spend more keeping Rezzable in an ads arms race. I don't see how the Lindens could be "managing" this in the putative "name of the community" unless they ration or play even more favourites than they are playing. Of course, I've always suggested they enable the purchase of ad space on Linden land in welcome areas, infohubs, and along some roads. I raelly don't see what the Lindens can do to "fix" the classifieds (selling of key words in SL will be a disaster I would imagine) other than making it so that clicking to go to the next page really pages down to the next level of paid advertising, not to the middle of the entire set of ads, i.e. currently people are enabled to spend far less because of this glitch in order to show up on page 2, and those spending a little less than the top page 1 buyers are put into invisibility.
The hilarious thing about Showcase is that for all this pimping, the venues still have low traffic -- you just can't drive people to go and sit on boring sims that are meant to be "good for them" educationally or culturally.