Virtual Residents Association Finds Voice in SL
Second Life’s Blumfield region
The Second Life Herald reports on a residents association in the virtual world of Second Life that seems to be having an impact on the developers behind the world. While Linden Lab, makes of SL, say no policies have been changed as a result of talks with the residents of SL’s Blumfield region, residents see an effect in how SL has managed subsequent experiments in Second Life zoning.
In fact, the Blumfield Residents Association is only one of several resident-run community experiments that have cropped up in Second Life. Whether or not LL is altering course based on their feedback, it stands to reason that as the world grows, such groups will come to have a greater and greater impact as the collective voice of various cohorts of LL’s customers.
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That’s…it? There’s no “more” to the story? Gosh, Holy Short Attention Span, Batman!
Yes, only one — but the amazing thing is that there are really hundreds, once you take the blinkers off and only think of Taber and Boardman as “community experiments” and realize there are many many more groups, communities, sim projects, clubs with an array of activities, etc. that signify people’s efforts to order their world.
I’m not seeing at all how any of this has a scintilla of affect on the Lindens — yet. If they come through with the reform of the group tools, then we will be convinced.