« Visibuild Imports 3ds Max, Maya and Sketchup Files into OpenSim World RealXtend | Main | NWN in Portuguese: Por que é que mais Residentes querem Hippos em vez de reparações de funções ou defeitos? »

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Marianne McCann

It strikes me that many of these groups look to be the sort that hand out memberships at welcome areas and other new user locations. As such, I wonder how many people on these groups are (a) members who tried SL and left, or (b) users who got the group their first day and never was active in same.

Erin James

Looking at the Last Logged In column shows that most users haven´t logged in for month.

Ordinal Malaprop

I am not entirely sure that I would trust self-produced figures by a group that has advertising rates posted in its description. 30% "business owners"?

Temporal Mitra

I'm happy to see that three of the top 20 largest groups are owned by members of our subscribers customer base for the MAGIC Automated Group Invitation System. Our Customers use MAGIC to invite their clients and customers anywhere in their sales process, without being intrusive or spamming. The MAGIC system is currently doing over 130,000 targeted invitations per week, triggered by purchases from vendors, initiations of rental agreements, touch signs and purchases on XStreet, and it's great to get some validation that it is helping our customers establish their SL brands, and do targeted marketing to their customers.

Doubledown Tandino

Sorry to say the population of a group is as legit and relevant as land traffic numbers.

Sending out autospam group inviters on a regular basis with multiple avatars and multiple scripts... that's how the groups get packed. Those groups just boast a quantity of avatars they at one point got to join their group. Those are the same avatars that don't use SL anymore... the newbs, the nickle-n-dime hunter, and the just plain stupid are the people that join those superspam groups. 90% of the avatars in the groups aren't active users anyway.

hate to rain on the group parade, but autoadding avatar names into a group over long periods of time will have a massive nonfunctioning group of mostly spammers and people that dont log on anymore.

Chuck Baggett

I've been in SL for over five years now and don't recall ever hearing of the Flashback group.

This might just show that I need to pay more attention.

Nexii Malthus

Ah, the groups of the dead/undead.

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Your Information

(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)

Making a Metaverse That Matters Wagner James Au ad
Please buy my book!
Thumb Wagner James Au Metaverse book
Wagner James "Hamlet" Au
Wagner James Au AAE Speakers Metaverse
Request me as a speaker!
VirtualWorldsMuseum_New_World_Notes
Bad-Unicorn Funny Second Life items
Dutchie Waterland House slideshow 01112023
Juicybomb_EEP ad
Making of Second Life 20th anniversary Wagner James Au Thumb
my site ... ... ...

PC/Mac readers recommend for SL:

Classic New World Notes stories:

Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life (2011)

What Rebecca Learned By Being A Second Life Man (2010)

Charles Bristol's Metaverse Blues: 87 Year Old Bluesman Becomes Avatar-Based Musician In Second Life (2009)

Linden Limit Libertarianism: Metaverse community management illustrates the problems with laissez faire governance (2008)

The Husband That Eshi Made: Metaverse artist, grieving for her dead husband, recreates him as an avatar (2008)

Labor Union Protesters Converge On IBM's Metaverse Campus: Leaders Claim Success, 1850 Total Attendees (Including Giant Banana & Talking Triangle) (2007)

All About My Avatar: The story behind amazing strange avatars (2007)

Fighting the Front: When fascists open an HQ in Second Life, chaos and exploding pigs ensue (2007)

Copying a Controversy: Copyright concerns come to the Metaverse via... the CopyBot! (2006)

The Penguin & the Zookeeper: Just another unlikely friendship formed in The Metaverse (2006)

"—And He Rezzed a Crooked House—": Mathematician makes a tesseract in the Metaverse — watch the videos! (2006)

Guarding Darfur: Virtual super heroes rally to protect a real world activist site (2006)

The Skin You're In: How virtual world avatar options expose real world racism (2006)

Making Love: When virtual sex gets real (2005)

Watching the Detectives: How to honeytrap a cheater in the Metaverse (2005)

The Freeform Identity of Eboni Khan: First-hand account of the Black user experience in virtual worlds (2005)

Man on Man and Woman on Woman: Just another gender-bending avatar love story, with a twist (2005)

The Nine Souls of Wilde Cunningham: A collective of severely disabled people share the same avatar (2004)

Falling for Eddie: Two shy artists divided by an ocean literally create a new life for each other (2004)

War of the Jessie Wall: Battle over virtual borders -- and real war in Iraq (2003)

Home for the Homeless: Creating a virtual mansion despite the most challenging circumstances (2003)

Newstex_Author_Badge-Color 240px
JuicyBomb_NWN5 SL blog
Ava Delaney SL Blog
Ava