Comments on Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D ChatroomTypePad2011-06-08T18:42:41ZSLHamlethttps://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/06/top-second-life-sims-may-2011/comments/atom.xml/Lisisme Dubrovna commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef017d405319d1970c2013-01-22T15:49:13Z2013-01-22T15:49:13ZLisisme Dubrovnahttp://slurl.com/secondlife/Grand%20Canyon/92/204/111I own and built the Grand Canyon sims. I pay for them out of my salary which is increasingly hard...<p>I own and built the Grand Canyon sims. I pay for them out of my salary which is increasingly hard to justify when the tier I pay is $510.00 usd per month and that could go a long way towards helping certain of my real life family members. I get NO federal funding nor does LL help out with any discount or financial assistance. The Grand Canyon sims are among the most beautiful and loved in Second Life and I get over 100,000 unique visitors per year and about 20,000 avatar hours per day. I ask for donations and some people give them but donations account for only 1/5 of what I have to take out of pocket to give to LL every month. I'd love to know how I can make enough money offering beauty and romance to stay open, beside resorting to offering naked girl scouts chained to rocks for say 200 L per hour use BECAUSE THAT is what 95% of the SL residents want!</p>Jo yardley commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e8914400b970d2011-06-12T02:44:24Z2011-06-12T02:44:24ZJo yardleyhttp://1920sberlin.com/Wow, I've never even heard or visited any of these sims. I guess what I find interesting, is not average.<p>Wow, I've never even heard or visited any of these sims.<br />
I guess what I find interesting, is not average.</p>Hamlet Au commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e8906466b970d2011-06-09T18:23:46Z2011-06-09T18:23:46ZHamlet Au... by contrast, with these popular sims, they're crowded for most of the 24 hour cycle. I'd compare it to...<p>... by contrast, with these popular sims, they're crowded for most of the 24 hour cycle. I'd compare it to New York City versus the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is a popular destination, but typically, people only visit for a few hours every few years. Whereas NYC and the other big US cities are popular all the time. The beautiful Second Life sims are more like the Grand Canyon. Which isn't usually a great deal for the sim owner -- the Grand Canyon is kept open with federal funding, but the sim owner is supposed to figure out how to cover her own costs from light and sporadic traffic while also creating and hosting a landmark SL location.</p>Aliasi Stonebender commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01538f121f90970b2011-06-09T15:30:46Z2011-06-09T15:30:46ZAliasi Stonebenderhttp://slcds.infoI'll have to chime in with the chorus: Yeah, people being social in social places socially. In other news, water...<p>I'll have to chime in with the chorus: Yeah, people being social in social places socially. In other news, water is wet, etc.</p>
<p>I greatly VALUE the artsy sims... but comparing the traffic value is silly; I don't spend all day hanging out in them.<br />
</p>Hitomi Tiponi commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e890445e7970d2011-06-09T12:02:13Z2011-06-09T12:02:13ZHitomi TiponiYou seem to be making the false assumption that crowded sims equals 'popular'. For example if you go to the...<p>You seem to be making the false assumption that crowded sims equals 'popular'.</p>
<p>For example if you go to the Blake Sea you will always find a few people sailing, flying or exploring. Generally they are not looking for other people to hang out with so those places seem fairly empty, and they like that!</p>
<p>Social avatars go to social places - so the most busy sims will always be the most social ones. </p>Mouski commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e890421eb970d2011-06-09T11:26:27Z2011-06-09T11:26:27ZMouskiIt seems like an obvious correlation to say "Where are the most avatars gathering?" and hear back "At social places."...<p>It seems like an obvious correlation to say "Where are the most avatars gathering?" and hear back "At social places."</p>
<p>In that regard, I'm not sure what kind of results you were expecting, other than to see people socialising (ala IMVU, apparently) in these busy, socially-driven places. Seems like a comparison that wasn't necessary.</p>
<p>Building, collaborating, scripting and what-not may be lightly-social activities, but there's no way you're going to want a traffic average of over 35 for a sandbox.</p>
<p>Traffic isn't going to be a helpful statistic in gauging the primary functions of SL. Just what people are doing socially.</p>Galatea Gynoid commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef015432e0fdc2970c2011-06-08T22:53:08Z2011-06-08T22:53:08ZGalatea GynoidIt should be noted that there are a lot of other activities people might do more in SL, if the...<p>It should be noted that there are a lot of other activities people might do more in SL, if the platform supported them better, like when sim-crossings didn't cause boats or planes to go out of control for half a minute. SL used to be a lot more fun as a gaming platform, back when I first got involved. I keep hoping someday it will again, but there's been so much regression, it'll be hard to make up all the lost ground.<br />
</p>Rob Knop commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e8901076d970d2011-06-08T22:52:19Z2011-06-08T22:52:19ZRob Knophttp://www.scientopia.org/blogs/galacticinteractionsI'm with Scarp. Also, even if sitting around chatting in a graphical chatroom is what most people spend most of...<p>I'm with Scarp.</p>
<p>Also, even if sitting around chatting in a graphical chatroom is what most people spend most of their time doing, that doesn't mean that that is what SL is for. Truthfully, I probably spend more time sitting around chatting (either in text or voice) in SL than I do anything else in particular. However, the reason I'm in SL at all is to do things that are unique to virtual worlds. That is, building and sharing the creations, or putting on virtual world theater productions (with my <a href="http://www.avatarrepertorytheater.org" rel="nofollow">theater group</a>.</p>
<p>Given that I'm in SL <i>anyway</i>, I may also spend a fair amount of time sitting around talking to other people in SL in a way that doesn't really require a virtual world. However, even though a statistical analysis of my time might conclude that that is what I mostly use SL for, it's not at all what I see SL as being <i>for</i>, nor is it why I'm there in the first place.</p>
<p>(One might also conclude that the reason people go to Disneyland is to stand in line... an activity that could be just as easily and far more cheaply accomplished somewhere else.)</p>Scarp Godenot commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e8900a897970d2011-06-08T21:21:31Z2011-06-08T21:21:31ZScarp Godenothttp://www.flickr.com/photos/scarp/The most popular events in America are Athletic Contests. Therefore most of America spends most of their time at them....<p>The most popular events in America are Athletic Contests. Therefore most of America spends most of their time at them.</p>
<p>Sort of bad reasoning, no?</p>
<p>The outliers of density do not prove an assertion of that being the most common activity. They are just that: outliers. </p>
<p>More reasonable would be to take a sampling of median density sims to see what common activity consists of.</p>Senban Babii commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e89007d1f970d2011-06-08T20:46:33Z2011-06-08T20:46:33ZSenban Babiihttp://whenitchanged.blogspot.comFrom my own blog a few days ago Hamlet. For once we agree on something! This could be the start...<p>From my own blog a few days ago Hamlet. For once we agree on something! This could be the start of a beautiful friendship <3</p>
<p><a href="http://whenitchanged.blogspot.com/2011/06/conformity.html" rel="nofollow">http://whenitchanged.blogspot.com/2011/06/conformity.html</a></p>
<p>"As someone said on a recent comment on New World Notes, we can gaze in awe at the breathtaking builds and sims that have taken months to create. But we visit and then go back to our infohubs and clubs, built from basic prims and bought straight out of standard catalogues. I'd argue that's because ultimately Second Life is a social experience rather than a creative one. People might visit the cool sims but they live in the basic ones. That's probably why the cool sims are constantly struggling to survive, desperate to pay tier or be deleted and maybe that's why the content creators are migrating to cheaper grids?"</p>QueenKellee Kuu commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e8900611a970d2011-06-08T20:20:58Z2011-06-08T20:20:58ZQueenKellee Kuuhttp://queenkellee.wordpress.comIt does not necessarily follow that the avatars that visit the top 50 spaces in Second Life represents a "significant...<p>It does not necessarily follow that the avatars that visit the top 50 spaces in Second Life represents a "significant portion of Second Life users" unless you show how the actual total daily traffic numbers and direclty correlate that to actual concurrency numbers. </p>Canoro Philipp commented on 'Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims May 2011 Suggest SL Largely Used as an IMVU-Like 3D Chatroom'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef014e89003963970d2011-06-08T19:45:59Z2011-06-08T19:45:59ZCanoro Philippit would be interesting to see in the next list of this year if the ranking is going to change...<p>it would be interesting to see in the next list of this year if the ranking is going to change with the new search, because people will get different results for what they want.<br />
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