In Survey, 60% Recommend Restored Second Life Discount for Educational/Non-Profit Sims

Here's the results of last week's survey on the restored 50% sim discount for educators and non-profits, reflecting the votes of 166 NWN readers, and they're pretty surprising (at least to me):

60% said they recommend non-profits and educators take the discount, contrasted with 30% who don't. Like I said, a surprise, for all the complaints that Linden Lab's renewed discount was too little too late and could not be trusted, with some even citing Lucy and her ever-yanked-away football. But it looks like a majority endorse giving Linden another chance.

Then again, there's this:

Only a subset of this 60% are actually members of non-profits or educational groups, and it's one thing to recommend a discount, and quite another to cut a check.

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[Iggy]

Remember "This time you can trust me. Here's a signed document."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmXM-96-no&feature=share&list=SP8E14D2E3156AE118

Oh, of all the Charlie Browns in the world, we educators are the Charlie Browniest.

[Kim Anubis]

The reinstated discount isn't something that one can purchase on a month-to-month basis -- it comes with a longer-term contract to assure the football remains in place.

It is interesting to me that LL hasn't felt the need to stress this in flaming letters twenty feet high, and that the number of recommendations is 60 percent despite this and lots of misinformation I have seen repeated of late.

For example, I keep seeing posts about how bringing a class to SL will expose students to all sorts of things from which they could be sheltered in a different walled garden. But last I checked, LL could be asked to lock student avatars to a region and disable their ability to roam the grid or interact with or accept inventory from unauthorized avatars. Despite many comments I have seen here and there, it is also possible to, if you plan correctly, do a build in SL in such a way that it can be fairly readily reconstructed in OpenSim if an institution decides to move on. It isn't as easy as kicking out an OAR, but I have done it -- it doesn't have to be the insurmountable obstacle of rumor.

If I were a LL mouthpiece I would have made a post about this stuff and more like it when the survey went up instead of after the results were announced. But it does seem typical of the Rodvik era to move cautiously, test the waters, and say little. Nice to see LL focusing on walking the walk instead of talking the talk. I guess we'll see how that works out for them over time.

[Archangel Mortenwold]

You know, it looks like LL is slowly but surely realizing its missteps of the last five years and is (belatedly) taking some steps to reverse its prior bad decisions. I wonder if we'll see the return of the teen grid at some point?