I made my way to the Adult Content User Group Meeting tonight, fully expecting to hear who had won the proposal to run the adult gateway on Zindra, I was late to the meeting but missed the announcement, however the winner is …. drum roll please:
Viale Linden: First and foremost … No update on the Welcome proposal. still working on that.
So the announcement will be sometime soon, the whole proposal is odd to me, four residents will be responsible for tier on four individual sims and will get exclusive rights to the Zindra name for their parcels, from what I can workout, this isn’t an ideal solution as those who have a parcel on Zindra, really should be able to mention that in your parcel name.However Linden Lab want the new adult gateway to be found easily, so finding a happy solution was never going to be easy. I can’t think of a better way of giving the welcome hub top billing in search and those who are opposed to this idea really need to come up with a solution about that rather than just saying no.
The full proposal can be read here (applications are now closed). The four sims involved have always raised controversy regarding who controls them and adult content users have long been arguing about how the best way to resolve this is …. and they will continue to argue about it no matter whom wins I’d imagine. Arguments will I’m sure also rage over what the new group does with the sims, that has always been the way but let’s not forget that the new groups aren’t really getting a free ride, they will pay tier on the four sims, so obviously they are going to want to recoup some of the tier costs somehow.
Ideally there would be better ways for group billing in Second Life, that however is also a tricky situation with no easy answers, what happens when there’s a shortfall and who is then responsible for the bill etc.
The minutes from the meeting tonight can be found here, I was there, despite what the meeting minutes claim! Some people in the minutes even talk to invisible me! I’m used to this though with adult content meetings.