It's happened so many times, & I see myself get named dropped time & time about loyalty to some person I occasional speak to once in a long while. As a CSR & store owner, I don't block everyone under the sun for personal reasons, & I especially won't do it if it's not my own personal reasons involving relationships I've never followed.

As much as everyone wants me to be, I'm not everyone's father.

Bit of rant, but it's happened again recently and it frustrates me to no end. I can see why many larger creators remain as impersonal as possible - to the point where everything loses connection.

But that in itself goes against my personal policies, because I like to show my appreciation to my customers.

Like, I was messaged by an angry customer who demanded I tell some guy off and that I'm a terrible person for allowing them, and I'm just sitting there like ??? I'm not responsible for this person? What was the problem even? Oh they grief sims? Again - I'm not their parent, maybe call up their mother or something.

^

"Take it to LLs"

Well, as I was talking to my close, personal friend, Walton Wainwright, we agreed about the lizard people controlling our Second Lives. I am very glad that my old buddy and pal, Walton Wainwright, agree with the severity of the issue, and the need to use polka dancing to expose them once and for all.

please can all lizard people refrain, by order of my close personal friend and confidant, as evidenced by our conversation in 2002 about the Faust Waistcoat I had purchased twice

mmccann: PutridGloom:

NGL I've learned this lesson to downplay any friendships I have if people seem too excited about the fact they exist. You'd specifically be one of those people where I'm like, well I don't really know him but he was nice to me one time. People get way too excited about you, although completely understandable!

To be fair pretty accurate, I'd say you were nice to me like, 3 whole times now. BUDDY!

I think people need to just have better self awareness, like, Walton... you've been on my friends list in SL for about 12 years, nice guy, great work, occasional plurk banter, don't feel uncomfortable saying hi, because I ran Horrorfest and you participated we have a mutual understanding that it is easier for those with shared SL interests to have easy

contact

but am I in your circle of friends, like friend friends?? No, and that's totally fine

We're not best mates?

why does everyone have to be like in your MySpace 9

It must be exhausting though... I never even got on that level but I can't socialize these days I spent too many years mothering friends and people thinking I was involved in stuff and now I'm legit like, I speak to maybe 3 people total and refuse to hold conversations after 8pm.

Ziekling: it was the same for me, I had 6 horror sims, I never got to enjoy any of them because I stood on a platform all day answering questions from people who didn't even rent from me, eventually I closed up everything because honestly I just may as well have been a bot with a cool name

PutridGloom: omg what a nightmare! I've heard the same thing from other friends who ran big RP sims too they just became big babysitters all day and the experience became miserable. I don't envy all that ... we are thinking of introducing RP to the sim but I wanna make a rule like, 'idc about your problems' but worded nicely lol

not everyone will respect the boundary I'm afraid, just restrict RP to a group that respects your rules and be firm if they don't

That would annoy me so much, too. I rarely have my own drama, but sometimes you just meet someone who brings it to you, as if you'd thank them for it.

LOL, you mean you aren't responsible for every single one of your friends actions and they are in fact autonomous beings responsible for their own actions?

well this is the first i'm hearing that we aren't besties.

omgwtfbarb: Go make sure you start a bunch of drama and then have people go talk to Walton and have him resolve it.

my ex used to name drop people that i knew to make him seem cool. i used to be involved in the sl art community as well as being a creator so i knew some of the "big" names in sl at the time... it was embarrassing and part of what made me withdraw from a lot of stuff.

is this about that thing on virtual secrets? because i said to myself "i would bet actual money that none of those people are really friends with that person, they barely know who he even is, he just talks about them as if he's best buddies"

p.s. you are my actual father, and i don't know any of these people, so obviously you can't be their father. except of course for my close personal friends, nay i say family, in this plurk.

Allegory: You never told me Walton was my real Dad!!! stomps off to bedroom