Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 26
From the Pages of SL History: What’s with those SL Vo ng Sta ons? - p1
From the
Pages of SL
History:
What’s with those SL
Voting Stations?
written by Lana Gossamer
images by Filipa Thespian
We've all seen them, clicked them,
thought how archaic by today's
graphics quality standards they look
and even wondered about what
happens when we do click them ...
those funny looking green SL Voting
Stations.
dwell--a builder or property owner
would put one out on their property
and gain money nightly from the voting
station depending on how many
residents clicked it to "cast their vote"
as a way of saying "nice job" on the
build or property.”
What a fabulous concept and I bet
you're all thinking "lets get ours back
out there" ... except they don't work
anymore ... they haven't functioned
since 2011 when Linden Labs
discontinued them. You can still click
the station to vote, but the back-end
system to tally votes and do something
with them, no longer exists.
Even when they were new, were we
sure what they did? Well, their
intention was to provide an income of
sorts, to the property owner, based on
how their visitors felt about their build.
In other words, if we "liked" the build,
the owner of the voting station would
get money from Linden Labs each
night. In the beginning of the
program, a really popular night club
might actually make a prot thanks to
the Votes to the Station each day.
The SL VOTE Station program was
discontinued because too many people
tried "gaming" the system; inating
popularity for their clubs and stores
using camping chairs and gambling
games, to increase their numbers. But
this didn't really represent the people
coming to the build they had. Torley
went on to say, "dwell was a metric
used to reward Second Life residents
for creating attractions that cause
users to gather in a given location. Due
to abuse, Linden Labs announced the
end of the Dwell bonuses.”
Torley Linden shared, "the voting
station was used in a similar manner to
The stations still do one thing; each day
they IM the owner with the total
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