I don't think people will create sock accounts just to get into the WC. Everyone who asks WO and agrees to be nice to new users (essentially) will get permission. If they then are not nice to the new users, permission will be removed.

It seems like a lot of trouble to go through to create a new account just to abuse new users. Plus, the new account would be basic, so no PMs to use to abuse anyway.

--Brian

Just to clarify a bit then.

I go to the WC having been here for a good while so I can help new members get their feet wet.

(no shup to the peanut gallery I actually do)

I found out when I first came in that it wasn't the guides that kept me coming back, but the people who were having fun around me.

Thinking of the Welcome Center as a classroom where you learn to dress your avi, some basic commands and then a boot out the door into the rest of the server is wrong headed at best.

If we are a social site as so many claim we are, then it is a place to start making friends, both with new members who got off the bus with you, and older members who you can lean on for help when the tour bus driver is out taking a leak, or however else you would like to twist the metaphor for "your favorite guide isn't on, and you don't feel like bugging someone who talks in tangerine text"

Brian ok ill give you it will only be a very tiny percentage but it doesnt take alot to create a new account ask your Mods how many ding bat socks come to the forums

yeahhhh Bring back the old WC with the pool

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Briannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Bring back the Old welcome centre for us old timers as new region seperate from newbees WC

and you can keep the newbees out so we dont corrupt them

im serious

dribs and drabs...

20 hours feels about right to me. Based on exactly nothing. As others have said, when I signed up I spent maybe a minute in WC before venturing forth.

The only downside at all I see to it --unless I put in for the special dispensation-- is I won't get to drop in there like I do every 6 weeks to say Hey to Rock, OMG and a handful of other vols who hang out in there due to their duty. It's literally the only time I see some of those old friends anymore.

Though I guess if I miss those chats enough I'll go to the slight bit of trouble to ask for entrance.

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On the Repair forcing a landing in WC, it's always done this to me. Presumably by the config file getting reset. And honestly I prefer it since WC is often less laggy (fewer avatars) than Trans. And I *never* use the Reset to Default option. Mainly because I know the default is to be opted into Streaming, and that I keep at arms length.

Not sure how to fix that one without adding a new trigger, preferably on the server side of things. So that First Use means WC for those users with under 20 hours and LC for those over 20 hours. I don't think you'd want to put that in the config file, since that could easily be edited to gain entrance to WC again once the hours limit had been passed.

hmmmmm so is it a lottery.......is it picked y how long your here?........how many posts u make?....how many people u can piss off in a month? lol.............jus asking cause hell id like to stick my nose in early and have a peak

Changes come and changes go. As is in RL.

This is a very good thing. It may take some time before it is completely realized but it will benefit more than nano-fit.

I have learned in the 3 years of my membership that everything WO does has a purpose directly benefiting its members in a positive way.

They have to try something new in order to see if its going work right. Otherwise the whole thing would remain stale.


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Ally

To be honest, and I´m speaking only my thoughts. Im a UV Member for over 5 Years. So many changes and rules back and forth. We all stayed this. But what i totally dont understand. I ask a Staff or Community Moderator or what u name it. Guess what. At the end of the day its a Sponge with no Information. Instead of writing and writing and forcing rumors etc. Just Build a Site like for the Adult Convention. Tell us there ur Plans to were we go with Utherverse. Dates, not even specific ones. You told us on the Convention even SL is scared of what is coming. I dont see anything what they have to be scared off?! Rumors nothing more.

Clear Statements of a CEO i would prefer.
And a site with all Information and even a Sign Up process for Beta Tester for the New Client. <<I would be there, i f i would be accept is a other thing.

At the end i just hope this time Utherverse will make it right, fair for us

Thats my 2cent for the Sunday!

I think it would be a good thing to give basic members in the Welcome Center an option to open a Privat Message with other basic members that are in the region (not with all basic members on their friends list). It might help them make friends at the beginning and help them decide to stay here with us and upgrade in time. I believe it would also make them love hanging out there, which is a good thing because they can meet the Guides and other volunteers there, easier to learn about the important things, rules of the Utherverse, do & donts and so on.
Perhaps a limit of PMs they can have opened, like 3 for example at the same time. But give them a little bit of privacy, because it just helps to talk and make friends.

Thank you everyone )
Agny