Setting aside the perceptual question of whether I was discussing deliberately or accidentally rude behavior from a SL designer in my last post (there’s room for interpretation), I want to make note of something that my fellow customers and hunters do that I really, truly wish they wouldn’t.

Ladies and gentlemen of SL, please pick up after yourselves! I was running my alt through the Ivalde sim’s amazing hunt last night and was utterly shocked at how many people were opening their gifties only to leave the bags behind. One egg easily had a dozen bags scattered around it. It’s that kind of thing that builds frustration with good people and can lead them to either shut off your building privileges on-site or, in extreme cases, decide to be less generous. In my case, I wished mightily for the ability to return items on the parcel so the owners wouldn’t have to later.

It’s a matter of respect on both sides of the relationship. Customers and designers both should remember we’re all people behind the avatars and strive to treat people the way we want to be treated.