The Anti-Camping Way to Make Money
I’ll admit it, for grins and giggles, several times I’ve camped out. Why? I’m not sure, perhaps the thought of getting something for nothing. Which really is not true since I am sure I consumed more in electricity than I gained in Linden dollars. A few times it was almost a social event. Sitting in a silly chair with some other strangers making odd conversation.
One thing that does annoy me is the whine from various n00bs and even some veteran Second Lifer’s that they have no money to buy Linden dollars to get things. Somehow this stretches the believable. The fact you could get online with a computer makes me think you’re exaggerating.
You know and I know that a few dollars in Second Life, if spent wisely, will go a long long way. The price of a Starbuck’s latte and scone will do you well. I think these cheapies probably fall into a few groups:
- The underaged. Sneaking into the main grid. They don’t have PayPal or a Credit Card.
- The lazy. This goes without explanation - because that would take a lot of work to explain.
- The sneakers. Afraid of producing a money trail to their Second Life account. Get over it, we know where you live, it’s just we don’t really care about your little life (although it makes you feel better that we might)….
- The true idiots. See the Second Life Fashion Police for the evidence file on this one.
But I do offer a small solution for the rest of you lindenless who don’t fall into the above, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. You can be paid slightly more than camping for using the grey matter between your ears that computers don’t have. As part of this, you can play around with a new service called TagCow. For a bit less than a penny you can tag a picture with who and what it is. Arrington thinks that you could make a $1.20 US an hour at this…. Which is around L$350 - better than camping - except you’ll have to work at it.
Moo!
-Veyron
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Dan Pohligwrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt One thing that does annoy me is the whine from various n00bs and even some veteran Second Lifer’s that they have no money to buy Linden dollars to get things. Somehow this stretches the
April 14th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I wasted the first three months in SL with camping and money tree harvesting (and wasted my first 1200 L$ on an Xcite cock since I thought I need one), until I realized that camping will get me nowhere. I then invested ~15 US$ which gave me about 5000 L$, and that really enhanced the experience and got me started. I never needed any RL(tm) cash injection since then, and in fact I am nearing the point where I could cash some L$ out again - and be it only those 15 US$ for my peace of mind.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am
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April 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
[...] searched for which Second Lifers had already named TagCow, and while matches are sparse, Veyron Supercharge interestingly cites it as an alternative to camping chairs — yes, by doing this, we could conceivably get a higher percentage of accurate Second Life [...]
April 19th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Veyron! I’m glad you mentioned TagCow as an alternative to Flickr, because I’ve been using TagCow to get my mostly-Second Life Flickr stream tagged! I linked back to you, details here:
» http://torley.com/tagcows-free-flickr-auto-tagging-gets-pleasantly-mixed-results-with-second-life-pictures