I’ve heard it all. The hate towards campers are quite obvious in some groups. Why do people hate campers that much?
Some people who have been residents for a long time always claim that it’s sooo easy to just build something and sell it. But the question is, would they buy something a newbie has created? And if they won’t, why would anyone else?
It takes time to learn enough to create quality products. I work with graphics in RL and still it took me a year to learn enough to create products that sell. And I created my first object when I was 3 days old.
Other residents say you should buy your lindens. Well that’s a good point, but why should you, as a new resident buy lindens, when you’re still finding out about SL? Try before you buy? I used my account without upgrading to premium or buying lindens for a month before I was certain I would want to stay.
I was lucky when I started out, no one said bad things to me about being a noob, newbie or anything. People helped me around. They gave me time to learn, time to grow. Fortunately for me, I got 50 lindens as an weekly stipend back then. So I didn’t have to camp, didn’t even know about it.
Now about camping. I like camping and campers. And I think I have good reason to. First of all, in my opinion campers do contribute. They contribute to the traffic of the area. In some areas they contribute to the environment. They can ‘work’ as gardeners, ‘play’ the piano or the violin or they can pose as beggars. Seeing them also gives new members a chancer to see avatars ‘in action’. This is a very common complaint: “But Second Life is so empty”. In an area with many campers no one will have reason to say that.
It’s also good way to get to know people.
I’ll take campers any day over people pestering group chats and public places asking for handouts. And I really do prefer them to the sex industry. Guys posing as girls working as hookers is pathetic.
Wouldn’t we be better off without it? If you guys want sex with guys, (lol) or girls if you feel better believing that;), then it shouldn’t be so hard to find a nice sex partner without paying for it.
Me and my sister have started a group for campers with a conscience. We give the money we earn to charity. Up until now we’ve given twice to Puppy Passions with money we’ve earned as ‘useless’ campers;). If you want an invite to the group (to contribute or to recieve info about different charity causes), please IM me for an invite or donate lindens to the group.
Every donated linden will be given to charity and we’ll post the receipts in notices of the groups with names of people contributing and with info about how much the group has collected.