Shall we? Stop whining about things are not smooth as we wish. We all know they are not. Let's do something about that. Consider that an ecology action. If each of us spend ten minutes and delete all the trash that clutters our inventories…
Yes, sounds crazy, but do some math. At the end of the action you'll have more than thousand items less. Multiply that with the number of the residents we can get into this. Now we are speaking… millions! That will make a difference. And it is just ten minutes and a few words.
Benefits:
- Making the grid doing better.
- Your inventory mess won't disappear but you'll find your way through it a bit easier.
- Your inventory will load faster.
OK, let's see what we can do (don't empty trash before you're finished)
- Chances are that there is more than a thousand of freebie items in your inventory that you will never use again (if you ever did). Those are usually packed in some folders deep down the inventory. Crappy dances you would be embarassed to play, script examples though you never did scripting, texture bundles though you don't build, vehicles, lamps, prefab houses… Throw them away! Now! Don't even check what's inside. In the case that you might need some of those (why?) it will be easier to find them in the freebie store then in the inventory. Don't carry rubbish with yourself.
- Most of the landmarks older than three months are not working anymore. Things change fast in second life. Go to your landmarks folder, do a quick check and delete everything older than that. All of a sudden that folder makes sense, right?
- Same goes to the notecards. How many greeting bullshit you have collected in the past months? Manuals? Invitations? Rules of the sims that doesn't exist anymore? No, nobody will ever need that. Be careful not to trash love letters from your past. Though, if those are worth keeping, they are already safe in the separate folder.
- Do a search for "floating text". If you never did that before you have at least 500 of identical scripts with that name. Those are responsible for text over the boxes in which we pack things. Select them all and trash them. Don't select folders though.
- Dozens of versions of your builds. If you build you know what this means. Every time when you click Take copy another item shows up in your inventory. And you do that often while you build. Yes, you can just save them but sometimes different versions as project develops are good to have. But you don't need them when you finish it. You need final version. So… you know what to do.
- Take a peak in your Lost and Found folder. What a lovely collection of all the things you lost around the grid, vehicles you parked and forgot, toys with enabled physics that just went away on their own….
- Search for "demo". How many of those? Do you need them?
Ok, now check the number of items on the top of your inventory, empty trash, feel the grid breathing a bit easier under your feet, check the number again, subtract those two numbers… How many? Two thousands or more? Tell us in comments.
And spread the word! This works better if more of us do it. Let's multiply that number!
Uh oh *blushes* ouch.. you made me face reality… Another reason to finally sit down and do what I should have done ages ago. And this time thoroughly, I did a few half attempts ;-) Hehe, I’m actually quite curious about the number of objects that will vanish indeed… I’ll keep you informed :D
Yes, it’s such a boring thing to do…
I used to save my time for cleaning when I had most friends offline.
But as my social activities develop, not to mention foolish projects of business developing or building and alike, time gets shorter and inv got messy…
So yes, let’s stop for one moment and let’s use one session just to clean up a bit.
Our trash bins are horrible black holes!
Consider it done! Absolutely brillant plan that I hope residents take as a challenge. There are things that we can do to lighten the load on the servers. Every little bit counts.
WOOT!
That’s the way to start.
Thank you all.
Honestly, we should think starting some sort of “initiative”, maybe in some gathering place, with a giant sculpted trashbin to adore (:P)…
Let’s keep this grid CLEAN! :)
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LOL Eidur: I was thinking about a clean-your-inv event like the hug-meme a month ago :)
Omg, imagine that: the whole grid populated with cleaning avies for some time, and then after that… wowow a clean, lean SL… hmm am I exaggerating now? ;-)
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I like Eidur’s idea of a gathering place / recycle center. Might have to set up the “Extropia Recycling Center” temporarily.
Best,
Argent
Coolio! But, to be honest, I thought of this a week ago and wanted to blog about it but didn’t due to Exam Month. (We got 9 exams this month, OUCH!) Still, great idea! And, because i’m on the teen grid, I think i’ll make some sort of “Ecotron”-clone like in Habbo – recycle 10 items, get Item A, recycle 20 items, get Item B, etc. That’s how the Habbo Ecotron works, and to tell you the truth, the funny thing is you get: 10 Game Tickets for 10 items, (that’s not the funny part)
a Palm Chair (+ Coconut) for 20 items, (still not it…)
a “Water Garden” for 30 items, (wait for it…)
and a Polar Bear sofa for 50 items, (AWW! That’s cruel!)
Oh, and, I “give you permission” to use my EcoLife idea, Dan ;-).
Thank you very much for permissions, Smiley :) and rain of kisses to the girls for that recycling event idea.
I am thinking of making some kind of recycling gadget. Just to find out if it can count how many things there are in owners inventory…..
just let me know if I can help anyhow…
I love this idea!
@Dan: It would be possible if Second Life had an option for Extensions… :( Which is why i’m learning C# as another “Bagrout” (pronounced “bug–root”, means final exam(s)) so I could know how to edit Second Life’s code and understand it :D .
And, Eidur, did you mean my idea or Dan’s fresh new idea of a gadget?
P.S.: I just formatted my PC, and OH OH! GPU turns out to be the faulty one causing me to lag 1FPS on normal desktop stuff, DVD drive now works no-no-no-no-no-yes-no…., and i’m still waiting for the technician to send me the Hebrew keyboard file >:( . I WANT MY MAC ALREADY! X.X
P.P.S.: You have a bug on your blog, every comment is in Italic when browsing using IE6 (my only option currently until I can get myself together and install Safari for Windows and Firefox. Oh right, I can FINALLY install Windows Installer stuff after formatting! YAY!! (Was a glitch in my previous installation, Windows would meanishly corrupt each and every Windows Installer package which catches its sight. Mean Windows trying to destroy everything in sight…)
Ok girls, whatever it’s gonna be, I’m ready for it ;-))
Noway to do that inventory counting thing :( Dammit, gotta think of something else. By the time I make it everybody will have clean inventories. Hopefully. :)
Smiley, thanks for noticing the bug, but that one is not mine but Explorer’s. I refuse to molest and bend html because some wanna-be geeks cannot code, because that guy in ugly sweaters think that his attempt of the browser should dictate the standards and because people are still using windows for unknown reasons. After all, italics are not hard to read.
The best way to enforce inventory management is to impose inventory limits.
Now I’ll just go and shamefully inspect my items that I’ve never even opened!
There are two words that I really dislike: enforcing and limits. :)
There was an initiative to make some kind of tax for inventory items. It was short living. How can you determine how many items residents need and should have? And then, some need more items then the others. Just think about how many textures an ordinary builder have. We are speaking of thousands….
On the other side, people are (mostly) reasonable. That means that they are doing better if they are not enforced but stimulated. :)
I really like this idea a lot and actually I finally started doing an inventory clean-up about two weeks ago … and I’m not done yet!
The event idea is great, but I see the danger of people rezzing their stuff to check what it is, which would make others go “Oh, you don’t need that anymore? Could I have it?” … which might have us going back home with even more stuff ;-D
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Possibly someone has already said this in a comment… but every time you delete a part of what you’re building, an “object” appears in your inventory. Do a search for “object” and bin them all.
Also worth trying: “posing stand”, “cup of coffee”, “glass of beer”, etc.
Coffee, beer and cocktail!!! *runs back inworld to clean her personal bar*
This is one of those do-gooding things that somebody inevitably gets clutched up about every year about this time, roughly coinciding with the human/animal impulse to “spring clean” or “prepare one’s nest”.
Once, I asked Philip Linden if it made sense to campaign to have everybody clean out their inventories and delete everything named “object,” delete all the copies of stuff, etc. etc.
He said no, because everybody doing that all at once would merely strain the servers. He did not recommend it.
It’s like all these people fussing about their carbon footprints, dithering whether they should walk to work, or take their lunch, while big nations like China don’t have anybody dithering and are going to be way more of a problem in a minute that the countries of the affluent West.
@Prokofy:
I think the keywords in that sentence are “everybody” and “all at once”. Of course it would put a heavier load on the servers if a lot of people did their cleaning at the same time, because all these changes have to be replicated to all database servers which causes more traffic. This might especially be the case if the Lindens would start a campaign like this, because then a lot of people would know about it and maybe join in. But even if dandellion’s blog has a rather large reader base and this post has been mentioned on a couple of other blogs as well, we are still talking about a rather small group of bloggers and blog readers here, compared to the mass of SL inhabitants. So while organizing “inventory cleaning events” might actually not be a good idea for the reason mentioned above, the general idea of deleting unused stuff regularly is still a good thing, because in the end it leaves us with less objects in our inventories and in turn probably with a better performance for the inventory databases.
Exactly Tim. Thank you. I do have in mind speed of spreading the idea from a blog like this one is.
But one other thing is interesting about last two comments. I just woke up and doing regular coffee and email routine. A friend sent me one that says:
7′730
7′248
7′056
And more tomorrow. :D
Yay! That’s the way to go!
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Olá amigo, sobre o post da Cat, não é roubo, e sim foi usado com o link da devida fonte, sem tirar os créditos dela :)