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1. Farewell and Gratitude to Patch Linden

   It's particularly freaky that the event got postponed -- and then he disappeared and the announcement he was essentially fired is made. They could have easily let him appear at Fantasy Faire first, THEN made the announcement so it would be a nice swan song in retrospect. This was very shabbily done. It is not "standard practice". Yes, the Lindens remove the Linden account and the person puts in an alt if they didn't have one already. But I've never seen it this fast in 22 years. With no goodbye party of any kind, resident of Linden. When people use the term "your next chapter" they mean you don't have a job yet. It's fictional.

2. OMG Patch is leaving!

   Let's not forget, the sky is always falling...for some.

3. OMG Patch is leaving!

   I hope I'm wrong on this one, but I personally think we will mostly witness stagnation of further development of Bellisseria and LL even more concentrating on the coding crew. ☹️

4. Farewell and Gratitude to Patch Linden

   Are you arguing with coogie monster about coogies? Be careful... he is a monster, you know!

5. Farewell and Gratitude to Patch Linden

   I don't think Patch is in the same league as Torley or Strawberry. I mean, Patch has his fan boys, in the Bellisseria groups, but outside of that? The only people who bring him up seem to want to throw shade at him for some unspecified corruption. I honestly don't know anything about said corruption, because nobody seems to want to talk about it, so I won't judge. My point is, I think Patch is a more polarizing figure. Torley and Strawberry seem to have been universally loved, even when they were Lindens. I think maybe the ancient greek practice of picking a jury of people at random to make decisions might be better than what the founder of the Alphaville Herald used to call their "greek god" form of virtual governance. This A B testing or opinion polling thing they seem to do doesn't actually fix the group think problems created when you let a bunch of highly educated MBAs and computer scientists decide everything. Especially when they themselves don't seem to use the platform very much. They cherry pick, it or ignore it, and do what they were going to do, anyway. They're the most educated, so they know best, right? The idea that LL should turn the whole company over to a democratic jury of residents is a bit wild, but maybe they can try a few small experiments, instead? Start with trying to solve one issue with a random jury of residents, and see how it goes. I think we can all agree, the official SL viewer UI is a problem, right? Grab 20 SL users, at random, and have them work together to redesign the SL viewer UI. Instead of letting a professional designer do it, they let the jury of users design it. In the real world, Ireland has been doing this for the last decade or so, and they have had great success in dealing with issues that their representative democratic government can't work with. Some people are starting to see this Irish style of deliberation as a model for Europe.