Hello! These points are all valid concerns I hear from buyers/sellers/auctioneers and sim owners and are a concern to me. I would like to reply to each individually where i have a clear opinion on.
(10-15-2014 09:26 AM)fabioazevedo Oh Wrote: 1 - All auctions shall be only 1 hour, showing that we all care for each other.
2 - Auctions starting in hours as 10:30 am, 11:30 am, must be moved to full hours. 10am, 11am
3 - The auction begins at 10am, 10:59 am should close down, therefore respect auction 11am. So with the other schedules.
I agree with this, but would also include that starting to send mass tp sooner than about 5 min before our auctions should not be done because it is disruptive and inconsiderate to start calling people away from other's auctions. Rule of thumb: Dont Do What You Dont Want Done to You. Do not send out mass tp, or IM patrons at auctions to lure them away or offer "free panels" at one's own or a friend's auction..sadly, that happens too often.
RE: the start times, I used to feel that way too...but now I consider that this creates a little gap of time (30 min) for buyers and sellers to take a break instead of running from one auction directly to the other. It is less stressful.
Quote:4 - Star highlighted, for the auction, have a great time at the same place / time / auctioneer. Thus the combination of a) Auctioneer, b) island, and c) time, should be kept for a long period, for an auction to win a highlighted star. If there is change of auctioneer, place, or time, this auction loses the star.
5 - Bonus for over 15 minutes for auctions that have star. Then the auction could go from 10am until, 11:14 am. Even overlapping the auction 11am. The auction 11am, continues at the same time, 11am until, 11:59 am.
This could be hard if we are to take part of a True Co operative where auctioneers may be shared or do a few auctions at other places to "help out". The bonus idea would be to intentionally, for any reason, step on another's time..I dont think thats wise and creates too much opportunity for manipulating the results (multiple avatars and "clicks" can influence who gets these bonus opportunities to step on other's auction times for example). Mutual respect and fair play should have no exceptions, in my opinion.
Quote:6 - Remove other types of events worksheet auction house such as Café, Club Class.
Why? One spreadsheet to show All events is alot easier for patrons to see at a glance what their options are. When something special is going on, many of us promote it in the appropriate Forum Topic.
Quote:8 - The auction / time
a) belongs to the auctioneer?
b) belongs to the island?
The slot belongs to the person who secured it. If i come to your island, with my own schedule, or if I secure it while in your employe, it goes with me. I will have been the one who went to the trouble of going through the schedule to find an opening that did not conflict, and I will have been the one to put it on the sheet...However, I would hope that in the interest of cooperation, we would be open to negotiating and showing flexibility when trading or compromising. Just like I did when i was managing Pixel Paws...I left behind the slots I had secured myself in the interest of cooperation and fairness. Those slots were given to Pixel Paws to use as the owner wished.
Quote:9 - If the time of the auction, the island belongs, then only owners of islands, or managers, should request updates on spreadsheets, not allowing auctioneers to request updates, spreadsheet?
No, this would give sim owners a dangerous monopoly with too much potential for the use of slots against each other and lock out of control the ones who Actually Do the Work. Auctioneers should not be viewed as pieces in a chess game. Who secures the time should have more control over the choice to share/trade/give it.
Quote:11 - The auctioneer:
a) is an individual person who does what he wants?
b) the Auctioneer is an official of the island?
Well, again...the concern as i see it is that most of the drama and backbiting is not from sim owners as much as from auctioneers. If you make them officials, it will open up a new stew pot to cook up more problems.
Quote:12 - The auctioneer shall follow the policy of 'good conduct' of the island, and be kind to all visitors to the island?
Absolutely! Wherever your auctioneers go, they represent your sim...pure and simple. If sim owners make no effort to set a standard of behavior for their "employees", then they are missing an important potential tool for creating true harmony among the sims. The open, or convert creation or dissemination of drama should be discouraged and those found to consistently do such things whether in their main or alts, should be held accountable for the good of All KC. If an auctioneer, or Any Official of a sim sees dismissal as a possible consequence they will a) get a grip or b) get better at not getting caught LOL...but the fact is that "crazy cant hide crazy" indefinitely...and whether directly or through friends/alts the pattern becomes clear eventually.
Quote:13 - When an auctioneer is fired, this 'time':
a) must be made available as free time in spreadsheet?
b) the island has rights to put a new auctioneer, at the same time?
c) The auctioneer can take this time to another island?
No. If i am working at Joe's KC Sim and I quit or am fired, I may choose to auction on my own land...no one can stake a claim to what is mine any more than they can take my car because i am not driving it. To make sure that the sims have a fair chance to have their own auction times, each sim would be wise to secure their own either by negotiating or the same way auctioneers got theirs - Do The Work to get them and they will always have their own and find auctioneers suited to the sim's auction schedules
Quote:14 - The island has rights to tell the auctioneer that he can not do, auctions, on other islands?
If this is the case, if auctioneers are "owned"...where is the spirit of True Cooperation as opposed to objectifying auctioneers? No, I don't believe this exclusivity to be respectful to auctioneers as human beings any more than i feel it is fair to monopolize buyers or sellers by discouraging the Free Flow of commerce among All sims by forming "cliques"...that is sooo junior high school lol
Quote:15 - Auction / Auctioneer / Owner of the island, to be notified when your auctions, beyond the time limit allowed, and overlaps the next auction?
16 - If an auction does not happen for 2 or 3 weeks, this auction can be excluded from the auction spreadsheet, and, this time, be available to another auctioneer?
yes on both items. If the sim owner is made aware of persistent disrespect for colleagues' events by their employees, it is up to them to address it and make clear that they do not want to bring disharmony by poor representation by their employees. When it comes to related activities, the Sim's public "face" is their employees.
But at the end of the day, what all this boils down to, in my opinion, is that All We Need is a some cooperation and consideration for each other as sim owners/staff and for our patrons who are going to get burned out or feel caught in the middle sometimes. My favorite quote comes back time and again...Be The Change You Wish To See In The World (Gandhi). We will all benefit in KC...its just that simple! Play Nice! lol...See or hear drama? Dont Feed into it by listening or spreading it! Like the mythical Leviathan, that monster will just grow so big it will swallow us up!
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