Greetings OSW,
Some of you may have noticed us missing from the live rankings the last two days, there is a simple explanation for that. OSW yet again marked our traffic as "inaccurate" and effectively killed our region's page after a post from
@AmoreMio stating that we had "20 Bots out". Now many of you out there know for a FACT that this is not true. Lots of you come to Shop, Dance, Chat, and hang out, and many of you have been good friends and supporters of DHPG's continued growth and development.
The Issue the way we see it:
Opensimworld.com for as much as they TRY to appear neutral and impartial, are truly not! There is a faction of old-school OpenSIM cronies that think they have the right to dictate what independent grids do. They also will, (as they have proven by the continued harassment this grid has received from "their sanctioned agents") attempt to maintain that power and dominance.
Why do we say that? Well, let's look at the facts, shall we?
1. Here is an excerpt and screenshot from Opensimworld's "Terms":
https://tinyurl.com/2dbukndq
Conduct
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
* that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way;
* that harasses, degrades, intimidates, or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals based on religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
* that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an OpenSimWorld employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your
affiliation with a person or entity;
* that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent.
* that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
So, from these terms, they do care about what happens on their site, RIGHT? Well, that's simply not true, is it? Just reading some of the posts from certain accounts, you can see that these Terms are being broken, often. Not to mention, if you hit that little "report" button, it does nothing; you might as well throw your issue in the trash can.
2. Our Traffic is fake?
Well some could try and debate this, but the fact is; that we are a very popular grid, we offer lots of unique shopping and daily fun events, and all this adds up to lots of traffic, so much so that hypergridbusiness.com (a real reputable site) has DHPG ranked 6th overall in traffic for the period of 02/15 to 03/15 as seen here >
https://imgur.com/B8TqZQw
Since our website & systems upgrades, we can track where that traffic comes from and even break it down by grid, and guess what grid brings the most traffic here?
Let me show you >
https://imgur.com/JtppuE2
Grid Name: OSGrid Grid Nick: osgrid URI:
http://hg.osgrid.org:80/ Visitors: 1669
Which, seeing this it's kind of funny huh? I mean they have blocked this grid from going there, and THEIR WEBSITE, has done everything in its power to try and hinder our growth and slander who we are, but yet, THEY ARE OUR BIGGEST SUPPORTER! Now that's funny!
I hope this little post has opened your eyes some, and in closing, I will leave you with this statement:
We will not be bullied or deterred from growing our grid and providing the best possible experience for our residents and visitors. We will activate a new beacon today, and will yet again let our traffic build. I would hope this little eye-opening post, will make the owners/staff of OSW wake up; we are not here to cause issues. All we want is to be a part of the community and not be harassed because we get high traffic numbers. We will continue to note and report all harassment to OSW, and the offending avatars home grid, as well as keep records and screen shots should we need them at a later date.
Have a great day,
DHPG Grid Operations