Everyone who comes here can enjoy the hard work of opensim and the owners nice free shoping dance, stuff and lands meet peoples

Thanks for the comments peeps. I am sure it is OSW, that will make the decision, to ban or not to ban. No personal votes. are going to change anything. Keep building, partying, shopping, exploring, and just have fun. Peace!

I don't care about rankings or traffic for all the grids/regions but i like the best part is are places pictures that are appealing to what they offer or events or people profiles. i think Traffic Rankings should be taken away. What is not appealing on here is dramas and complaining is taking away people enjoyment for looking for things to find on here.

Truth be told, we the users, don't care about who is #1 or #100. Only the ego of those owners in need of validation cares about that.
One of my favorites store in openssim don't even report its online status and I still visit it and it's always full.
I like to see the ads and people's profile. Rankings should be taken away tbh.

I also don't give a rat's ass about rankings (edited because someone already started with this below...lol). I am here for creativity and comradery. I'm not much of a party person so if I see a region has 40 people in it I'm likely to wait to go back later. I will make exceptions for friends parties or event/grid/support a good cause specific gatherings. Generally if I'm exploring a region I just want to go quietly marvel at the cool things people make and/or their arrangement. Not everyone is a builder and that's ok. Some people simply have an eye for good infrastructure. And yes I think it's way more effective and mature to report a problem than make post after tiring post.

I don't care about ranking. I don't care how many people, bots, etc. are in a region. What I care about is if it is interesting enough for me to spend my time in, if they have what I am looking for, or if my friends are there. Instead of arguing, I would love to see us all be supportive of each other. If someone's region or venue is successful, we should all celebrate with them and be inspired to make our regions even better. I use this site to see what the newest thing is, to find places to explore, venues I want to visit, who is singing or DJing where, and to make friends with all of you. It saddens me to see everyone upset over something that in the grand scheme of things, doesn't really matter. At least not to me. I wish everyone the greatest success in everything they do! Peace!

I'd care more about the rankings if they were a Social Ranking rather then just a traffic rank. A heavily trafficked region says nothing about how social it is and since the idea is to show places where people can meet people in Opensim, I'd be more impressed with a ranking where the ones who are on the region were greeting and chatting with the visitors stopping in at it.

Gets popcorn and a soda!

I come here to find places to explore, or for things i need.
I could care less about traffic rankings.
Because this is basicly the only main directory for any and all grids and regions.

There are people who use AFK bots to deliberately fake visitor numbers. You can usually tell them by not even bothering to give their bots something to do and e.g. parking them on a sky platform where no teleporters lead. You can also tell them by how quickly they log their bots off when Pagane complains, just to log them back in when they think it's safe again.

But then there are also those who use AFK bots as greeters or decoration. They don't want to hassle around with NPCs or even animesh. They don't put their bots on the exclude list in their OSW beacons either, be it because they don't know about the exclude list, be it because they don't care enough about rankings to take that step.

And then someone comes and accuses the latter of being the former.

I don't care how many people there are someplace so much as caring about who those people are. For example, I give some folks a special beacon so I can see where they are, and not go there. And after seeing all the vitriol on these pages the last few days, I'm going full Oprah. "You get a beacon! YOU get a beacon! EVERYONE GETS A BEACON!"

I honestly don't give a rat's ass about ranking here. Proof of that is I rarely advertise anything I do and as long as it exists and people still visit and use it, I am satisfied.

But I understand how some get bent and twisted if they aren't number 1 or feel rejected. Some have a financial investment to consider. As long as you build a good product, and leave people be, they will use it.

Want to know one great example of this? iPleasure. R.Lion doesn't care about revealing his traffic, yet everyone goes to his region for the quality things they want. Consider that!

People who care more about rankings without any real financial reason to be number 1, are emotionally disturbed, immature and petty at best who probably cried because mommy didn't give them a participation medal. Then tell everyone else to grow up.

I probably look at the numbers differently to others. A bit of an introvert unless I am in the mood to socialise - I often search out those places where there are NO people currently. With the brain fog that comes with ME and Fibromyalgia I find it very difficult to "go shopping" and hold a conversation as well. Most things that many people do so quickly - takes me a while to just get my head around. I dont mean - things are too complicated for me to understand..... no, just my mind often works slowly and I find I do just "normal tasks" slower than others. This can sometimes make me feel very self concious so I often prefer to explore where there are no people. That's not to say I never visit to socialise (just not that often), but when I do - I do it when I am not trying to do something else too.

So for me... high numbers are like warning beacons to stay away. One of the things I dislike about OSGrid is that when a region I was last on goes down I end up at LBSA and there are always people there - and I teleport away as fast as I can!

But..... that's just me - I suspect I am just "different" lol.

I don't care to who how many rank have hypers

The only place I check to see if people are there is LBSA. Anything else I don't really care about rankings. Often when i go to LBSA there are quite a few who are afk there at times. IT can be the case that people may have fallen asleep, are busy in rl for a few mins or gassppp have forgotten they were logged in (something i have done at times). I don't take much notice of numbers on other places at all, I just go to what i think looks interesting.

I couldn't care LESS about RANKINGS... who's #1 or who's #3 or whatever. But what I DO care about is how many honest-to-goodness LIVE av's are in which regions. I visit SL a lot and am often telling people there about OS, which MOST of them know NOTHING about. And later, if they decide to give us a try and I'm helping them log-in and get an AV set up, I ALWAYS tell them about OSW and how, with so FEW av's in OS compared to SL, that it's live region section is the BEST place for them to quickly find other av's here and things to DO. Unreliable av counts make that info useless.

I'm just here for the comic relief. Keep it coming :) lol

I do not claim to be an expert, but my opinion is this. A few people are ego driven and want top ten ranking at all costs. I really do not care if a place is ranked #1 or #1,000 when I visit.

I think a much larger group of people is trying to attract people by making it seem like there is a crowd at their region. In open sim, we often like to go where there are people. In this case, you might teleport to a region with 6 people showing; just to find out they are all bots or afk .

It is not coincidence when it happens every single day. Many region owners are inflating numbers either for top ten bragging or to make it appear there is a crowd.

The ranking and the avi numbers in osw are totally worthless because of people trying to scam the system.

I would like to see osw get rid of both of these numbers. If you have 10 people at a dance and want everyone to know, make a post showing all them. Sure, your post could have a picture of bots, but the scammers would have to work much harder and the would not be able to make posts every hour.

I do not agree with Pagane on many topics, but on this topic she is correct. She may not have handled it correctly, but she is correct that osw TOS are being badly abused by some of the top ranking region owners. They make extensive use of bots to inflate ranking or events.

I am praying that osw will throw out all numbers…..live and ranking. That would be a major step in the right direction. I understand people love the live numbers, but if they are 50% fake at many top regions, what good are they?

I don't care one bit about the rankings. I am not sure why people are in such a competition here, Shea. I come on this site to look for new ads, new shops, events, and to read "the box". I do not care one bit about people using bots or NPCs on their land either.

well enough seems enough after the topic has sent so many people into hysterics. As you can see from my beacons, I'm not fighting for a rating.