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Thursday 23 June 2011

Let me re-iterate...

...SSL's crew are not freeloaders. I've become aware that some designers on the grid have recently been approached by bloggers who'll blog in return for 'freebies'.

SSL do let designers/sim owners know that we've blogged them (it's always nice to get feedback), but we never ask for anything. We purchase items that we like and review, and if it's beyond our budget, then we take photos of the item(s) in question directly from the sim where they're for sale, and maybe use a demo version if we can to show off the item's qualities.

No, there has not been any accusations levelled against SSL, but I feel it's worth re-iterating that we aren't freeloaders. Our blog is 'niche', and we aren't likely to ever be huge in a way that Fab Free, or 24hour or Arya's blogs are mega. So to be honest I never expect anything from anyone. While a freebie offered to a mega-blog may result in 'good business' for a designer in terms of publicity and sales, I frankly never expect the readership of this blog to be worth a designer throwing a L$300 cock or pussy at us. It just doesn't make economic sense to them. I know this. So if there's a L$300 pussy that needs reviewing, I'll buy it prior to the designer even being aware we're blogging it. Ditto the cocks. I'll throw the cash at someone to buy, wear and review.

Yes, we have received freebie goodies from time to time, but we've never blagged for them, and never will. Occasionally a designer will throw a yet-to-be-released item in our direction and we will blog it, but this only happens with people who have become well known to us, and us to them.

Should anyone claiming to be from SSL approach a sim owner or designer and is attempting to blag something....beware! They're not ours. Our crew is, currently myself, Emmanuelle Warden, doing most of the writing, Vajeena Resident, now also writing and relieving me of some of the duties, Malgorzata Verlangen, who is our swimwear and lingerie model, Diane Toxx, our photographer (who may actually ask for permission to take photos, but that's all she'll ask for), Ringo Stourmead, who is currently MIA but is theoretically our writer-in-residence on the gay scene, and the recently returned Marlene Macbeth, who while theoretically has been our writer on the lesbian scene seems to be morphing into a fundraiser-in-chief. We do accept unsolicited work from readers, but not on items of clothing/sex toys etc.
These will always be bought by myself (or funded by myself, I may get Mal or Vaj or Diane to buy with Linden dollars provided by me). We do sometimes see items worn by avatars and request that we photograph them wearing their purchases, the unhooked bra worn by an avatar being a recent case in point. Former staff member Jimmy Humbridge is just that, a former staff member, although there's no mystery to his 'ex' status...we're still great friends, but Jimmy's more of an occasional player now who can't dedicate time to SSL.



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