<blockquote><hr>
<blockquote><hr>
I know there is a competitive nature that drives players to want control over other players and roomies, I just don't understand it. I have never taken in any roomies unless I know them fairly well. I've always treated roomies like friends, not employees or irresponsible children.
[/ QUOTE ]
You are free to play the game any way you want to, no one is going to make you accept all types of players as roommates. You have embraced a certain, selective style of play, that excludes the majority of players (anyone, you don't know fairly well), which is your choice, but *the game* is not all about how
you chose to play, but about enabling everyone to chose their *own* style of play.
There have always been as many styles of house management, as there were houses.
*Some people give everyone a chance...even total strangers...inviting anyone who asks to be a roomie.
*Some actively seek out strangers, newbies and the homeless, inviting almost everyone they meet to be a roomie.
*Some people run their houses like they are a business....since in terms of the game, some of them really are businesses, and ask for certain 'work' hours, to make sure the 'business' prospers.
*Some role play and chose roomies on their ability and willingness to play along.
*Some feel an obligation to keep a busy house open for their patrons, and chose their roomies on the basis of their willingness and ability to help them do so.
*Some chose good friends to be roomies, or casual acquaintances, only, or just newbies.
*Some consider their roomies as equal partners with full rights, immediately.
*Some consider their roomies with caution, and give rights after a trial period.
*Some consider their roomies perpetual guests, and never give rights.
Some styles are intense, some controlling, some laid back, some lackadaisical, and some are downright careless and indifferent. But *all* of them are valid, and none of them are *wrong*. Nor does it mean, that the people who do chose to play in various ways, should be denied the tools that would help them to play the way they want to play.
Luc has acknowledged the privacy concerns and is working on a fix, but not everyone is as worried about stalkers and pixilated privacy, as the (often noted) minority of posters on Stratics.....only a bare handful of even that minority, has posted in opposition to JimDog's widget....and I hope that whatever controls Luc creates, does not punish everyone else, in the process. In other words, that he does not 'throw the baby out with the bath water'.
[/ QUOTE ]
One time you post and it sounds like you are in favor of handing out this info thru this widget - but then you say you are not (I think), then it sounds like you are in favor of it again and even poo-poo those of us who are trying to lay some knowledge about security on players so they will know what's at stake.
So, okay - I would like to know exactly what your 'baby' (that we shouldn't throw out) consists of.
What info does your 'baby' offer to those who would use facebook/avatarbook to look inside the game at us ignorant sims.
What do you endorse?
What do you stand against?
Cuz, I'll tell ya, your position has me more confused than a monkey peeling a rubber banana.