Kitely needs your help

[Ilan Tochner]

We really need your help in spreading the word about our grid and the results of this survey have historicaly made a difference in where people choose to go.

Spreading the word about Kitely is crucial for our continued success. A few minutes of your time to complete the Hypergrid Business Grid survey can help us a lot.

Please open Hypergrid Business Grid survey, select "Other" and add "Kitely" as your home. Please emphasis the good things about our grid to help attract more people to it.

Unfortunately, due to how the survey is conducted, for Kitely to have a positive showing in the survey we need people who appreciate Kitely to focus on our grid. Maria counts how many people supported each grid in the survey and emphasizes that number when she publishes the results.

[Tess Juel]

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select "Other" and add "Kitely" as your home.
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Wow, Kitely isn't on the list anymore! That's weird and not very nice. But at least it should put an end to all the stupid talk about Hypoergrid Business favouring Kitely.

[Fayre Scribe]

Done!

I went to Sciatti's grid one day and tried to return the next day and got a pop up that Kitely avatars were banned from the grid. So I messaged the owner and he said that a couple kitely avatars were there harassing him so he banned all of kitely for a few weeks. Wow. I don't want to be on a grid with an owner that tempermental.

[Ilan Tochner]

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select "Other" and add "Kitely" as your home.
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Wow, Kitely isn't on the list anymore! That's weird and not very nice. But at least it should put an end to all the stupid talk about Hypoergrid Business favouring Kitely.

Maria said her list only includes the top 10 grids based on visitor numbers from her last monthly report. Personally, I think Kitely deserves to be included as well due to it being the longest active commercial grid and due to Kitely Market, but I didn't make the rules.

[Trouble Ahead]

Quote Maria 12 July 2024 in hypergrid business:

"Kitely, which opened to the public in March 2011, is one of the longest-running and most innovative OpenSim grids. With its unique on-demand region system and the popular Kitely Market, the grid is a significant player in the virtual world ecosystem."

https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2024/ ... f-opensim/

Im wondering how serious we should take this type of journalism now she is counting only numbers of top 10 grids ( month report) and not taking notice of long exsisting grids.

[Ilan Tochner]

According to Maria's latest Tweets covering the results during the first few hours after the survey started: "20% are for Kitely (which people wrote in, since it's not a top-ten grid by traffic.)"

If you haven't done so already then PLEASE complete the survey now and show your support for Kitely by using the "Other" option and manually entering our grid name. This survey matters.

[Crash McCloud]

Done!

I went to Sciatti's grid one day and tried to return the next day and got a pop up that Kitely avatars were banned from the grid. So I messaged the owner and he said that a couple kitely avatars were there harassing him so he banned all of kitely for a few weeks. Wow. I don't want to be on a grid with an owner that tempermental.

Who is Sicatti, and what's their grid called? I'll be sure to avoid it. Funny, we never seemed to have griefers before a few months ago.

[Crash McCloud]

"2025 OpenSim grids survey
Thanks! Your response has been recorded. We'll be publishing the results of this survey on Oct. 15. If you feel you've made a mistake with your submission, please email Maria Korolov at maria@hypergridbusiness.com."

DONE! FYI, the deadline to submit votes is Monday, October 13, so don't delay!

Edit: Yes, very interesting. Of the grids we could choose from, I hadn't heard of most of them at all. No idea why they left us out except that we're not getting traffic because of underhanded tactics by these unheard-of grids like Sciati claiming all of Kitely is BANNED because of griefers. I would never even check that grid out for that reason; thanks for sharing your experience with them, Fayre.

If people are running into griefers on Kitely, they aren't coming from Kitely. I've run into quite a few griefers from OSGrid on Kitely grid though.

[Cooper Swizzle]

Done!

I went to Sciatti's grid one day and tried to return the next day and got a pop up that Kitely avatars were banned from the grid. So I messaged the owner and he said that a couple kitely avatars were there harassing him so he banned all of kitely for a few weeks. Wow. I don't want to be on a grid with an owner that tempermental.

Fayre, when did you go to that other grid? Thank you, Cooper Swizzle

[Kimm Starr]

I voted, and I too couldn't believe the audacity of them not having Kitely in the list. As for Fayre's comment. I bet it was that Kammy, aka F%$#kNut guy. Ilan, can he still log in as a kitely member?