I haven’t been to Karuna Plaza for a while (I haven’t been around There much for
a while, but that’s another story). Today I went there to find some people
scattered around as usual but also to find that the infamous “Spam Wall of
Karuna” had (almost) disappeared.
This seems to have been achieved by dropping a number of 200m x 200m x 500m
“sacred” portazones to prevent members doing the same thing with smaller zones.
The things-for-sale area has therefore moved a bit further down towards the
beach; the closest large member-built structure to the plaza is now a religious
outlet rather than a commercial one.
Is this a good thing? I suppose in an abstract way it is; the area is now free
from all those advertisements from members that everyone was steamed up about.
The area seems to be a lot quieter as well, but that might not be related.
What irks me is that the member-provided spam has been replaced with
There-provided spam, most notably the huge skirt models pictured. Am I happy
that the several rounds of badly thought out changes to sign and scroll
permissions followed by the more recent raising of document prices by a factor
of ten, all in the name of reduced clutter, has made the world of Thereia a safe
place for 30ft high advertisements from The Management with flashing neon on
them?
Curiously, no.