Os Misbehaves, or WTF DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ME??!!!????/!!11

This morning I was making coffee and looking at my email, and found one from somebody nice from the Motorati sims asking me to contact her as they needed me to move Dr Brainfeez's Ice Cream. I emailed back that I was happy they'd informed me as at another time my things (2 tires) had been moved and left in midair, with me not knowing until Razen IMed me and asked me if I knew. I also found things floating in air when someone had terraformed and dug out underneath them.

Anyway, then I went and drank coffee, logged on, and went to Velocity. I TPed the nice woman and she TPed someone else who logged off and on in a different account. Then I explained over and over and over until my finger bled that I didn't own the land, it was Motorati Access land, and that the new spot should be set* to Motorati Access ownership. I got frustrated and said NO - YOU DON'T GET IT, and was told (quite rightly) to stop shouting at him.

I was told to buy the land (they didn't understand), so I did, moved* Dr Brainfreez, and some things were instantly returned (duh). Finally I was asked if I had owned the original land (/me pounds head on table), and deeding the land to the MA group was suggested (theoretically a good idea). I asked if anyone actually had control of that group - saying I wanted to be sure before I made an (I'm a Mainlander) irrevokable step, then said well, it wouldn't matter on an island anyway (they can take back land - on the mainland the land can be lost).

But alas I couldn't deed, either. Then I had to go straight to the awards ceremony, then jin shin, and when I got home I had an email telling me it was all fixed, so I went and put it all straight and terraformed, and planted. So to me it appears that - 1.) they don't understand land and 2.) MOU didn't give them all the information they need, and 3.) I have no idea who "they" are.

*That pools the prims held in the sim, allowing the build to sit on a very small parcel.
**The BEST part was that when I moved my build about 15 abandoned ice cream cones were revealed - I laughed so hard I nearly cried - hey, I should've tallied up the vanillas vs the strawberries - doh.

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