2nd Citizen owner forces forum member to take avatar chosen by other members

The owner/admin of this third party forum has, at the behest of some popular, regular forum members forced an avatar on Prokofy Neva by logging into his account and selecting one chosen for him by said forum members.

Prokofy was told to get an avatar or they would choose one for him, and that if he didnt use one, either of their choice or his, that he could no longer post there. This is an excuse to get rid of a person they don't like. The irony is that some of these same people have claimed in the past that they were against Prokofy being silenced on these official SL forums, yet here they are using his choice to not have an avatar as as an excuse to get rid of him. So much for principles.

http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showpost.php?p=24970&postcount=16

There's a thread on this over in the Sandbox already.


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secondcitizen is lame. worse than SL forums .. didn't think that was possible.

Oh my.

Different purpose.

No irony here. Prokofy was a toxic presence on these forums and her banning was well deserved.

Now she comes back (as Ms. Gallileo) to these forums here --where she is a banned presence and seeks to undermine a third party site presumably to bolster her own forum site "police blotter" where she collects tidbits of "crimes" committed against her.

Prok, baby --you have officially become unglued.

Obviously, being new I have no idea what the issues are. However, being experienced in online communities very similar to Second Life, I say let other forums stay where they are. If I wanted to read a different forum I would be there. Forum politics should not be cross polinated IMHO.

Ahh ... but since these are closing any minute ... those others are where we will be ... or at least some of us. So as I am about to be homeless here, and as a soon-to-be forum refuge, I read the OP as providing a warning about the draconian environment in at least one of the spots on my relocation list.

I expect to see quite a bit "cross polination" as inhabitants of this soon to be closed facility look for new homes.

That is true. Again, coming in at a time like this it is very hard to judge the current political atmosphere. If anyone needs a home, the people at my site are setting up Second Life functionality. Is a great group of gamers and everyone is welcome.

Just send me a PM if anyone wants an invite.

Hilarious.

Just put your little raven picture up on SC, and drop the drama Prok.

Is prokofy a horrible presence on the SC forums? Yep.

But so are the rest of us.

I do find it humorous, though, that for all of the moderator/owner's "tolerance" of not banning anyone on the SC forums, giving an ultimatum of clowning prok up or booting her off the island is hypocritical and stupid.

If you're going to allow unfettered access, you have to take the bad with the good. You can't pick and choose who stays in a "free" environment.

On the other hand, I called it that Prok would be the first person banned on SC.

I suppose I win the Internet.

On an unrelated note....Prok's 'SL Community Police blotter' has instituted a rule on their very own forums that all users must do the same.


- Alf - errrr *cough* Newfie

Stratics Second Life - http://sl.stratics.com - has no politics, and would love to see you there.

Drop by my land for a free Stratics link-through console to take you directly to the forums. The Stratics Internet Cafe is down the bottom of the hill across the street from Laserquest.

Lewis

Isn't the Stratics company well known for censoring whole blocks of people at a time for various posts? I do believe the Sims Online community was up in arms about it, and possibly the Ultima Online community.

Plus, just as a general thing, it's Stratics. Eww.

Yeah, I don't like any portal site that shoves news about other games down my throat instead of the game I'm interested in.

Going to the SL portal website...

ArchLord Stratics Portal Launches!
The Ultimate Archlord Contest
Linden Labs Plans to Close Official Second Life Forums <--- an actual SL post!
Stratics IRC: New Channel - #Stratics-Gaming
Welcome... to Stratics Links!
Lady Lava Interviews Jhariden (Stratics Network Admin)
SL Transaction History Gets an Upgrade! <-- Another one! Woah!
Primary Web Server Back Up
Forums Maintenance
HoC With Horizons On Thursday

That's a 20% signal to noise ratio. Bravo. You get better ratios on the forums here.

Couldn't have worded it better myself!


(btw - left TSO rather than use stratics, would rather dip one's head in a hive of killer bees than use it now)


- Newfie

As with any decent forum there are moderators and rules to follow... but I can't honestly say I am aware of that kind of action taking place on the TSO forums, because that's the one I have been involved in in depth.

There's nothing wrong with Stratics being a 'general' gaming site with game-specific forums - after all, most of us probably came here from other online games, and what better opportunity to recruit other players who are already online gamers, with good computers and internet connections, than a multi game forum site?

Lewis

Prejudice anyone?

Lewis

ok there are two sides to every story. Prok's alt is telling her side of the story.

SecondCitizen doesn't have many rules. Really it doesn't. A lot less than this and a lot less than Lewis' beloved Stratics (which does have politics despite his thinking it doesn't). As a matter of fact, I believe SC has two rules: 1. Don't spam. 2. Get an avatar.

That's it. Not so hard really to do either. I mean you all put up with a lot more here. Furthermore these are private boards. There are other places Prok could go if he felt he couldnt' handle the no avatar.

But see, for him, not getting an avatar was a personal challenge to the owners of that board. He even made a post about saying he wasn't going to get an avatar and there was nothing the board owners could do about it and issued it as a challenge for them to do something about it. (http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showpost.php?p=24970&postcount=16)

When you say to someone "I double dare you to do X" -- don't be surprised if that person ups and responds to the dare! Geesh.

And Alex didn't bow to pressure. He's just as much a fan of avatars as anyone else.

Once again Prokofy presents you with a half-truth and its 'awww poor Prok'. I fell for that too. But there's more to this sob story than meets the eye.

And yet, SC has exactly 2 rules and you think that is too stringent for people to follow. Imagine that!

It's akin to checking my email and having 4 out of the 5 messages being spam. I'm not interested, but I can't turn them off. Solution? Stop using that site.

And you've gotta be crazy; the TSO censorship was a big brouhaha in the early days of the Second Life Herald; heck, it's THE reason the SLH covers SL now instead of TSO!

Prok isn't banned from SC.

Prok should just put a freakin black square in there and be done with it. It's just a freakin' tiny picture.

Why support a censoring company?