I told you so.

I think they are just afraid that their investors will see the forums, and pull out.

You can thank the folks who beat the same damned topics to death, day in, day out.

At some point, they were bound to get sick of the ever increasing signal to noise ratio.

Color me not surprised.

The Linden Uberblog, which where all future communication will come from.

http://blog.secondlife.com/

Until it gets bogged down via comment spam.

then we'll never hear from them again.

Wait a damn minute now, hold the press.... How the hell will we know when the grid will be down and up and down and up ??????

If you can log in = grid is up
If you can't log in = grid is down

...at least that's how I always know.

This is all Kevn's fault

It should have told us all something when forum moderation became the issue of importance that it did.

In civil discourse, it is the exception, not the rule, when all words and all movement need be monitored and subject to correction in the name of preserving fundamental manners. We have sometimes suffered misguided correction, assuredly. But we brought it upon ourselves that pressing and encompassing need for it arose at all.

In a workplace, at school, in a public restaurant, we need not generally require monitors to listen to our every word, and stand vigil to quiet us when we become too rowdy. We require these things in bars, where it is safely assumed basic lessons in civility from childhood might go astray. Elsewhere, we are simply terminated, expelled, or asked to leave the premises when we act drunkenly.

A loud neighborhood bar is being closed in this. Not the Senate.

You're right!

Where's the pitchforks and the torches?

Bull. Most usenet groups got along just fine without moderation. The only people who were upset here were the extremely thin skinned who couldn't accept that people might *gasp* have an opinion that differers from their own.

Freedom is about people having different ideas of how to do things, and free speech is people voicing opinions that differ from everyone elses.

Of course, some people can't handle that, and consider an open and honest exchange of views too rude and offensive to bear, and are aplauding the closure of the forums so that their delicate sensabilities don't have to be troubled by the even the *thought* that some people might be disagreeing in an untranquil manner somewhere.

*These* are the people who are happy to see the forums go.

SC is full of trolls and no-bit accounts that think "cum bubble" is the pinnacle of wit.
SLU is a bit clunky, and no one seems to use it (even though snapzilla is used a hojillion times a day).

I used to post there, but come on, you know who I'm talking about.

Prok, Fic.tional, mulch, and notta.linden pretty much run the show.

Hard to believe that LL is getting embarrassed by the official forums. I mean, surely numerous posts pointing out rampant pedophilia, rape roleplay, and illicit gambling in SL couldn't have them EMBARRASSED.

-Pall

Better it get aired here, then have it suddenly come out in the mainstream media as a surprise.

But the virtual world sucks for having conversations.

No they don't. You're just naming the people you disagreed with while you were posting there.

coco

I'm pretty sure real-life people use online forums all the time to organize real-life events; in fact, I bet lots of real-life folks are really grateful for such a convenient and easily-accessible means of organizing real-life stuff!

And it's just as valid and useful and convenient to organize things in SL via forums.

Maybe we shouldn't... you don't want to get banned from the forums, do you? Oh, wait...

<eg>

Holds pitchofork behind back

Here, Kevn, Kevn, Kevn....