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Kilroy Kilian
Registered User
Join date: 6 Jun 2005
Posts: 61
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08-10-2006 12:28
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Kendra Bancroft
Rhine Maiden
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 5,813
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08-10-2006 12:29
You know what's scary, Kendra? Sometimes I think our problem has been we're too much alike. I thought this very same thing  Peronally I've always seen us as two sides of a political coin. _____________________
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Aldo Stern
wandering madman
Join date: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 121
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08-10-2006 12:33
Alas, as the sun slowly sinks in the west...and the ship slowly sinks in the bay...I can't but help think of missed opportunities...that one fleeting moment of "might-have-been" that slipped through our fingers even as we typed.
*sigh* Miss Ingersoll, I never had the chance to tell you what you meant to me.... |
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Nylon Pinkney
Squeezebox
Join date: 30 Aug 2004
Posts: 304
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08-10-2006 12:37
lets have a forum bonfire starting with all of pandastrong's posts
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Nylon Pinkney
Squeezebox
Join date: 30 Aug 2004
Posts: 304
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08-10-2006 12:39
awesome kendra IM SO THERE _____________________
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Siobhan OFlynn
Evildoer
Join date: 19 Aug 2003
Posts: 1,140
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08-10-2006 12:39
lets have a forum bonfire starting with all of pandastrong's posts Can we burn anyone in effigy? _____________________
Absolute freedom is heavenly. I'm sure they don't have a police force and resmods in heaven. omgeveryonegetoutofmythreadrightnowican'ttakeit I'll miss all of you assholes.  |
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Sally Rosebud
the girl next door
Join date: 3 May 2005
Posts: 2,505
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08-10-2006 12:40
We've been waiting at Second Citizen for you.... *evil laugh*
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Finning Widget
No Ravens in my Mailbox
Join date: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 591
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08-10-2006 12:41
So, out of curiosity -
How many people have LiveJournal accounts? I'm just saying. not a perfect solution, but a possible one, what does not require people to host a forum at their own expense. |
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,920
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08-10-2006 12:44
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"Honestly, you are a gem -- fun, creative, and possessing strong social convictions. I think LL should be paying you to be in their game."
~ Ulrika Zugzwang on the iconography of pandastrong in the media "That's no good. Someone is going to take your place as SL's cutest boy while you're offline." ~ Ingrid Ingersoll on the topic of LL refusing to pay pandastrong for being in their game. |
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ArchTx Edo
Mystic/Artist/Architect
Join date: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 1,993
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08-10-2006 13:10
I have always liked SLUniverse.com
It just hasn't been very active, this should change that. _____________________
 VRchitecture Model Homes at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shona/60/220/30 http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=2240 http://shop.onrez.com/Archtx_Edo |
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Billy Grace
Land Market Facilitator
Join date: 8 Mar 2004
Posts: 2,307
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08-10-2006 13:24
I asked myself the same question as this thread starter. I hate you all, but we need to all decide where to go and go there together.
Seriously I consider you all my forum family and these forums are a way to stay connected even when we are unable to log in-world. I would specifically like to hear from the old timers and come to a consensus about where to go. Seems like SLUniverse is a logical place but I haven't spent much time there and have not made an account. _____________________
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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Finning Widget
No Ravens in my Mailbox
Join date: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 591
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Second Round - !
08-10-2006 13:27
(VolatileWhimsy) Where do we go from here?
(Ulrika & Kendra) Where do we go from here? (Celador) The battle's done, and we kind of won, (& Phedre) So we sound our victory che -er. Where do we go from here? (Pandastrong & Finning) Why is the path unclear? When we know home is near? (All) Understand we'll go hand-in-hand But we'll walk alone in fear. (Celador) - Tell me! (All) Where do we go from here? When does the end appear? When do the trumpets cheer? The curtains close on a kiss, God knows We can tell the end is ne - ar ....fades Where do we go from here? |
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ZsuZsanna Raven
~:+: Supah Kitteh :+:~
Join date: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,361
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08-10-2006 13:35
Something I posted in Robin's blog about the changes to the forums: I can't say I view this as a positive move at all. The forums were flawed but they were also extremely useful and created a sense of community that is otherwise hard to find in SL. I have met many friends in SL because of the forums. In world discussions are laggy, hard to sit through are are often held at times where people who work during the day aren't able to participate. Linden blogs aren't any sort of replacement for the flow of communication that happened in the forums. I feel as if LL just wants to end communication with whatever shreds of the SL community that is left. In doing so they're also cutting off our ability to communicate with each other. I agree with Ingrid and would like to add that I have made many a friend just by being on these forums, people I may have never met in world otherwise. Plus the fact that everything is here in one area, we shouldn't have to go to 87 different websites/blogs to find out what the hell is going on in SL. I am also going to miss the classifieds as I don't go to SL Boutique/Exchange or anywhere else to see what is new. I'm not one to wander around SL aimlessly looking for new items. If I see something I like in the classifieds, I go and buy it. There have also been many times where I post in the products wanted forum to get help one finding this or that. How will we do that now? Why does LL think some lame blog is going to be suitable enough for us? I understand there is a bunch of stupid repetitive things such as the 'Where's my prim baby, ageplay, furries are evil, great gorean auction' threads, but there are other things to the forums and it is disheartening to see them go. With all the weekly updates that cause more problems than are fixed and now the forums closing, I wonder if LL really gives a damn about us and not just getting their numbers up. Way to go LL  _____________________
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Margaret Mfume
I.C.
Join date: 30 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,492
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08-10-2006 13:36
meh i'll go where im told... so once everyone decides let me knwo and i'll go to the opposite one.. /snicker jk jk Go to your room.  Excuse me, missy, get back here. I did not mean your SL room. I meant your real life room.  _____________________
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ZsuZsanna Raven
~:+: Supah Kitteh :+:~
Join date: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,361
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08-10-2006 13:36
I've met some of my best inworld friends on these forums Yeah, like me [/FONT] _____________________
~Mewz!~
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Polymorphous Projects
Registered User
Join date: 26 Jul 2006
Posts: 86
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08-10-2006 13:41
I’m new to SL, but not new to online communities and forums. I see a lot of uproar about the coming changes, and while I understand the sense of loss, I believe there are some myths in place.
Myth 1: The community will have no place to go. Reality: The community has enough resources and skills to make it’s own forums, which would very possibly end up better than anything run by a corporate entity. And such a forum would be free from company censorship. Let the closing become the rallying point for a new development separate from corporate oversight. Myth 2: The forums are needed as a voice to LL. Reality: That voice will either be heard through other channels, or it was never going to be heard anyway, even with the forums. They can squelch resident concerns just as easily without closing the forums. I know another game company that allows no posts about the company itself on their forums and seems to rarely respond to complaints. The presence of an official forum is an illusion of being heard anyway. You are heard or not. If heard, there will be channels for that. If not, no voice is lost anyway. And wherever you go, there is a risk I will find you.  |
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Cybin Monde
Resident Moderator (?)
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,468
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SL forums
08-10-2006 15:39
apparently someone beat me to it.. slforums.com claims that it's on the way.
i know there was another site with an impressive set up (not slu or sc), anyone have an idea of what i'm talking about? it was fantabulously designed.. i remember it being green-ish or something. _____________________
"We, as developers, are doing the easy part – building the scaffolding for a new world. You, as the engines of creation, must breathe life into it."
- Philip Linden "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka (circa 1971) SecondSpace (http://groups.myspace.com/secondspace) : MySpace group for SLers. |
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Androclese Torgeson
I've got nothin'
Join date: 11 May 2004
Posts: 144
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08-10-2006 15:46
Something I posted in Robin's blog about the changes to the forums: I can't say I view this as a positive move at all. The forums were flawed but they were also extremely useful and created a sense of community that is otherwise hard to find in SL. I have met many friends in SL because of the forums. In world discussions are laggy, hard to sit through are are often held at times where people who work during the day aren't able to participate. Linden blogs aren't any sort of replacement for the flow of communication that happened in the forums. I feel as if LL just wants to end communication with whatever shreds of the SL community that is left. In doing so they're also cutting off our ability to communicate with each other. DUH! Man are we stupid. I totally see their business plan:
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Androclese Torgeson
Real Life, also known as "that big room with the ceiling that is sometimes blue and sometimes black with little lights" |
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Io Zeno
Registered User
Join date: 1 Jun 2006
Posts: 940
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08-10-2006 15:55
This is my last post on this topic since the horse is long dead already.
 You can't reproduce the SL forums, really. Why? Because no matter how well done and well run, they willl only be known to those who... know of them. The thing about an "official forum" is that aside from the oldbies and regulars, you will always have new people coming in and adding to the mix. That is difficult to reproduce with a third party site, it usually becomes a closed group of regulars with a very small influx of new people. And getting a new forum going , not technically, but keep up participation, is really, really difficult (I have learned). Especially because there will not be just one and people generally don't post on a dozen forums on the same subject. The SL forums are a reflection of... SL at any given moment. It is a way for residents of all stripes to communicate with each other and LL. I'm speaking of all the forums now, because LL isn't just closing General and Sandbox, and each forum has it's own regulars and it's own little vibe while still allowing anyone to move between them. When you remove it from LL itself, and start splitting up into all sorts of different forums and blogs, it becomes something else. _____________________
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Kalia Meiklejohn
You make me itch
Join date: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 258
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08-10-2006 15:59
I guess this means I'll have to take another 2 minutes out of my time to sign-up somewhere else.
I think all signs point to Second Citizen...but the verdict's not out yet. |
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Jake Reitveld
Emperor of Second Life
Join date: 9 Mar 2005
Posts: 2,690
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08-10-2006 16:35
well for me, it called never winter nights 2, and it is released in mid-october. Until then, I might as well use the Dnd Online account I have been paying for.
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ALCHEMY -clothes for men.
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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08-10-2006 16:48
Well, you could all come in world and help me with my SL Musical.
(4 ex resmods enter an empty stage and start singing together) One million seventy thousand eight hundred postings..... One hundred thousand twenty eight near pointless threads.... Three hundred thousand fifty eight snapshots and trollings... Where the fuck will we go now that the forums are dead? Second Citizen, SL Universe, That blog by Prokofy? SL-Boutique, or maybe a shopping review? One Million seventy thousand eight hundred postings..... Where will we go when we leave this big pile of pooh? (swelling music and perfect harmonies ensue) Oh I think we're fuuuuuuUUuuuuuuuuuuucked... Oh yes we're fuuuUUuuuUUUUuuuuuuuuucked... _____________________
The Second Life forums are living proof as to why it's illegal for people to have sex with farm animals.
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Cybin Monde
Resident Moderator (?)
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,468
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lol
08-10-2006 17:02
good one, Siggy
granted, i've been a member of the SLU forums for a decent amount of time (haven't spent much there, but still.. regisered awhile ago.. i think it was when City of Heroes was first popular around here and there was some sort of place to show everyone who/where you were there). and i've beena member of the SC forums for almost 2 months now.. but still, your musical IS pretty funny. _____________________
"We, as developers, are doing the easy part – building the scaffolding for a new world. You, as the engines of creation, must breathe life into it."
- Philip Linden "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka (circa 1971) SecondSpace (http://groups.myspace.com/secondspace) : MySpace group for SLers. |
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
Join date: 18 Jun 2003
Posts: 5,948
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08-10-2006 17:10
Sigh, the forums were pretty much my last connection to SL. I will miss all you 'tards. Sadly waves his wee little hand goodbye.
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I LIKE children, I've just never been able to finish a whole one.
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Yiffy Yaffle
Purple SpiritWolf Mystic
Join date: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,802
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08-10-2006 17:34
I have nothing left to keep me in SL if the forums go. 90% of my time i spent on the forums. SL its self is too full of griefers and idiots i usually just stay in my own sim and shut myself out. LL you just lost yourself a customer.
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