Bring Back Prokofy Neva

If I were Jeska or Jesse and came in here this morning I'd laugh my ass off and join in on the fun! Seriously.

Oh I just went back to that thread and I could have sworn I saw a name. I must be hallucinating.

I personally don't see the big thing with the pronouns. Some people here I thought were male turned out to be female and I couldn't tell because of the name and vice versa. But I don't think it's a big deal.

I have been male for a few hours but if someone were to refer to me as her, I would still know I was male.

The irony is that some people would think it was rude to keep calling Prok a he when when know she's a female. Does it change how people think of Prok? Not one bit. Does it affect how Prok feels about Prok, maybe, but gosh, why make us all pronoun crazy when we don't have to be.

If you really think that's the purpose of those threads, then I wouldn't post in them. But that's just me.

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Wow did that sound harsh? Maybe there is something to this male avatar thing.

That's fair.

But to mention it overf and over again in every post, where its not an issue, not relevant to the material etc. is just plain rude and has no purpose than I can see other than the obvious discomfort it causes the other person.

It is easy enough to avoid gender pronouns all together in most cases. The heavy sprinkling of "her" and "she" throughout some peoples posts about Prok is unecessary in most cases, and (to me) indicative of ulterior motives.

I dont want to get too nuts about it, but I willl not let this point go.

What has been done in that regard *is* a troll, and *is* just plain mean.
I am sure I am guilty of similar offenses, in fact I know I am, but it should not be done all the same.

The poster is (perhaps unconciously even), trolling for a response somethign like "..What? proks a girl?" just so that they can go on at length about it as if it actually means something. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

How am I to feel as a female, thinking that somehow it makes some big difference to the reception of my ideas because of that? What century are we living in anyway? Sheesh!

Either it doesn't matter and its his business and we should all shut up about it, or its does matter, and the argument is that knowing someone is female is somehow crucial to understanding their ideas. I dont see how it can be both ways.

You outted her. Plain and simple. Yet Prok in her blog calls Nolan "murderous" for outting her sex and nothing else, but of course, if you do it, it's just a mistake.

Bring back Prok, she'd last 1 day here. Then we'd never have to see the likes of her again.

Something you do every time you post. Hypocrite.

As to the "topic", I predicted it over two months ago and while I find the overt hand-wringing over 'fairness' both transparent and laughable (considering the ones doing it), I am perfectly content in the absolute certainty that, should Linden Labs be stupid enough to let that pitiful psycho back into the forums, she will manage to get herself permanently banned inside of six months.

I'd like to say I think LL isn't that stupid, but let's face it, they've done some pretty stupid things lately.

(shrug)

Does it really make a difference?

If Prokofy were to return to the forums, would the "ban in the forums = full ban from SL" rule still apply? Or would Prokofy be the exception again?

So let us say that the only reason to bring Prokofy back is if he's reformed in some way from before to not slander, flame, troll, and attack other residents maliciously over and over across threads. But as we can see from his blog, that's not the case.

So if we bring Prokofy back he'll just get banned again, end of story.

Heh. If only LL worked that quickly.

I mentioned Prok's real life name AFTER it had appeared in the article (and he's wished to have his avatar linked with it, but it wasn't).

I didn't do what Nolan and others did. I referred to Prok as a he - and THOUGHT of him as a he - long after I found out his rl gender. And I continue to do so.

"Outing" someone implies just what it implies irl: That you have purposely made public someone's real life information they don't wish to make public. And that I have never done.

Others, such as Nolan, did try to "out" him, by making public in SL information he himself hadn't made public in SL, didn't wish to have made public, and had not even made it obvious or easy for such information to be made public.

coco

My point chip is that some other s do exactly the same thing, and are not banned. Since it is clear that forum reform meant banning prokofy, and others have been allowed to flourish, then prokofy should be brought back. Or more bannings need to happen.

I support Diane - bring Prokofy back. His posts may be a lot of things but never boring and although I didn't always agree with his views, I enjoyed reading them.

Alexa

I don't post in them, Sebastian - except for one, the "Welcome Back Kotter" one. Because it was hilarious comment on the OTHER such threads. I also also took the opportunity in it to give my opinion of those other such threads.

coco

I haven't seen anyone troll as bad as Prok as of yet.

Prokofy wasn't the "exception again."

The rule didn't exist until after he was banned from the forums. Which you know.

It was instituted in order to throw the scare into the rest of us.

coco

So SLCC is not public? You are turning black to white again. Prok's gender was well known coco.

Your revisionist words are lost on most people here.

Here we go with revisionism again. The rule was made AS A RESULT, so don't give me the AFTER doodoo.

Article is not even out yet. Prok coaches you well.

If you see it, AR it. I don't understand why people would put up with it, if it's that bad.

The point of my post is this... just a little over a week ago Prokofy had three posts removed from Hamlet Linden's blog about my Political Parties Article. Hamlet stated that the rules that govern his blog are the same as the ones for the forums, and Prokofy was in violation multiple times. I managed to see one of the posts before it was removed and yes, it really was far more vicious that the other posts, and even made the obligatory accusation of facism.

So my question is, are you guys simply advocating the return of Prokofy, or are you also asking for a full package of policy changes to accommodate his return?

Actually, it is.

She posted before it was out.

Thanks for posting your thoughts, Dianne, enough time has past for an evaluation of the effectiveness of the action to be in order.

But you did post in one. And if anyone else posted in any other one, they are wrong. But because the one you posted in was somehow different, which it wasn't in my eyes, it was okay for you to post but wrong for anyone else?

You can't complain if you contributed to even one.