Moderated event calendar

I hardly bother searching through upcoming events due primarily to low signal/noise for my interests.

Are there any existing moderated and general event calendars which might filter out, say, anything to do with L$, Casinos, Land sales, Yardsales, etc. ?

-gozo

Nope. LL tried to moderate the events calendar a few times but got bored after about a day of it.

go to eventful.com

do a search with search terms like this: "secondlife education -sex -tringo".

secondlife, run together, selects only the events in secondlife, education is a term you are looking for in the event description or title, and the -tringo, -sex, with dashes in front of them are terms you don't want to appear in the title or description.

It's a shame LL doesn't work to make this a bit more SL friendly and give us access to the mozilla browser from within the viewer. Then they could just eliminate the viewer event search system.

I don't wait for the Lindens (or for Godot). I reworked text Suezanne gave into a note card and put it into a websender. You click on the websender, it gives you the link (live) in chat. You click on that in your history, it opens your browser to that page.

The websender is free-to-copy at Thinkerer Studios (Calleta, south of Hobo Infohub).
I will send one to SCB and anyone else who asks.
TM

Thinkerer -- ?. I'm missing what that has to do with event listings.

A search for:

secondlife -sex -casino -tringo -camping -sexy -sale -shops -slots -opening -yardsale

... is still horrendous. I don't feel like being specific, just not SPAM! This is the shit folks delete from their inboxes.

Additional ideas?

I made a few tests on Eventful. The search Gozo listed produced over 2000. items. But I have to figure out the objective to know whether I am satisfied with the results. This is a generic search for all SL events not excluded by the minus signs. So I am not looking for anything specific. I might want to know something about how many SL events are listed. But I need more focus. I would probably want to know how many SL event are listed per day.

I did a second run with the time set to tomorrow. That showed 335 events. Tha seemed like a lot, so I looked over the items. Quite heterogeneous. But then, I was doing a generic search. One thing I note -- a lot of items are repeating events. For example, I added the term dress and got 41 events. Many of these were simply places selling dresses. That may not be what I think of as an event. But then, I am not running things.

So then I asked what I would get if I knew what I was looking for? I added the terms build and class. For tomorrow, I got 6 hits, all relevant to my objective. I tried a few other searched like that and found similar good results. So my recommendation is to know what you are looking for before you search.

"If you don't know where you are going, you won't know when you get there."

Of course it is easy to search for thematic / keyword events I expect. What I would enjoy is a moderated events calendar for events I don't know to expect. These might include:

2 - 5 events per day, max.

Corporate events in SL.
Education events about non-SL topics. ( physics, languages, literature, taxes, whatever )
Lectures by notable real life individuals.
Linden meetings / town hall.
Exceptional themed special events / gatherings (ex: dorkbot).
Non-gambling game events (settlers, go, bridge, chess).
Unusual or exceptional SL-related events.

What I am typically /not/ interested in:

Anything for sale.
Anything for sex.
Anything for dwell.
... essentially, 99% of the so-called 'events'.

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Regardless of search complexity at Eventful, it will be almost impossible to reliably and quickly pull a nice list from the noise. Thus the question, is there a moderated events list? Apparently, No.

If someone beats me to creating a solution, please do drop a line .

Regardless, thanks for the Eventful pointer. Even if overrun by spam, still very useful.

Rik's Picks at New World Notes ain't bad, weekly.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/05/riks_picks_for_.html

others found?

A quick and dirty way to boost the signal (if you will) on the Events calendar is to use the dropdown menu that filters for categories. The "Commercial" category is pretty much useless, obviously, but you're far less likely to find Yard Sales and Casinos under the "Discussion" or "Arts and Culture" categories, for example. Just go through each category until you find something you like.