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Ian Nider
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06-21-2009 17:32
From: Marianne McCann
I am reminded of Sky News showing a photo of a group of child avatars in the audience at a debate on their own sim, in which they called all the child avatars in attendance "deviants." Anyone can create a scandal if they want to.


This is true also it's easy to misunderstand coming into SL cold from the real world with out ever having had much interest or concern about what a child av or any other unusual( for the real wolrd) type of appearance and approach to Sl or online might be. So it's easy to pick it up and run with it.

It takes some time and reading and experience to get to know the mechanics of the conceptualism in a place like SL (it's not just a chat room) and the methods SL has in place to counter problems.

it isn't the real world, it is different in a lot of ways. The whole of the net is so new to society still, people are still debating if or not it's a real person they are interacting with. This is how naive the grasp on it's meaning still is.

it's not perfect, but nothing is.

If you want to stop online sex crime, basically most of the citizen communications and sites on the net would have to be shut down.
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06-21-2009 17:40
From: Ciaran Laval
The hysteria over this is absurd.
It seems to me that there really is only one actual hysterical poster here who keeps going back over and over the same personally held beliefs that no amount of sane argument will sway.
From: Ciaran Laval
Nowehere have I seen it said that the community standards do not apply to Zindra. That means that people playing with themselves on Linden roads are breaching community standards.
Agreed. I will be very quick to AR anyone violating the CS especially on Zindra.
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06-21-2009 17:44
From: Ceka Cianci
if the adult setting is on private land not public land where sex play of any kind is not allowed. We can go to the CS for this one if you would like..
That CS applied to PG and Mature continents - not Zindra continent. What nonsense that a slave has to be taken off a leash to walk in Zindra.
From: someone
then let there be fodder..it's only gonna drive up the adult content peoples income..you should want scandals like this..it's where that flood of people come to sl because they heard something that made them horny in the news lol
all those scandals blow over in time..it won't hurt zindra or LL..
The sad part is that you really believe this. Thousands of paying customers have to give up their investments because of such fodder - and LL had to spend man hours and take back hundreds of thousands of mainland meters to make this happen (mainland landmarket impacted by this?). There is nothing positive about child avatar and adult content scandals.
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06-21-2009 17:50
From: Lias Leandros
Seems the Adult Content provider will need to go into the T-Shirt selling business.
Dashed Dreams of a smut empire.
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Explain this please. It seems like you're avoiding the issue.
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06-21-2009 17:51
From: CarlCorey Colman
It seems to me that there really is only one actual hysterical poster here who keeps going back over and over the same personally held beliefs that no amount of sane argument will sway.
Your perceptions are wrong. There were more people 50 pages ago also showing concern - you can belittle the situation all you want - that does not make it a non-issue.
From: Ciaran Laval
Nowehere have I seen it said that the community standards do not apply to Zindra. That means that people playing with themselves on Linden roads are breaching community standards.
We are back in the grey area again - because that nude woman was clearly playing with herself in a Zindra infohub. She has not been reprimanded for that - even though Lindens were there. So it seems even the people that wrote the CS do not know how it applies to Zindra.
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=CarlCorey ColmanI will be very quick to AR anyone violating the CS especially on Zondra.
And here we go.
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06-21-2009 17:53
From: Lias Leandros
They took away the right for me to have my adult content on the land bought. And if a child avatar sets up a business in a Adult Continent sim that has child avatar content I get that right taken away from me again.

you mean if you are there first and a child avatar that decided to buy in zindra next to you would get you moved again?
you really think you would not hold favor in the who was there first argument?

are you expecting an invasion of child avatars that are going to move there to give people that were moved there a hard time?
you are grabbing worst possible cases..a few came to see zindra..do you really think they would want to live there?


From: Lias Leandros
From my understanding - any Adult Content on a private island makes it Adult Rated. And many island owners that use their island as for general retail sales do not want to wall themselves off from some of the shoppers.

well i was saying you could move to a sim as in adult rated sim..one that sells adult rated lots..


From: Lias Leandros
We saw the fantasy horror picture on the internet. It's already a very real issue.

planned out horror.. unless you are talking about the penisthat was there the other night doing stand up
i still say it looks like a badly made rocket lol :D

From: Lias Leandros
Linden Lab stated its a Adult Continent. I am not sure what is unclear to you about that.

i wasn't confused i wasn't the one calling zindra an adult sim or adult rated..it's just an adult continent.

From: Lias Leandros
The purpose of Zindra was not to make what we saw in that picture acceptable on the grid. It was to move adult content away from the other content. How does encouraging child avatars to bring their content to Zindra meet this goal? Linden Lab needs to write rules that clearly make Zindra a what is is suppose to be and meet the goals of this project.
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it was to move that content out of site from the future users of sl not the current.. ;)
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06-21-2009 17:53
From: Kidd Krasner
Explain this please. It seems like you're avoiding the issue.
Adult business cannot be next door to a child AV playground - therefore some kid AV can set up a playground on the second to last parcel in Zindra and block a Adult Business from operating merely by their presence there - As the TOS stands now.
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06-21-2009 18:04
From: Lias Leandros
This is not true. The entire continent of Zindra is rated Adult. As per Linden Lab. You can rate your content in Zindra PG. But the Continent is Adult.
You're mixing up "content" and "continent".
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06-21-2009 18:05
From: Lias Leandros
Adult business cannot be next door to a child AV playground
That's also something you made up. You can't have sex toys in proximity to a playground, but "in proximity to" doesn't mean what you keep claiming it means.
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06-21-2009 18:05
From: Lias Leandros
That CS applied to PG and Mature continents - not Zindra continent. What nonsense that a slave has to be taken off a leash to walk in Zindra.

it applies because of global standards
zindra fits in that global standard and remember zindra is not rated adult or x..and that area was not x rated she was in


From: Lias Leandros
The sad part is that you really believe this. Thousands of paying customers have to give up their investments because of such fodder - and LL had to spend man hours and take back hundreds of thousands of mainland meters to make this happen (mainland landmarket impacted by this?). There is nothing positive about child avatar and adult content scandals.

i was not serious on that post..trust me no effort went into it..
every change there is everyone worries about a scandal..the onyl ones looking to cause a scandal are the ones that fell off their chairs and saw a chance to grab attention when there was an open house and everyone was invited..
i can't take those two serious at the moment no..
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06-21-2009 18:08
From: Lias Leandros
You know, some hire city planners that are paid to make these stacked assumptions. As Kidd pointed out - in his RL job he can impose or not impose zoning that would effect content in an area

I wouldn't call it a job. In my community, as with many in this part of the country, most of the government is done by volunteers. We have paid administrative staff, but the people who actually make decisions or draft local laws aren't paid. We have a hard enough time getting funding for master plan updates. Suggesting that we hire a planner for bylaw updates would have gotten us laughed out of town meeting and replaced at the next election.

And no, we didn't make stacked assumptions. We took time to understand the legal and practical constraints, as well as balancing the rights of all people involved. We considered a variety of possibilities, not just the ones that would lead to the conclusions we liked.
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06-21-2009 18:23
From: Ceka Cianci
you mean if you are there first and a child avatar that decided to buy in zindra next to you would get you moved again? You really think you would not hold favor in the who was there first argument?
Who knows. There is nothing in the TOS that says who has the final right to have a business in Zindra - the Adult Content Provider or the Child Avatar setting up an orphanage with a playground.
From: someone
are you expecting an invasion of child avatars that are going to move there to give people that were moved there a hard time?
As it stands now - It is completely conceivable and acceptable.
From: someone
planned out horror.. unless you are talking about the penis that was there the other night doing stand up
It was not planned by the adults that were already there all day.
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it was to move that content out of site from the future users of sl not the current.. ;)
Well, It is not out of site if its posted on the internet with child avatars roaming around in it.
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06-21-2009 18:24
From: Kidd Krasner
And no, we didn't make stacked assumptions. We took time to understand the legal and practical constraints, as well as balancing the rights of all people involved. We considered a variety of possibilities, not just the ones that would lead to the conclusions we liked.
This would be nice.
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06-21-2009 18:41
From: Lias Leandros
Your perceptions are wrong. There were more people 50 pages ago also showing concern - you can belittle the situation all you want - that does not make it a non-issue.
We are back in the grey area again - because that nude woman was clearly playing with herself in a Zindra infohub. She has not been reprimanded for that - even though Lindens were there. So it seems even the people that wrote the CS do not know how it applies to Zindra.
And here we go.
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Again I stress, no Lindens were present when the nude woman masturbation thing happened. i am an eye witness. Lias is confusing the incident with Marianne at the opening festivities with something that occured the following day.
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06-21-2009 18:48
From: Lias Leandros
This is not true. The entire continent of Zindra is rated Adult. As per Linden Lab. You can rate your content in Zindra PG. But the Continent is Adult.
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I really don't know where you got this idea. As a test, go to any mature sim that has a Linden road or whatever. stand on the Governor's parcel and click on about land,then come back and tell us what you obseved about the parcel rating.

Otherwise, just drop it, as you clearly are laboring under the burden of an amazing amount of mis-information.
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06-21-2009 19:06
From: Lias Leandros
Who knows. There is nothing in the TOS that says who has the final right to have a business in Zindra - the Adult Content Provider or the Child Avatar setting up an orphanage with a playground.
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i guess what i was trying to say is you don't think they would set there things away from your content or you maybe move your content over or someone do something rather than someone move in that situation?
i don't think it is going to be hit and run..
i really don't..thats me just hoping the good wil come out in people when it counts i guess..

i think right now in the forums where all this is going on it is just a heated topic..

i think a lot of emotions in people are running high..it's the worst time to guess what is going to happen..
it is the best time for someone to be manipulated into joining a side and going out to cause harm..

do you really think someone that is protesting in this way of trying to harm people is really going to do anyone good..
when this cause is over they will have another tomorrow..i mean she doesn't even understand what she is talking about..she kept backing off from people saying she didn't want to talk about it because she was tired of repeating to new people asking the same questions..thats a lazy movement leader if you ask me..

and this wave..it was a show boat full of nothing..just picking someone out in a crowd and defamating a persons character with a fat lie..and it is a lie..this is a person that says she is doing it because she cares about sl but at the same time is hurting people in sl without fact but lies..

you keep talking about these images and what could happen..think for a moment about if people just went to this open house just to see zindra and it was calm..would there be any images or threads or sound waves or anything hurting anyone..would there be any threat or debate going on right now? no
it would be people just looking at zindra open house not thinking about anything but pickin land and looking at the builds..

this is drummed up hype by people with either too much time on their hands or people that have to be the center of attention..

you should really research the people that are out there saying they are doing it for you and me..you might see the skellies in the closet that are there..

there is going to be risk in AR's because now they made it possible..

people doing these protests and things are gonna not care who gets hurt around them..

people like that self destruct on thier own and usually take whoever is around them with them..

i just can't help but think that things would be better if we had some anti witch hunt rules added in the harassment section of the CS..

I hate that people have to move i hate that the sim i live in has to switch to adult now too..
I hate a lot of things but the last thing i would ever hate is another SL'er..

i will say i dislike people that rally mobs on lies then go out like a hate mod to do their bidding to wreck others lives..
we will keep making wall after wall till it's just us lookin at a picture of the good ole days when people got along..
sorry but i got a Sad
i finally just put all that has happened into one big ball and see where we are heading ..
no good will come out of this..
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06-21-2009 19:15
From: Jannae Karas
Again I stress, no Lindens were present when the nude woman masturbation thing happened. i am an eye witness. Lias is confusing the incident with Marianne at the opening festivities with something that occurred the following day.
You need to read the details of the incident from the nude woman. You saying there were two times that a child avatar felt the need to go to Zindra.
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06-21-2009 19:27
From: Lias Leandros
You need to read the details of the incident from the nude woman. You saying there were two times that a child avatar felt the need to go to Zindra.
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Once again i must say, (as you seem more than a bit dense) I need read nothing (although I have) in regards to the naked woman incident. I witnessed the event and know the names of the involved parties. I was not on hand the previous evening when the incident with Marianne occurred, although I have seen pics of it.

These were two seperate incidents involving different child avis.

This issue has been debated and detailed extensively in a now Linden locked thread on Xstreet.

Lias, the only person here that seems to have a problem with the facts is you. Making them up as you go along seems to be your style.
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06-21-2009 19:30
here is one of the child avatars that was there..i'm not gonna put the name without permission because it is from another forum..
the english is off some because i believe he is german..

From: someone
I'm the kid avatar on that picture and well, some of you act more childish as I ever could. Some things to state:

1. Linden wrote a BLOG post along the new viewer and the all over headlines the last weeks turned all around that adult continent. Finally they announced it and invited all to visit. And sure I was curious, but not cuz I expected or wanted to see all u brave adults in sexual poses. I mainly wanted to see how it looks like when Linden designs a place.

2. I'm adult in RL, so I violated nothing. The nude woman was for sure provocating and as I see now, it was a well thought trap. Thats just cheap. Btw. is nudity not equal to sexuality, so there wasnt any sexual thing but a nude woman (along 40 dressed avatars). So whats odd then?

3. I alrdy stated on that place that I'm just here to visit for a first sight, also declared public that I dont see any cause for me personaly to revisit, cuz I dont expect a lot of creativity there.

4. Nowhere is written that the adult continent just holds sexual stuff. Funny thing is, the TOS only covers sexual stuff against/with kid avatars. If I'm funny to, I'm sure allowed to RP and do any splatter/weapon stuff since sexuality is for sure more worse then violence.

5. My visit there was not a political statement and sure I could have used a adult or similar avatar thing, maybe a child-prim ... I just was to lazy to change and to seek afterwards all my stuff together since I dont use outfits in folders.

6. Even if I do ... assume I'm using another shape. Had I to change all my profile and so on as well? Whats then, when I'm in an adult shape but by viewing my profile u see I'm regular a child avatar. Does then all that limits kick in again?

And maybe I have to dissapoint you, but I'm not interested in ur shiny new sexual playground there or I would play that regular oversized superman. And its not for the first time I discover two things: 1) What looks like a kid gets treated like a kid and 2) kids are still very suppressed.

Come on, protect me to death.

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06-21-2009 19:34
From: Ceka Cianci
do you really think someone that is protesting in this way of trying to harm people is really going to do anyone good..
Alot of people have been here a long time. And there are many people that think child avatars are not a good thing. Not once has anyone taken that agenda and went ot a predominantly child avatar area to plan some sort of framed AR attack. This incident occurred because the child avatar went to the adult continent.

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and this wave..it was a show boat full of nothing..just picking someone out in a crowd and defamating a persons character with a fat lie..and it is a lie..this is a person that says she is doing it because she cares about sl but at the same time is hurting people in sl without fact but lies..
Surely you are referring to the child avatar - because without her performance none of this would have happened.

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you keep talking about these images and what could happen..think for a moment about if people just went to this open house just to see zindra and it was calm..would there be any images or threads or sound waves or anything hurting anyone..would there be any threat or debate going on right now? no
Your right - if the child avatar person put on a adult (or furrie or dragon or dog) avatar and attended this would be a non issue.
From: someone
this is drummed up hype by people with either too much time on their hands or people that have to be the center of attention..
Or people forced to give up their mainland adult business area and then finding out they aren't even being moved to an adult sim (as Linden Lab said) because child avatars want in also.
From: someone
you should really research the people that are out there saying they are doing it for you and me..you might see the skellies in the closet that are there..
Why would a person wearing a child's avatar go to a Adult Continent opening party and stay in that avatar and in Zindra after seeing adult content within feet of her? Look into that closet.
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there is going to be risk in AR's because now they made it possible..
They are made possible by Linden Lab not banning child avatars from Zindra (as of yet)
From: someone
people doing these protests and things are gonna not care who gets hurt around them..
As we witnessed - the nude woman put up with alot personal attacks after her space was invaded by that child avatar.
From: someone
people like that self destruct on thier own and usually take whoever is around them with them..
I could not believe those child avatars pulled that stunt also.
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i just can't help but think that things would be better if we had some anti witch hunt rules added in the harassment section of the CS..
If CS means COMMON SENSE - then common sense should have been used when people wearing child avatars decided to go an Adult Continent - and then stay after seeing what was going on right in front of them.

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i finally just put all that has happened into one big ball and see where we are heading ..
no good will come out of this..
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06-21-2009 19:40
From: Lias Leandros
Alot of people have been here a long time. And there are many people that think child avatars are not a good thing. Not once has anyone taken that agenda and went ot a predominantly child avatar area to plan some sort of framed AR attack. This incident occurred because the child avatar went to the adult continent.
Bulls---. This "incident" occurred because P- N- is an evil minded old B---, and you've got a bug in your a-- about kid toons. Just like the last "incident" you tried to turn into a crusade over something nobody would think twice about in RL.
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06-21-2009 19:44
no i am talking about the one's with the agenda not the ones without..

please common sense .. lol we all know where that is lacking..
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06-21-2009 19:47
There are some very sick people carrying on about this subject, and they are not the ones with the child avatars...
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06-21-2009 19:50
From: Jannae Karas
I really don't know where you got this idea. As a test, go to any mature sim that has a Linden road or whatever. stand on the Governor's parcel and click on about land,then come back and tell us what you obseved about the parcel rating.


I would actually be curious about this. What do you see about parcel ratings, say in the following regions:

Clementina (Governor's Mansion)
A random Bay City or Nautilus City road
Mosh (Port of Kama City building)
A random Zindra road

Do they say anything? To be honest, I've not found anyting beyond notes about Welcome Areas/Info Hubs on the Wiki that relate to this
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06-21-2009 19:52
From: Ceka Cianci
here is one of the child avatars that was there..i'm not gonna put the name without permission because it is from another forum..
the english is off some because i believe he is german..


...and just to further clarify, because I'm sure someone will misconstrue this, that above anonymous quote was *not* me.
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