SL cracking down on crime?

Must be the "Griefer Buddies Clique". I wonder if it has been trademarked?

don't bother Ann. Kizzy is adamant in their pursuit of whatever it is they are pursuing with extreme anger and prejudice. i say we give him/her a hug cause it's obvious that they have either:
a) had a bad break up
b) was rejected from some sort of group and or perceived clique in world or rl
c) found out that really hot chick they were having internet sechs with was really their roommate.

either way, him/her said they was leaving. i hope he/she has a better tomorrow.or at least a martini flavored shot of Metamucil™.

huh?

No. You're making assumptions based off those quotes. I am not willing to do so because I see nothing in those quotes saying "I AM GRIEFER".

And so what if she DID? She got her punishment and is now indicating that she is worried that she better behave. It's a win!

You all have her pegged as some awful griefer, and I just don't see it. And look, I AM NOT saying she is innocent. I am simply not going to pass judgment on her because we have very little info - for all we know it could have been as simple as a dispute with a neighbor.

Thank God people like you don't get to run our court system (most of the time).

or maybe not leaving....:/

Thats pretty much what I was wondering.

Bully didn't exactly ever explain what it was she did wrong to get the warnings.

She did make a couple trolling type comments in there but thats nothing new for internet forums.

Logic is often wasted in the forums.

And you people wonder why this issue keeps coming up all the time.

Just look at the crap posted above for your answer, (and the back patting posts that are sure to follow, which will only encourage her to be more of a troll).

I have an anti-griefer alt that picked up two one-day suspensions. Each time he dealt with a griefer in ways that left something tangible on the grid, and the griefer and his'/her/its pals could use that to file a counter-AR and AFAIK got away with it. Lesson learned: Now griefers get dealt with in ways that leave nothing a griefer can use.

Point here is Yeah, someone named Bully starts with three strikes against them on the griefer front, but it is possible, just possible, that the punishments do not necessarily fit the crime. Just saying.

As for the OP question: I think it depends on the nature of the offense. Since Bully has chosen to not be forthcoming, it is legitimate to suspect the worst. If your act is not clean, it sounds advisable to clean it up, big time. If it is already clean, why are you not being more explicit?

Death to griefers; they are bad for SL.

actually, i wasn't being a troll(kinda). i actually answered you earlier post with a statement. you chose to get insulting, belligerent, and well more and more narrow minded for whatever reason. so i treated you like you asked to be treated. you were the one who chose to be an ass, so i treated you as such. and all you can point to, and focus on is the fact that either the clique is against you, or that bully, for all intents and purposes is, innocent until proven guilty, even though in bully's very own posts, that Ann quoted, branded her as not so innocent.

it was not the crime per se that was mocked, it was the audacity of her to post a complaint veiled as a question and expecting an oh you poor thing response. and by your own posts, you choose to ignore the fact that she was asked several times what exactly did she do.

you enjoy your righteous anger, im gonna be me. sometimes wrong, sometimes witty, sometimes a bit trolly but always human. toodles

Does this mean you aren't going to The Prom?

pfft im groin to the prim prom wearing my poesies on my toesies while rioko waves her purple pompoms as i enter wearing my platinum dress and purple panties eating pecan pie!

All right, all right - I'm sorry I offended Libertarians by calling Chris a libertarian. It's a little thing we do. I make fun of him for his politics (which really aren't that bad) and he makes fun of me for everything else. I have nothing against Libertarians. Chris is one of the most consistent posters on the boards here. He chooses a position, thinks it through carefully, then sticks with it. There isn't a shred of hypocrisy in him - even when he and I completely disagree, I have to give him that. He sure is fun to pick on, though.

RE: the comment about picking a different post. Why didn't you choose a better place to make a stand? If you know Bully and know more about the story here than we do (I'm not saying you do, I'm just saying "if" then it isn't fair to attack us without enlightening us. You're saying we're making assumptions - let us know the truth if you know it! If you don't know Bully, then you chose a terrible thread to go on the offensive, and by your own admission, you knew there were better places! Geesh - you said you went through basic training. Didn't they teach you about when to attack and when to lay low?

Ironically, my entry into this was because of the righteous anger coming from the usual suspects. You are not given to logic, I see.

No one answers to you, so you can take your "audacity" statement and stick it. You aren't a moderator and this isn't a general forum, regardless of the fact that you treat it as if it were.

All you do with each subsequent post is prove me right. You should really think out your posts before you hit submit, But judging by your writing "style" I'd guess you don't spend much time at all considering what it is you're about to post.

And oh the irony of being called an "ass" by a troll. I'll bet had I pre-emptively started calling you cuss words, I'd possibly have been reported by some of your duplicitous enablers. Luckily for you I AM a Libertarian.

FFS, one of your possible scenarios for why I took offense is because I was possibly rejected from some group. If that doesn't speak to exactly what the problem is, I don't know what would.

You apparently see the world in this bizzaro world spectrum where life needs to revolve around acceptance by groups.

Anyway kiddo, back to googling funny pictures so that you can get some more attention and affirmation from your familiars.

apparently not. he chose this thread because it fit whatever anger issues were plaguing him at the moment.

I'm just saying that most of the Libertarians I know don't assume people guilty at first blush. In fact, they are many times some of the hardest people to convince with respect to someone's "guilt".

Yeah, I realized there was some in-joking going on there, but I thought that maybe there was some reason you chose to do so, to make some sort of a point. I think that you actually shot yourself in the foot, if that was your goal, by invoking the Libertarian thing.

As far as the venue - (which thread) it doesn't matter to me, this was just the one that nudged me far enough finally to post about. It doesn;t mean I am having a bad day, or have suffered some loss or rejection in RL (Maggie). That does not take away from any of the things I suggested may be at play here. I wanted to post in some of the threads where Ricardo and others have brought this up, but for whatever reasons I didn't have time or the inclination on those occasions. Shrug.

Surely you're not suggesting that my opinions are invalid simply because of where I chose to state them? Can't you actually debate the merits of what I have said? That's a handy magic wand, if not, and I think some governments might be interested in that technology.

Nah, if I had anger issues, I'd be on the forums every day mocking others to make me feel better about myself. I'd be calling people "asses", and posting pics of laxatives and lolcatz. Because surely that would help mask my pain and anger from my BFFs.

well, at least you are not a hypocrite.

wow, geeze dude, take the blue pill.

Are you TRYING to be ironic?

Because honestly, you seem to be the angriest person on this thread.

Let ME try to be an armchair shrink for a moment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

I swear to God, my goal was to take a shot at Chris and that was it. Nothing more, nothing less. My foot is fine, despite being shot at again.

I didn't say your arguments was invalid and I addressed it in my first post. I just think you chose a terrible place to post it. You took an indefensible position and dug in to defend it. You haven't addressed my challenge, which was to find a thread where someone stated a minority opinion and did so respectfully and was flamed for it. If someone acts like a jackass and states any opinion, of course they are going to get flack. Show me a thread where someone stated an opinion that was not in the majority and didn't act like a jerk about it and got hammered. In fact, you should be able to show a consistent pattern of people with unpopular opinions being ostracized. If you can't do that, then your argument about the "clique" demanding adherence to the popular opinions has no merit.

Take this thread for example - you expressed an unpopular opinion, but you did it in a snotty, belligerent manner, so this one doesn't count. Colette expressed the opinion that we were beating up too much on Bully and nobody flamed her - they just disagreed. You're taking some heat because of the way you are addressing people. It's ok, you can say what you want, however you want, but you have to realize how people are going to react. If you care, then don't act like that. If you don't care, then why on earth are you complaining?

Think what happened here was quite a few people unleashed their resentment towards griefers onto Bully.

wow, kewl!!! thanks, so i get to take the red pill then.
seriously, it says more though about you cause if im projecting my own "own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others", then that means i am not accepting my own eagerness to be so "above it all" that i poke fun at those that do the hoity toity thing.

nice!!!

Goodness, WTF is this thread about?

I don't see many posters in here, yet once again the word clique was dropped - along with 'you people' and 'the in crowd'. So Ridiculous...

(What ever the OP did or did not do,
drama sure does follow her around - even in threads. )

I never said the g-word, I just don't have any sympathy for her purported plight.

FWIW there are more than 100 avatars named "Bully," and this one has been around since 2006. Trust me, there are worse actors than that indicates around in SL. But we still don''t know what LL's problem is with this particular "Bully."