SL cracking down on crime?

I has pie®!

Remind me to put Ann on mute so she can't tempt me into raiding my cabinets looking for something equally tasty as a pie.

and he's gonna expect dancing in skimpy outfits and grapes....geesh!!

O.o nice outfit Ann - where do you shop?
No square pie there though - I'll take a donut instead

youre mean!

lol, EVERYWHERE. That dress is from Armidi, though.

(And I have a milk bottle pendant, because it amused me. =^.^=)

all i know is, based on your behavior, if there is a clique and you're in it, i don't want to be.

let it go already. you are pointing fingers in every direction, but your own.

me too. ill bring the jellies!

I hate cliques - clique, clique, clique everywhere you go - people really ought to stop buying those kinda boots

I always check profiles hoping to find nudity, but I will be damned, if I AR it.

Gah, some chick was stalking me at this Easter egg hunt...she clacked away behind me practically the whole time. I wanted to whack her with an egg.

LMAO!

egg toss, anyone?


you can't have a nudity photo in your profile? was it a RL photo, or a 2L photo?

ROFL, I spent 4 hours at the Falln easter egg hunt, I must be totally insane and was definitely ready to kill someone afterwards. I haven't even had time to sort through the free items yet.
I just kept saying - one more egg, one more egg - I think that was around egg 23 - was still saying it at egg 59 when I finally gave up.
All kudos to Falln though it was excellently done and the prizes very generous. I never knew elves were so tricksy at hiding eggs though - grrrr

Did I miss the pie?

I think people have been complaining about these forums for nearly as long as we've had these forums.

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So evidently now someone who felt more at home in the old days crowd of Aimee and Pandastrong, etc; doesn't like the behavior of the modern crowd.

Yeah I use "crowd" rather than "clique". Mostly because people who like to accuse it of being a "clique" do not understand how loose-knit the group really is.

Yeah there are in-jokes and yeah some of the people hang out together, less than you'd think by the banter. Its no different than the old crowd. And the one before that. Just different faces.

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Having said that, Kismet - I think you are wrong about something. I don't think this was an example of a clique (or whatever people want to call it) jumping on Bully.

I really think it was an example of a bunch of people jumping on someone they saw as a griefer.

Now maybe some members of the "clique" chimed in after that - but that sure wasn't most of the first few pages.

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Of course once accusations and counter accusations got thrown it all got rather mean. Looks like on all sides.

I mean your post history isn't all negative.

And forum posters liking each other isn't a bad thing.

And really cases of innocent bystanders getting slapped down by the forums crowd are a lot more rare than characterized here.

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I really think this thread (meaning the original negative slant) happened because people are biased against griefers.

And the original poster named Bully (which didnt help) admitted to already getting in trouble ...

I still think people went way way overboard in their complaints against Bully - who still hasn't admitted to doing anything concrete herself.

But people do have an irrational fear of griefers in SL, so I can see why it happened.

Hello you lot.

Don't fret, I'll stick my oar in here very briefly and then leave again.

The "C"lique word is very highly charged, and it's often taken in a pejorative sense.

What I would say is that I do agree there is quite a difficult and intimidating atmosphere on the board these days which wasn't here when I first started posting(which wasn't that long ago actually).

I don't think it's any individual's fault, and I think each is actually friendly and open when met on a one to one basis.

There is however a wee group on this Forum who overuse the in-joke, support each other very vehemently, escalate things way to fast and often to an inappropriate and personally insulting level - often to the point of insulting someone's perceived RL situation.

There's no point naming names, and I think it's more of a group dynamic that happens. When the individuals are outside of the group, as I say they're lovely.

The "group" isn't actually defined as simply as the "Forum Cartel" crowd, it's actually a subset of that group. It is however quite discrete and readily identified.

The reason I'm posting to this thread is that the symptoms I'm talking about are actually displayed pretty clearly right here.

Forums are great places in my view, I like an argument/discussion, I like the exchange of ideas and it would be really boring if everyone held the same view.

I do think that a rule of thumb should always be to attack the proposition rather than the individual, and certainly it's often a bad idea to call into question a person's RL situation as a way to score points.

I know that everything is a two way street, but there is a tendency in human nature to over-react and become defensive when intimidated or attacked. My view is that as seasoned posters and members of a strong group.. it's probably a good idea that you take the high ground.

Just food for thought, and you can take the following in whatever way you choose.

After one of my somewhat "heated" discussions on this board, I received two IMs in world from people who had posted a single reply in support of my position (Which may or may not have been wrong). They were both expressions of sympathy and concern.. and both warned me about certain members of a group and what to expect.

Also, I did visit the Forum location inworld recently, and spent a very enjoyable hour speaking with people there.

A very nice woman invited me to the group and I accepted. As she invited me however, she was at great pains to tell me how nice you all were.. she also stressed that you are much less agressive and much nicer in-world than on the Forums.

Just something to think about.

These Lindens they have destroy my land/ad business. I was buying and selling the lands and generating the ads revenues and also to be reselling the lands. This was legal method for generating wealths until now it is made a CRIME and I am made CRIMINAL and have my business destroyed.

ah, that's too bad former ad farmer. what a shame.

I think one thing many people hate more than griefers is adfarmers.

I'm not sure how much sympathy for losing your adfarm business you are going to get here.

I have to admit though--- unlike gambling and banking there wasn't much writing on the wall that the end of adfarming was near.

This is pretty much spot on. Except, I don't feel any less or more comfy personally, than I ever have here. I am fairly "bullet proof", as Chris put it, myself.

I went through a time where one individual was causing a lot of havoc and I let them know it throughout a series of threads (as I am sure you saw when you looked at my post history), but that was a whole different situation there, that person wasn't just complaining, they were approaching libel and trying really hard to damage other people's businesses and reputations.

I just don't like seeing others raked over the coals for no good reason, and yes, this thread was not the best example, for reasons you've given.

Furthermore, I wasn't pointing my finger at everyone who had a comment for the OP, and I agree that the first couple pages were pretty tame. I got a bit irritated AFTER that.

What's done is done, and I am sorry if I was a bit harsh, but when you have several people trying to insinuate that you're an ass or paranoid for just speaking your mind, it's not exactly easy to not hit back.


And with that, I really do need to focus on some other things.

Take care.

Thanks for saying what I was trying to say, in a more civil manner.

*Hat tip*

OH, I remember you. Bummer about your ad farm business. An ya, dat's the way laws work. When stuff gets banned, it make for new types of 'criminals,' I imagine. I gotta say, though -- yer not likely to get a lotta sympathy with a name like "Greedy" any more than the OP did with the name "Bully." Sorry.

Mari