My friend got banned :(

QFT

What and amazingly stupid and insane rant.

'nuff said.

Pep (I don't even feel sorry for you)

PS "fast becoming null in the world"? Speaking for yourself I presume!

Rant or not, I too find the OP's interest peculiar-

I think the world would be a much safer place if we introduced something similar to the 1976 smash hit movie 'Logan's Run'

I mean... your life is over at 50 anyways... right?

I was going to say inane, but insane will do...

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Projection's a bitch, huh?

I'm close enough to 50 to almost be offended, but the farther I got into it....it just became a joke. I could come up with a half dozen generalizations about young whippersnappers like yourself, but I'm bright enough to understand that they are meaningless.

It also makes clear why your PayPal account probably was limited and funds held for six months as well.

I was debating between inane and insane and went with inane myself.

Put me in the corner of "peculiar". But, not for the (apparent) same reasons others have expressed. My "problem" with the subject is the same as my problem with all the other threads dealing with some unknown "my friend has been wronged in some way by Linden Lab". In this case it seems (from the statements of the OP) that the "friend" has been banned for some sort of griefing..........I have absolutely no sympathy there. It could be an underage thing.......but we don't know that, do we?

And now we are all but calling the OP a creepy old man with some sort of fetish for young children........how creepy is that? Where are the facts to support that stance? I sure don't see any........only wild and unsubstantiated speculation on a few people's part.

For the OP. There is no one in this forum who can help you in any way. And, to be completely honest, you have not helped your "friend" in anyway by posting this thread. And to take it further, you can't even help your friend by contacting Linden Lab yourself. The only one who can help is the "friend" himself..........he must contact LL for any resolution to the problem. Not you, not any of us.......he must do it himself. As you can see the "jury pool" here has been tainted (unfairly, in my opinion)..........I think you would have been better off by telling your friend what I just said.

I see where you're coming from. But then I find all internet relationships a little creepy.

Responding to this part of your post......the OP said his 'heart is broken'. A little over the top, to say the very least? If my 'friend' was banned from SL, by LL, for 'whatever, I'd be all kinds of things, all of them much milder than 'broken hearted'. Something about the chosen verbage just bugged........

I agree some men are like that, as are some women, regardless of age

however clumping someone into that category, especially publicly, is just plain wrong

So what if someone enjoys the innocence of childhood?
I myself love to play kid games with the kids, it doesn't mean I am a pedi, or a dirty old lady, it just means I love kids, for their innocence, and there is nothing wrong with that.

no where did the OP mention it was anything sexual or predatory, you inserted that yourself (as did the others who felt it was "creepy"
personally what I find creepy is those who put that intonation into something innocent and presume someone guilty without even knowing them.

TROLL...........and a pretty good one at that.

broken hearted can mean many things to many people

if your kid did something that caused you to no longer be able to be in contact wouldn't you be broken hearted?
(the op also said he takes the fatherly stance with generally people under 30) so.. that being said, it would be like losing contact with his son...

If it were me, and one of the girls I have become mom to, just got kicked out of SL, I would be broken hearted too

(one left under her own choice and that broke my heart) and yeah I am 44 she is only in her early 20's, does that make it creepy?
or it is just because he is a man, befriending another male?

my take was the guy befriended a younger male, took him on as a son, and was heart broken to lose the contact they had in SL

it is nothing dirty or perverted and no different than my situation with my SL daughter.

Because of the imaginary element - a bond can form in SL that would never happen in RL. I think that's where the creepy aspect comes from.

SL can be quite emo for newer residents.

I still don't see it as creepy
emotionally intense yes, been there done that

but creepy implies negative aspects, which is very unfair to accuse the OP of, being we do not know him

Slander at it's best (or whatever it is termed when one makes false negative statements or implications of another)

And basically what I have seen here is very strong, almost outright accusations, towards the OP, of being a pedophile

that is plain wrong

so did I

I must run now...life is getting away from me. Me, of the 'free love, peace love dope, long hair and beads, Sonny Barger and the 1%ers, 'say you want a revolution' patched up blue jeans and hitchhike way across the USA (twice) generation. Where was I when I was 20? I can tell you where I wasn't

My husband is 50, and he's a whole lot more together and non judgemental than you are.

And what exactly is it you do with 50 year-old-men? You're probably not a great yardstick for normal male thought, or action.

Gee Im sorry if I come across as "creepy" to some people, but I understand natural caution, which I also observe in not initiating inappropriate relations wihth people, and NEVER meeting someone in reral life that I had known in SL or any other game.


And by the way 50 year olds are actually quite intelligent , also being blessed with the valuable quality of real life experince, as well as professional experience, so suggestions that we are obsolete don't bother me at all. In fact I actually respect and learn from 80 and 90 year olds, they have valuable lessons and experiences which are really a treasure and you ought to open up your mind a bit. Peopole in their teens and 20's are so sure they "know it all" and sometimes its only after they hit 40 that they begin to think, gee I'm actually smarter now that I was then! Lol


Back to the point of the Topic....


Second Life is fun and its fun hangin with your friends in Second Life!




When someone is banned or stops playing, its painful to you because unless you are a really surficial heartless person, you miss your friends when they can't play Second Life with you any more!


I guess I was hoping for some construction suggestion on how to help my banned friend, and I certainly do NOT condone griefing or "crashing the sims" I'm sure the Second Life staff wants to protect the game, and its paying customers, and rightfully so, but I guess I'm wondering if somehow he was ABLE to make another account on a new IP Address or a new computer, would Second Life be cool with that?


I myself host a 2 D computer game, and I forgive a lot because I feel that each account represents a real life person, and I don't want to make that [person unhappy, depresssed or feel the great loss of Second Life. I do NOT fault Second Life at all, but I am probiong to see if they might ever have "mercy" sometimes, like maybe every leap year, or on the Summer Soltice, or maybe the traditional festival of the Lindens?


OK over and out, nuff said, hope Im not creepy!

I don't have much faith in how Linden enforces its own rules. I had someone put a real life threat to me in their profile. Several pepole AR'd the person, yet not only have they NOT been banned (or account terminated), but they weren't even suspended.

I guess griefing is FAR more serious than, I dunno, AN ILLEGAL ACT.

*rolls eyes*

Creepy!

Pep (If you can't do the time, don't do the crime)

PS Tell us what the cause was and we might be more sympathetic.

PPS Or not.

No, I don't think Linden Lab would be cool with that.........that's circumventing the rules and policies set forth in the ToS. But, I bet there is a way for your friend to contact LL directly and put forth his side of the story and/or apologize for any trouble he may have made for anyone else in Second Life..........and be sincere about it. Dispite what many may say about LL, they are not heartless and disinterested tyrants........have your friend call them, email them or in some way contact them directly and discuss the situation with them........in a civil, contrite, and open manner. I would think he would have a good chance of having the ban lifted.........maybe under some probationary restrictions for a period of time. But, don't "cheat" the system to get back in.........if caught that would certainly make life much more difficult in the future. Not to mention that that would be just plain wrong and, in my opinion, unforgivable.

And, no, it's not creepy...........but I will admit to the thread coming across as a little odd.

Actually, Rha, I do get your point, and you could be right, too much judging with too little information; however I think the 'creepy' comments speak more to the responders own feelings, how the post made 'them' feel. And, people feel what they feel, it's reactive and probably visceral, could go back to all kinds of things in people own lives/pasts, that make them respond, feel, react as they do.

On the face of it though, you could certainly be right and it could be a perfectly innocent post meaning exactly what it says, no more no less. Best to withold judgement with so little, or rather no, information.

I know damn well that I'd be gutted if a close friend was cut out of my life, online friend or not, second life first life whatever, its all the same to me.

Stop pretending you are all hard as nails and make some friends. This cabin fever bullwaste you have going on in these forums is creepy in itself.

I understand that it may have made people feel creeped out, but I do not understand why they felt the need to make it a public announcement.

It was like they wanted people to think the worst.

*shrug*