Stay Off My Property!

Although to be honest, that given, you didn't have to waste any more of your valuable time by answering so ascerbically either.

But it's fun!

Lol.. maybe.. but doesn't it distract you from patrolling the boundaries of your little virtual patch of SL..?

Actually I think I saw one of those pesky freeloaders sneak in and use your toilet while you were wasting time on me...

Pfft, that's the orb's job. Besides, like I've said, my actual land is open to everyone, it's just the skybox I keep to myself.

Ha, shows what you know! I don't even have a toilet.

Oops.. then he's left something nasty in the hall....

I don't have a hall either...

Litter Tray?

Litter Tray?

I have a sand beach...and that may also explain my lack of need for ban lines.

If they pay on your tier cost, yes Don't you just love freeloaders? I keep my security system at all times as its land I bought and tier I pay. It's now "PRIVATE" property. So, I feel the same way you do. I don't pour my hard earned money into SL for everyone else's enjoyment.

But it's fun!

If you can do all that in 20 seconds, unfortunately freeze whears off before you can get an AR off too. Many seem to believe freezing a griefer who's randomly orbiting people for 4minutes is in itself griefing somehow..................................
Better to just eject eveyone without talking to them so they can rezz a thousand replicating bannana phones on your neighbours land instead

Sorry, I know this thread had pretty much died a natural death, but I thought I'd resuscitate it one last time.

I first visited SL in 2006, it doesn't sound like a long time ago but to be honest SL felt like a much more open and friendly place back then.

For one think you couldn't just TP to where you wanted on the map, you had to TP to the nearest Telehub and then fly/walk to your destination.

As a result you couldn't help but meet people, just the simple act of going from A to B meant you would see new people.. ask directions.. make friends.

Also, as far as I remember, there was none of this "keep off my land" stuff.

Yes, you'd be sitting in your living room and someone would walk past just outside your window. For the most part they'd be simply out exploring or looking around.

If they turned out to be a complete jerk, you'd send them packing and ban them, but mostly you'd have a chat, show them what you've been up to, and they'd move on with a friendly wave.. you never know.. they may even have become a new friend..

I admit there were many times I logged in at home to find a couple of avatars I didn't know jumping around on my bed.. So what? You say hello.. if they even attempt to look embarrassed and say hello back.. something interesting has happened.. if not.. hit eject and they're gone.

It's not like you really have to wash the soiled sheets

I'm really not a commune living hippy in RL, but to be honest I don't understand this fixation with security and property in a "safe" virtual world.

Yeah ok you spend a few dollars a month on your little bit of server resource, but what is the point of building walls around yourself and losing the opportunity for serendipity that SL offers you?

I guess I'm lucky in RL, I live in a small market town in the UK and pretty much know most people here to talk to, if not by name. However I do also work in London a lot and have lived in cities where many people are like little islands of paranoia who wouldn't recognise their neighbours if they fell over them in the street.

I just have to ask.. what is the point of replicating that in SL? Basically you're paying some money to be in SL, and then paying even more money to limit the opportunities which being here offers.

In my opinion if the $10 or $20 or $500 you spend in SL is such a big deal to you that you feel you have to isolate yourself and spend time stressing about who might get to access it "for free" while you're not looking..you really need to reconsider your priorities and investment.. otherwise why not just stay in RL?

Watch it!


They might think it's me talking.

you missed the point entirely. as Ann stated, if i wish to meet someone she and by that same token, i, can go out. however while i'm at my "safe virtual land" that i pay real USD for, i should have, and expect, some modicum of privacy. this entitlement mentality is the main reason why so many insular communities are popping up. the 10, 20, or 500 dollars that most spend gives them the right to pick and choose whom they wish to allow access to their land. i love how the words " paranoia" and "sociopath" get tossed around like party favors by those who think they have the right to go anywhere they please, and do what they please. hence banlines, and security orbs. don't like them? tough, maybe those who constantly complain should pony up and pay others tiers, that way you can dictate what you wish. but since we know thats never gonna happen, i suggest having a coke and a smile.

Ahhh.. and I also love how when you dare to question the "conservative".. and yes the small "c" is important..values that seem to have pervaded SL recently, it is immediately assumed that you're one of the "freeloaders" in question.

Perhaps I'm one of those horrible exceptions that prove the rule..

Either way, you're all right.. you pay your dollars and you make your bed. I'd probably note however that clinging to ...by it's very definition..a "virtual" and may I say at best "rented" set of rights, you say more about yourself than the imagined freeloading hoards you all appear to despise so much.

Maybe you despise them so much because this "party favour" of paranoia is based on the fact that you worry.. in SL and RL.. that the only thing really seperating you from the horrible masses is the ability to find a spare $20 a month and an overbearing need to defend what that small sum buys at the expense of almost everything else...

Just my opinion though.. but hey.. on the face of it a mutinuous opinion from one of "us"..

$20?? Try $125/month. All I can say is, enjoy teleporting back home.

Good to see that the time honoured code of shoving a winking emoticon at the end of a post to indicate that no, no way am I being an enormously tedious, patronising tosspiece, is still de rigeur.

Ahh... the high road...and obviously the addition of some tourist book French isn't..?

I realise that I use the winking emoticon too much, but until they provide a decent sneer, then that's the best I can do when confronted by confrontational, small minded and bigotted idiots like you.

... take it how it's meant Max.

Not confrontational in the slightest, Stephen, it's not really my style. I've just tired of watching you patronise just about every person you enter into discussion with. Pantomine villainy seems to be a popular stance these days.

Nice touch with the tourist book French. Wrong, of course, but nice touch.

See not a wink in sight Max

Neighbour A has a nice, open homestead. No locks, no orbs, lots of poses and animations and a come-one, come-all invitation.

Neighbour B has a closed, locked, orbed home with banlines, the works. Invited guests only.

They both have paid for their little (or large) plots. No high road, no low road. French, Swahilli, whatever .. neither are more wrong or more right than the other and nothing said in this or any other thread is going to alter this.

I found this out the hard way .. by taking one stance a while back and being blown out of the water. It's a no-win situation. We just got to live with it. Respect your neighbour.

Heck! if only we could do that IRL!