Official Trout Rating

I've always found it sad that a predominately social place like Second Life would make a move to limit the natural social nature of its online forums.

HAHA....I realize there is truth and have heard that many forums closed.......I'm just being a smart ass - I enjoy these off beat threads where people lighten up and goof off - the end of SL statements are getting a bit....well....old . Have fun while it's here....it is still useful for many and more serious questions get asked and answered then there are threads like this.

Yes and it was rather sad to see them go away. Those forums were quite useful back in the day but then it got so out of hand. What with the fan/hater comments in classifieds to the actual need for resident moderators to police the forums to 'break up fights' in General. It was constant drama and alot of people were driven away and didn't want to even ask for help lest they get a rude comment or a thread derailed.

I'm really not trying to be a bitch with my last post, I like fun as much as the next person. People can be as sarcastic as they want and start with their 'the sky is falling comments' but I've been here for over 3 yrs and have seen it all here and I just don't want to see a useful forum yet again be closed.

Perhaps that is really why things are as they are now - maybe they have realised that the lurking threat of closing them will keep some decorum on the forum! and yet allow social dialogue to flourish. In reality the sky has not fallen yet - to coin a phrase! questions are still asked and answered and yet there is way more fun than ever!

Yes but there is a difference between being social and what went on back in the day.

I don't think The Providers give a shit enough about the Forums any more to even close them.

Would be solved pretty simply by opening a general forum.

I guess thats too simple.

Wouldn't even take admitting they were wrong, since barely anyone is still here from back then.

Half of the actual questions in Resident Answers even when Strife was here were really general topics anyway - and he was a stricter moderator than Pathfinder and Jeska ever were.

Things like Banlines, and Age-Verification, Gambling bans ; Those aren't questions by residents really. Those are SL general discussion topics.

Neither do we.

If you follow RA regularly, you'll see that Ray and quite a few others have commented along these lines when things were (in their view) getting out of hand.

As big a goof-off and kidder and thread derailer as I am, there have been times when it even got too over the top for me, too.

But everyone has a different tolerance for this stuff. When Strife was actively moderating us, I think he managed to strike a pretty good balance. Since he left, things have gotten a lot looser. And when a very few threads WERE deleted, it was the wrong ones. Again, IMO.

Please, LL...could we have our General Discussion forum back? And an active and fair moderator?

In the meantime...I won't promise to limit my goofiness. But I do promise not to snipe or snip or hate on anyone. I'll try, anyway. And I agree with Trout -- despite the nutty threads, RA is still answering questions reliably and quickly. Surely we get some points for that.

Seems like to me, that WE the posters and customers who pay for this Forum have decided that we need a general forum. So if LL wants to do even more to piss off a segment of their paying customers, let them shut it down.

Oh Crap, I'm not a paying customer any more. I better shut up.

Zsu wins the thread BTW,

Trout didn't think it would be possible to derail it ...


And here we are discussing a serious topic.

I wasn't here back in the day, but I've been on forums and bulletin boards since before SL was in existence and the stuff that goes on here is nothing like what goes on in other forums. I underastand it was a lot worse when LL shut down the general forums. A little bickering about banlines and ageplay is not flaming. If LL can't handle the little slap fights that we have occasionally, then God help them if they ever go out on the rest of the internet.

Seriously - this forum is incredibly well-behaved in comparison to others.

That is their eventual goal.

I was just coming back in to write pretty much the same thing......LOL

Come with me to the land of 4chan, and I shall show you sights undreamed of by mortal man.

or women? /me raises her hand........I want to come!!!

I read some of the Archives. I've been to Family Barbecues and Schoolboard meetings that were more rancorous.....some of that stuff would be considered Sweet Nothings in Jersey......

Rule of the Internet number 15; there are no girls on the internet.

Damn! Who made that rule?

Soooo, the internet is just one great big sausage fest?

They're like the laws of physics in that they are not a set of man-made rules but more like a set of observations. They can be found here http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Rules_Of_The_Internet

Finally it sounds like we're getting back towards the original topic.

Al Gore. He created the internet, and therefor all rules that go along with the aforemmentioned tubes.

Best sig I ever saw was this (though old hat probably to hardened intaweb hacks!):

"The Internet, where men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents."

try www.survivorsucks.com

LOL okay I like survivor ... I just lurk there.

That site is just MEAN. To the show's producers, to the contestants, the other posters .. some who include RL friends and family of the contestants.

Read that one for a little while and then you'll realize how Disney this forum is (or ever was) by comparison.

Aristotle thought he knew the laws of Physics, and the genius of his age died ignorant.