Underaged brother

Provide an explanation.

He lied, not LL's fault

On checking inworld, I note your SL account was created today, joeypt.

Being a charitable person, I'm going to assume you created an alt just so he wouldn't know it was *you* making this post. Because if I wasn't a charitable person, I would assume you're just trolling.

Full Moon and a Friday Yay

He lied to get onto the grid, you mean. If this story is true and your parents have contacted LL, they will ensure he can't access SL from any computer in your home. If he uses the neighbors computer, your parents need to tell the neighbors not to allow it. if he is pulling all sorts of tricks to get to SL, then he needs professional help. No one here can help him.

lol. You were 'born' today, and you know all about the past in SL?

and another time Phil and I are in agreement


(and btw, Phil, I don't generally dislike you, just some of your actions)

But Friday is right here.

OP - it's your parents' fault, not SL. Stop looking for someone to blame all your problems on. Look in the mirror. Have your parents and your brother look in the mirror. Your brother is responsible for his own actions, and threatening a wrongful death suit is just ridiculous. Time to grow up.

Your story is completely falling apart, by the way. Taking away his computer won't work because there are other computers in the house. We suggest cutting internet access, and all of a sudden that's a no-go because he's going across the street. (by the way, it is well within your parent's rights to go to the neighbors and request that they not allow your son to access the internet through their connection - better yet, it is within their rights and it is their responsibility to ground him and prevent him from going to the neighbor's house). Now what are you going to say next? He's not going to their house;he's leeching their wireless?

What else...Oh, right. Linden Lab is not doing anything to stop him. But wait. he has to keep his code on his hard drive and he has to keep creating alts as LL bans his accounts.

Exactly what do you want? Philip Rosedale to come to your house and spank your brother? Your brother is being dishonest and is breaking the rules to access the platform. that's on him, not LL.

God, I am sick of people doing something stupid and then blaming anyone but themselves.

Yes, this account was born today so I could make this post anonymously. And to answer your question, yes I do know a lot about SL.

If your parents cant control your brother,

Linden Labs isn't the place to contact,

Residents Answers isn't the place to contact.

If your parents are TRULY neglecting your brother and allowing him to come to harm due to a debilitating addiction ..

The Place to contact is Child Services.

OK, this is where I stopped suspending my disbelief.

I call a:

TROLL ALERT! TROLL ALERT!

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! THANK YOU.

THIS WAS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

If this kid brother existed and was as clever as described, he would be running for president this year, he's so smart - and probably be leading in all the polls. The youth vote, you know.

Kinda fits, doesn't it?

Not enough, apparently.

Yes, it is LL's fault. They allow an underaged person to create accounts. It's not my or my parents responsibility to prevent an underaged player from playing SL. It's LL's responsibility. If they want to run a mature game, they need to take extensive measures to prevent children from accessing the game.

please make some sense in your posts.

EVERYTHING an underaged child does is their Parents responsibility. That is part of having a child. But please, continue with your story.

**snicker**

/me grabs popcorn

No .. its your brother's fault,

and your parents' responsibility.

End.

Maybe the OP should seek help from the vampires.

What an appallingly pathetic post that is.

It's your parents' responsibility to control their children. End of story. Grow up and stop looking for the world to babysit you like your some sort of infant with a full diaper. Your actions are on you. The consequences are on you. Your brother willingly lied and cheated his way into SL. Your parents should have stopped that, but since they didn't, now your brother has consequences. LL didn't do anything to make him do that. For Christ's sake! What kind of generation are we raising that thinks the world owes them a bottle feeding and a burp into their adulthood?

Once more. All together now:

You are responsible for what you do.

BTW - you didn't address the part where I called you out on the inconsistencies in your story. You've skirted them nicely. You should either address those, or admit that you lied. My money is on the latter option, but either way it's bad form.

My 16 year old son piggy-backed off the neighbors wireless connection to play games in his room with the school's laptop. I had already refused to give him the wireless key and blocked the mac id when i found out he was plugging into the network directly. Now he was not playing sl, but it is easy to figure out. So the computer was sent back to school and i made sure the neighbors secured their network.

That said, if this is remotely true, then block his access, change computer passwords, make sure all neighbors are running secured networks. [Resolved]

One User Agreed: Trout Recreant.

Prior to using the word EVERYTHING, please consider all the circumstances. Children are living spontaneous creatures with minds of their owns. They don't learn everything from their parents and can assess situations and make decisions of their owns. That includes doing very negative things such as doing drugs, crime, or choosing to join a mature environment. Kids say they're out doing a project and they're out smoking or drinking. Kids decide they need some money and their parents are out for a day, so they take a gun and commit armed robbery. Obviously the kids are responsible but so are those that helped in those circumstances. Those who provided the drugs are responsible. Those who provided weapons are responsible. So are those who provided access to a mature environment.