Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Main Forum Thread

We'd see dormant alts from 05 coming out of the woodwork to take the survey

A message of the day post would be a good way to increase readership of the blog.

On the sign in Screen SL is always giving tips or anoucnments of events why hasnt this been posted there yet?

Yes

Payment information on file = verified. I would think folks creating content and selling it in-world or on Xstreet would be verified?

To be honest, I think this discussion is wasted time...they will not really listen to us...
Or will you really follow our suggesgtions, Blondie Linden? It would be great, but I just dont believe it...

Than the facts they give can not be correct, like SL has only 5% adult content.
Nearly the most mature sim are having adult content? The RP Sims also! (BDSM, Vampyres, Gor and so on) And speaking open, I guess the most of us have a fullanimated bed or bath at the SL home^^ with "very nice" XXX animations...soooo, should now everybody move on into the red light district?

And when everybody needs an ageverfication to enter adult content, than that is a "Big" change to now...Btw, the LL age verfication is not really working, I know so many people being over 18, made the check with no success....that should work before LL opens the adult ghettos...do you hear, Blondin?

At least the fact is, that the majority has to follow the minority...now SL will become like RL.
Im very sad about that...

LG Maxine

/me hears squealing brakes.

ok, just to clarify... a private house with a sex bed is ok... but that statement makes me worry.

Let's say I build a skybox dungeon with toys, it's still on my private land and I'm not advertising it... but that purpose of that is more extreme than casual conversation with an occasional tussle between the sheets. So are residents who have more risque toys in their homes going to have to move as well? Up until now I had taken at face value that residences were going to be minimally affected, but that affects probably a good number of homes now too.

Thanks

Well, there are other ways to verify. You can have payment info on file with XStreet or a verified Paypal account. Will one of those two cover you?

Argent is male. Argent's player is male. Argent still doesn't want any personal information about his player exposed. His player concurs.

If you don't consider THIS "big news", that may be part of the Problem....

Announcements on the login splash screens?

Fix http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-982 and move it back to Linden's servers instead of hosting it on Jive. I had no idea that the new blogs weren't hosted at LL until comments in WEB-982, which means that I've been entering my SL password at a third-party site.

You are correct. If you have payment info on file with Linden Lab or Xstreet - you are already age verified.

No. Residents who have more risque toys in their private homes will not have to move. Sorry for raising the red flag of concern.

It would make a few ****phobic types more comfortable with their fantasy relationships.

Ok it is going to be hard to explain what I think should classified as Adult a in a PG forum but I will do my best.

Adult:

- Any commercial sim that has cuddle pose balls which has touching 3 pixel inches from erotic zones.

- Any commercal sim that has a pose ball that includes animated kissing which lasts longer the 10 seconds.

- Any BDSM themed parcel where there is a possibility of roleplay where skin may be broken. However if it is only light spanking then it should remain "mature"

- Any store that sells prims that people could use for erotic purposes. For E.g. a massage table that has one pose ball where touching is below the waist is adult.

- Any store or commercial parcel that contains poses where there is foot licking and massaging should remain mature. However, if there is any toe sucking then this should be classed as adult.

- Any store or commercial sim that has pole dancers where erotic dancing takes place should be adult. Unless the people who dance on the said poles agree to wear something that covers up nipples and genitalia.

- Any store or commercial sim that has a blood fountain. Unless, the said blood fountain is used as halloween decoration and, or has a sign stating it is fake pixel blood and not real pixel blood.

- Any store or commercial parcel that sells sharp metal objects where someone might role play tripping over and hurting themselves or running with scissors.

- Vampire sims should be all mature adult each person says in main chat proir to any role play that any simulated biting or fighting is only simulated.

- Any horror themed content should be adult. However, horror themes may be permitted on any other parcel between October 16 and November 1 for halloween.

- Girlfriends and boyfriends who lead each other by a leash may do so in mature sims, However, if they "yank" the leash and roleplay any form of neck discomfort then they should only be allowed such behaviour in adult sims.

Also the following rules should apply to individual role play:

- Hair pulling is allowed in mature sims, however, if roleplay occurs where hair is pulled by the root then it should be only be done in adult areas.

- Roleplaying slapping is ok in all sims however the following rules should apply: PG sims playfull slapping on thighs or arms. Mature sims slapping on all other areas except the face.

- Violent roleplay should be ok in mature sims unless the content of the roleplay involves tears, loud screaming, more then 1 millitre of blood, more then 1st degree burns or physical discomfort lasting more then 5 mins,

- Stopping flying at high distances causing your avatar to fall to the ground should be banned in PG and Mature regions if the height is more then 3 feet and physical damage including death can result if you jump down from high places. However, rules should be in place to allow acidental falling, but, if someone roleplays falling from a great distance and roleplays being hurt in a mature or PG sim then action can be taken.

To police this new policy I suggest a team of cartoon violence experts to carefully watch over behaviour in second life.

You should be emailing people about this. All big policy changes should be emailed.

Please don't take this as being sarcastic, but why not? What is the property of a private home makes it private and not public, when everything in SL is essentially public?

It's pretty clear that a location with advertisements and descriptions that list is as "public" is a public location, and somewhere with restricted access and a security orb is private. But what about the vast majority of locations that are pirvate only by virtue of the fact that noone knows of it's existence?

It would be for the user! We already know the answer .......but the answer wouldn't suit M.Linden's roadmap of where SL needs to be heading!

RL businesses and Educators....credibility to the outside world. Nice PR

Once this is all up and running, what steps will be put in place to effectively enorce these standards? How will you deal with the possible increase in erroneous, and false vindictive AR's tht may ensue? Right now, frankly, policy seems to be shoot first and ask no questions. People have told of being informed that they have to reverify a suspended account presumably accused of being underage, when they have already gone through IDV.

Also, why is POIF acceptable now, when it wasn't when IDV was launched?

That's kind of what I meant when I asked for a definition of a house. It's something I was bothered by in the OpenSpace situation, too...

My "home" has no house-like structure on it, unless you count things like a burned out bakery. There's an underwater cave with a pose stand, for convenience.

Are they private homes?

I still really don't understand why this 'Adult Continent' is necessary. As I said in a previous thread, I've been in SL almost five years, and in all that time, I have *never* accidentally happened upon extreme sexual or violent content. The only times I've ever seen such things, I was looking for them.

We're all supposedly adults here... what was wrong with the previous system? That is, if you accidentally end up in a sexual area and don't want to see it, just leave. If you don't want to see it, don't search for it. It's the same principle that I use when deciding what to watch on TV; if something bothers me, I change the channel or turn it off.

Judging by the other threads on this subject, a good percentage of SL residents are against this 'Adult Continent' idea. The fact that LL is going ahead with it, knowing that, just points to one thing for me: the merging of the main and teen grids isn't just a rumor. And if that becomes a reality, I'll have to rethink staying here.

This ongoing effort to control and police what goes on in SL is getting really disturbing. I'm an adult, I'm capable of deciding for myself what kind of things I want to see or avoid. If I find something that I don't want to see, I don't start filing complaints or look for someone to blame; I leave and don't go back there. If someone wants to build a sex club, I have no complaint with that; nothing is forcing me to go there.

That old-fashioned system of being responsible for oneself has seemed to work pretty well so far... so why is it now necessary to start segregating all the so-called 'undesirable elements' into one area? Are we not capable any longer of getting up and leaving if we don't want to be there?

OK heres an idea that has been mentioned in various forms numerous times:

Make the new continent completrely PG.
Move the welcome areas there.
Let the buisnesses and Educators use this continent and leave the rest of your customers alone.

= everyone is happy

(and remember happy customers are paying customers not to mention repeating customers )

*above posting is greatly simplyfied to make a clear point