Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Main Forum Thread

"anytime you go to sexland, you'll have to face nothing but flying cocks and boobs everywhere you walk, and nobody willing to 'pause' or be 'discreet' with what they're doing just for you)."

wow. I can see why LL would want to mark that place off.

LL is effectively impose an involuntarily mass migration of anyone they deemed dislike to the concentration camp.

They are forcing people to move involuntarily. Get it?

As a non-native English speaker, I'd like help on some words I can't really understand concerning the whole issue.

I have read many times here Lindens repeating that "teens won't be allowed on SL, it's not scheduled, it's not a project ..etc..."

OK

I know my English is not that good but... even with the Webster in hand , i have troubles with three expressions :

-PG = parental guidance... so... it means, if i am correct, that, as an adult , I must ask my parents (my mother is 80) to go there... I see no other logical explanation because there are no teens on SL... so who are those that need parental guidance ???

I am lost ...

-Mature = old ... ok ... so this will be for "old" adults then ??? Over what age ??? 40 ?? 50 ??
Because there are no teens on SL ... by definition it is an adult game and the Lindens said many times there was no merging planned with the teen grid....

???

I am confused ....

-Adult ...... Are there adults non adult ??? Yes because it seemed to me that Lindens insisted there are no teens on SL and no merging intended... so who are the adult adults ??? 0.o

.... ok , I 'll get my Prozac.... and some aspirin.... and some lexomil too just in case ..

Even as a PG-business owner, this information is useful - I would like to get an idea of how many of my customers might leave SL altogether if they find themselves restricted from accessing adult content. Also, I am starting to wonder how many of my customers make their shopping money through adult-oriented activities, because if they no longer are able to make their money, they won't be spending it with me, either.

Will this have a broader impact that many of us can imagine right now? Will vast swaths of current mainland become even emptier because people take off and leave, either for the new continent, or for estates, or out of SL altogether? Even if the new policies aren't going to be as restrictive as some imagine, there's so little information out there, and some people will overreact and bail without knowing what's really going to happen.

Are you party to what LL has decided and have not told anyone else yet and personally i find your comparison to a concentration camp offensive. If it really upsets you to this degree i would suggest perhaps leaving. Remember you agreed to the rules when you started and to compare what is happening here to the horrors of war is just plain moronic.

I looked at your profile do you run an adult business that will be affected or do you find drawing parallels to RL atrocities a sensible way to convey your views? Just wondering

I thought that we were only talking about the worst of the worst, Blondin. Since when is "overtly sexual" considered on the same level with "crunchy decapitations"?

Until there is a standard issued from LL, nobody will have any idea whether they can live with it. Until they know whether they can live with it, they don't know if they'll stay or go, and until they know whether they'll stay or go, LL won't have any idea how such a change will affect their bottom line.

*FAR* easier to create a new *PG* continent and harshly enforce the community standard. That makes it "predictable" for corporate, the sensitive, and the new. Start folks there, and allow them to branch out as *they* wish. implement client-side content filters, and *voluntary* flagging for landowners to match. and Yes, if it's that big a deal, require some sort of payment info on file, but allow paypal, pre-pay cards, etc. to preserve anonymity.

Of course, if you set things up where you could tie several alts to the same account, that would solve a lot of problems too.

I like this idea too. Let people self filter when joining. "Yes, I am over 18 and would like to see all the 'offensive' material you can shove down my connection" or "No, I am not over 18 or I am offended by acts of sex and/or violence"... From that moment on the avatar is either given full access to the whole wonderful mess, or they are locked down onto Disneyfied lands. Don't put the onus on the people who have been living the SL for years, put it on the new players when they join.

It is an intellectual exercise. If we don't learn from history, we are not human. Only human learns from history. Other animals don't have the intellect to do that.

So how does intellectual self-examination of our own human behavior moronic? Something is missing here.

Putting all the adult business involuntarily in one place is a concentration camp. No country in the real world would force relocate all the adult business in a concentrated area like that.

So , now "as asked" to define what should be adult ? The sex industry should also avoid using Adult terms while trying to define it. I'm sorry if I've misinterpreted that , but doesn't that seem a little unrealistic to you ?

So , now "as asked" to define what should be adult ? The sex industry should also avoid using Adult terms while trying to define it. I'm sorry if I've misinterpreted that , but doesn't that seem a little unrealistic to you ?

That may be - but that doesn't make the rest of us, who aren't part of the sex industry but support freedom, any less right.

hmmm... dunno as far as "anarchy" goes, but it definitely describes to a 't' the leader and the "democracy" i'd previously lived under for eight years...

If the priests molest children, then you should keep all children from churches.

Priests are sociopath too, don't forget!

You should filter all the words that come out of the pastor's sermon to keep our children safe too.

It is insane and absurd to think such control freak behavior ever work in RL.

If it doesn't work in RL, why do you think it works in SL? Hitler

Who is more dangerous, Hitler or sociopath?

Ahh, you're beginning to suss it out!
This proposed policy effects every part of the economy.....if you cut your target audience, means less traffic, less visitors to your shops, less sales........Tiers remain constant however!

Went over to Nany's sim....it was bland to say the least! Can't imagine many people wanting to spend much time on SIM's like that.....better off watching TV or playing WoW.
Nany's sim is part of a region that has 14 sims in what looks like either educational or RL company sims...when i was over there i was the only person on that 14 region estate.!!! Later on that evening i mapped it....it had a total of 3 green dots! I hope the SIM owners enjoy paying their Tiers (even at their reduced rates) for the lack of audience they are getting.....my guess most of these sims won't be around in a year or 2 time.

If this is the future.....you're going to see a lot of ghost towns or even ghost regions! Very sad indeed!

has anyone brought up the fact that they are probably thinking of merging the teen grid do to lack of users?

I still dont think linden is thinking of banning adult content, it would kill sl..

Too many people don't like the looks of SL so they don't come here is probably exactly why Linden Lab is doing this.

What's happened to Blondin by the way, have the "I am Adult content" group kidnapped him and held him for ransom?

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What's happened to Blondin by the way, have the "I am Adult content" group kidnapped him and held him for ransom?

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