Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

because in the modern second life world of business, meetings are held with audio and IMs are the equivalent of passing notes. Text chat is actually redundant as it isn't efficient.

If we won't move with the times and embrace voice then that's our problem. They're not about tailoring their communication style to their audience.

Because a text record of the events would be too easily distributed?

Could someone please supply a link of the previous audio brown bags?

As the blog headlines no longer display in the logon screen of the viewer, advertising in the blogs and forums only will only reach a very small proportion of those affected by these changes.

You really need to announce this via the viewer itself (e.g. via the logon screen or message of the day).

Matthew

Text chat is more efficient in a meeting with multiple people. You can talk faster than you can type, but you can read faster than you can listen.

Marty?? /me looks a little surprised.

He's LLs head lawyer, isn't he? Did he say anything interesting?

I was just thinking that. I've spent the last couple of hours weighing up what to do with all the land and what my sl would look like without the shopkeeper tag or the baggage of a premium account or land.

It actually doesn't look to bad you know. Having no ties means it doesn't really matter what comes next, I'll have no stake in it so they can do what they like and it will certainly be nice stop paying a company that takes my money yet considers me unwanted scum.

Not True. The structures you see on Ursula are typical of any Linden build - municipal buildings if you will, roads etc. No land has been given away



I'll give this issue another gentle prod



Everyone will get a chance to go in and look. It'll be like an open house. A side note for people who want to stay with friends and neighbors: you should coordinate with yourselves and all go in at once to try and pick land that will accommodate the group.

*wipes off the bench with a newspaper*

Have a seat.

If that was the case then why is it that all rl - sitting around the table - type meetings I've ever been in has used voice and when we do conference calls they're also in that funny thing called voice?

I doubt very much that businesses in here use chat *at all* for their virtual meetings.. But I'll also lay bets they don't use sl voice but still conference call.

So , nothing new under the sun, after the brown bags.

5% of the worlds population are seeing life and eros as a sports medicine affair wich should happen at:

a) nuclear-bomb-safe work-out basements if it happens in private

and:

b) at a concentration camp if it happens open air.

This again was the motivation for LL to see all as pestilence and cholera in one, who are seeing life and eros as monument of Man's freedom.

Since they told (but could be a lie...and is assumedly a lie) that there are no extern forces involved, but only a few super-prudish "residents" - better: *designated* "residents"...)

I can come to only one last final conclusion:

A whole company is apparently catched by a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Get well soon! And may the great Shamalamadingdong bless all Linden managers and employees, while they fight the last big heroic metaphysical battle in Man's history as a war on eros.

A battle designed and based in that land, wich has cognitively connected any theory of apocalyptic dynamics to: skin, genitals and joy...while celebrating life as hollywoods explosion cults, free trading of half-automatic weapons and fast killing junk-food, delivered in brown bags and flushed down by this famous fast killing brown lemonades.

Choke on it!

LOL.

(*the next sentences I censored by myself in wise foresight*)

******* ***+, ******, **** ****** ** ***** ***********! @$§&!=%%!

/me plonks myself down and uncorks the bottle in the brown paper bag.

want a swig?

the talking was fairly well split between him and JP with occasional comments from jack from what I could tell. Nothing horribly interesting from any legal standpoint that I could tell.

as far as I know it wasn't released

This is a re-post of Question 1 that I just listed. It may not have been clear so we cleaned up some of the language to make it a bit easier to understand:

Maturity is set at the region level. Other access permissions are set at either the Estate or the Parcel level, or both. Regarding group access and age-verified, you can only set one at a time. If you want to set both, you would need to set one option at the Estate level, and the other option at the Parcel level. This has not changed at all.

Whatever the estate is limited to will take precedence, and if the resident can get in the estate, then the parcel permission takes effect.

So, if Shopper Furball is not age-verified, if the estate is set to require age-verification Shopper Furball will not get into the estate to even try to get into the parcel.


If the estate is set to group but the parcel is set to age-verified, Shopper Furball will get into the estate, but not the parcel.

This is assuming that Shopper Furball is a member of the group but is not age-verified. This answer also doesn't take region maturity into account. Shopper Furball would have to have their preference set to allow them into the maturity of the region as well as these estate and parcel settings.

just a thought...I wonder what will happen when ursula is completely full and there are a few hundred or thousand people left that fit into the so called *ADULT* catagory......will timelines be changed or what?
I have a funny feeling this will drag on a very long time!

Blondin, do we have an ETA on when we can expect an update on what actually constitutes Adult Content?

I think this was covered at the brown bag today. No we won't be buying back any land.

If I understand it correctly then this isn't going to work.

Suppose I have an estate which is limited to a group. The group is open access (but may require a sign up fee). The estate is clearly adult in nature. There are multiple owners of parcels within the estate who set their own access permissions (some of whom may be also limiting to particular groups).

Clearly in this case (as group membership cannot be limited to adult verified only), the estate needs to be tagged as adult. Will this be possible?

Matthew

Because control freaks feel good about them. I find conference calls and large meetings terribly frustrating: meetings with more than a few active participants are horribly inefficient without a rigid and tightly controlled structure... which is of course why control freaks love them. Larger meetings either turn into serial monologues or break up into multiple mini-meetings while the control freaks sit and fume and rag on the people off in the corner in smaller groups actually accomplishing something.

Edit: I've been in several conference calls where the actual productive work was done in Jabber out of band.

I think the point of the question was that something like SVC-205, which has been open for almost 2 years now, would solve a lot of the issues that LL says it's trying to solve.

I'm really having a hard time understanding LLs position on this. Do you guys know how it reads to us when you supply answers like the one above without even a "that's a good jira but it doesn't address points X & Y that we're trying to solve"??

Yes, Blondin, we understand this. That's pretty much a paraphrase of Ceera's original question. What we are asking is WHY THIS IS NOT BEING FIXED.

I think it should be beyond clear by now that there is no interest in really solving the "problem" on LL's part here. This is a "smoke-filled room" decided-by-committee project that some Linden or small group of Lindens has undertaken in righteous haste, which means that there will be no real consideration of the REAL issues or effective solutions and, as such, it will be dogged to death with every kind of fail imaginable, just like such initiatives are in RL.

I mean, they might as well be a Board of Education trying to install Creationism *cough* I mean "Intelligent Design" over Evolution in school curriculum.

I mean, after all, it's about giving the students a "choice" or "more control in their education", yes?

Hopefully soon! We have a rough draft and plan on another Definitions Brown Bag later this week to discuss it. From there we'll tweak and distribute it for feedback when we think we are close to a final version.

Then I must work in a more focussed/rarefied environment than you. I'm quite used to chairing meetings up to 20 people where discussion, decisions and action items are pretty quickly gone through. Although I am known for not tolerating too much digression or mini meetings

When you're talking about meetings of that size though the majority of the participants are only there for their particular interest - usually there'll be a core of probably 1/2 dozen who are the real decision makers.

Even public meetings I've been to where they have Q&As are usually done in voice oddly enough.

edit to address your addendum

yes, I prefer conference calls with IM to face to face for that reason too.

and i must add that I'm sad you failed to see the sarcasm of the original post. C'est la vie