Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

If you look, what Argent was saying is move asll PG land to a continent and make existing M land A land. That wont work because a large segment of ML M land is now PG by the owners wishes.

While I acknowledge there is much gray area and variation within the G team, I'm very suspect of this example you list. How, exactly, does a work of art "accidently fall" onto another person in an art gallery? Either it would have to be scripted to attack, be deliberately set physical at exactly the right time, or deliberately moved to strike with the Edit functions. A painting just falling on someone because a nail gave out does not happen in SL - that's not the way things work here. So in your example, I think there's a great deal your artist friend is not being upfront about.

all i can say is you are easily pleased....you think this will end here?

"Adult" people will be forced out of SL.
disneyfication is on its way and i think you know it.

If you read my pervious posts ........

Even if they were on an Adult continent, they can still be PG by the owners' wishes, just as they can now on a Mature sim. They'd have to get Adult access, but if that's a problem they could move to the new PG continent.

(The fact is, we really need a PG-only continent separated from Mature content a whole lot more than we need to separate Mature from slightly-more-Mature content. But that's only been said about a thousand times on these threads.)

all i can say is you are easily pleased.

he is them whatever you say and he has actually done nothing as far as i can see, to be honest i'd rather LL just did it and stopped the BS.

learn the meaning of lip service because thats all this is.

am i angry about this?
damned right i am, because the fruition of LL's plans will wreck a lot of peoples livelyhoods.
Their time and money will have been wasted and it goes in this guys pocket as well as all of the other remaining "lindens"
you wait and see.
and then when your heat is bleeding for blondin wait until LL tell us the next part of the plan.

you think this will end here?

"Adult" people will be forced out of SL.
disneyfication is on its way and i think you know it.

That seems to be the problem though, Blondin, from what I understand. somebody might not be running constant ads, but they might wish to list something in the events list once every so often. So people who want to have a party open to anybody once in a while, but otherwise uses the location as a private home are being told they will have to move for that occasional party with an open invite.

Those that Almost Qualify NEED a chance to get in before the land barons.

Same place it was the last few times I posted: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Adult_Content

So what constitutes advertising? Word of mouth?

perhaps their is need for 3 individual continents but, fact is LL is only looking to add one, the A one. Things like this come up at least once a year. After the hand wringing and it goes into effect things calm down until the next round of panic and ranting.

Word of mouth doesn't have to be advertising though I've done my fair share of Street Team work and know that it can be. Event listings, bots, sending employees out to solicit patrons, I would consider those advertising. What do people think?

Word of mouth doesn't have to be advertising though I've done my fair share of Street Team work and know that it can be. Event listings, bots, sending employees out to solicit patrons, I would consider those advertising. What do people think?

Devils Advocate: What if the Land Barons almost qualify themselves?

But that wasn't the example I gave - the example I gave was someone who wanted to hold a swingers party in their own home AND advertise it in events!

Matthew

And they will. There are already people deliberately "naughtifying" their parcels in an attempt to get a free swap for Adult land. Some (maybe most) of them simply want, as I do, to continue to own unrestricted mainland. Some are undoubtedly planning to cash in by reselling their free Adult parcels at extremely high prices.

If they want to advertise it, it will have to be on Adult rated land

Right so there is your example of a private home/non-business needing to move to Ursula - someone who intermittently wants to advertise a swingers party in the normally private home (or even just wishes to reserve the right to do so).

And this is why the land move needs to be open to anyone on mature land, as regardless what content they currently have, regardless of what businesses they may or not currently run, they may wish to still be allowed to host a one off adult event and advertise it in events.

Matthew

A month might seem long for a large build where all objects are owned by a single account, or all transferable, but things usually aren't that simple.
Consider many places that have been around for a while have evolved to something a lot messier. Multiple owners, no transfer group deeded items, renters, special exception items that is neither group nor owned by anyone in the group (SLX terminals, for example). Alot of tiny details.

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There are a lot of hoops to jump through just to get back to normal. Even then, there are alot of uncertainties that will need to be addressed. AND please...make no bones about it, if you have an adult venue, this will cost you money.

If you own an adult based business, you will lose money. Not because of performance issues or service problems but because Linden Labs decided to change the rules.
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Yes, that does mean that Linden Labs will have to take a loss for a month on income from tier for the selected residents, but look at the upside. Consider it an investment in the adult community, giving those affected venues and businesses a chance to adapt, thrive and make this transition a success.
This has the potential to be some great positive PR on the increasing quality of customer care. It's a step in the right direction.
In one gesture, LL could change the entire tone of this transition.
It doesn't have to be a perverts ghetto when it could be a hedonists paradise. Successful adult venues = successful adult continent. That would mean more profits and better PR for Linden Labs in the long run.

A month isn't excessive, and it could go a long way for everyone.

and make sure that once the land in ursula is claimed that it can be LM and TPd to by all verified accounts - as soon as the build commenced people are going to want to start getting the new LMs out.

2-4% of the population effected by these changes, is begining to look alittle shakey me thinks

At the risk of annoying everyone, I don't think screaming at Blondin accomplishes anything. I believe the problem runs much deeper and that Blondin is the unfortunate messenger. While everyone here is angry and frustrated (myself included), the true power of this forum is to articulate well-reasoned arguments - to give Blondin some real ammunition that I'm sure he would be thrilled and relieved to print it and pass along to his boss. Think about it. How many of us have had bosses who weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer? I'll bet Blondin has similar thoughts on his way to work in the morning.

Just as a matter of interest do you own an Adult business that will be affected by this as i see i lot of anger from you If LL does decide at some later date that adult business is not welcome, which i might add i doubt they will, then we will have to shut up shop and find something else to do.

Problem is with SL is that it is such a risky place to invest a lot of money that you cannot afford to lose overnight, bit like RL you would never risk more than you could afford to lose in a start up company would you?

Don't gamble if you cannot afford the loses and thats the base line imho and SL is just one big gamble because of its format.