Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

I wouldn't hurry to vilify Dictatorshop, and especially not on the basis of their being anti-competitive. Lillani has made available a free bazaar for fledgling BDSM designers to get public exposure for their products, and contributed the open source LockGuard system for BDSM scripters.

I think she's wrong this time, and I think she's out of touch with her own community, but I don't think she has ulterior motives.

(Whether we like it or not, one very big-name Adult creator--possibly the largest and best-known--has long lobbied for some such policy; I really don't know his reaction to the policy as LL is implementing it.)

couple of things.
1st, ---why is the censored item non transfer? (mine is at least) I'd love to pass it to our group members..
2nd --- I made a group called the adult stripclub network for advertising strip clubs and events... anyones open to span er- post their club provided its a strip club.


And 3rd --- and most strange....

I had another Linden visitor last night. He was very polite although he killed the attendence as everyone ran off.

It was a rather different conversation. he stated he was new as in only 3 months old. And he was very interested in how much I and the club made. (we operate in the black thank you)

I was asked to tp him about the property as he was "still new" he said.

once we arrived in the Space island skybox it got really different. He requested we do a friend exchange and... If it hadnt been a linden i'd had sworn I coulda "entertained" him for a fee. but i didnt dare.
He seemed to really like it but then just signed off and stood there looking at me... anyone else I would have jetted sooner, but i waited around for like 15 minutes before im'ing him a good bye.


He seemed rather in awe of me and the dancers (before they jetted) and honestly, he was rather cute. he was a little bunny person.
I told him my feelings on censorship and the adult land swaps. I told him i thought a lot of people were going to get hurt. there was no real comment back from him on that and i was disappointed. he kept drifitng back to how nice the build was and asking if the girls had voice.

I asked if he was there on business or pleasure and he said both.

His profile said he worked in the programming dept.

anyways.. that was my experience last night it was rather strange. Just thought I'd relay the information.

I dunno. It all depends on the amount of pressure placed on the right people at LL.

Just like with OpenSpaces, while they may not abandon the policy entirely, they may make significant concessions on it before it is all said and done.

Maybe not, though.

Thing is, all these people saying they will boycott businesses that will come out in support of the plan (or even just over a badly presented message of support), are they as willing to punish the REAL source of the problem by boycotting SL and LL itself?

Seems kinda hollow otherwise. :-/

I am boycotting xstreet also.
its my choice, its up to you what you do about it.

Which many people are doing by tiering down and going back to basic accounts. It is entirely possible to enjoy SL without giving LL one dime.

I installed an early version of client 1.23, and tested a bunch of keywords. The filtered words I found are listed here:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Search_keywords

Copy the list fast before some Linden removes them

What happens is if the adult content checkbox is NOT selected in search, and you enter one of the filtered words, you will get a popup telling you its filtered, and you will not get search results.

Well, the thing with this is that simply by logging into SL, you're still giving them popularity and statistics that they can point at and say "See? We're still doing just fine!".

To effectively boycott SL means not only avoiding paying LL for anything, but also not adding to their statistics in a positive way, by means of not logging in.

I've thought about the viability of organizing an "Adult Content Vacation" day, where as many as possible who are against the policy simply do not log in for that day. Kinda as a prelude for the future.

AnimatedPoseBed ?

How do you sell the permitted mature stuff

boxed "free Masculinity Attachment" ?

The problem with boycotting LL is that there is no viable alternative, and they know this.

What it means for the time being then is "forget this kind of thing completely and go do something else entirely".

At least till somebody else shows up and provides some real competition.

As one of the larger and more successful adult content creators in Second Life, I am for this change, as are most of the adult content creators I know..... for as many people are against this change, there's about 3x of us for it, we're just content with it, so we're not speaking out.

Really, the only people who won't be able to 'see us' are people who have unverified accounts, and they are only a very small fraction of the market as a whole. I maybe see 5 - 10 unverified customers for every 100 verified customers (payment info on file)..... that's barely a drop in the hat.

Yes, it'll hurt a little in the short term, but it'll benefit in the long term, both us, and Second Life.

The only thing this will really effect in the long term are crappy adult clubs, crappy adult sex areas, and crappy adult stores luring unverified newbies with camping chairs or by enticing them with crappy freebies. Those days will be over, and instead of inflated traffic numbers, adult stores and locations will have a genuine representation of shoppers and traffic.

Magus/Lillani, the Dictatorshop

And the corporate world being what it is, Mitch will be the first one heading for the lifeboats when it becomes obvious the plan is a failure

Women and children first lol

Not sure what betamax is. Sounds like some kinda breakfast cereal maybe or dogfood even =) Still, LL will do whatever it does, I still be here though and if I the last avatar standing then I wont turn out the lights, I just trigger every lulz bomb I got and the last Linden standing will have to shoot me to get rid of me, assuming I dont get them first =)

"all that content would be adult, but we are out of room"

"tell them to change the wording on their land description instead!"

That poster if fantastic. If you don't have an xsl account, do you want me to drop it in the magic box and put an ad up on xsl for it?

Innula, you posted it to flickr but not the group.. great pic btw

and I just snuck into fetlife to do some consciousness raising and in response to my post about protesting I got this...




There you have it.. are we feeling marginalised yet?

Who is in charge of determining who the crappy adult clubs, crappy adult sex areas, and crappy adult stores are? Would those crappy places be your competition? Total arrogance.

The problem with boycotting LL is that there is no viable alternative, and they know this.

What it means for the time being then is "forget this kind of thing completely and go do something else entirely".

At least till somebody else shows up and provides some real competition.

i would imagine that 50% or more of the market of adult content items will dissapear overnight as no non age verified or piof will know about it.
any adult creators who are in favour of this segregation are fools to cut themselves out of the loop.
Making money in sl is hard enough as it is.

and this magus is on my boycott list also lol.
my choice.