Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

What if a club in a Mature region wishes to advertise itself as "no nudity, no weapons, no roleplay"? Just sayin' this gets really silly without context.

Any of you guys see this? It seems there are more surprises with the new viewer.

http://www.starley.com/2009/04/the-future-of-skins.html

hello everyone this is my first post ever in the sl forums, I have a specific question regarding adult content. Toady I noticed that my keywords of gor, and slave, need to be changed, which is fine, they will be. I own a store where I sell a range of women's clothing, and part of my store is dedicated to selling silks. The silks that I sell have a part of them that are slave papers ( i.e. another avatar can click on the slave papers, and receive a notecard, with specific information about that slave's status etc... there are some adult type questions, such as the "open" status of the slave) . My question is, what do I do here, do I have to move all of these items to the new adult area? Also, if I take out the slave papers, what about the idea of selling silks altogether, is this now an adult activity. Also, if an avatar clicks my silks, they have strip scripts, which will ask for permission to strip, then green chat text comes up once they are taken off, (this is only for attachments of course), the green text in itself is not overtly sexual. Would anyone be able to point me to any other forum user's questions on this topic and/or an answer regarding this topic please If I am in the wrong thread, I apologise in advance, could someone please re-direct me to the correct place, and forgive my noobness.

Any of you guys see this? It seems there are more surprises with the new viewer.

http://www.starley.com/2009/04/the-future-of-skins.html

Why would Universities have to relocate to modify?

First: Please give a reason in the edit summary (can even be a link to a forum thread) when you delete an article. It will inform the ones who are not following forum discussions (like me).

Any of you guys see this? It seems there are more surprises with the new viewer.

http://www.starley.com/2009/04/the-future-of-skins.html

Whilst you're at it tell us what's going on with search now that profiles are being censored on the website search, when will places meet the same fate? A place selling Gorean buildings won't consider themselves as adult in many cases, same goes for clothing so tell people what's going on so they can adjust their keywords hey.

Just wow.

Any of you guys see this? It seems there are more surprises with the new viewer.

http://www.starley.com/2009/04/the-future-of-skins.html

The SL Website will only return PG search results.

Darien, here is a direct quote from a Linden that supports my thesis. This whole pogrom is "the first step".

They aren't getting it right, and that in itself has got almost everyone (of the minority who actually know about it) upset, and rightly so.

But it's that "first step" that really worries me.

Yes: Linden Lab plans to ban all adult content from Second Life. That's the goal that this is the "first step" toward.

Blondin - I STILL want an answer here -

In post #4640 You said:

"A BDSM club would be adult
A Store selling BDSM gear would be mature"

In post #4646 You said: (in regards to sex animations being sold in stores)

"We understand people would want to test out products before they buy them.
This is expected and reasonable on a mature region"

BY YOUR WORDS you just made our store, selling BDSM devices, some of which have sex functions. MATURE IN THE STORE.

Then explain to me WHY THE FRACK THE SLOWLY BEING DISCOVERED LIST OF 'VERBOTEN' WORDS INCLUDES -

BDSM, Bondage, Dominatrix, Domme, Dungeon, Ponygirl, Ponyplay, Fetish, Submissive

NONE OF WHICH ARE A SEXUAL TERM BUT SURE HAS HELL WIPE OUT EVERY MEANINGFUL REFERENCE TO BDSM STORES!

WHAT KIND OF SHELL GAME IS BEING PLAYED HERE?

SOME HONEST ANSWERS FOR ONCE!!!!Blondin -

And DON'T TELL me the list was INACCURATE... I tried it myself!

I think the idea was that a store that was primarily not sexually oriented that had some sexually oriented items for sale would be able to stay and advertise in mature land.

Blondin?

One of the few rules of our sim at fetish network is we ban people who support discrimination or behave in a discriminatory nature outside of RP.

I would like to know if anyone has a comprehensive list of all current Lindens as obviously they are in breach of this rule and I need to add them to the ban list ASAP.

Please IM me if you have such a list. Thanks.

If your store relies on using words that have been flagged as adult then your store will need to be on Adult land. If your BDSM store does not rely on using flagged words, then your store is fine on Mature.

They aren't being hidden. In fact, they will be on display for anyone who wants to find it. We are simply taking steps to ensure that those who participate are allowed to be there.

The SL Website will only return PG search results.

Open Search/People, enter "Linden" in the white box

So if you use BDSM to describe your BDSM store, or if it is named BDSM Store, then you need to move, close up shop, or become very creative with words.

I'm trying to figure out why ANY words have to be banned...doesnt the new viewer have a checkbox to filter out adult words?
Seems to me that people who dont want to see that in search wont by just checking that naughty box...doesnt make sense.

A better alternative would be to have two viewers...one for npiof and not verified then one for piof and or verified...once a npiof gets verified they get upgraded to the full viewer.