RC Questions

Is there any particular reason why we NEED this feature?

Having read this story I have a theory that seems to explain what's going on:



Here is the theory:

What Linden Labs is doing is a *show* to satisfy the government.

They will be able to say "Hey look, we moved the porn to this area that only adults can get to, and put a porn filter in our search system".

Obviously, they cannot tell us in public that it's only a show. But it does seem to fit their actions and subtle hints, and the proof would be in how they act in the future:

- Only moving the most obvious of sex businesses to Ursula
- Removing obvious words from search
- Putting in stricter community standards

Then:

- Not caring that verification is easy to get around
- Not really enforcing gaming of search terms, or placement of adult content

It still will hurt some customers, but this is a "lesser of two evils" situation for them compared to government regulation.

I would like to believe this theory, cause it means the Linden staff are not bad guys out to get us.

Yes, Ensign, I do find Adult Content.....fascinating.

A MotD is hopefully in the works. What we want to wait for is a clearer, finalized Definitions article and FAQ sheet to be able to point people to.

Somebody Needs to address this Immediately

You know there's full-sim avatar radars using temp-rez scanner proxies, right?

Well, I can tell you one case where I would certainly use the ability to check the mini-map to see who some of those map dots are.

I have a quarter sim. I have several rooms set aside in various locations in that sim for "privacy" when the members of our household might want to get intimate with another household member or a guest. Some are bedrooms. One area is an indoor hot tub and social area. Another area is merely an indoor workroom for building stuff. If I am in the skybox at 3000 meters up, and I see what may be a single dot or may be two dots down on the ground, I can use this feature to see who that is, without having to "peek through the window" and see what they are actually doing. If it is two people that I am on close terms with, and I know they wouldn't mind the intrusion, I might then consider sending an IM to one of them and asking if I might join them. Or if it is a resident and a guest that I don't know, or more particularly a guest that I Do know and I don't want to be around, I can leave them alone and stay well away from that area.

Without being able to check the map dots to see who is who, my only way of knowing is to TP to somewhere nearby, and cam through the walls to peek at them. Personally, I would rather just know the names.

Do we really need pages about posts about scanners/radars here?

Sheesh..

And, as an aside since I'm posting here anyway, I sorta wish people would cut Blondin a little more slack. Yes, he's not horribly helpful (sorry, Blondin) but he's likely just doing what he's told and is simply a mouthpiece for the man.

When I am working I have both the minimap and my radar HUD up to see who is close to me and where they are. When I am not working I tend to have the minimap up so I know who could be watching me and how private I currently am (or at least be fairly certain).

So when this becomes "official" I will be turning off my radar HUD, yes.

Can anyone make sense of any of that ???? If you can please share

^L^

Do we really need pages of posts about scanners/radars here?

Sheesh..

Do we really need pages of posts about scanners/radars here?

Sheesh..

So basically having it on voice instead of text wasn't just a bad idea for us, it was a bad idea for THEM as well?

Kira, this is a great open letter. Have you sent it to M, Jack, Cyn & Co, or would you consider doing so? If you would, I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in being happy to add my name to a postscript in support - rather like a petition, really.

Or maybe you could send it, and we could all IM our support - no, wait, their IMs would get capped!

Seriously, hands up if you'd be prepared to be a signatory to this.

~snip~
6) AGE VERIFICATION can happen in 1 of 2 ways.
a) Payment INFO on FILE or
b) Answer some questions where you state that you are of a certain age and wish to apropriate for ADULT content viewing
~snip~

I'm happy to cut him some slack when 1) he cuts us some slack on the doubletalk and spin, and 2) does his damn job.

Now, if his "damn job" is to BE a spinmeister, he deserves ZERO slack. If he doesn't like that, he needs to talk to his superiors and get them to change his job description and/or let someone else take the heat.

I'll sign.

And we should use a notecard- To *everyone* with the last name of linden

^V^

Personally, I gagged on the amount of "corp speak" that was thrown around, even by some of the questioners. I mean, when did everyone start talking like a mail-order MBA?

Short Definition
Bulshytt: Speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

Long Definition
Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said. (3) According to the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn, a radical order of the 2nd Millennium A.R., all speech and writings of the ancient Sphenics; the Mystagogues of the Old Mathic Age; Praxic Age commercial and political institutions; and, since the Reconstitution, anyone they deemed to have been infected by Procian thinking. Their frequent and loud use of this word to interrupt lectures, dialogs, private conversations, etc., exacerbated the divide between Procian and Halikaarnian orders that characterized the mathic world in the years leading up to the Third Sack. Shortly before the Third Sack, all of the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn were Thrown Back, so little more is known about them (their frequent appearance in Sæcular entertainments results from confusion between them and the Incanters).

Usage note: In the mathic world, if the word is suddenly shouted out in a chalk hall or refectory it brings to mind the events associated with sense (3) and is therefore to be avoided. Spoken in a moderate tone of voice, it takes on sense (2), which long ago lost any vulgar connotations it may once have had. In the Sæculum it is easily confused with sense (1) and deemed a vulgarity or even an obscenity. It is inherent in the mentality of extramuros bulshytt-talkers that they are more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them. This places the mathic observer in a nearly impossible position. One is forced either to use this “offensive” word and be deemed a disagreeable person and as such excluded from polite discourse, or to say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself and thereby lending strength to what one is trying to attack. The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt. Resolving this dilemma is beyond the scope of this Dictionary and is probably best left to hierarchs who make it their business to interact with the Sæculum.

–THE DICTIONARY, 4th edition, A.R. 3000

I read a lot of the posts here but was confused unlcear about the new rplocy as it relates to PRIVATE ESTATES so I called support and this is what they told me in plain English.

1) I will have to download the new viewer that they say EVERYONE will be forced to use.

He's one of the very few people at LL that will even acknowledge SL has residents any more. I just think that being insulting to the one guy who will talk to us is productive.


Blondin, I've asked before but don't think I got an answer. How involved with the decisions about adult content are you? Do you have any strings to pull here or are you just a parrot? Not asking for strings to be pulled, just wondering how you fit into all this...