RC Questions

I believe that several words, including "ladyboy", were in the original list but have been removed at the request of some residents.

You'll have to forgive me, as I am not feeling very "acknowledged" as a resident by him at the moment. I'm STILL waiting on answers to a lot of questions I (and others, to be sure) have asked.

Is that correct or did they change it? Blondin clarified earlier that the new viewer would be required to access adult content, but not required if you only wanted to access non-adult stuff.

From the Kirk thingy: This makes i sound like the teens are on the same grid as the adults but not allowed in adult areas.

You can almost hear them now ....

"Linden!!!! Linden it all to Linden!!! Linden!"

Yeah.

The original statement was...


So, it really doesn't sound like adult stuff is even close to her main thing and that she could probably fiddle with the parcel keywords and end up staying on mature mainland.

Or do you really think it sounds like an "adult oriented business"?

I would bet that I've been ignored as often as you have in these threads. I'm not to the point of shooting the messenger yet, though.

Still awaiting information on what help, if any, private estates are going to get. Whereas LL can print land for their estate this isn't quite so simple for private estate owners to do.

They will happily sell you additional islands.

Really, I think that's the entire plan right there.

In a response to a ticket I submit to fix verification of an alt, it was at the very least implied to me by the linden handling the ticket that "BOTH types of verification maybe required in the future". That is Payment info plus Aristotle. I am hoping that this member of the support personnel was simply misinformed.


PS. The ticket was denied, but they fixed it any way. Go figure!
(Well at least it got read, not all of them are.)

I wouldn't doubt it, but that doesn't make the situation any better, really, does it?

I already have my doubts about his "messenger" status anyway.

Darien always leaves and then comes back. And then leaves again. Be it a forum or whatever.

Show me a designer of merit that has an actual economic impact on SL that is leaving. Is Xcite, Sexgen, Armidi, Akeo, or Stiletto Moody leaving over this?

Who?

Well, um, it's on-topic. The thread is "RC Questions" and that is a change in the RC.

Snowcrash was a stupid book.

OK.

1. Neal Stephenson has no idea how to finish a novel.
2. Cryptonomicon should have stayed a one-shot article in Wired.
3. The Baroque Cycle has more Mary Sues than the Swiss Family Robinson.

Not until you need to use accurate search terms to advertise, anyway. Blondin, Am I correct that as things stand now, you can open a dildo shop. Sell dildos, have a big sign in your shop *saying* they are dildos, even make them look as real as possible. You can even call the place "Dill's Dough Palace" if you wanna be cute.

All on *mature* land.

You simply cannot advertise your business using accurate terms, advertise a party in which the use of your product figures heavily, or arrange a series of "free test drives" for your product *outside* the store. "dildo" would probably be a filtered search term as would any reference to any of the *uses* for your product . And the search evidently won't let you use any of those terms for your search description if you are on mature land.

(an aside- Does it work the same way for classified ads? If you are located on a "mature" parcel, you cannot use adult words in your advertising?)

So, you can *exist* on mature land- you simply cannot advertise in the usual way- via the land description. You cannot really try to grow your business, increase sales, etc. and the very first time that a tight-assed neighbor combines with a G-teamer with a hangover (or a prudish attitude- witness what happened with Wynochee's protest signs)
You get an abuse report and someone decides that you're playing it way too cute for mature land.

So you decide to move to Ursula after all.

But the land speculators have gotten there first. They know that *any* adult business *must* settle there eventually, and so must the merely "mature" end of the spectrum, unless one *likes* living with the threat of an AR hanging over one's head.

They *know* that they have a captive audience.

They can charge whatever they want, and the adult businesses that didn't qualify for the free swap *must* buy, or else close up shop.

It makes Nautilus and Bay City look like a drop in the bucket.



Does that sound about like what will happen after the freebie swap is over? in phases 2 and 3 of this plan?

Sorry if I sound a little bitter, there blondin, but your changes are driving good people out of business, and out of SL. Darien Caldwell left today. put all her stuff in full perm box and chucked years of work and effort in SL.

There's going to be more of that, blondin. quite a bit more.

LL *could* have included us in this process.

We *could* have worked out a way to do this that didn't send residents fleeing into the night with their hair on fire.

We still *could* do that, if LL will take its fingers out of its ears, swallow its ego, and admit that the plan, as it stands will do little or nothing to deal with the problem. If LL will admit that it needs help.

Or, if LL has some agenda that we don't know about, and this plan is a small part of it, clue us in. maybe we can help.


Seriously Blondin- *we* built this place. the reason you *have* wonderland is that people like us took empty space with a grass texture on it, and used LL's toolkit to create beauty, horror and everything in between. What makes you think that the brainpower, creativity and inspiration that represents can't make *any* goal of LL's a success?

Tell what is going on- Let us help you. Stop running full tilt into the oncoming train.

Before you wind up with a *lot* more Dariens

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And that worked out so well for the SL6B team, didn't it? They noticed the "Pending" part of the definitions *real* well.



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http://www.slapt.me/wiki/index.php/An_Open_Letter_to_Linden_Lab

C'mon peoples get the votes in

When you go to the page click edit at the top then add your name ...then at bottom click Save page

A stupid Illinois congressman said:

"Drug dealers and predators routinely attempt to contact users in the real world once a meeting happens in Second Life."

Funny, in almost three years in SL, nobody has offered to sell me drugs. But then SL sucks at localization. It's great at meeting people, but its awful at meeting people nearby, which is kinda necessary for an illegal drug deal.

As far as contacting me in the real world, only if I give up my RL contact info, which I don't do.

His statements are so far off from reality its funny. People come into SL to play out fantasies they would not do in RL cause its safe and anonymous.

and that was Dusty Linden, although after pointing it out he did see the problem and corrected it and apologized, although if Linden staff can't get it right because of an obvious lack of communication within the company, no wonder this adult stuff is a mess

Look at the map of ursula....there are red offline sims showing the last one is Ursula 384
Maybe they are realizing that it's a hell of a lot more than 2 to 4 %

Well Cyn did acknowledge at the BB on Monday, that people buying land now would be able to move if they qualified for the move. Maybe we should have a "sex up" second life campaign and everyone that wanted to move should make sure their parcels were sexed up, advertised as public sex areas and in search then we could all move as Cyn said it was ok.

Just a thought of course

PS: If enough people did it then the move to Ursula would be better for everyone and everyone can verify with Aristotle without problems as we all know and as LL knows and accepts.

They're possibly practising the bulk load of sims. if they vanish in a few days don't be surprised.

What I'm hoping is that cyn/jack etc are actually coming through on the statement that everyone who wants the move can have it.

/me dashes off to see if there's snowfields.

You could also have used it to ask for input from more than just us forum dwellers.

People are out there right now buying mature land and planning to open adult businesses. they are trying to make *plans*, and the very *ground* beneath their virtual feel is going to change its fundamental characteristics! they *need* to have this information to plan their businesses- to have a *predictable outcome* to their land purchases. A disclaimer at the land office, an MotD to the draft definitions will at least tell them that they should wait and buy on Ursula, or that they will be able to get mainland for cheap after the switch.


LL is, whether it is intentional or not, manipulating the *hell* out of land prices, and it ought to say something about that to its customers. Fair's fair, blondin. If the contract changes, you *tell* people about it, you don't screw around with dribs and drabs of information.

Sorry, but "clearer, finalized definitions" doesn't mean much when Cyn is saying that they will be constantly evolving- there's no such thing as "final" to this.


And by the way, the reason to publish the list is so that the vendors and concerns that stay on mature land will know what the hell they can say about their business without having to use trial and error. It takes a lot of time and effort, especially if you are a borderline business.

There will be a lot of people in the category of "Not adult enough for a free trip to Pornodelphia, but too adult to advertise on mature land."

The list is for them to figure out *how* to advertise *at all*, not for them to "game the system".

One more thing-

How exactly does leaving mature and PG sims all jumbled together, and leaving the lion's share of adult content (in the non-business, non advertised parcels) there for anyone to trip over accomplish the goal of a "more predictable" "PG" experience?

I mean, *exactly* how? LL is leaving a *bunch* of adult content intact for "PG" lovers to find, and be offended by. Give me an example of one way this change will keep someone from stumbling over the "PG" border into "Mature" land and put a foot in some ickiness?


I'll wait.

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