Today's Anti-Newbie Protests...

Respectfully, Fredizzle, this thread is not about hating new people. It's about the original poster trying to stir up crap by twisting and misrepresenting what the protest is about.

Wow, the OP is in Congress?

There are no anti-newbie protests.

No. We hate cowardly people who hide behind alts to attack others.

Fredizzle, as a n00b myself I can assure you that you are nobody hates you because you are a new resident. In fact I expect the people you meet ingame like you but the issue isn't n00bs in general it is underage residents and alts of trouble makers that can cause the problems being experienced by many established residents. Everybody new that enters SL to enjoy the experience that this wonderful game offers is always welcome. You sound like you are having a great time, welcome to the forums.

When this began, it was about the excess greifing occuring inside SL not about minors being here specifically but nice spin to gain support for passive agression t-shirt displays at the celebration.

You mean, "spin", as in what you're doing when you call plans for a peaceful protest that hasn't occurred yet, "griefing", in advance?

Just checking.

Your trolling is getting very tiresome, Summer. The issue has ALWAYS been about the degradation of the atmosphere in Second Life as a result of the registration changes. That degradation includes, but is not limited to (a) Unlimited creation of alt accounts (like you basically admitted you did) to troll forums and misbehave in SL without any form of personal accountability; (b) The resulting increase in teenagers entering the Mature grid; (c) A commensurate increase in griefer attacks.

It's not up to you to define our issue here. That issue has been very well defined already by more than a few other members. Neither will you be permitted to mispresent our peaceful demonstration against a policy that allows unverified accounts into Second Life with no accountability.

Ok, two can play the strawman game: Reading your posts, it occurs to me that you are simply prejudiced against t-shirts. Shame on you. What have t-shirts ever done to you?

Ahem. For "Summer" with the reading comprehension issues, from the original protest announcement post:



Now tell me, WHO is spinning?

Are you trying to tell me what I can and can not add to the discussion? Last I checked it's an open forum. I haven't misrepresented anything, I merely disagree with your protest.

OMG you are so funny!
you have me in TEARS! thank you sooo much!
i really wanna meet you in world and hang with you..OMG i think i would wet myself talkin to you!!!

You might be on to something there.

There's nothing inherently wrong with noobiess. And nothing inherently great about oldbies.

But I have noticed I've gotten my first beggars EVER in SL in the last month. One of the behaviors that is maddening in other worlds, is now going to become the norm in SL.

Ugh.

You've made a number of very inaccurate statements here, Summer, to the point that when you say that I have to wonder what planet you're living on.

And yes, I was serious when I said you don't get to define what we're saying. You've done your part to misrepresent our stance, but that has nothing to do with our stated aims. Reality works that way -- claiming it's something else won't change what it is.

See, the problem you're going to have here is that your words are posted on the forums and can't be taken back. To whit:


-- False. See the direct links to proposition 1503 and 1523. Griefing is only part of the issue, although a major one.


-- False again, we specifically do not want to disrupt the party. (remaining vague ad hominem arm-waving in your statement ignored for the moment)


-- False yet again. We're utilizing the free speech the Lindens allow in SL, and we're doing it in a respectful way. But by now it's obvious you just don't get the whole point.


-- False once more. "Demonstrating peacefully" is not griefing. There is no equivalency.

You have yet to really say anything that was substantive to the issue, Summer. You've created strawmen and yelled "griefing" without explaining how a peaceful demonstration is "griefing" -- except that it is convenient to your argument to be so dismissive of other people's legitimate concerns about the future of Second Life.

You claim the protest will be ineffective. We really don't care, it's not going to stop us from speaking up. By that token, your trolling and misrepresenting what we stand for isn't very effective either. It won't stop anyone from standing up for something we feel strongly about.

Carry on.

I have no problem with n00bs. I have a problem with wankers.

The registration system aids wankers as well as n00bs.

That is all.

Stop twisting my words

I never ate any n00bs. Just alts in n00b clothing.

How about nOOb with port, nOOb Saltimbocca or even country fried fried nOOb. Served perhaps with gohan and a side order of Sweet and Sour Gorean.

zOMG n00bs

Why can´t I find Nub, N00b, Newbie lastnames for registration at SL? have everyone taken that already?

there´s N00ble