Group entitled: Greifers 4 Hire (!)

There is a open enrollment group entitled greifers 4 hire. They don't seem organized and just throw sounds and particle spam. BUT - If Gaybot becomes Faybot, how does this group get past the Linden radar? Unless there is nothing wrong with creating greifer groups according to Linden. In my opinion 'Greifer' should be a flagged word when people attempt to create a group.

Unless they are GamblingAgePlaying***ragGriefers, they are safe...for now.

I haven't been here long enough to be an expert, but I am beginning to think the term griefer is striking more fear into everyone than the acts themselves.(sort of like the word Communist , in the 50's) I've witnessed a few isolated instances sevr enough to be called griefing but not many Prhaps some of the elders will enlighten us . Buzzwords are an amazing thing sometimes.

Well I abuse reported it anyway. There is no need for a open enrollment group that idiots can easily join and share greifing tools and tips.

"Freifers 4 Hire" doesn't have a good ring to it. Maybe that's why LL didn't change the name.

And Pokemon cards

Fifers 4 hire might work as a musical act tho.

Cool we have our own SL witchhunting inquisition happening.
I hear there's a couple of groups with world domination theme names, better AR them too.
And there was one about doing stuff to cats, better AR them.
I hear KAOS from Maxwell Smart is running a group too pretending to be a floral group , better AR all floral groups as well

Oh, them! Last week they were called "WoW Trial Sub Expired".

Are you sure? I thought it was "ATS Security" <grin>

Except that "greifer" is not a word. They are protected by their mis-spelling. "Griefer" may well be a flagged word.

Florists don't cause grey goo. Greifers do.

If we can see the names of the members without joining, then that group is a good way for everyone who likes to compile ban lists to get the names of griefers.

There was a group I found by accident which is dedicated to 'killing' newbies, especially naked ones. I forget what the group was called but it seems totally unacceptable.

GOOD IDEA!

And Conifer, if you could remember the name of that newbie-killer group, I'm sure we'd all appreciate knowing about them also.

So there's another group for Griefer "Mercenaries". These Groups ain't a big threat, like sombody else said. Why do folks take n00b griefers seriously AT ALL??? Those folks must burst into tears when somebody walks across thier lawn in RL.
My "Resident Answer"? Ignore em. (Where was the question again?)Anyway I see T-Shirt possibilities:

*Guns Don't Grief People...Griefers Do.

*Grief 'Em All And Let God Sort 'Em Out.

*GRIEF: Growth. Respect. Intelligence. Education. Family.
(based on Chicago street gang mottos)

*Grief: More Powerful Than RL Mourning (Apparently)

So you want to start banning people for offenses they Might commit? Sound a bit like McCarthyism to me. I'm not defending Griefers, but if you use that line of thinking, then probably we will all end up on someone's blacklist based upon some affiliation that someone will find offensive.

Perhaps Groucho Marx was correct when he said "I refuse to belong to any group that would accept me as a member."

The sister ship to this has already sailed,
Theres already a third party source where people ban people that have been banned in other peoples land, just on hearsay. In the form of "community protection".

So all we need is someone to ban memebers of groups to join that list, so we can spread the banmation around.

Oh No! I don't want to ban them. I want to identify them! Then, when they do commit a bannable offense, it will be that much easier to get rid of them for doing something real. Also, it will make it easier for people to be aware of them. Also, if someone goes to the trouble of identifying themselves as antisocial, it only makes sense to acknowledge that self-identification. I mean, if someone started up a social club in your town for "Bloods" or "Crips," wouldn't you want to know who was a publicly proclaimed member?

Please give me some credit here. I was viciously libeled in SL not long ago at all by someone because I took a stand against instituting the principle of thought crimes in SL. I am proud of that stand. It seems to me a little over the top to be accused of McCarthyism now.

Perhaps. I usually chastise people for rushing to judgement, so I must give you the benefit of the doubt, althouggh I have always been dubious of the guilt by association theory. But you do get a point for even knowing what McCartgyism is, given today's historically ignorant society.

"Birds of a feather..............." has a great deal of truth behind it. Anyway it turns out Tail-Gunner Joe was right, but that is mostly forgotten as well.

You always come up with the most wader worthy comments.

Whether or not he was right and to what degree is a debate for another place (and one that I have engaged in on many occasions). But it was an interesting trio of McCarthy, Roy Cohn and Young Bobby Kennedy.

Maybe we can send someone inside undercover-like.

Think someone can sneak through the tight security?

Roy Cohn was the Griefer 4 Hire in that bunch. But this is all so forty and fifty years ago.

Why don't we get back to SL griefers?

I think I would like to out people who want to persecute newbies and perhaps drive a lot of perfectly nice people away from SL before they even get started.

Wasn't it W.C. Fields?