How do we stop these 'Hunger' bites?

No, just a donor I am afraid. We drink directly from dolls and they are bonded to either specific individual or the group. It can be arranged however, it that is your desire...

Thanks but I am as bonded as I can possibly be already though he hasn't up to now needed my blood

from this day forward i own all bloodline spamps that have ever bitten anyone that was unaware of the actual bite consequences..
In turn freeing the souls of their dammed and condemning the spamps to a life of being nothing more than sweet little butterflies till i see fit to let them go..I own them now and they can't do anything to get away..unless they want to buy my stake through the heart remedy that will cost them a kabillion and one L$

Let it be written let it be LAW!!!!
This grid has been cleansed

actually, and not to be rude(but it will seem that way anyway), if there is a game adding people and or has ninja biting involved WITHOUT the bitees permission, it can be perceived as harassment. no one should have to purchase, free or not, an item just so they don't have to be involved in a game they have no desire to participate in in the first place.

How do you mean? I've had countless people send me an offer to bite me, without so much as saying hello. Sometimes they are so far away on the sim I can't even see them. They might trip someone up and get someone clicking through group announcements, and then oops, you have to pay to be removed. Doesn't sound like a scam to you? It's spam AND a scam as far as I am concerned.



I don't understand the thinking that goes something like, because these things are bad too this one isn't bad. Especially when it's not really a tidy analogy.

If a store owner has a visitor list, that usually never leaves their inventory if they even keep track at all past just reading it to see how many visitors came in. It does not wind up on the internet let alone without people knowing so first.

I agree that logging IM *can* be creepy. I've had things copied and pasted back to me MONTHS later, and I thought it was creepy as all get-out. I mean, I know some people log IM for their own legal protection, or because they didn't realise what it really is, and so on. But why would anyone want to reread it months later, for something innocuous. (In this case it was a SLurl of my old home that I didn't realise they'd had or kept.) I'd really rather not know about someone memorising my old chat, or have it flung back at me without warning, no matter how harmless, but that's just me. At least, though, you Do have ToS working in your favor in that regard. If that person copies and pastes the text to anyone else, or online, you have recourse.

With Bloodlines, you got no recourse except their stupid garlic necklace and then you are part of their game even then.

But I think the fact people don't like it and don't want it should be enough. Why should THEY be the ones to justify, when they did not instigate the exchange?

If someone asks to bite me I keep talking to them about it in IM until they mute me.

Pep (A cruel and unusual punishment! )

PS It is a variation of a technique that I use on cold callers on the phone.

LOL

I agree.
In trying to understand why it p**ses me off I think maybe its the RP side of it thats got me bugged.
My character would be murderously mad as hell and there would be fighting.. incidentally if they killed me in a fight and RP'd the outcome properly then they would be entitled to take my blood and I wouldn't think anything of it.
Lately I am IC a lot and maybe its a bit of crossover effect but it's also happening in the rp sim I live in.
And if they need to be 20 metres away then why did that guy practially jump on me? maybe he needed more excitement than just clicking a button on the hud?
And I used to think the bloodlines bite requests were annoying.. now its the whole 'non permission thing that's worse to me.

You should make tapes.
This would be way more fun than just hanging up.

Some people devote websites to this type of thing.

http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=624

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was refering to game "The Hunger", not "Bloodlines", which is what this thread started out about. Bloodlines players are the ones that spam you with bite requests, and I completely agree that they are annoying as hell.




I agree it's not a tidy analogy (few of them are after all). My only point was that in my opinion there are far more intrusive things in SL to be worried about privacy wise than an internet database that simply says "player X was near avatar Y". Unless that database also provides details of the interaction (the region they are in, etc.), then really all that tells someone "outside" of SL is that avatar Y exists and logs in. (again, *not* talking about Bloodlines bite requests, which as stated, are annoying).

Oh. People were discussing both in the thread.

I don't know much about Hunger.

They're free and copiable. Contact me inworld and I'll send you one.

the jump on/pounce animation may be part of another vamp/rp thing. there are so many i lose track. i used to, or tried to anyway, rp on a sim that had Vampire rp involved in a few storylines. i wonder if they are still around......

back on topic: even then, i would still be po'd because i did NOT asked to be involved in THEIR rp. it's one thing to be on a sim with Vampire Rp and expect to be bitten. its another to be minding your own buisness and finding out you are part of some vampire rp, w/o knowing how the hell it happened.

That's a good point.

I consider it kinda rude to rope anyone into roleplay outside a roleplay sim.

I do not count the roleplay that an avatar does as a normal course of events (as rude.) For instance, roleplaying another gender, age, species (is okay.) I refer to storyline-dependent types of roleplay or cause and effect scenarios.

This!

Also thanks for the cold call url's! funny stuff

I agree. And the hypothetical Internet publication of lists of shop customers would be far more intrusive and disturbing.

This 'lists of those bitten' thing keeps reminding me of Mark McKinney's old "I crush your head" character---the guy who'd hold his fingers up to frame people off in the distance, and then fantasize that his fingers coming together was actually Working His Will on those people.

The point being: it wasn't.

O GAWD blood lines sion chickens!!

Well, how's this sound? I'm co-owner of a club was told the other night by a few different people that they couldn't come to an event at my club because someone there was waiting there to kill them. Now this game has affected my business. I contacted at Hunger manager and asked how I could make my club a neutral or safe zone. I was told I could buy a vendor to place at my club but they weren't selling any more right now because they were going to turn them all off soon. So the owners of the Hunger game are resorting to extortion and then, of all things, can turn this protection on and off at will? The only way to opt out of Hunger is to pay them it seems. How fair is that? I am a Bloodlines player and the rules at my club are not just for Hunger but for Bloodlines and every other RP system. I want no killing at my club and everyone has cooperated except the people behind Hunger and they want me to grease their palm. They even went so far as to tell me that if I eject or ban any of thier members for violating my posted club rules, on MY property, they will AR me for TOS Violation. WHAT is that all about???

THAT is about fraud, misrepresentation, extortion, and plain-and-fancy bullying. AR them and include the log of that conversation, right now.

i see this come up a lot 'yeah but when you go to shops or malls there are visitor trackers etc'

there is a huge difference to me between a visitor tracker i know might be there, at a place i chose to go of my own accord, and what amounts to someone wearing a 'visitor tracker' recording -anything- about me at all without my informed consent to do so. how harmless it is, or is not, compared to anything else has zero relevance. consent does. i understand that i have a limited expectation of privacy in public places but the only way to hold the ground we have in regards to such things is to wage war on any incursions on that space.

My store bots are not there to game anything. They are blood donors. They give pints and pints of nourishment every day to the shy and needy. More a public service than anything else really I would think.