lindens latest blog: dob a neighbour

I don't read the blogs because I'm embarassed for LL everytime I see it.

So do they want us to narc everything we find offensive or just the shit that's illegal in germany?

He said it, not me this time.

Except that nothing is done in SL without consent unless MAYBE its just the thought of such behavior is what you find offensive. I can't force you to hop on that sex poseball, any more than I can drag you kicking and screaming into a mature rated SIM. If you want to stick you head in the sand, fine. Do it in some nice Disney themed area where you don't have to worry about hearing those nasty comments or see half-dressed women running around. Its as simple as that.

Actually Lilly, my input on what you have me as saying was a quote I had taken from another post. My actual response is what is copied above, if you want to go back and check on it.

Do what i do-laugh at them, REALLY loud with gestures and all, compare the flexi dongs to anything unfavourable you can think of, , take photos so they actually NOTICE and tell them you'll share these with friends because they look just TOO stupid.

Has worked for me, and is more fun than AR'ing them....AND works faster.

When will people learn to SPELL? It's DEITY. They don't do diets in the heavens. And no religion I know of actually says you're not responsible for what you do.
Only people who have no real idea about religion say that. INCLUDING people who say they're believers.

I do have a "point" animation and a "laugh" sound ... yes, it does work

Broccoli

Sorry, taking Photos is a violation of the TOS, at least today, and is not allowed.....but laughing ayt them is encouraged.

THe way i look at it is this , Second life Adult side is suppost to be for adults , Meaning that if you want to rp that you are getting raped, Beaten or even killed then that is your business no one is forceing you, You as an adult know where you are going when you tp to that sim or area so if you dont Like it then stay the Hell out of that type of sim stay on your goodie goodie sim and done ruin it for the rest of us that like to play on these type of sims, The Gorean Sims , The BDSM sims , Vampires , the Hard Core Alleys , Read what the Sim is about before you go to it if you dont agree with what gose on there then DONT GO.. But dont Gripe when you do go there and see what is going on cause you WENT there on your on Free Will , Last time i checked in SL there was a Teleport button that if you dont like what is going on you can teleport to somewhere else But stop the Gripping and Stay off the sims we like


Thank you

What a drag. Get everybody age verified and install the damn adult button or whatever and toss these moral minority ' we need to protect our values' whistleblowers back to their disney fluff sims. Some folk like being 'BAD' in toontown cus its a cheap thrill doing something that may be illegal and BAD in real life! Some folk enjoy simulating the ultra violence or the rude, lewd and crude. Is fantasy the gateway drug to serial killers and child molesters? If so then MOTHERS MILK IS THE GATEWAY DRUG TO HEROIN. Theres gonna be psycho whackjobs out there who may be influenced by something they have seen in a movie, a game, or that they have interpreted out of a song. Are we saying that since these pyscho whackjobs exist, those of us who are sane cannot be entertained by the 'subjectively subversive' artistic, creative, stuff and fantasies of ourselves or others? If its in a mature sim in an adult prop, and you dont like such things mature and adult, GO THE F*** HOME AND PLAY WITH YER ROBOT DOG! Leave those who just wanna do their own thing, however twisted it may appear to you, alone to do their own thing. Once they parachute onto your roof and start naked line dancing up there with all their friends, then go ahead and bitch about it. Grrrrrrrrr!

I'm betting that's the plan all along. The Verification front has been quiet recently. Now with this uproar, we will all clamor to be verified in order to stave off the taking away of our Naughty Toys. BTW, anyone figure out how the rumored Playboy Presence fits in to all this?

Not for long.

You seriously do not think that SL wants to keep their teen audience out of AOL Pointe and Comcastic! Island, do you? It only makes sense that the move to move to a one grid model is in the plans.

Mari

Thank you. 2 more places for me to avoid.

Playboy will be exempt from everything. They're not going to have playboy flagged as adult.

Thank you Spelling Nazi, and I'm disbeliever in Religion actually, so when I see people saying Oga Boga the Volcano God made them kill 400 people, I know that the problem is too many people have "real" ideas about religion.

Oh yeah, keep calling me Nazi, because I'm actually German. That's exactly the f***ed-up attitude I was talking about.
Maybe next time you try READING what I wrote first before you start spouting your wisdom about all Religion Be Evil.

Oh and I'm terribly sorry for telling anyone off for bad spelling. I just assumed you were a native speaker.

really?

wow.

Playboy has no fear of getting sued and can absolve LL of responsibility.

First, the thread isn't about bashing christians as a whole, however, pointing out various individuals that attempt to control morality like Falwell, Robertson or Bin Laden is indeed relevant to the conversation. There are religious zealots in all religions. It happens that Linden Labs is in the US in which Christianity strives and thats where most of their zelots are.

Second: "... why can't people be grateful for having had the priviledge of experiencing something that perhaps they never should have been able to in the first place." Every bit of that quote is exactly the mentality we are talking about. You certainly don't make people want to not bash christians with that statement. I could go on, but it's that kind of statement that put us in the situation we are in now with LL.

Hey.... lets do a little game...

"Because [what I do in my bedroom in the privacy of my own sim] is none of your damn business. [People's sexual activities, preferences] those sort of things always end up with one side getting severly bashed by the other side. It becomes biased based on who is what. ["Oh, he's against pixel sex" or "She's into Gor"] or whatever. then instead of being someone, you are "something" - a typecast..."

You see... the above is the exact point we are making. What ever cybersex we enjoy isn't anybody's damn business but now our business is being encroached on based upon someone else's guage of morality.

This is up to the land owner to fix. IM them. It is also a violation of the already established rules. So nothing needs to change from what is already set up in SL. There is nno need to change anything with the ToS based on the above.

The issue most people have is that a majority of the people that made SL a success are the exact people that the blog entry criminalizes. Now that the popularity of SL has become mainstream (kind of makes you wonder how many "mainstream" people out there have these "closet" desires in RL... so what really is "mainstream" afterall?) they look to make money from corporation and not the "perverts" that made them a success in the first place. Question is (and that they probably haven't thought through) is what happens if they slap down their morality laws and then 90% of the population leaves when the next 3D virtual platform comes online where they will not have the same restrictions as SL. My educated guess is there will be a mass exodus and then all of the companies that sought to capitalize on the large potential customer base will suddenly not see potential customers anymore and they will leave too leaving SL an empty husk that will eventually wither and fade away due to it's own folly.

I honestly hope you are right. I really do. I think this outcry is needed though in case you are wrong. That way maybe LL will think twice about it. Perhaps... if the outcry wasn't there. They would feel encouraged to enforce such things that were originally touted as a CYA maneuver.

Which doesnt require a change to anything that is already established.

Which is why they can take resposibility for their own actions and not to go the Mature flagged sims.

Keep in mind, for every "dong flapping" av that walks into a PG sim, there's a gun-slingging moral zealot shooting up a strip/escort club. It does go both ways.

Why are some of you debating among yourselves, boring the rest of us to death with your personal issues, when there is an important issue to discuss? You can always take it to IMs and spare us.