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Kathlen Onyx

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If someone is griefing you and they don't stop you need to remove yourself from the situation.  Yes, it's not fair and they shouldn't be able to do it but it's not likely to change.

File an AR is all you can do.  

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Solar Legion

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  1. You cannot name & shame on the forum - beginning and end, no excuses
  2. Block is on your end exclusively and always has been - there has never been any sort of language to suggest otherwise
    1. It has only ever blocked very specific interactions as well
  3. If you're going to block someone, make certain that any scripted interacable objects you have - if they have a blacklist - also block the individual
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steeljane42

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16 minutes ago, Max Nova said:

I think Second Life should make a system like Facebook, on the forums and in-world. If you block someone you cannot to see them and they cannot see you nor can you see each others activity. I think this would end a lot of problems. 

Invisible griefers is exactly what SL needs. And absolutely nobody would abuse this. Ever. /s

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Max Nova

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1 minute ago, steeljane42 said:

Invisible griefers is exactly what SL needs. And absolutely nobody would abuse this. Ever. /s

If they could not see you they could not find you to grief you. If you mute/block someone and they are in the same group, you cannot see them or their chat but they can see you and your chat. 

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Kathlen Onyx

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5 minutes ago, Max Nova said:

If they could not see you they could not find you to grief you. If you mute/block someone and they are in the same group, you cannot see them or their chat but they can see you and your chat. 

And what if they are at the same club or region?

What prevents them from asking people where you are or talking about you without you knowing about it?  NO thank you. I want to keep my enemies close.

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steeljane42

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7 minutes ago, Max Nova said:

If they could not see you they could not find you to grief you. If you mute/block someone and they are in the same group, you cannot see them or their chat but they can see you and your chat. 

Of course they could. It's called "alts". Then it's the matter of bringing up the invisible account and griefing the place you're at while you're not even aware about them. Sadly chat is far from the only way of griefing. So providing them with tools to remain invisible from their potential victims via simple block is very not wise to say the least.

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Tama Suki

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2 hours ago, Tama Suki said:

I think there is a lot of philosophy in this choice of the LL. After all, if you think about it, SL is a simulation of reality and in reality you cannot block a person.

I would like to explain better what I wrote here because it looks like a joke but it is not.
Blocking a person as if you were on FB or Twitter in SL would be impossible because it is a physical world, the blocked account cannot interact with you but it can still interact with the world you are in anyway.
In this space, on the other hand, blocking cannot be done and silencing seems rather useless because the silenced account will be able to continue interacting in your content.
Perhaps they have decided in this way to trace what the physical world of SL is or they do it because the basic philosophy of the forum is more that of a community that shares the same things. Here I see in this a good basic philosophy. At first I too got nervous because in any case if I had silenced an account it could continue to interact with my contents. So I took them all out of the ephemeral cage and didn't use that option anymore.

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Paulsian

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My block list is zero, mainly because if I block someone and they can still see me that would open my avatar up to get attacked unknowingly. Or perhaps somehow the blocked avatar can know that I had blocked them and they attach a ***** to their avatar and move it over me so they can report me for A content in a G region. I would never block an avatar, but I would consider blocking the text from that avatar but never have. 

Plus, if I block someone and I can't see them and I run around and around as a little doggie and bump them that would open me up to being reported for bumping someone whom I had blocked.

Wonders if thrid party viewer users have the ability of knowing who blocked them and when? 

Edit:(side note) the ****** is awesome! :) didn't know you can't say p*****s in forum, learned something new today. Now if we can do the same every other derogatory term here, might make this "community?" place a little less hostile and more productive. Can't say ***** but can we say *****? okay good :) You know what i've been sent this a few times I'm going to read it right now. https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/403538-community-participation-guidelines/ 

Second thought, the hyperlink looks wonky shouldn't it be something like https://www.secondlife.com/forums/community/topic/403538-community-participation-guidelines

Yah I think I won't click that. I'll just use common sense and virtual street smarts. 

It's pretty bad when you spend 1000's of USD on something and spend years learning as much as virtually possible to end up realizing that nothing in this world should be trusted. 

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Max Nova

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23 minutes ago, Lucia Nightfire said:

Blocking doesn't make you invisible to scripts.

 

 

46 minutes ago, steeljane42 said:

Of course they could. It's called "alts". Then it's the matter of bringing up the invisible account and griefing the place you're at while you're not even aware about them. Sadly chat is far from the only way of griefing. So providing them with tools to remain invisible from their potential victims via simple block is very not wise to say the least.

 I have never put any thought into being a stalker. 🤔

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Rowan Amore

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1 hour ago, Paulsian said:

 https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/403538-community-participation-guidelines/

Second thought, the hyperlink looks wonky shouldn't it be something like https://www.secondlife.com/forums/community/topic/403538-community-participation-guidelines

Yah I think I won't click that. I'll just use common sense and virtual street smarts. 

It's pretty bad when you spend 1000's of USD on something and spend years learning as much as virtually possible to end up realizing that nothing in this world should be trusted. 

Here ya go since you're scared of the link.  It's actually pinned to the top of this forum section, FYI.  

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