Anitya Leclerc

Thank you thank you for saying what I was trying to. The possibility of prosecution affects behavior—and very reasonably so. The existence of laws in any jurisdiction—especially in a growing number of jurisdictions—that prohibit gacha-like game mechanics are going to make SL think twice about potential liabilities of continuing to allow them.

That's not what I said. Don't put words in my mouth. You keep referring to a law in Canada that no one linked to or discussed. What WAS linked to and discussed was a PDF referencing laws against illegal gambling devices in California. You keep saying there isn't any US law on this. That is not true. There is a law on the books in the state where LL operates. That is all I asked for you to acknowledge. Please stop perpetuating the same inaccuracy. Thank you in advance. --- As for your question: is there a case history of that law being used to prosecute anything like SL? ***** if I know. I am not a lawyer. I do not pretend to be one. However, I will simply point out that the existence of a law, regardless of its enforcement, matters. This is why, for example, Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, rendering all sodomy laws in the US obsolete, was important. It wasn't that people were going to jail for their sex lives with any regularity. It was that, at any moment, in theory, they could. Am I saying that gacha are on the same level of basic human rights? No. I am not. I am simply using a well-known case to demonstrate that it's still important to take theoretical prosecution into account. LL doesn't have to wait to be prosecuted, or wait for a similar case to be prosecuted, before noting that they are technically in violation of CA law, are thus potentially in danger of prosecution if anyone felt like doing so, and putting a stop to the illegal behavior.

Ummmmmmm have you seen the stuff that Hungary has been up to? Central European University was forced out of Budapest due to crackdowns on speech. Poland: also passing some really problematic laws. Still members of the EU 🤔

www.ca.gov is the URL for the government of the state of California. I'm not saying you're wrong about international law (first of all, I am not a lawyer; second, to the extent I know anything about law, you're right). But please stop being disingenuous about the existence of an actual law in California because you haven't checked the URL or the PDF that was linked.

So I had the owners of the poles restart them, and I was fine for a bit... then it started happening AGAIN. I am at my wit's end.

The dancing seems to happen no matter where I am..

Yes, I logged into my home location, which is in a different sim to the pole in question. I haven't tried the chat commands though.

Thanks! I checked my worn items, there's nothing suspicious. I even tried doing a character test to see if that would fix it. (Then Ruth started dancing.)

I hopped on a pole and started dancing. Logged out while dancing on the pole. Logged back in later, was still dancing. OK. Not unusual. Choosing stop avatar animations from the menu didn't help; the animation would stop for a bit, then start right back up again. I went back to the pole, sat on it again, hopped off. Fixed... or so I thought until I logged off and logged back in again. I was dancing again! And no amount of "stop avatar animations" will help! There has to be another fix other than going back to the same dance pole and sitting on it every time I log in. This is bizarre, and I've never seen anything like it!