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    Forum ranks must go

    in Forums Feedback

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    Suella Ember wrote:

     

    No I can't moderate under this guise or any other guise. Nor would I want to. Nor would I want moderation to be done by anyone other than a team of deidicated moderators employed by LL (which appears to be the case. See here at  13:25 and 13:12): 

     

    [13:25] Amanda Linden: the moderators will be an extension of oru team--LIndens
    [13:12] Amanda Linden: we will have moderators in the community platform 7 days a week and will work through the items that are flagged.

     

    Of course Cato, being the suspicious sort, might not belive that as already indicated, but that's not much I can do about that other than to assure you it's true and let you make up your own minds. 

    It's kind of ironic really because I dislike the concept of ranks themselves as much as the next person. What I dislike just as much though is paranoid ideas of conspiricy, favouritism etc that people stir up. I think the whole subject is just tiresome and we'd all be better off just ignoring it.

    Incidentally though, if you are really interested in improving your 'rank', my understanding is that post count is just a very small factor involved. I believe you could quite easily move up the ranks with a relatively small post count if you did the 'right' things. I'm not going to say what those 'right' things are for two reasons though:

    1. I don't actually know what the 'right' things are. I have a few ideas based on what it says in the
    and a few casual observations. I'm really not concerned with them though, so I have no desire to waste my time trying to figure out the secret algorithm!

    2. Even if I did know the secret algorithm, I wouldn't say becuase it would just guarentee even more chaos, argument and drama and, as I've already said, I personally think the best thing to do if you don't like ranks is to just ignore them and pretend they don't even exist!

    There will undoubtedly be some who want to try and play the 'rise up the ranks' game. So be it - whatever! They can have their fun if they wish. I don't really care just as long as content here remains of good quaility and doesn't resort to what is essentially spam in an attempt to rise up the ladder! That's more the important point for me - that the Lindens involved here, such as Lexie, Amanda, Rand, Raymond, Torley and any moderators) do their best to ensure that it remains a useful, respectful, friendly and constructive resource and doesn't degenerate into spammy, argumentative, destructive mind games!

     

    And there you have it, Cato.  Even after over 4,000 posts and a rank of Advisor, Miss Suella has no more power to moderate these forums than you or me!  I knew this was the case.  Thank you Suella for taking the time to answer!

    Now...whether you believe what Suella says or not, or ME for that matter, is totally up to you. 

    Do you treat your avatar...

    in Your Avatar

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    I was a premium member for a while back in 2008 when I first started Second Life.  Then, when finances got tight, I had to go back down to a free membership, where I still remain today.  Even so, I treat Marcus to the best of everything I can find!  His clothes closet is second to none!  :smileyvery-happy: He has a great place to live, has good friends and has a fun time no matter where he is or what he's doing!

    Forum ranks must go

    in Forums Feedback

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    Cato Badger wrote:

    ...my *REAL* concern is actually that those with higher ranks have HIDDEN powers (call me paranoid or a conspiracy theorist if you like, and I would be delighted to have a Linden state with hand on their heart that I am wrong) and can act as moderators, under a cloak of alt anonymity...

     

    If this is your main concern, Cato, then we should just ask one of them, Suella (who has the rank of "Advisor"), if she has the ability to moderate the forum.  Suella is so far ahead of you or I in the number of posts and it will take a LONG time to reach what she has done, we two don't need to worry about it.  I would guess that Suella does NOT have the ability to delete one of our posts, or moderate them in any way.  All she could possibly do is RIC us just like we can RIC her.

    So, Miss Suella...what's the answer?  Can you moderate these forums with your much higher rank than Cato and me?

    Styles & scripts (Blue Goo, Post Toast, etc.) for community.secondlife.com

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Cerise Sorbet wrote:

    Hi, after you have stylish installed, did you go back to the userstyles.org site and install the theme? The userstyles.org download process will do the right thing, but only after you have Stylish installed and restarted the browser to activate it.

    [ We do not need Greasemonkey for this one, but can use it as a slower alternative to Stylish. ]

     

    Howdy, Cerise!

    /me chuckles

    No, I hadn't done that.  I have now, and it looks great!  Thank you very much!  :smileywink:

    Forum ranks must go

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    Ossian wrote:

    Phil, apparently the ranks allow people to do things like post YouTube links.

    It's all gold stars... Nothing of substance.

     

    ^This

    Personally, I see nothing wrong with a person's rank changing with the number of posts they make helping others in these or any other forum.  I've seen it many times in other forums and never felt once that any of those people who were of a higher rank than me, had some sort of "power" over me.  Nor did I have any over others when I gained higher ranks.

    I think we need to pick our battles.  There's so much that needs to be fixed or worked on within SL, and so many new residents who need help with the basics.  And we're concerning ourselves with the "ranks" here in the forums? 

    One thing more we need to realize...yes, when you have a higher rank, some people are going to give your answers and helping posts more credence than others, so your responsibility in what you post is higher.  Remember that when you answer questions and post topics. 

    Tight Pant Syndrome

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    I see it sometimes too, Ian and I use the Phoenix viewer.  It sometimes happens after a teleport.  A buddy of mine and I have been going on the various gridwide hunts, and when I see him before we start, his pants legs are fine.  Then, after the first teleport, ta-da! tight pants...and they remain that way until he logs off.  I've just gotten used to it and, of course, he can't see that his pants are ridiculous all of a sudden. 

    I don't know what causes the phenomenon, but I've taken to wearing prim lower leg attachments so it doesn't happen to ME.

    Installation corruption

    in Second Life Viewer

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    Howdy, Ripley

    The first thing I think you should do is completely remove the RLV from your computer.  Use CCleaner (or a similar product) that will scan your entire computer for any bits of information from the failed install.  Then delete the install file you downloaded.  Then, restart your computer, redownload the install file and attempt another install.  Turn off your Anti-Virus before you try to reinstall. 

    Hopefully, that will help.  If it fails again, send Marine Kelley a Notecard inworld.  But don't just send it to her through her profile.  She has a mailbox set up at her shop on Pak.  Use that instead. 

    Good luck!

    Second Life Forums Feedback

    in Forums Feedback

    Posted

    I just tried to respond to one the the posts in this thread (the one about having to click sign-in after logging into the dashboard) and I got an error that said: "An error has occurred.  Please try again."

    Then when I tried to post it again, I got THIS error message:

     

    Please correct the highlighted errors and try again.

    • Post flooding detected (community got posts of a unique message more than 1 times within 3,600 seconds)
    There were no highlighted areas to correct and when I tried again, the same Post Flooding error message came up a second and then third time.  :smileysad:

    What do you hope to accomplish in your SL life that you cant in your RL?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I've had quite a diverse life in SL.  From being a Police Officer on the Irukandji continent, to owning a lot of land and prims, to owning two boys for over a year and now just being me and creating things for myself.  I do a lot of exploring and enjoy landscaping my parcel (it's never done).  All of these things I can't do in RL.  So, I feel that I've accomplished a lot in my just short of 3 years in SL. 

    How can I get better clothes if im new?

    in Your Avatar

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    Howdy, Monecka

    There are a couple of really good Freebie stores in SL that have massive amounts of free clothing, skins, hair, etc.  I went there a few days ago to check and I was able to "buy" something so it doesn't matter how old you are. (some places have a 30 day age limit to get the free stuff)

    If you like, I will send you a couple of landmarks inworld so you can go have a look. :smileyhappy:

    Knives | Forks | Spoons ?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    OK, I'll bite:

    Knives - Yes (especially the Santoku knives!)

    Forks - Yes (Gimme a large one so I can fork somethin up to my mouth.  None of this salad fork business)

    Spoons - Yes (the bigger the better!  Soup spoon to eat cereal with!  The small childs spoons just don't cut it!)

    :smileyvery-happy:

    Hello?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Ags Falconer wrote:

    <tap> <tap> <tap>....

    Hey, is this thing on?

    :smileyhappy:

    Hello to the new forum.  Hey.... smell that?   It still has the fresh "new forum" smell.

     

    /me smiles and tips his hat your way

    Howdy, Ags!  I'm certainly glad there is an off-topic forum now! 

    Cloud

    in Your Avatar

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    I have found, Cookie, that if you will change your bald cap, that will resolve the problem.  I'm not sure why that works, but, it has for me...twice now. 

    Just put a different one on than you are wearing now, and you should rez fine.  Then when you're all rezzed up, put your old one back on. 

    Hopefully this will solve your cloud problem.  If not, I'm sure someone will be along to give you other suggestions.

    /me smiles and tips his hat your way

     

    Second Life Forums Feedback

    in Forums Feedback

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    Nathaniel Scorpio wrote:

    Throw me in the threaded view camp. So far, the options appear to be reading older to newer or newer to older, but all in flat view. Threaded view gives you the actual flow of conversation and makes it easier to follow a string. I'd also argue that flat view leads to more argumentative threads, because people don't have the option of avoiding an argument all together like they can in threaded view. 

    I would prefer a threaded view as well for exactly the same reasons Nathaniel states above.  Also, even though I checked "Jump To First Unread Post" in Linear Layout Settings, it always takes me to the very first post in the topic.  Page 1, post 1.  Ugh.

     

    How to create a cool forum avatar \ badge

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    Aarrg!  I read through your post, Suella, and decided that I would NOT have the blue hash marks on my avatar.  :smileyvery-happy:  And there it is!  So...is there a way to delete the avatar image from the badge?  I don't think I need my face on there twice.  LOL!  I guess I need to play with the system some more.

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