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Ossian1488303077

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  1. Yes, the questions are often worded strangely. I don't know that you're going to learn much from this survey.
  2. I took both surveys. They are pretty painless. Are you going to publish your results where we can see?
  3. Oh yes... also I find I'm more cautious inworld -- even more than in the forums. For instance, one of the teens invited me to a club. I declined, but I also wanted to say, "Are you sure you should be there?" If you think that the presence of teens has deadened the forums, see how it is inworld when they're around. I sort of put a cobble on my tongue. It's not that I'm worried about the kids themselves... it's that litigious parents can latch on to the flimsiest pretext. So, no, I won't accept a tp invite from a teen without knowing quite clearly where I'm going. When there's a teen around, I try to stay aware of what's going on around, and I find I shift into the same mentality as when I'm helping at my daughter's school. Only one disagreeable thing happened: There was one teen I ran into, who gave me the odd impression that it was an adult pretending to be a teen. This was at a social place, a hangout, not any sort of club or scene, by the way.
  4. Yes, it's made a difference. Not a big deal, but a few times in conversations it's become obvious that I'm talking to someone who is my daughter's age. I'm not generalizing now... just talking about the teens I've met, but they have short attention spans, and tend to run all over the place, to ask questions and ignore the answers, etc. It's fun, but it's tiring, just like real life, and it makes me feel my age. As far as the forums are concerned, it had a deadening effect. Now that we have to be overly cautious in our language... and adult topics are absolutely off limits, it does make these forums passe.
  5. Azura Lowbeam wrote: The name you make when you signup is just something you can use to log into SL... Yes, but as someone said, "Your shame will always follow you in parentheses."
  6. It just occurred to me... if this store owner's IMs are capped, they wouldn't be getting those IM requests to be taken off the list, right? And I wouldn't discount the possibility that you signed up for the list by mistake. Sometimes when you pop into a sim, a slew of little windows pop up, and it can easily happen that just as you're about to click, another window appears... and you end up keeping or agreeing or discarding the wrong thing.
  7. valerie Inshan wrote: Huh. Breakfast pizza? /me picks up another croissant and "pain au chocolat". :smileytongue: Smart choice! But I think that dish was a fritatta.
  8. If this is because you belong to the store's group, you can leave or turn off group notices... and if it's a subscribo thing, you can go to the store and look for the sign where you subscribed. Usually if you click again you can unsubscribe. If that's not possible, you can mute the object that's sending you the notices.
  9. If you actually look at SL's page on Facebook, you will be hard-pressed to agree with Amanda's assertion. It's NOT a good place to find out about SL or what's going on in SL. I doubt that even the most hard-core FB fan could see it that way. It's one of the best places to feel embarrassed about SL. The SL Facebook page is like a dirty billboard. And if you read what's on there, it will make you cringe. Twitter, on the other hand, is great place to find out what's going on in SL... even though (at least as far as I've seen) the Lindens and LL don't give much news.
  10. Even more farfetched was this moment from his interview with Rod Humble: At the end of our conversation, Rod Humble asked me what I thought the best first fix to Second Life should be. I said: "Facebook integration with a cloud-deployed version of SL with single point-and-click avatar movement." That was Hamlet's first best fix. He has some strange hobbyhorses he likes to ride.
  11. Cato Badger wrote: Prok wrote: "I haven't gotten any rares in ages. Why do you think that is?" which might be an easier question to answer if we knew what "rares" were. Maybe that does answer the question. I looked up "rare" in the urban dictionary and got many laughs but no light.
  12. I've just been googling to see if I can find a pre-Sondheim reference... but couldn't. I wish I could have, because I never liked that song. For some reason it was constantly on TV when I was small, this black-and-white intense close-up of Elaine Stritch. I always found it disturbing and never knew what on earth it was about. PBS probably used it to fill in gaps between shows. I much prefer an image like this: even if it doesn't have the "old money" requirement... or the "non-working"... or the "married"...
  13. Thanks - I know the writing messes mine up, but I just said the hell with it. If you use Cerise Sorbet's Bloo Goo and Much Space Badges style sheets, it all goes away anyway.
  14. One big mistake is asking a woman to change her shape... another is giving clothes as a gift.
  15. Kaimi - if you go back to "My Settings", then "Social Connect" and then choose Tokyo Madness as the badge, and then reload your avatar picture, you will get rid of that white window that cuts into your chest. (But instead you get semi-transparent windows, like over my picture.) Also, you will probably have to re-edit your avatar picture if you do what I said, because you might see part of it repeated at the top or side. (Sorry!) And remember that the preview isn't accurate.
  16. Ishtara wrote: As I understood it, the L$ spam'n'scam was one of the reasons for the platform change from Jive to Lithium. Did they actually say that? I haven't seen LL give any reasons at all for the change.
  17. There's a big difference between this forum and the previous incarnations, and it's this: It's not about us. This time, LL is trying to make the forum that LL wants. The choice of software fits exactly to this purpose, which is social engineering. LL doesn't want a free-wheeling forum. They are not interested in "community" in the same sense that many of us mean it. They are looking to construct a place that is -- quite purposefully -- dull, somewhat sterile, predictable, unoffensive... as PC/PG/PR as they can possibly make it. If that means low traffic, I don't think they will mind. It's very controlled. It's meant to be. If you can post in the way they like, you can stay. If you can't, you probably won't be able to stay or won't want to stay.
  18. Looks like a potato pancake to me. I had two yesterday with apple sauce, at brunch. ~pats her belly~
  19. Porky Gorky wrote: I've looked at some other Lithium based forums on the net and it would seem that we are not the only ones that are apposed to being ranked and rewarded like children. I have to wonder how much research LL actually did before adopting this system as the ranking of users has historically been apposed by other Lithium forum participants. I think that corporations generally have looked for ways to "reward" people in ways that don't cost any real money. When I think of ranks and cooties, it reminds of me how I felt after finishing a project from hell... and my boss talked about how "great" it would be to give all of us a t-shirt or mug as thanks.
  20. Ian Undercroft wrote: Yes - it could be displayed but based on what inworld criteria? People contribute inworld in so many varied ways. And to what end? Benefits or powers of some kind? SL is full egos (many overly inflated) and the acquisition of rank (whether deservedly or fortuitously) does not bear thinking about. It's a dystopian dream... that we will be forced to behave better inworld by being offered prizes and by being denied access to things based on "levels".
  21. It's not about a virtual world, but I found that John Varley's Steel Beach helps to understand sex and gender in the virtual world.
  22. OMG, Cerise! Thank you SO MUCH! I can't believe how quickly you did it! I downloaded both Blue Goo and Badges Much Room, and it's an enormous improvement. Lithium and LL should pay you for making the forum a better place. It's first of all more readable -- so much easier on the eyes -- and it makes the avatars a lot cleaner and hides all that rank and post count jive. The mouse-over display is just so clever!
  23. Cerise Sorbet wrote: I think it should be practical to only show the "extra" text on mouseover, and will play with that this afternoon. OMG - do you mean that some script or stylesheet might take all that stuff away? YAY!
  24. Suella Ember wrote: To be fair, we are kinda using the 'badges' for a purposes that they were not exactly intended! You're right, but it's an enormous improvement over the intended use.
  25. Suspiria Finucane wrote: Did you notice the shift to the right between the preview badge and the actual displayed image? I had to do some corrections for that. Yes, one of the badges gave an upward shift too. I don't understand why the preview doesn't work properly.
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