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jwenting

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  1. well, it might show some uninformed forum operators that ip bans are ineffective in that you're not banning a specific person and worse you're potentially banning a lot of people who could have become paying customers of your company if you'd only not banned someone using the same IP address earlier. Sadly a lot of punters on the internet still think IP bans are the universal and perfect solution to any and all trouble an internet based service can have (and that includes a lot of SL denizens who think that if only they had an IP tracker on their sim they could detect alts and ban them, something LL doesn't allow for that same very good reason, it doesn't work and has a lot of potential negative consequences).
  2. copybotters can to some extend copy things your avatar is wearing, skin, clothes, shape, etc. but that's as far as it goes (and yes, I've seen someone pop into a region and 10 seconds later be wearing the custom shape and skin and the unreleased mesh clothing of a friend who was standing there).
  3. do you maybe need to increase your tier level before you can own the amount of land you'd end up with if you win the auction?
  4. would get very quiet if a lot of people start running around wearing adfarms. Which is what you're suggesting, a way to get around the ban on adfarms by having avatars pop in on regions wearing tons of advertising as clothing and attachments. Which will lead to a flood of ARs and simowners en masse deciding to ban all such activity. And rightly so.
  5. imo mesh boobs and butts aren't worth it. You can get a nice looking shape without them, in fact without them you're likely to look more natural, and have no trouble getting your skin and clothes to match up... Skins? I've been using Hush for the last year almost, haven't regretted it. Wow skins also seems nice. Most others have on my computer a sickly yellow/orange cast over them, might be my graphics (on my laptop I see it far less). Hair? Catwa, Exxess, and Magika are my favourites.
  6. Alwin Alcott wrote: i think LL gets payed for letting the advertisement stand here for several hours quite strange, because on the grid they like to keep the adult content behind locked doors, while they here seem to offer a platform promoting it for every minor that can read the forums ah, more conspiracy theories... Ever considered those spam posts tend to appear while it's sleepy time in California, where the Lindens live? Thus during the hours that Linden support is closed for business? Would be nice if they had 24/7 support and moderation, but they don't. It's expensive to open offices abroad just to keep an eye on the forums constantly.
  7. Lindens use alts, but their alts will never contact you and claim to be Lindens. When and if official contact is needed they'll do that AS Lindens...
  8. sometimes places disappear at a moment's notice. Quite possible that's what you got. Heck, I've had a few places disappear out from under me while I was there... The destination guide is regularly checked and updated, I don't know the exact interval though. Might be once every few days.
  9. or "can not enter banned parcel or region". Though that I think is what you get if someone set something to group access and you're not in the group.
  10. guessing here: region running on another physical server and the clocks are slightly off.
  11. Cella Core wrote: My biggest issue is you CANNOT change it I have had a severe brain truama and I cannot remember some things i did 4 or 5 years ago let alone an answer i may have written.. there should be some way we can update our information including security questions and answers if it could be easily changed a cracker who stole your account can change it. As is, it's a way to help verify that you're the legitimate account owner in order to get it back.
  12. any time some random fool says something "is so simple to do" when it comes to computer software I know they've no clue what they're talking about.
  13. I much prefer to set my land to my own group, and control rez rights that way. And any decent rental agency would allow that for private estates, where they remain estate manager and can always revert it if I leave the parcel (that estate agent would then also return anything I rezzed there). An estate manager who doesn't do that for his new tenants is not one you want to rent from.
  14. most contests have rules about minimum number of people entering, and close the boards some time before the timer ends. The second is to prevent people like OP from popping in at the last minute with an army of alts and "winning" the contest that way, then repeating that at other clubs all night long. Before contests were closed to entries at semi-random times bot armies like that could rake in tens of thousands of L$ in a single evening.
  15. Thinkerer Melville wrote: The IP address may be banned, but most users can get a new IP address by turning of the modem for a few minutes. or simply pinging the anonymous proxy they no doubt go through... And then someone else finds themselves blocked instead. Which is the main reason IP bans are generally not used any more anywhere at all.
  16. if any troll or griefer could spam intellectual property theft reports "on behalf of the real owners" against residents, each of which would have to be investigated and acted up as potentially real in case LL missed a real one and got held liable by the actual owners, not only would thousands of content creators and innocent customers end up banned from SL every day, LL would be seriously overloaded and incapable of doing anything but investigating those reports. Not a good idea at all. The current system is a good compromise. If you're suspicious about something that you think is owned by a 3rd party, contact that third party and they can handle it themselves. I've actually done so once or twice in case of blatant violations on a large scale and it works. You might even get a reward.
  17. Innula Zenovka wrote: Syo Emerald wrote: Nobody has said its a good thing to go into a sex club, when being a childavatar. The whole thread here is about something totally different, but I guess you didn't bother to even read the OP. As for your general opinion: I disagree, expect for the sexclubs. Behind those avatars are still adult users, who should be able to go to some musicclub and listen to their favorite singer or DJ. However, rightly or wrongly, the presence of child avatars on an adult sim sometimes worries owners about where the child avatars might end up, and cand also make other visitors and staff uncomfortable. That's the reason many adult sims ban child avatars altogether -- after all, if you want to go to a club to listen to your favourite singer, it's surely no great hardship to do it using an adult avatar. it's far worse. Child avatars are being used to blackmail sim owners, or try to get them banned. People make one on a throwaway account, go into an A rated sim, use the sex toys, make screenshots, and file an AR against the sim owner. Rince and repeat witrh a number of avatars and the sim owner is in serious trouble with LL. Friend of me has experienced that who owns a number of A rated sims, and we now have a policy of banning child avatars, a policy that's announced to all incoming visitors. LL no longer bothers us, the child avatars still try to sneak in though. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people so completely obsessed with child avatars they have utterly insane definitions of what those may be. And that includes defining anyone under 2m tall as a child avatar, and in one case I experienced myself anyone without mesh boobs inflated to their maximum size was banned as a child avatar. Both come from a perverted misreading of the LL guidelines for determining what a child avatar actually is.
  18. remember that if you sell it, you will still have it (and pay for it) until such a time as somoene actually buys it.
  19. ObviousAltIsObvious wrote: You're right, the price tag icons are missing on adult land. I don't have a fix for you, but can confirm it's really broken. since when? Must be very recent indeed. More likely you're confused about buying and renting land. A lot of land on Zindra is not for sale, it's owned by a big land barron who rents it out at exorbitant fees, or alternatively will offer to set it for sale to you at even more excessive amounts.
  20. if you have a multi button mouse, turn on right click action on the right button. If not, action-click simulates right clicking.
  21. Zyngo is gambling, casinos don't like winners. People win in casinos, they're quietly worked out the door. In SL that means being kicked out of the region and/or group, and banned if you return. RL that means you find your courtesy room suddenly has no hot water, room service is late and the complementary burgers overcooked, the fries soggy, the wine at the wrong temperature, and cola dead, the toilet in the neighbouring room suddenly so loud you can't sleep (and the person in it apparently has diarrhea all night long).
  22. KarenMichelle Lane wrote: My favorite anachronism is my beautiful bathroom set complete with a luxurious crows-foot bath & animations. It even has an overhead tank toilet that for some reason my male friends will find and use from time to time. So I included an Easter egg for them to find when they choose to sit there. A sinful picture of Dita von Teese fan dancing on the privacy wall. That's a rather prude picture of Ms. van Teese Never quite sure what people see in someone that skinny, she looks like she needs some more meat on the bone
  23. At least he's not looking to represent the nativity as a political statement... http://www.dailybulletin.com/social-affairs/20131224/with-trayvon-martin-this-nativity-gets-edgy-update
  24. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: LL did not like not getting their 10L for uploads. So they broke temporary textures. There is another option though called Local Textures which connects a texture on your hard drive directly to SL without uploading it. There is no charge for this as the texture only exists you your computer until you upload it. rather: LL never supported temp textures so there was nothing to break. It was an unsupported hack abusing a hole in the server software that was closed as a side effect of the introduction of server side baking, aka project sunshine.
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