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Kenbro Utu wrote: I don't see anything that appears to be false advertisement. Just because you filled out an application does not guarantee you a job. An applicant can be refused for any number of reasons, and conflict of interest seems to be a very good reason to me. correct. Though they might have mentioned that restriction in their application form, saving themselves the hassle of having to deal with rejections on that ground

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Yes, I've seen it before. I've also have seen clubs forbid staff from even working in any other clubs. I've seen clubs that forbid staff from even visiting other venues as a guest (in some cases even things that are not clubs)... Once a club starts down that road, you can rest assure they won't last very long usually as it's a major sign of insecurity on the part of the management. Of course there's rare exceptions, like bdsm clubs where the staff are collared slaves of the owners and under restriction that way.

freebie galaxy is huge, gets referred a lot to newcomers, and as a result gets a lot of traffic. All of that makes it a prime target with griefers (the Zindra Help Vortex public sandbox is another example). Free Dove is much smaller. It's nice, but last I was there most of the stuff was either not free or terribly old and barely an improvement over the default avatars unless you want bling shoes (which get you instantly marked as a n000b whereever you go).

yes, once you open the can of worms of giving special treatment to one special interest group, any other you deny the same to will get angry and may well start a smear campaign against you (even if not the core group themselves, then they always have supporters that will). And there's tons of such groups, organised or not. And many of them would like nothing better than for SL to shut down, or to be turned into something that a large portion of the inhabitants dislikes enough to leave, forcing LL into insolvency as a result. Just think of all the religious radicals who'd want their idea of morality enforced on SL. Which would close down all A rated and most M rated content (and even some G rated content). SL would effectively be reduced to the safe hubs, NCI, and a few places like that... Or the radical environmentalists who seriously dislike anything that "goes against nature", including sailboats (you might hit a reef or fish, clearly not good "for the planet"). Biker gangs who'd want every sim turned into their own private bikerbar and rape shack. And as you can guess, many of those special interests are even at odds with each other as to what they'd want SL to turn into, clearly LL can't win by catering to only some of them, can't cater to all of them at all, so only thing to do is to cater to none of them.

a hardcore relay is just that, a relay you can't turn off and locks itself. As a result you can't remove it, can't safeword it, and probably can't deny capture requests either. Turn off RLV, relog, detach it, and delete it, then clear your deleted items just to make sure. And check everything else you're wearing to ensure you're not wearing something that will reattach it (or another copy) when you log back on (I've seen such things), probably originating from your #RLV folder. Then turn RLV back on, and relog.

wonder what she considers "the three top creators"... Is there an anual award ceremony where some committee decides who gets to be "the top creator" for that year? As to my favourites: Hush, T&T, AlVulo, and DrLife. All are IMO far superior to any of the "top creators" (if you measure those in how often the brand name gets mentioned).

such things happen. The Blake Sea was effectively a pet project for a few people at LL (and a few people outside of it). Those people left LL, and it was simply forgotten about with many other things going on. TBH I've never (and I've sailed around quite a bit) seen any of the huge ships supposedly causing trouble anywhere on the Blake Sea (I have seen them in shipyards and nautical show events, listed for sale at incredibly high prices). So either the problems are more limited in scope than the blogpost wants to make you think, they had already subsided about half a year ago when I started sailing, they're extremely limited in time (those hours I'm not online...), and/or I just got lucky. Probably it's a combination of the above. What's far more worrying to me and many other casual sailors is the large scale obstruction of sailing channels and coastal areas by people constructing floating platforms and banlines, either to live on or ever more often it seems for the sole purpose of obstructing shipping. The coastal communities that once were friendly to sailors are ever more hostile and deliberately preventing them from enjoying the seas. While there's probably little LL can do about it except stop selling abandoned coastal or water land to residents (thus, giving it all protected status) and providing some rez zones, that would already be a step in the right direction. (providing a wider ring of protected water sims all around the circumference of the mainland would also help a lot). Sadly the open seas project seems more or less dead in the water, though from my attempts to educate residents blocking vital passages with their construction (without fail futile attempts, met with at the very least outright refusal, more often active hostility and foul language) I can fully understand why it died.

If SL is so bad, why are you kids still here? Just leave those of us who enjoy the experience alone and go elsewhere. Of course there you'd no doubt also whine and complain ceaselessly, because that's the only reason you're anywhere at all, to whine and complain...

Lindex gives you around 250. Most 3rd party sellers I've seen sit closer to 200 (yes, they claim to give more value, but they don't, you get 15-20% less Lindens per dollar, or worse. One day I noticed VirWox giving 208L$ per Euro, when Lindex was giving 249 per US$, with the Euro sitting at $1.30 or so).

SweetLadyMell wrote: @ Orca Flotta Yes, duely noted. I do NOT want to be one of those tennants landlords really dread. I plan on renting for a couple of months and see what's what... have to get some Lindens, by the way, is it my imperession or has the value halved? Was'nt it 5000L$ for 10$? Unless I'm being silly again... Mell xxxx The rate has hovered around 250L$ per dollar for as long as I've been in SL. It may have been higher in the distant past, say several years ago. MOST (but not all) landlords will give a grace period, usually depending on how long you've been renting from them and how reliable you've been at paying (iow if you've been there for half a year and then are a week late at some point most won't eject you immediately, but some will).

SweetLadyMell wrote: Ow...so, if I'm not mistaken, rsting something is a safer bet. It allows me (as Summer advides) to take my time and "look around"... If I rent a place, of course, I'll be allowed to furnish it...if the rent stops, I assume the furniture to be "packed" into my inventory... Convenient, I had to move several times before (I own a RL house now ^^) that would have made the move so much easier... Mell xxx If you stop paying, eventually the landlord will return your belongings and they end up in your inventory, yes. But it's more convenient to remove things yourself prior to that happening as when things are returned in bulk they all get packed together in one big blob which can be a pain to sort out.

SweetLadyMell wrote: Wow, thanks to all these reactions! You're all so helpfull. I'll have to read carefully through all of this, but the point is...I'm starting to feel a bit... homeless...since I saw this lovely house in the adult hub, right at the edge looking towards the Cage... Maybe renting is an option after all. And it may even be an option to rent a patch of land ^^...good idea. Thanks all...allow me to read (and absorb) all the info you've given me, thanks for your time...you're a lovely bunch... Mell xxx Those houses are for rent, starting at 250L$ a week (fist month free if you're 30 days old or less). Anyone with a ADULT HUB staff tag can help you or call someone who can help. Of course you're free to rent anywhere else, but we're always happy to welcome new residents .

Bree Giffen wrote: The free-to-play MMOs coming out of asia caught all the big western companies napping. Money was made through micro-transactions and not subscriptions. The free to play aspect brought in the much needed player base that makes an MMO feel like an MMO and not just you and a bunch of bots. When you think about it, SL is free to play because you can start playing just by downloading the client. We totally have the micro-transactions too. You can buy things on the marketplace or rent some land without having to pay a subscription. But, if you want to subscribe that's also available... and you can get...uhm... land. Honestly, LL needs to work on making it super easy to toss money into SL. Like buying game tokens at an arcade you put some quarters in and get some lindens. It should be that easy. LL should toss out subscribing for land and put out their own rental boxes on parcels. It should be really cheap too. Cheap = grows userbase. They'll make more money off the micro-transactions. But they need to make it easy to buy linden dollars! problem is those games never survive for more than a few months, the most successful ones maybe a few years but at the end are utterly unplayable for all but the in-crowd who've been there a long time and use it mainly as a 3D chatbox (hmm...). The item malls make those games "pay to win" and it shows, those with the deepest pockets drive out the rest quickly (more than one such I've played had regular "competitions" to see who could spend the most money in the item mall and gave those players moderator status, "dates with the devs", or super weapons that effectively made them impossible to beat in pvp (and they're all pvp centric) until the next such "competition" yields an even more ueber weapon as a reward. That drive doesn't exist in sl, there's no "winning this game" because you have something others don't, or have more of it. In SL 90% of all residents never spend a dime, of the other 10% the majority spend less than it costs LL to run the hardware needed to keep their accounts alive. That puts the bill for running SL squarely on a very small percentage of the userbase. Maybe LL could increase revenue while lowering the cost of land by going with a mandatory $15 a month (US) subscription fee, and giving everyone a quarter sim for that (with the option to buy more at say 25% the current rate). But doing so would seriously deplete the population as well, as of that 90% who're not paying customers now the vast majority isn't going to pay that $15 a month. Population would I guess drop to about 15-20% what it is now, with a matching depletion in content by 65-80% to match (just see how many Linden Homes are unused, that's land people got for paying subscription fees). The low percentage of people actually spending money in SL as a part of the total population is the problem. Just go to clubs and other venues surviving on donations and see how hard it is for them to make ends meet. One sim I'm involved in survives solely because the owner is dedicated to it and unwilling to give it up, despite it officially floating on donations and those rarely amounting to more than 500 L$ a month (yes, a month) out of 80k needed to cover expenses.

or even more well intended people trying to help newcomers who get misunderstood, misinterpreted, or themselves get the wrong impression about what that newcomer is looking for and send them to places they honestly think would be a good fit but turn out not to be.

Melita Magic wrote: Yes. A while ago I left - not even a 'bad' review - I think I still gave it three stars - but said something I thought was appropriate criticism - sort of 'I wish this aspect of the product had been such and such a way instead.' Not much time went by, a day if that. I got a nasty IM from the creator. Since they are successful (or were - haven't been since) and made lovely products it surprised me. Why would they be that rattled by one tepid review? Very bad form, and, lost a loyal customer for SL ever. seen similar. Had a store owner ban me from his in world store for daring to say to the person I was shopping with that I didn't like how the demo looked on her once.

what are the chances... that people will stop being stuck in the past and think that anything newer is automatically worse? That they'll start trying to get to know new things before ranting how they're worse because they're not identical to what they're used to? Sadly, I think chances are pretty poor.

don't forget blogs that don't lock comments after a short while, which regularly end up collecting a large collection of such spam posts as comments to old threads hardly anyone ever reads any more (including the blog owner who thus has no idea his blog is abused as a spam link haven).

Sephina Frostbite wrote: Randall Ahren wrote: Sex is the reason we're here. There you go corrupting all the newbie's. Bad Randall. lol if there'd been no sex none of us would exist :matte-motes-nerdy: But yes, most of us aren't in SL for the sex. If it happens, it happens, like everything else. But I for one don't seek it. Tried it, didn't appeal to me apart from the novelty value and that doesn't last long.

welcome back :matte-motes-sunglasses-3: 1) the destination guide is a good place to start. Should be one of the hotbuttons in your viewer unless you've changed the configuration 2) right click something, usually brings up a context menu with options like "sit here", "use me", etc. Or left click if your mouse cursor changes while hovering over it. 3) demos are useful in figuring out if you want to spend money on something :matte-motes-nerdy: That said, few times I've tried filtering them out from the marketplace I've not been successful. 4) don't know what area you found a huge waterslide. Sounds like a fun place. There's many newbie friendly places, check the destination guilde. The starter island where you started all those years ago no longer exists however, and if it did you'd not be able to go there as it could not be entered once you left there. 5) landmarks and teleporter links in notecards and stuff should all work, though sometimes you might get an error if something went wrong because of lag or because the destination region is down. 6) people get lost all the time, old and new

Bree Giffen wrote: Blocking is a very good punishment for most people because most childish behavior is to get attention. A child cries so the parents will start fussing over them. By blocking you completely turn off any attention you have toward them and you deny them their very existence. Reacting to them actually feeds their craven little minds. And a good reminder to myself which "persons" I'd rather not have contact with. Like the toxic induhviduals who have statements in their profiles like "I consider all avatars younger than 2010 to be idiots" (seen it). Don't want to bother with such fools, so blocking them serves as a visual reminder they're not worth my time. Sadly blocking them doesn't mean they can't bump me or otherwise harass me, but at least I can no longer hear them.

and for testing no doubt the admins can use other tools not at our disposal... Also, testing can still take place to see if the code is stable and causes no side effects when run in a state where its functionality is not triggered. This tests the situation where the controls are not actually enabled, in which case things should continue to work as they are now. This provides a valuable baseline.

Parhelion Palou wrote: If the land you're rezzing things on is deeded to a group, make sure you have that group active. Otherwise whatever you rezz will be set to a different group than the land group & is liable to be autoreturned. if land is deeded to group, you just need to be in the group, no need to have it active (unless your viewer is not set to rez under landgroup). If land is set to group but not deeded, you indeed may need to have the group active for some reason, I guess in that case there's an additional check performed before the attempt to rez is executed.

I've dozens on my blocklist. But only 2 of them are there that aren't spammers (sending notecards or ims with "special offers" or sending trojans repeatedly. And those two are real works of art, the kind you'd wish you could mute rl, the kind who scream insults at you from across the street just because you're the wrong colour/sex/whatever.

report those things using the standard Abuse Reporting functionality. Mention explicitly you own the neighbouring parcel. Might have to do it a few times, but eventually they'll get noticed and handled.

make sure everything you want to remain is set to the landgroup, then turn on autoreturn and set it to a few minutes. Sit back and laugh when suddenly their stuff gets returned and they end up falling to the ground (if you've set the place to be group only access, they'll bounce off the shields, too, more laughs).