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  1. Orwar
    So, what? Anshe's achievements 'doesn't count' because she had capital to fund her entrepreneurial enterprise with? That's sort of entrepreneurship 101: invent a solution to a problem -> fund your solution -> get to it -> profit.
  2. Orwar
    Oh. It's not just me then. Fair enough. After re-reading what I wrote a few times over, the only word I could think of that would trigger anything would be ... Electronic communication in the style of letters and envelopes.
  3. Orwar
    ... So apparently ... Either I wrote some keyword in a post, or I'm on the moderator's watchlist, but my most turned pink and I was notified that it must be previewed by a moderator before it'd post - the pink flash startled me, and off I went to see whether I'd gotten any warnings lately (nope!). Peeve: Why does it have to be pink though?!
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    Strictly speaking it's a 'contact list'. Being on that list does not necessarily mean that you're friends, nor does not being on that list necessarily mean that you aren't. I'd compare it more to your contact list in your email - you may not be 'friends' with your boss, co-workers, landlord, or neighbours - but it may be nifty to have them on your contact list in case you need to contact them to let them know you won't make your shift or that their ex is putting prim *ahems* all over their backyard (alternatively having their contact card, but that's something a fair few people don't seem to know how to use anyway). If you find it annoying that your nearby chat is spammed when people log in or out (which seems to be a common complaint and a reason to keep the list as short as possible), you can turn that feature off, or switch to toasts instead. If someone is being annoying and typing you constantly even though you don't want to talk to them, tell them that, and if that doesn't work, take them off the list, and if that doesn't work, block them. You have all the control you could possibly need for how your contact list works and which features to use or not to use - including who to put on it, of course - but making up emotional reasons such as 'we're not close enough for you to be on my friend list' sounds just a little bit childish. If someone randomly throws a friend request at you, you are by no means obliged to accept it; after all, it's considered impolite, just like requesting or sending random TPs or objects to people.
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    There are! Unfortunately I expect you'd might run into some legal issues if you used one. Of course, you'll need a rather large one .. And some means of getting the person to not move around too much - which tends to be the natural response to being burnt.
  6. Orwar
    Gesundheit!
  7. Orwar
    Things themselves aren't important or unimportant. A person's view of something makes important or unimportant. Being a bit of a cynic, I think that all those 'international/world XYZ' days feel rather unimportant and occasionally childish - should LL also promote the cinnamon roll's day and the international sailor day, or the international pancake day - or the world hijab day? You're not going to tell me that cinnamon rolls are unimportant, are you? As a Swede, I might get awfully offended!
  8. Orwar
    You can hide, but you can't-- Run. No, wait, you can run, too. Or TP. Hm. To be fair, if you really, really want to get in touch with someone and you know their name, it's not difficult to find them. Unless you don't show in search and block IMs from non-friends. I let my contact list run pretty rampant, if someone wants to be on it, I don't really mind .. Until they start sending mass TPs to their clubs or exhibitions. Especially if I point out to them that it's rather frowned upon in SL to do so (it's even in the how to behave in SL guide!). If they don't stop after that, I'll boot them off of there.
  9. Orwar
    I'm not sure .. Caught the performance a bit at the tail end, and promptly went to show friends only as the venue was packed, so I didn't hear or see anything about any soup pans.
  10. Orwar
    There are many talented women in SL, both creators, artists, entrepreneurs, and educators. I've also attended a few live concerts over the years with some very good singers .. And some terrible singers .. But the one I've enjoyed the most was a German woman, whose name I promptly forgot. Whoops. As far as artists go, I have a dear friend I've known for many, many years, who uses SL as a platform to exhibit and distribute some of her art. It's often dark and distressing, which is a theme which certainly appeals to my aesthetics - but it's also her way to process her hallucinations and nightmares that she struggles with as part of her mental health issues. For creators, it's one of those things that you don't really know whether it's a man or a woman behind the avi - but also, in my mind, that doesn't matter one bit. There's been rumours that one of my favourite creators is a woman, it was up on that trashy gossip site for a while. If true, who cares. If false, who cares. It doesn't impact my appreciation for the things they make. Either way, there seems to be a lot of women who make all sorts of things in SL, and many of the more popular brands are owned by women. As for entrepreneurs, one can't really talk about entrepreneurship in SL without mentioning Anshe Chung. When I first looked into SL and found out that you could potentially become a millionaire through it, I was ready to drop everything and have at it. Of course I'm much too lazy and easily distracted to ever make a business in SL that'll even get to breaking even - but hey, she briefly sparked a dream. And then I found an L$5K pirate ship and immediately bust my virtual economy. Whoopsie.
  11. Orwar
    People use their contact lists differently, and there's no such thing as a universal consensus on when to un-tick that box, or when doing so might be upsetting if discovered. Personally I tend to get a bit peeved and remove people if I find out they're hiding their online status from me whilst on my contact list - I don't see the point of having people on there without it (and besides I don't tend to prod people a lot, nor am I unable to leave someone alone if they're busy or not in the mood to chat without taking offense). If one wishes to be left alone it's more efficient to just toggle your status to unavailable or do not disturb, that way if someone does find out and starts spamming you kicking up dust about how they feel deceived.
  12. Orwar
    I'll usually accept the requests, and after a few days of radio silence I'll remove them again. Sometimes my suspicions are proven wrong and I actually make a friend out of it!
  13. Orwar
    Not really I suppose, but when it's of T-rex-armed avis with potatoes for heads and splaying hands doing a balloon animal over kitchen counters from an awkward angle half-way through a wall, shot in 800 x 600 pixels whilst on the lowest settings possible, it gets old fast. It's why I don't do Flickr groups anymore either!
  14. Orwar
    Already been done in a fair few different ways, hardly a new concept.
  15. Orwar
    Not that I know of. Maybe if they're collared and leashed with RLV. Other than that you'll usually just send a TP as normal, I don't know if it's perceived as an issue that anyone has bothered to 'fix'.
  16. Orwar
    Did we ever conclude how close it must be to be a 'close up'?
  17. Orwar
    ... I mean, I still do find it a bit awkward how much your avi looks like my cousin, but ... Well, you're one of the few people on Flickr I didn't immediately un-follow for posting too much nudity!
  18. Orwar
    There are several factors to getting 'likes' on your pics. Doing pictures that contain a subject or theme which people find pleasant or interesting. Doing pictures with a high standard of quality. Being part of a clique that actively throw likes back and forth at each other regardless of whether any other criteria are met. Avoiding certain elements of photography that peeves people (using that awkward smile app, shooting your avi sideways, etc). Personally I tend to 'like' pics that I find pleasant, whether it's the avatar design or the composition. Though many days I just 'mark thread as read' because I'm not in the mood to browse and because I don't want a backlog of several pages to go through whenever I can be bothered to actually look at the thread the next time. There also appears to be that people have some sort of expectation that you must 'like' pictures of people who you wish to regard you as a friend - I've had incidents wherein people decided to end friendships because I didn't 'like' their pics and thus apparently wasn't worth being their friend (of course doing so made it immediately apparent that being their friend to begin with was probably a mistake, so all in all they kind of just sorted themselves out!). Speaking of, though, I've noticed you don't always like my pics, Jordan ... Stares.
  19. Orwar
    It's been a discussion in its own right, whether LL should make a new system body that's up to snuff in terms of technology and graphics. There have been good arguments both for and against. For: break the current state of body creators getting to pick who gets to have creation kits to make clothes that actually fit, make SL more attractive to new users. Against: infringes on the spirit of the free market of SL by having LL compete with the current market, the style/shape of the body will inevitably not be in everyone's taste (too skinny, too curvaceous, don't like the feet, etc). Personally I'm not really opposed to it, but at the same time I fear the Linden Avatar would be as poorly optimised as the Linden Homes ..
  20. Orwar
    Psst, your email address is showing ..
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    The default setting when uploading to Flickr is all rights reserved. That is, the best protection you can have from a legal standpoint - practically it means nothing though. You've made the images public, the public do with them as they will, that applies to everything on the Internet. Even if you find out someone uses your pictures even though you didn't give them permission, it's not easy to have anything done about it - a similar, and much more pressing issue, is that people have their pictures nicked off of RL social media and reposted on sites for pornography, often even if they are fully dressed in those pictures. Besides, what does it matter? Unless you're somehow monetising your pictures and someone else is leaking them for free or selling them illicitly, in a manner which impacts your own sales - which I'm pretty sure most SL Flickr users don't - it's hardly worthwhile bothering about. And also, if you put up nudes on Flickr it's an obvious form of exhibitionism, surely people potentially getting off to it isn't an issue.
  23. Orwar
    Mina's watering her crops.
  24. Orwar
    Peeve. You've just finished a meal. You're all poofed out (you did after all just eat half a raw red onion, among other things). You put your hand in your pocket - and the tobacco pot isn't there. You run around trying to find it, and as you stand in the middle of the room wondering what the hey, you spot it - next to your keyboard. Oh and an SL peeve, too: people who put the old 'put this ASCII dog in your profile if you're against animal cruelty blablabla'. If you can't come up with anything to put in your profile, you might as well leave it blank. And log out of SL. And go read a book or something. See if it's still possible to re-take third grade. Harrumphs.
  25. Orwar
    Whut. It's not supposed to make videos. You aren't hitting 'capture replay', are you?
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