Rathgrith027

There is a built in viewer option to restrict access to adult regions, usually under the general section. For the days before I turned 18 (I created my account shortly before my 18th birthday) it was hardlocked to General. It is possible to set that to G/M if you so desire, or to maintain TOS compliance.

This is my problem with Linden Lab today. The lack of trust and the overbearing governance policy that is less like a police arrest and more like the Eye of Sauron rm -rf'ing anyone who dares step even remotely close to the line. That same friend from earlier has regailed me with stories of how the LIndens were back in the day. I remember one that actually was a sign of good Governance - and a funny one to boot. They had been at a club, and were minding their own business before the club owner raised a fit over them being a neko, harassing them over it. She files an abuse report, and believe it or not, in short fashion a Linden Lab employee is on station, trying to remedy the situation. The Linden sides with my friend, and the owner? Proceeds to call the linden a racial slur. Club. Gone. Patrons. Kicked. Owner. Banned. Hotel. Trivago.

Tommy, I appreciate you providing a statement on behalf of the Governance Team, and also appreciate that you take your job seriously. That being said, I have lost a lot of friends to Governance actions before, and all of them have sworn to me up and down, and their avatars whilst in my presence affirm such - that they never engaged in such violations, relating to AP. In recent months, there has been an evidenced uptick in ***** reports, and Coffee Pancake, one of the moderators of /r/SecondLife, and one of the developers on Catznip, says that people reporting being banned has skyrocketed, even before these allegations, and these people swear up and down as well that they never intended to violate the rules, let alone have the idea they were engaging in *****. It's going to take a commitment to fairness and some sort of transparency before I and many others feel comfortable around any Governance agent, and believe me, I have heard that people are honestly afraid. This should not be happening - You and your staff should be seen as people to run to for help, not people to avoid. The only people who should be afraid are the people who know full well they are breaking the rules, and do so evasively or even brazenly, either out of pleasure or blatant disrespect for the social (and legal) contract we as residents sign by joining this platform. All I ask of you, that many ask of you, is that you at least don't respond to every report with the nuclear option. As I said privately to many friends - a slap on the wrist for the little things, a night (or week) in a jail cell for the bigger ones, and the nukes as a last resort (or when legally obligated). Those who are in a gray area should be taken aside to be forwarned and provided corrective options to ensure future compliance, not out back and shot.

Eeeh, I'd say.. 18, maybe pushing 19?

I had a discussion with a long time friend, and long time Second Life resident, about a hypothetical "if you ran LL" ultimatum - Either keep adult content, or keep child avatars. Knowing how much adult content, as much as Linden Lab may begrudgingly acknowledge it, drives our economy.. I'd painfully have to show child avatars the door, were it my decision - It's something I wouldn't want to do, but to preserve my - our home, it'd have to be that choice. They said that sooner or later LL may have to face that ultimatum. It may not be now, but when this problem rears its' ugly head once more. That being said, I wish we lived in a perfect world where no one pursued *****, where CSAM and CSA was non-existant, and all lewd acts were done with consent, from those who can provide consent. But sadly we don't live in such a world.

I've seen friends shown the door even when they have features that.. clearly make them not children. I welcome this as a learning opportunity, but It is up to Linden Lab to convince me that they aren't going to repeat old mistakes in that regard.

I honestly wish I did, Milly. Would have probably spared the Lindens more likely than not the trouble to come in here.. three times in a row. But then again, I proceeded to roast the BBB over an open fire fervently in a deleted post made mostly out of frustration than anything else so... yeah.

I couldn't put this into better words myself. So letting a major community sit here and bully a competitor to one of their products off the grid, and having their associates gaslight her and all who either suffered her same fate or stand behind her, is okay to just let happen, Love? Not even regarding the fact they have a working relationship with LL? If I were head of Product Operations and I saw Feorie's video, I'd be ordering the event postponed and the BBB, B5APC come forth with Feorie and other concerned parties to bring evidence to the table and sort this mess out. That is all I want, is some accountability and for the bad actors to be shown the door. If the BBB would disavow the actions of those who did wrong against Feorie et al, I would have *NO* problem with them. None at all. Sure, there would be bitterness from the fact it happened at all, but I would let time heal that wound and decide whether I would want to engage with them down the line. Life may not be fair, but it sure as hell is not an excuse to tolerate injustice.

Yes, I do. No, I don't think Black Mirror is an excuse to reject CBI/BCIs.

Neuralink Implant? No. Full Dive VR kit? I'll sign up for the beta.

Prior to Harley's moderation actions, Feorie had brought up a response that essentially boils down to a sizable chunk of those in the Committee have ties to the BBB User Group. Out of respect of Harley and Dyna's wishes that I respect the peace, I am going to stress this as politely as I can - The BBB User Group is an invite-only group, to my knowledge. What is to say those members in the committee aren't complicit, or at least, have a conflict of interest?

The BBB has some nerve to rear their heads after Feorie's allegations. As someone who was witness to her original video, I cannot stress this enough - regardless of your opinion on me, this event should be boycotted - along with any initiatives by or in coordination with the BBB. Not until we get answers from the lab about what happened between BBB and Forever Tourist.

I've often alluded to SL as Agni, sort of as a loving term for the place I've called home for 10 years. I implore all our residents to take a closer look at the inner workings of the place and its' history. It's why I love it so much - such a fine tapestry of beauty forged from chaos. Worst I've done is fly from Sansara to Second Norway out in the Blake.. I couldn't fathom the planning and navigation a 9 hour flight would take. Dude's got balls like Duke Nukem.

Personally, I don't give a damn what a store looks like as long as it - A. looks like the owner at least made an attempt to make it look like a storefront and B. isn't attempting to either flashbang me like I'm playing Ready or Not, or having me trip over ***** in the dark.

I unfortunately cannot really contribute, but I cannot stress how genius this is. As an aviator in Second Life, the biggest issue I've faced has been draw distances. Faking large DD by making the SL world outside of either the current region or nearby regions, would seriously pave the way for helping improve SL aesthetically and in circumstances like aviation and elsewhere, functionally. Computationally and otherwise, I don't see it being too difficult to implement, and I'd say make sim mesh updates a nightly thing. Oi - Lindens, if you're looking for a nice thing to do after Puppetry, you got one right here.

Reyetta hun, I know you're being sarcastic, but please don't give the Lindens more bad ideas. That being said, Senra was never meant to be a top-of-the-line body. It was meant to be a sufficient body for new users that doesn't look dated, and is open for people to develop for. That being said, it doesn't excuse the very terrible inefficiencies that are present in the model. As much as I'd love to bring my boyfriend into SL and have him use Senra with something like M4 Mars / Venus or something, right now I'd rather test my luck with the old TMP bodies.

Land has been abandoned. Please contact Linden Lab Land Concierge to request sale of the parcel.

UPDATE - I'm very intent on selling this land ASAP, so I'm lowering the price to 6000L$.

Nestled in the winterlands, my home for quite some time now is now for sale as I have decided to take up residence elsewhere. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cortina/225/125/131 FOR SALE - 2240 Square Meter Parcel w/ in bountiful winterlands Located along the border between the Winterlands and Central Sansara, this parcel faces both outward towards Sansara's bountiful wintery territories, and up at the Davos Mountains that partition the winterlands from the rest of Sansara. Home to Nodoka Hanamura, up and coming Second Life Youtuber who refuses to call herself an 'Influencer', this parcel is perfect for a large home or small business, as it has direct roadside connection to protected Linden Lab maintained roads, and is set up for maximum utilization of one's tier if at 2048 (and donated to a land group for the group tier bonus) or if they are a Second Life Premium Plus subscriber - offering a whopping 769 Land Impact. This parcel is the perfect spot for a new home, just in time for the Holiday season. For questions, please contact Nodoka Hanamura in world. Price may be negotiable and will subdivide to 2048 if requested, house not included, second image shown for perspective of southern area outlook.

I'm not currently in Education, but I feel this would be an actually pretty cool idea for someone to implement. I know the NCI Kuula campus has a very pretty cove out and away from the main area that doesn't see a whole lot of foot traffic and is actually pretty nice scenic wise - perfect for a study group gettogether.

You are technically allowed to engage in sexual activity in moderate regions as long as both the parcel is restricted to the public, that adult content cannot be seen at a glance from the outside of the parcel, and no one can see avatars inside or out of the parcel. If you want to do that unbounded, unfortunately your only option is to move to Zindra or to a private estate like the Eden and Fruit Islands.

First time I've heard of MrAnonyMoose. Not gonna lie, it brings a tear to my eye to see members of the community do this out of the goodness of their hearts. I might bring this up on Good Morning Agni for the next episode in January

That's not how this works. Linden Lab servers do in fact have your password, it's just that it's stored as a salted, encrypted hash using something like AES-256 or some other encryption technique. I don't know about local storage, such as with viewers, but I believe that is also a salted hash and is decrypted using a unique system ID that belongs to *your* computer in its' current state. If it's modified (say for instance, you replace the CPU or one of the hard drives), the key is no longer valid and you have to reinput your credentials. Soft Linden or someone in either InfoSec or Engineering could probably elaborate better than me on this. Edit: Or Wulfie can, because I deadass don't read through a thread. Guess the Gacha thread kinda caused that for me - Good write up, by the way

The reason why Zindra was abandoned is because of the fact that demand for land was outpaced by supply. People who wanted adult land would rent from land barons on private estates and regions. Mainland at the time was seen and somewhat still is, seen as laggy and gaudy. Whilst Zindra has improved, along with the rest of the mainland in regards to aesthetics, the problem is that the overwhelming majority of land on Zindra is owned by Life Properties and other land holdings companies. Hell, even my old home on the Southeast Bypass that connects the North and South road networks (which is now replaced by a proper linden road, thanks for doing that well after I moved out and filed that support ticket, Linden Lab), was bought up by those accursed barons. Linden Lab has no reason to expand Zindra because not only is it isolated from the rest of Agni (Literally on the other side of the grid from the rest of the continents and the majority of standalone regions and estates), if I want a place to ***** people to call home, I'll take advantage of both cheaper land and privacy by using the adult content in moderate land loophole that Linden Lab has in place. As much as I love Zindra, having spent some of my first years on SL calling it home after I left the now defunct Gulfport in Hotei, Sansara - It honestly is an obsolete concept that was created because of public outrage from the CSI episode and other bull***** media coverage that tried to place SL in a bad light with little evidence to prove their accusations, which on top of that, was made in one of Linden Lab's many kneejerk reactions which equated to shooting one's self in the foot in slow motion, repeatedly. The only way it'll expand is if public interest in the continent demands it. And as long as Zindra is not just barren, but held mostly by land barons who still think it is 2008 and charging for land like it is, I doubt that'll ever happen.

That's some good news at least. Here's hoping others buy and contribute to East River in one way or another.