[Replying to IMs through local chat - is this bad form?]

31 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

I shouldn't have to disable IMs. Or "common courtesy been kicked to the curb completely on the internet". I don't play that game.

Well, that's how it should be, but unfortunately, that's not how it is.

You're letting it ruin your own experience, which makes it your problem.

[Replying to IMs through local chat - is this bad form?]

Just now, Selene Gregoire said:

It wasn't just one person. Sometimes you have a choice, either spend half your date time* putting people on ignore or just keep closing the IM windows that keep popping up.

Or don't open the windows to begin with.

Or temporarily disable any new incoming IMs.

[Replying to IMs through local chat - is this bad form?]

5 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

So there are situations where no, it isn't silly to get mad when you're just trying to have a night out and other people won't "butt out" of your IMs. Even after being told you're on a date and thanks but no thanks, politely.

This doesn't bother me at all, I just don't reply to the initial message if I don't want to talk. If they keep spamming me, I just mute them.

[Replying to IMs through local chat - is this bad form?]

3 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

You don't have to hang out in social places to get random IMs. I used to get them all the time on my build platform (when I had land) and there was no one else in the sim. There are those people who will go through a group member list and just start IMing everyone on the list. If you happen to be a member of that group, you will get those IMs at some point. Having a last name (or Resident last name) that starts with letters in the "low end" of the alphabet isn't a safe guard as the order of the member list can be reversed, or set by last log in date, etc.

OP mentioned specific sims where random "hi's" happen a lot, that's why I said that. 

 

edit: if you're in a club or other social sim, you can't get mad at people thinking you want to be social and messaging you. like i said, this is silly.

[Replying to IMs through local chat - is this bad form?]

This is really silly.

Just don't reply.

If you don't want random IMs then don't hang out in social places. Or turn on the firestorm option that blocks all IMs until you decide to look at them.

[Problem with Alphas and System Avatar Textures Not Working]

I'm not having issues.

[Why is it nighttime on mainland now?]

I've always hated those lights on the ground.

[Is SL chat now secure from 3rd party?]

1 minute ago, Red2Blaze said:

I try to keep my RP realistic, as in what is possible in the frame of the world is possible in my RP, and can happen

So at times sexting is out of my control

 

Besides.... even with out sexting that is one reason for me, i honestly prefer my chats even more IM's to remain private

 

Well if you're worried about your school monitoring what you're doing and reading your sexts, don't sext at school.

 

lol

 

That's what this is really about.

[Is SL chat now secure from 3rd party?]

49 minutes ago, Red2Blaze said:

So I found this post back from 2015: 

Seeing that now I am in a public internet area (study) I got some what scared on that, they have a study filed for "hacking" and stuff so I fear someone may be looking over the network, and make things a little akwared for me later on

So wanted to ask if anyone knows if this was ever "fixed" or something, or is my IM and chat yet completely exposed to 3rd party's?

 

 

LOL

Don't sext over sl in a public area then.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

11 minutes ago, moirakathleen said:

"babygirl"   I'm completely out of my element here, so I could be wrong, but the babygirls that post looking for Daddy Doms - aren't they full grown women avi's and not child/baby avi's?

Idk what her profile says now, but yes, babygirls are generally adults who are into that kink.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

Just now, Alyona Su said:

A profile picture does not mean they were in that avie when this occurred (I see SL Kid avies with very adult profile pictures and groups and vice-versa *all the time*). I am not defending the OP or even taking devil's advocate; I am simply pointing out how people make presumptions and others take those presumptions as fact. ~shrugs~

READ their profile.

 

 

 

Please, please, please don't be this dense.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

34 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:

And no one said that OP is a child

I did, and you quoted me where I said it. Look at their profile.

 

35 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:

no said one they are using any of this stuff.

They obviously own that hud.

[For everyone in SL who use Flickr]

4 minutes ago, Skell Dagger said:

Plurk

I forgot this existed. I haven't seen that linked in any profiles for a while now.

[For everyone in SL who use Flickr]

2 minutes ago, Skell Dagger said:

It depends on what you need it for. Personally, I blog, and I like to use high-quality images. I also like to be able to link large images. I'll put some comparisons between Instagram and Flickr behind a spoiler tag...

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Crop of my entire (1920x1080) screen, showing an Instagram shot at the biggest size it will go to:

Crop of the same image on Flickr, using Lightbox mode:

The same image on Flickr, at fullscreen size (I can't even fit the whole thing in!)

And, if I go to the original size (2500 pixels) on the download page, well...

That's all I can fit on the screen.

 

I believe you. 

Tho I'm sure a casual SL photo-taker might like instagram.

[For everyone in SL who use Flickr]

1 minute ago, Skell Dagger said:

I have an Instagram account and I can give you one big reason: image quality. With Flickr I can upload and get high-quality resolution, but with Insta every image - no matter how much I optimise it - ends up small and poor quality. I use it because it's another place to be, but there's no way I'd have it as my primary image-posting location.

Ohh, I see. I have an instagram for RL and the quality is fine.

[For everyone in SL who use Flickr]

I've always wondered why people on second life used flickr. Why not instagram?

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

29 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:

Actually, yes they do: because there are totally innocent role play "Parent Helper" HUDs and tools that allows role-play parents to carry them, TP them, ground them, "hold their hand" etc - that all relies on RLV. For example: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Parents-Lil-helper/1304818

*I* use RLV for my Wardrobe manager, an SL Kid may use this, too. (https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/CTS-Wardrobe-Organize-your-outfits-with-style-A-visual-inventory-organizer/935078)

RLV isn't only useful for trolloping around and pix.els.ex.

//JUST SAYING

 

I guess you learn something new everyday. But still lol.

[Can't log in again? :(]

I was thinking about logging in. I guess I shouldn't.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

21 hours ago, Beq Janus said:

If you take a look at the profile of the person named on the textures (assuming they have not simply been framed) it would suggest that the OP has bought that person's HUD or permitted it to act upon them. Almost certainly RLV given the nature of that profile. 

Um....it looks like OP is a child avi. They shouldn't have RLV on anyways.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

I thought of another possibility. 

Maybe someone rezzed a huge box around you.

[Viewer is hijacked. How to fix?]

Your viewer wasn't hijacked. You have RLV on.

I think you have to log in from a non-RLV viewer, such as the official SL viewer and take off the RLV item you're wearing, and then log back into firestorm and turn off RLV. I THINK that's how you do it anyways.

[I am getting tired of people complaining there is nothing to do in Second Life.]

11 minutes ago, Jules Catlyn said:

I did not say that everybody should be a creator.

You sure did imply it.

 

Anyways, stop telling people how to live their SL.

 

If people want to complain, so be it. People will complain no matter what. You know, kind of how you complained in your original post.

 

[I am getting tired of people complaining there is nothing to do in Second Life.]

On 10/24/2018 at 11:45 AM, Jules Catlyn said:

I am used to being surrounded by creative people. Not just creative in items but also they write, create sims, create events and do things that are fun to them and keep Second Life alive. Nowadays it seems there is a whole new generation of users that only want to consume and not contribute. They should read up on what Second Life is. It is a user generated world. Which means that us, the residents, create it. So may be it is time that instead of complain, the consumers find ways to contribute instead of complain. Be it by having a business, creating art, making places and groups for people to meet etc. Don't expect anything to be handed on a gold platter and spoon fed to you. *end of rant*

This doesn't even make sense.

Where would the creators be without consumers?

[Share Your Embarrassing SL Moments - The Confessions Thread]

I was camming around a sim and there was a couple dancing.

I tried to inspect the girl's dress, or shoes or some part of her outfit, but next thing I know, I accidentally clicked something and replaced her boyfriend in their slow dance.

I TPed home lol.

[problem logging in]

It let me log in.