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Dresden Ceriano wrote: Starbie Serenity wrote: How do I place my profile or my group into a notecard so that people can click it and either join my group or friend me from my profile? Thanks Starbie If a person is too stupid to right click a notecard you've sent then and pull up your profile themselves, why on earth would you want them on your friendlist or in your group? ...Dres We're getting into Groucho Marx country here . . .

LaskyaClaren wrote: Well, apocalpytic predictions of the demise of the General Discussion forum here have been an established genre for at least as long as I've posted here or in its previous incarnations. It looks to me like as though its time to move on to elegy. I remember saying, maybe a year ago or so, that obviously the new forum community liked it "quieter" here, and that that preference was their right. I'd congratulate them on establishing the Peace of the Grave, except that there is almost no one left to accept it. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe there is a community here that extends further than the four very familiar old faces who've bothered to post on this thread, but I'm not seeing it. Llazarus, Deja, Celestiall, and especially Derek, thanks for taking the time to do so. I wish you well in your new demesne, which seems to be pretty much your own to do with as you see fit. See you on the other side, as they say. Sometimes you have to tear down the house to rebuild it. [Damn, that sounds like a validation of Ebbe's doomed-to-failure SL V2]

Magnus Brody wrote: Thankfully, I have spent an entire life needing no medication whatsoever When was the last time you consulted a physician? Magnus Brody wrote: largely find it unfunny I am not surprised, your reputedly having spent a considerable amount of time living in a country where Rab C Nesbitt is considered the acme of wit. Magnus Brody wrote: not worry too much about how perfectly English it is. Perfectly English? That's an oxymoron, at least it is to a Welshman. Or perhaps that isn't quite what you were trying to say...

DejaHo wrote: And they have a half dozen teams in the NHL, as well. I understand that they may also have a team that (very) occasionally wins something called a World Series. They gotta be first world if they are big enough to be the best in the whole world I suppose.

KillerSp3nc3r wrote: nothing was purced That's reassuring. Or should it be . . . That's reassuring.

Starbie Serenity wrote: How do I place my profile or my group into a notecard so that people can click it and either join my group or friend me from my profile? Thanks Starbie Why would anybody want to join your group or friend you?

Magnus Brody wrote: Now it seems, unless we follow your rules of what is acceptable or post in fear of being grammatically corrected Either you are taking things a little seriously, Magnus, or you need to change your medication. Or both.

Muletta wrote: LlazarusLlong wrote: Why would you want that hair? It looks terrible! It is only suitable for a pre-teener who can't read the words, just looks at the pictures in one of those over-priced girl magazines funded by makers of training bras. And who apparently thinks it's cool to repeat letters in words, use typewriter fonts of non-standard sizes, unnecessary excessive punctuation and demonstrate a poor grasp grammar. Please teach me about English grammar here. Is it really correct grammar to begin a sentence and a new part of the text with "and", in English, like you do here? I ask, because in my language, it isn't, so I just wondered. You are allowed to do it if you know that you should not. And I do.

DejaHo wrote: All I ever wanted was to be a successful troll. But, no. Instead I was labeled a pornographer, a pedophile, a **bleep**, a pimp, a poet, homophobic, a racist; and those were only from the LWL. All I ever wanted to do was troll. What a fail. It's because you posted an image of yourself in a dress. The LWL restrict their insults if they think that you might actually have a feminine side. Having XYY Syndrome myself, I have never been accused of that.

LuminousElf must be from Newcastle. They call everybody "Pet".

I would prefer it if LL would reduce the video memory requirement . . . . . . or maybe you (and they) would prefer it if the "shared experience" was restricted to those who could afford the most expensive equipment?

Linden Lab wrote: Though we don't currently have an update on what started the change in behavior, we are working on indentifying and addressing the cause. It might be more useful to identify the cause; just changing the tab settings won't help that much. Presumably you have logs of changes made to the login processes. Or maybe you don't.

I don't want an L, but I'll buy an X or a J if you have any. I'm losing to my wife at Scrabble [tm] at the moment, so I am willing to make a pretty high bid.

HarrisonMcKenzie wrote: Yes. Scholar. I have a university degree in Japanese language and culture, spent 3 years in religious studies, practiced Buddhism in a temple, spent 7 years event planning for cultual groups, networked with employees at the Japanese Consulate and a community association, have traveled twice to Japan, and am an English language teacher. Yes, I am a Japanese cultural scholar. And do NOT use that racist **bleep** tone with me, because that is exactly what I am calling into question. As soon as someone says Japan, everyone assumes they are some Naruto loving virgin with no friends, and I have no gone and proven exactly why no one wants to talk with to the OP for having a Japanese name. It is because some people on the internet are petty, racist, elitist dicks who want nothing more than to crap oin other people for having interests. You have been to Japan a whole TWO TIMES. Wow! [inter Alia, I have made separate visits to both Disneyland AND Disneyworld; do you think MIT might give me a Doctorate in Leisure Studies?]

Cerise Sorbet wrote: It's totally understandable that the OP would give pu in disgust, given that LL has chosen to weclome the troll and bully behavior in this forum. It's clearly time to archive and close the section, if they can't be bothered to control it. Using euphemisms for abusive coprophilic insults (albeit very badly misspelled) is not acceptable under the Community Guidelines, Cerise, which is something I would have thought a longstanding contributor to the Technical Forum would have known, although of course this is the General Discussion forum, which has a different mandate from LL, which may be confusing you. You may wish to note that we in GD would be delighted if all the noob questions could be relocated to the forum you frequent, so that you could be annoyed by them, rather than we who wish to use this forum as it was intended. Rather than close the section, I call on the Community Manager to ensure that the Moderators become more proactive in relcating inappropriate threads away from GD to the sections which are willing to provide answers rather than discussion.

HarrisonMcKenzie wrote: Canada is a first world country. Please can you provide verification of this, Derek, or perhaps Laskya.

tonytarheel wrote: I have not checked to see if I have less items than I should. Perhaps you actually should check to see if you have FEWER items than you should.

LaskyaClaren wrote: Possibly you and Mr. Llong are the exceptions to what I am talking about, however, because I think you have both gone out of your way to set yourselves up as "outsiders" here. On the contrary, although perhaps you are not aware of it as you have been absent rather than lurking, Derek and Mr Llong have established recent reputations as insiders, working hand in glove with the Community Manager, Xenophobia Linden (I can never remember her real name) in her initiative to clean up the forums, and in particular to ensure that the General Discussion forum contains threads which relate to its purpose as described in the Forums summary page, not to act as a dustbin for lazy noobs to dump their simple problems in when there are Cut and Paste experts enthusiastically waiting in the ANSWERS section to point out what could be found in a minimum of time, assuming you can spell , or even use a spell-checker.

LaskyaClaren wrote: How often have you had someone who is not a mod cite these in responding to you? In fact, the mods don't necessarily refer to specifics, or even that you have transgressed the Community Guidelines. If they are feeling extremely lazy, or perhaps if they are weekend mods (ie Lindens forced to give up their free time and consequently not at all au fait with the official LL protocols) they may simply cite "TOS violation" which is even more unhelpful and unspecific than the fuzzy language in which the Guidelines are written. [Oh, Llazarus said to say hi, but he has been detained in "Wales" for a while and won't be able to participate further in this thread.]

COBY I am on the Firefox beta update channel - currently version 38 - and I have been suffering similar problems of "Community amnesia"; I thought it might have been problems with beta software, particularly since I use Multifox to manage multiple profiles to access SL web properties, but perhaps (as alluded to in the GD thread) it is untested LL software, possibly being messed around with to "consolidate" login access in a standard fashion - we know that there are multiple validation databases used, which suffer occasional corruption and desynchronisation and there is always the chance that LL are trying to sort out linked access between the existing SL and the SL2 platform. ***I am not holding my breath for either an explanation or a resolution; the forums are way down the priority list, it seems***

PROMPTED by SL Go closing down with minimal notice, and the uncertainty relating to the development of a new platform, particularly given the abandonment of other initiatives by LL in the last twelve months, I have been wondering if it is not inconceivable that circumstances might force the peremptory closure of the existing Second Life world, despite assurances given by Ebbe; in fact, it is in part the vague promises and uncertainty of the commitment made by him that worry me most, as it appears that LL is unwilling - or unable - to determine any sort of fixed schedule which they feel confident enough to publish. So . . if they did give us less than a month's notice of closure, like SL Go, what steps would you take? ***Actually, given Ebbe's statements on the matter, perhaps the thread should be titled: "What will you do when SL closes down?"***

Qie Niangao wrote: LlewLlwyd wrote: occasionally deletes my rude posts without notification. I doubt it's discriminating supra-threshold rudeness. I've witnessed the (same?) silent deletion mechanism when I've linked to the dangerous Universe. (It's remarkable for taking effect not during posting but rather slightly post-posting.) IT'S part of the alpha status AI moderation system. ***Where AI stands for "Artificial Idiocy"***

Qie Niangao wrote: In a thread from mid-March, Freya suggests an explanation for how we're ending up at the dreaded Blogs. The "why" -- what they were trying to fix when they broke this -- may be forbidden knowledge. THESE amnesiacal aberrations are more recent (just the last week or so) and presumably indicate further failing attempts by LL to synchronise login validation across their various web properties. ***As has been suggested, perhaps it is part of the attempted development of a consistent interface across the current SL and the new platform and if so, the new platform must be in a mess***

OH DEAR! Based on my own experience, that image won't last long. ***And you won't be informed that it has been removed, either***

BUGS in the system. It keeps forgetting I am logged in, which posts I have already read, and occasionally deletes my rude posts without notification. ***Being relatively paranoid, I initially assumed that LL was testing an "annoy the critics" interrupt mechanism, but being relatively realistic I reckon it's merely continuing incompetence on their part***