MoiraKathleen

I wouldn't think SL groups would ever be put in a destinations category. I do think the "Recently Added" category should be added to the categories included in the viewer Destinations window though.

Because we have an actual thing called Groups in SL, I think your use of the term to describe categories of locations is very confusing.

You might want to consider forum members as another source of your research with the realization that - as with just about anything in SL - there is more than one way to get something done.

Perhaps I'm confused - when you say groups do you mean something more general - like categories of places (rather than an actual SL Group which may or may not pertain to a location or anything in the Destination Guide)?

The Destinations Guide isn't going to help you find groups. I use the guide in the viewer when I'm looking for someplace to sightsee or take pictures, but often I got to the web version of the Destination Guide to find new entries to the guide, or to find something in one of the other categories that is not displayed in the viewer destination window. Other times, I might use search, because the Destination Guide does not have all the places of the type I might be looking for. If I'm looking for a group, I definitely use search.

If you're talking about new Destination Guide entries, then perhaps you could ask that the "Recently Added" category be added to the Destinations window that displays in the viewer. If you go to the web link I posted in my comment above, you'll see that at the very top of the list of Destination categories is "Recently Added".

I'm a little confused as to how you would promote groups via the Destinations Guide (which does have a category for newly added destinations). The Destinations Guide is about places to visit whether or not the place has a group - and it doesn't include ALL places, only places where the owner has applied to be in the Destinations Guide. The Destinations Guide can also be accessed by a toolbar button. For a full listing of all the categories that are in the Destinations Guide, go to Second Life | Destination Guide - Virtual World Directory via the secondlife.com site.

I have 4 on my block list and they are all spam related.

If you are logged in to the Marketplace and unable to change the maturity setting, I think that you'll need to contact Support (or Live Chat, if you have premium membership).

SL is a place for me to relax and shift my mind away from grandsons squabbling in the other room, or other various family stuff or health issues going on. I have a couple of friends I talk with from time to time, but usually I'm out doing things by myself. One thing I find relaxing is farming and crafting. I've done G&S before, where my farm was large enough that I had booths selling crops at several G&S markets. Right now, though, I'm doing very small scale DFS farming on my mainland home parcel - a couple veggie and grain fields, a few fruit trees, a few chickens, a couple cows. I find it very relaxing to be tending fields, collecting ingredients and cooking. It's a lot easier to live in the countryside and be pretty much self-sustainable in terms of basic foods and eggs/meat in SL than it would be to do that in RL. I still think though, that if I didn't have immediate family in RL, I might live more like the lifestyle I've created for myself in SL. I also spend a good amount of time each day in the Antiquity regions - 16 or 17 regions I think, with ground level and 2 layers of landscaped sky levels. Roughly early 1800's give or take 50 years or so each way. English/European style royalty, plus some desert islands in the south home to pirates, and a few underground coves with mermaids. Daily sailing ship battles between navies and pirates, or a free-for-all on some days (though I'm not near good enough at sailing or manning cannons to participate in those battles). The have a custom trade and combat system which includes farming, crafting, mining, cooking, internal RP currency, markets and trade routes. There are opportunities to socialize for those who like to, and the RP is light (which is good because I can never remember how to address the various levels of royalty, especially as a commoner which is the status I play as). I raise some vegetables for myself and herbs/flowers which I extract oils from to sale or to use in making soap to sell. I also was hired by a Princess to do some farm work on her estate. I also like to explore mainland, Bellisseria and some of the regions I read about in the Destinations guide as new or editor's picks. I take casual pictures of places I like (mostly 'point and click' rather than elaborate setups and fancy lighting or EEP settings). I like to participate in the Historical Hunts/Mieville sponsored hunts and the associated themed markets. I also really enjoy the Fantasy Faire Quest and was quite upset that I was in the hospital this year during Fantasy Faire and missed the entire quest. Periodically I'll get a bug to completely re-do my mainland parcel or redecorate my Linden home, though I'm pretty happy with what I currently have and have resisted any stray thoughts to re-do stuff.

Then I'd suggest calling Billing Support. Billing support phone numbers Toll-Free ( US/Canada ) 800.294.1067 Long-Distance: 703.286.6277 Our Billing team is available from 9am to 5pm EST(6am to 2pm PST), Monday through Friday.

As owner of the Linden home, you don't need any group tag in order to rez objects there. If you want your roommate to be able to also rez items there, you would need to create a group, set (not deed) the home to the group (via "about land"), and then add your roommate to the group with a role that allows them to rez objects. If you're not familiar with creating groups, you can take a look at

Generally, positions like firemen, waitresses, EMT, police and such are role play jobs. There are a few restaurants where the dining experience is all role play, so they hire waiters/waitresses to interact with the diners as part of the role play experience. There are a number of family or urban roleplay regions which are likely to have fire or police role play. There is also medical roleplay - hospital, clinic or doctor office - with role play jobs for medical staff.

I've been out to Mount Campion a few times, but I really haven't spent enough time there to thoroughly explore. I hadn't realized there were campsites to rent, or that there was a guided tour. I might have to make a trip out there sometime in the near future.

Also, check that your billing information Used For has "Land, premium, and other recurring fees" checked

In my opinion, most social media seems to be some type of advertising, so I wouldn't be upset with SL designers/creators using social media to advertise. Not only does it bring attention to their creations, but it also brings attention to SL itself.

If you donate tier to a group that is what shows up as square meters donated. So it's not donating land itself, but donating tier to a group. Generally when someone donates tier it is because they want to have their mainland group owned in order to get the group bonus, or when several friends decide to each donate tier to the same land group so that they can share a larger parcel. On the web dashboard, left sidebar, "Land Manager" -> "Group Land" will display a list of all the groups you belong to and shows any tier that you may have donated to that group.

If you're trying to buy the lindens via the marketplace, I'd suggest trying a different browser or at least clear your browser cache. There was some scheduled billing system maintenance yesterday between 11 am - noon PDT - if your first attempt was during that time, perhaps that affected your transaction attempt and what the browser's cache kept.

I joined SL in 2014, so there was a lot of history already by then. That this was a world that had years of history - just like a RL place - was one of the things that fascinated me. I came across old maps, I read a lot of the geography pages in the Wiki (and related links from those pages), I read old threads in the forum archives, I traveled around on mainland trying to find things and places that I read about - it was the virtual equivalent of things I like to do when I travel to new RL places, and it was something that really gave me a sense of place when inworld.

I was just thinking that perhaps an abuse report might get looked at quicker than a support case. If you've already done a support case, you could reference the support case number in the abuse report. I would probably list Govenor Linden as the one you're filing the report against (that's like a default when you don't know the specific person - because right now you just have a lot of suspicions about accounts). Sorry I didn't think about that in my first response, but I'm getting a little on the sleepy side and not thinking very quickly.

Hopefully the lady who was able to get her account back filed a compromised account support ticket. I would suggest that you file a support case explaining your concerns and whatever information you have about the suspicious transactions/account. I would also suspect that the accounts were probably victims of phishing. This last week or so there have been messages in a lot of groups with a link for claiming a gift card, most likely with the intent of stealing account credentials.

Without any indication of what types of objects or processing the long term scripting projects will involve, it makes sense to look at the OP's profile to get some type of idea about their interests - presumably the scripting projects would be related to one of their stated interests, groups or picks.

Yes, it's the ones that go past normal argument/debate of each position, and go into mud-slinging and other toxicity that I am glad finally are closed. Though it seems to me, a lot of times it is the politically motivated or human rights related ones that tend to veer off past the point of return. For the most part, I've become much better about being able to skip over - or at least quickly skim through - posts that I don't want to engage in or become otherwise involved with.

I have never reported a post just because I don't agree with a poster's point of view. I think in all my time here I have only reported a handful of posts, and those have been when it is clear that the first post (and usually the only post) in the thread is clearly a spam post. I have 'thanked' closures of threads though, when a thread has become basically just an argument between opposing points of views, especially when it was not a SL related topic to begin with. Often those are ones that have reached a point where I no longer want to read them when they appear in my unread list, so the 'thanks' is just me being glad that the thread is done so I don't have to keep skipping over it.

There are a lot of residents who follow what's happening with new regions very closely and people who often have explored regions new regions once they are accessible but not released yet. Once the parcel names in a region are appearing as "Linden Home" they are eligible to be requested. If you follow some of the threads here, especially the SSP thread, you'll often see posts about new regions being sighted on the map. I've also seen posts where someone has scoped out new regions and has posted about finding a perfect home and waiting for that particular region to be released, so that they can hope to get the parcel that they like there once the region is released. This is the situation I think that is behind this PP+ perk of being able to choose your home. I think the idea about friends living together was not so much about being able to get a recent abandon close to a friend's existing home, but a group of friends finding an unreleased region that they like and all requesting a home there.