AyelaNewLife

Yes. That's what the post I quoted is saying. My point is that those stats don't go far enough. It's correlation vs causation stuff. Saying "black people are 3x as likely to be shot by the police as white people" is NOT the same as saying that but adding "because they are black" on the end - which is how those stats are often used, by the statistically illiterate or politically motivated. There's far more factors involved. As an (incomplete) example: You are more likely to be shot by the police if you're a suspect in a crime. You are more likely to be a suspect of a crime if you have an existing criminal record. You're more likely to have an existing criminal record if you live and grew up in a deprived area. You're more likely to live and have grown up in a deprived area if you're black than white. Therefore you're more likely to get shot by the police if you're black; but not necessarily because you are black. Not a perfect example, but it shows the logic train needed. If you were to adjust the stats I quoted for each factor, with each one the difference in likelihood of being shot decreases massively. But not entirely. You are still more likely to be shot by the police in America purely because you are black. Just not 3x; that's an incomplete and misleading statistic.

Simply normalizing to a single demographic, blind of all other factors, still produces very misleading figures. Normalize to socio-economic class, or by proportion with an existing criminal record, or by single-parent households, or any major factor that reflects nurture rather than nature, and the gap shrinks dramatically. That gap is still not 0. But it's a hell of a lot smaller than 3x as likely.

Precisely because they don't really know how SL works. The concept of a game in which the majority of players have no ingame currency income is a strange one. The mindset of most newbies is "I need a job so I can buy stuff -> I lack the skills to create stuff to sell -> Please pay me to host/dance/escort as I guess that's the only option". Then there's the "I've always wanted to try something like that, but not in real life" taboo factor. The Inworld Employment section is full of examples of this. I took a couple of steps down that path myself, when I was brand new, but I very quickly realised that spending my free time catering to someone else's needs was not for me. I don't do on-request photography either, for the same reason. Some lessons can only be learned the hard way.

https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/276-foro-en-español/

You're completely right of course, I should have added that all important word "most" so it didn't sound like I was blaming every single creator.

My flickr isn't exactly work safe Something something #freethenipple

And I'd argue that the walking stereotype "black man" avatar, ankle-length phallus, muscle-bound hoodrat caricature combined with a parody of "gangsta talk" and an obsession with "dem white hoes" is a modern-day blackface, with a sexual element. It's exceptionally widespread, and not only tolerated but actively celebrated by thousands of residents and hundreds of sims. Not saying that it's okay (it's god damn obnoxious), but it's definitely present.

Not wrong to be honest. There's a thin line between using faves or faves-per-view to self-evaluate your work, and seeing the faves as an end in itself. Not helped by the blogger crowd, where raw follower/fave numbers matter more than anything else because advertising. Edit: I got the crying face reaction, so clarification time: stores use follower count and faves as metrics to judge which bloggers are "worthy" of their patronage. Fashion bloggers don't make the rules of the game, they just play along.

You're more likely to receive sex requests than reprobation. Source: search for "black" in the Places tab. We all know it's a bunch of divorced white accountants called Derek doing that.

Grats! My six months was a couple of weeks back, I completely forgot at the time

At least hipstergram doesn't do the whole "thanks for using my pic as a group cover, let me just post a screencap of a thin bar to my stream so everyone else knows that I'm better than them" thing

My favourite part of that article is how they used tea, one of the foundations of the East India Company, as an example of "acceptable cultural exchange with no power imbalance". Orbital sides.

Is he also one of these people that thinks the only acceptable use of Second Life is as a 3D interactive Facebook, where everyone needs to have real life pictures in their profile and voice/cam/coffee date upon request lest they get accused of being a teenage boy? Also, can you at least wait til we hit page 5 before politicsbombing a thread? God damn

Arbitrary internet points are serious business!

As this seems to be the new low effort meme thread: 420 heh

I mean he got our names by combing through threads, chances are he's already curled up in a ball somewhere weeping

You'd have abolished slavery 30 years earlier, without the need for a civil war, and without people still celebrating those that fought to keep people chained in the fields?

The best part is, you get this in the SL photography community too I agree with that article, and with the changes as a whole. My main issue is with the deletion of older photos for those with free accounts. I'd much prefer the account was simply locked from adding new photos, potentially delisting and hiding the old photos too, but not actual deletion. The "relapsed Pro account" issue is a real concern; but even older free accounts that exceeded the 1,000 limit before this was announced shouldn't suffer content deletion IMO. (There's a good chance the "relapsed Pro account" issue has been covered by the CEO in the resulting threads, and I've just not seen it yet)

I'd edit your first post, people (understandably) aren't reading all the posts in the thread so end up repeating the same correction over and over again, you'll probably get notifications in July for exactly the same thing

The giveaways are about free advertising. By getting you to fave and comment, anyone that checks your faved photos will now see my advert there. Individually meaningless, sure, but once you get thousands to do so, that's a fair amount of extra exposure. Certainly worth one copy of a virtual product. I prefer to think of it as a lottery ticket that you pay for with endorsement and exposure, it's certainly not actually charity. Edit: it's more effective with Facebook, as the giveaways ask you to share the advert, thus exposing all of your innocent friends to the ad.

Wait what? What are you getting at here? Like sure, it's their service so they can do what they want, including replacing every photo with that Clinton portrait made of porn pics; doesn't mean that it's a good change or one that should be welcomed. Strip that out, and you're left with "I don't have Flickr so Flickr can burn."

I always respond with my current time (eg "good afternoon" in response to "good morning"). If they argue, I remind them that the Prime Meridian line runs through London, because the English invented time, so everyone else is wrong. It doubles up as a good humour compatibility test

At the rate I take photos I'm not gonna hit the 1k limit for another couple of years, but I'd probably upgrade to Pro if I needed to. ~$4 a month isn't really a problem, especially not as most SL Photographers with >1k photos already spend much more each month on clothing, props, group fees, etc in order to fund their hobby. Oh, and Flickr's common-sense-liberal policy on adult content and nudity is a crucial part of why it was adopted by the SL community. Instagram are downright puritan in comparison, totally unsuitable for a huge chunk of the community. Deviantart would involve building up an SL Photography community from almost nothing. As would Tumblr, but you'd also lose quality. Also ew Tumblr. I did a quick straw poll of my feed. I checked the last 50 accounts that I've followed to post an image (got bored after that). 17 Pro accounts, 9 had more than 1k photos. Of that 9, 6 were already Pro. Just a sample of course, but it confirmed the impression I already had. So yeah, I can't see any meaningful exodus from Flickr because of this change. There's a few Chicken Little roleplayers, sure, but on the whole the SL Flickr community will be fine. Anecdotally, the people I've seen panic about this are nowhere near to 1k photos, while most of those that are actually affected are either happy to pay up or see this as a good excuse to finally do some spring cleaning on their photos from 2012.

I also got this message. Forgot to respond because I logged in to see some tasty drama in a group, but at least I know I dodged a bullet.

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