Drakonadrgora Darkfold
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13 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
Does the SL viewer have a setting to log you out when you go AFK? I know that Firestorm does, but I couldn't find such a setting in the SL viewer. Granted, I don't use that one enough to know what might be buried in a Preferences tab somewhere. I did log in with the SL viewer and set my AFK to 2 minutes, but it still didn't log me out after 10 minutes - just dropped my head and labeled me as 'Away'.
I did assume the OP was using the SL viewer, which might be an invalid assumption.
You assumed they were using the SL viewer I assumed they might have been using FS, so we both made assumptions and either could be correct.
I don't think the SL viewer has it.
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4 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:
Then all you have to do is find the %$&%!! folder and move its contents to wherever you wanted to put them. 🙄
Not that hard since you can search by folder name or by item name to find anything in inventory as long as you remembered what it was called. Then just drag the folder where you want. most unpacker scripts will default to the root of inventory.
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8 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
Wow, that is sure not the MO I remember from my childhood. Back then, if it snowed, the crud hung around for weeks or months, just looking dirtier and uglier each day. The roads would get cleared, but not the crud that built up on the side of the road. Once winter settled in, it seldom got very warm or sunny for weeks on end. Those memories are 30 years old, so it is very likely that the weather norms have changed over the years.
It sort of depends where you are at in MO now. Some areas still do that. it's snowing right now where I am and by next week it's supposed to be back in the 40-50's for the week. So anything on the ground will pretty much be gone by then.
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Make sure you do not have it set in preferences to auto-log-out when afk and that afk timer is set to a really low number.
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While there is no auto unpacker for once it's in your inventory, items can have upacker scripts in them, that will auto unpack them and put them in a folder in your inventory when rezzed then delete the rezzed item/box. so you don't have to manually unpack the item yourself. Just rez, lit it unpack and clear up and then your done.
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Can it be done simply no. It would require them to trick you to giving them edit rights to your objects or to be added to the sim build rights, being able to delete or move items or add items to the sim.
there is no way they can do this on their own. it would require them passing an object to you that might have asked for permissions. so again no, no normal griefer could just do as you are fearing.
If you have rez rights enabled on the sim, turn on auto-return and set it low enough that it would clear out any grief attack within a reasonable time 2 hours or less.
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18 hours ago, cykarushb said:
Just having a blast in Missouri.
Yep that is MO for you, and the funny thing is that might be all gone in just a couple days. The weather here has its own mind and does what it wants when it wants. More so than other places it seems. Sunny one moment, snowing the next, back to sunny later that same day and clear.
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On 1/2/2019 at 1:05 AM, LadyPetunias Audion said:
Is there still a feature for, is it just for sim owners....about age of the account or there is a gaget for that as well.. You can set it to the age you allow avatars to enter. I know when I created my alt several years ago I could not enter a place till my account was three months old. This place not sure if we can say the names of the creators but it also sells security orbs as well.
the only issue with that is bots would eventually reach that age and then be able to enter the group or region at that point. So even that is just a temp fix at best. and diehard spammers will age bots to get around such methods of keeping them out.
In diablo II on pc I used to see spam bots that were leveled up to rank 90 to get past most level restricted games to spam the players of that game.
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Question: were you wanting to share the logs between the two computers? Or were you just curious if they were automatically shared between computers? For the latter the answer is no. they would not be shared, since they are stored on two seperate machines not talking with each other by any special means. Toward the former it can be done by various means and is not really hard to set up.
You could use a NAS and have both machines set to store the logs in the same folder on the NAS. Of course the NAS would need to be open to the outside world if both machines were not on the same network.
You could also probably set up a backup system where it backs up the logs every hour to an online location from both machines. thus you could view the log from either machine online at any time as long as they had successfully completed the backup as scheduled.
There might be other ways as well depending upon what you were wanting.
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1 hour ago, Selene Gregoire said:
I'm pretty sure the mods can't remove emotes. Not even the admin can. What they can do is remove the post. Should they delete legitimate posts just because someone MAY be being a jerk? I hope not. Because then the person being punished is the poster, not the emoter.
This isn't my first forum, game or otherwise. I've owned and admined a few over the past 20 years, too.
Not my first either, I had my own forum, wiki, blog site, photo sharing site before. And depending upon how the site is made an admin could go in and remove the emoji or adjust the reputation on a post. Just really depends upon how the site is set up what sort of database it uses. if its anything like MySQL or similar it can be done fairly easily by an admin or a mod that has database access.
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5 minutes ago, janetosilio said:
I’m just saying we’re conditioned for that kind of thing, that’s why it’s so successful.
As a society, many have been brainwashed into needing it because of various social platforms or devices that do it. Like our phones and all the notifcations, we can get from the different apps on it.
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7 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
I've vexed countless people over the years by taking the unexpected side in a discussion. I might do that just to be silly, but I sometimes do it in serious discussions when I think the other side isn't being well represented and my side needs the challenge. During my professional career, I'd get an uneasy feeling when I'd propose something substantial and get absolutely no pushback. I ultimately retired because the risks I felt I was taking, usually with other people's money, were too large to be trusted to my judgment alone.
Oh, I do that too. I take the side of the devil's advocate just because no one else was. There are always two sides to any situation, even when some don't think or want there to be. it is always good to have feedback on both positive or negative. it keeps us from maybe becoming obsessed with the idea that maybe we are infallible in what we think or feel at times.
No one is perfect in this world 100% of the time.
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3 minutes ago, janetosilio said:
Don’t mind me. I feel like this whole discussion is silly and pointless. I’m just being silly at this point.
Sometimes it can be fun to take that side to any discussion on any forums. Sometimes it is helpful because it reminds us we are human after all and not machines unless you are me, then most definitely I am just a machine. a biochemical machine but a machine.
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I usually won't buy from a creator that has a timeout demo, I'm ok with the boxes and rings and even maybe not being able to click every option in the hud. I usually leave even if it was something I liked and well they just lost a customer. Not going to obsess over one item, when there are so many other places or things to try. Like another poster I want to see how it handles on tp to several locations, does it stay with me and together properly. The only timeout I would even come close to thinking was ok was at least 30 minutes. Then I can tp to my normal places and see how it looks at each one and maybe ask a few people there what they thought about it and if was worth buying or not in their opinion. Less than that is not even worth the time it took to get the demo and put it on.
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3 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
In RL, stickers can be thrown away, gotten rid of. You can't remove an emote someone else put on your posts.
and there is nothing anyone can say or do that is ever going to change that. It's part of what makes us human.
You cant remove the emote yourself, but a forum mod could if they thought it was inappropriate or abusively used.
Well, you can report the post then add in a reason for the report or you could go as far as copy the url and then open up a support case about it and complain and then leave it up to LL to deal with.
though this might not directly change the person that did it, they could be punished by the mods for doing it, which does, in fact, change it since they might not be able to post anymore at that point. Unless they went as far as to create an alt account just to come back to continue. I have seen even this sort of behavior on forums before in many video game forums.
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17 minutes ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:
I guess I can see that a pattern of "negative" reactions to one persons post could mayyybe considered harassment, but I'm pretty sure now that one scornful reaction would be safe.
2They may or may not have even seen it as scornful so would have had no reason to worry about it. but it is really not just them you have to worry about; but the others here too and how they might have reacted to it. yet I think you are probably safe, considering which thread it probably was.
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On 12/29/2018 at 4:59 AM, Talligurl said:
I recently was exploring an area that was rated General, I was fully clothed, I thought totally appropriate for the area. I received an IM however from someone I assume was some sort of administrator, telling me I needed to remove my female part that was hidden under my skirt. Which got me to thinking, why is this needed if i keep it hidden? Just wondering what others think, I know you all sometimes understand things in SL better than I do, and some of you might know a perfectly good reason why keeping that part hidden isn't enough. I am just curious to hear what you think about it.
Simple if it can be seen by someone caming upskirt/dress or by right-clicking and removing your clothing layers through de-rending them its frowned upon in some G sims by some people. I know a few G sims that will do this if someone sees you and then complains to a mod there.
G sims are like the old teen grid, meant to be safe and wholesome and family/teen friendly to some mods/admins. some will even fuss if you have a weapon on you, even if not scripted but just in hand or worn visible. some will fuss what group tag you have active and request you change it while there. some as another poster said will tell you to hide groups they don't approve of while there. some will even find a profile pick or even the profile pic offensive and want it changed or not to come there with it.
In the end, if they are a mod, talk to the sim admin and see if it is against the sim rules. if not tell the admin how the mod treated you and made you feel. or just never go there again.
they could have been an sjw or holly roller trying to impose their own views and the real mods/admins didn't know. if you find out they are not a mod/admin and the sim admin says its fine, report them for harassment if they tried it again the next time ever there.
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should I do it? Yes, I think I will!
If you don't want them seeing you in the group, leave the group. If it is your group simply set it to not show group members, meaning no one sees anyone in the group or ask the group founder to do so. But if they open group chat, they will still be able to see you there when you're online. So no cant really hide other than just leaving the group and staring another and banning them from joining the group. No hiding in the group to try and spy on them.
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You cant get hacked by them coming there. You could get tricked into accepting a permissions request and then allowing them to drain your L$ or to take control over your avatar by that means. But that is not being hacked.
To stop it, well make the land group access only or private and then add who you want to the access list, unless its a club or something else like a store which could have a negative impact on business. The caveat to group access is if it set to a group and that group is open to joining they could join and then come back. if not your back in the same boat if running a club or store of it negatively impacting the club or store.
You could alternatively get a land security system and have it set to kick after a short time, giving someone time enough to allow those wanted in but keeping anyone else out.
Now if they use alts there is not a lot you can do but contact LL and report each new alt that comes to harass you. Though this might not really ever solve the issue for some people don't ever give up. There is a member in sl that has been in sl for 10 years or so and gets banned every few days, he simply makes a new account and continues on. rejoining groups and posting what he does to be banned a few days later and back shortly after that.
So you get left with blocking them and just moving on hoping for them to eventually tire out which determined how upset they got could be months or never.
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To the Op, is it directly against the forums guidelines. No. Not even if you were to laugh at multiple posts of theirs or replies. In order for it to be really considered a form of an attack and possibly harassment you would basically have to go back and do it to every single post they ever made, or at least a very large number of their posts both current and older, showing a pattern of contempt for the individual in question.
But then again it would require that person or someone else to see the behavior and decide they were offended about it and then report it, or open a support ticket with LL about the behavior. Not everyone takes reaction/reputation systems on forums serious or really cares beyond a superficial level what someone else has said or done about something they did or said.
Some may claim they use the laugh as scorn, the person seeing it may not consider it as so, no matter if the other person intended it to be. To them, it might have no power or effect or control over them and how they behave at all. Not everyone really cares if they are liked or not on forums because to them it is not a community but an impersonal means to communicate. Communication of ideas or thoughts does not a community make or require. it only maybe becomes a community to them if they let themselves become emotionally invested on a deeper level; which not everyone on the internet does or will. So cannot assume everyone posting or replying is seeing the forums on the same level of importance to them as someone else might.
Now as to why there are no negative reactions/emoji, simple. It would hurt the overall outlook and possible business of LL. You can see the forums without being logged in. So everyone, member or not, can come to see how people behave here. People might come and read them and see all the negative responses or reactions and think that the overall user base is full of insensitive and shallow or immature individuals who might be a tad bit psychopathic or sociopathic or arrogant or egocentric or narcissistic and decide they want nothing to do with the place. Thus causing the loss of potential new users and possible new 'premium' members. Can't have that now, can we? After all, LL is a business first and foremost. concerned more about their bottom line and making a profit than anything else.
Reputation/reaction systems on forums have long been abused by individuals on places that have them. Often by the more devoted or daily/lifer posters. Who comes to the forums daily to get their fix for their ego or vanity. Attempting to use those reactions to show favor or like upon those who they agree with(who fit their personality), and disdain or scorn on those they don't(who are in opposition to their personality) in attempts to make them 'tow the line' and fit in and behave how the lifer wants them too. A form of behavior modification through the use of subtle attempts at shame or embarrassment or harassment to make the other user feel unwanted or unliked unless they behave. Something akin to the old fashion concepts used by communities and religions known as shunning or public disgrace. But again this really requires the person that this is being done to, to actually care what that person or group of people are doing. beyond any superficial level.
So in regards to your concern if a single laugh at someones post even if they may have been upset/serious/down/emotional or whatever else you might have thought they were being in the post was bad. No. It only becomes possibly seen as bad if it is done repetitively. Or you just get unlucky and the person reported it to a forum mod that had their panties in a wad that day and had no tolerance so acted out in whatever way they thought was needed to bring about peace and quiet for the day for them. Which can and does happen, since mods are just humans too and not infallible about their choices or reactions to what is put before them on a daily basis by those who might have ulterior motives for their reports
I personally see reputations systems as pointless and more akin to a means to ego/vanity compensation. high reputation doesn't mean the person is better than someone with a low reputation on the forums. Just means they might have a lot of like-minded individuals responding; reaction systems are just a means to try to add emotions to an otherwise emotionless post or response. People are using the system to show their emotions about the post, which other readers may or may not agree with and the poster may or may not even care about either. an attempt to bring feelings and emotions to an otherwise dead medium of communication. Words only have the power to affect us if we allow it, not because someone else wants it to.
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11 hours ago, KiiPii said:
Umm having more groups would be actually perfect....as Sl has grown and the way that we travel in so many different areas and friends and family having security on there lands and handle it with groups...Yes it is needed unless you don't socialize at all and don't shop or have a business or blog or do any thing more than go to a club and dance.
For all of you who think its not necessary, you should travel in a seasoned active avatars life and see how hard it is to juggle groups. And you need groups for almost every thing now.
I'm for raising the group limit, not only would it help the individual but it most likely would increase revenues for sl.
It is not needed or necessary it is wanted. Nothing that was really added to sl was needed, just wanted by the users. I have been a part of sl for 10 years. And I have no problems leaving groups at all to join different groups to find what I need to know then leave that group and go back to another group or find a new group. then again I'm not ocd about sl either. it is not hard to juggle groups at all. and you don't need groups for everything you do in sl. that is just an excuse made by those who want more or unlimited groups because they don't like having to chose, same as those who complained in other games that they 'needed' unlimited inventory space. when really they just wanted it.
you don't need 100+ groups in sl. You want 100+ groups. Because you are obsessed or afraid of not seeing or hearing what someone might have said, leaving you out of the loop or preventing you from defending your honor or reputation against what some evil person might have said about you in that group. People who think they need so many groups are also the people who in rl think they need to know everything that is going on in everyone's life all the time be it friends or family or strangers or afraid that someone is talking about them behind their back, aka insecure. It has nothing to do with being social or not. You don't need 100+ groups to be social or to run a business or be a blogger or be a shopper in sl.
there are no express or implied or actual needs in sl, it is all wants by the users.
I need sl not to be so laggy. I need sl not to be filled with entitlement minded people. I need sl not to be filled with so needy or clingy or insecure or ocd people. but realistically I know my needs will never be filled; because they are just wants and not needs. Even if I tell myself they are needs.
Just because you might want to call something a need doesn't make it a need.
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All things online wane over time, very few things if any have ever retained its initial numbers of users. It is just the nature of how online things work. Look at most AAA console games after a couple of years the total player base drops drastically for some games. Same will happen to sl and is natural that it will. People change over time, they grow up and their likes and dislikes and their social interaction needs/wants change. Nothing stays the same forever.
The chart you show is typical of almost any online environment numbers rise and lower depending upon the seasons and holidays, and peoples rl and what time they have to be online. there is nothing that can be really done to prevent this. People will come and go. You cannot make someone like something or keep coming back if it just is not for them, and sl is not for everyone and never was or will be either no matter how it was ever hyped to be so.
Some of it requires too many other skills that most people are not going to invest the time to learn. Not everyone wants to learn how to write a script to make something happen, not everyone wants to learn to build to have the things they want, not everyone wants to have to spend rl money on virtual items to have that only exist in a virtual world. just these things alone can turn many people away from sl. add in the different viewer and the time and effort to make it look how you might want it, setting all the preferences, or finding and using a tpv that you would like. add in the general rudeness of people in some area's even at the welcome areas at times. all of these things can cause a user to become jaded or disenchanted with the sl experience and not want to stay or come back after a while.
I haven't even logged in the world in nearly a week or longer. I find less reason and less draw to do so as each day passes. Not even animesh or baked on mesh had any appeal or draw to me. And I used to write and make mod's for other games(NWN and NWN online and Tribes to name a few). I even had made a Dream for furcadia a long time ago. But as I have grown older there is less joy and less reason to do this anymore. And that is why the numbers drop. People become bored and disinterested in things and leave them. No game or social platform can ever hold the attention or likes or provide everything that everyone will ever want in life; when it begins to fail to do so, people move on, that is how life works.
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1 hour ago, Aishagain said:
I am saddened to see this interesting thread hijacked by the "hate Fireflower" faction. Apart from anything else this individual appears not to be able to do simple maths. I give the opinions expressed no credibility whatsoever.
heh, one of the fireflower defenders come to defend wendy's honor no doubt. which makes your opinions expressed of no credibility as well. everyone knows how narcissistic wendy is and how egotistical otto can be. Its proven daily in the group by how they respond to anyone that doesn't respond to them how they think they should and how quick they are to ban anyone that dares question them. very few people are really being fooled by these behaviors for long. wendy is even notorious for posting as her alt to pat herself on the back at times to feed her ego as was recently done.
I can do simple math, he tried to claim that his collar was not adding to the lag in any significant manner and that is false. he tried to make it sound like the 1/4 difference was a major difference when it is looked upon in the larger context of total users it makes no difference. the collar still adds lag to the region. lowering the experience of others.
57 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:That's for sure. I don't think the forums deserve to become a battleground in the collar wars -- at least not this thread, which has enough points of contention of its own.
1which was never my intention by my reply, but as simply to clear the air about some of the things that were said by the commentator; those within that group like to fabricate their own batch of lies and try and get people to believe them and that they are the victims when they are not and are often the one victimizing others and think they can get away with it without anyone ever saying anything about it.
for yes this thread has its own problems between those who want such a feature and those who do not. if implemented correctly it would work very well.
oh, by the way, you were at Arcadia, for that's about the only place you will ever find wendy when she is on. usually sitting at her desk. Wendy usually doesn't have much running in her collar. so is why her numbers were a little lower. for really it depends upon what scripts each user has loaded in the collar and if they are active. and yes some collars have several unneeded scripts for just simple usage, but then again some people like having lots of options and choices aka addons about what their collar can do. and this has varied effects on script time and lag. so like how the above commentator Gavin showed his collar being lower could simply be he has very few addons loaded and running compared to someone else who might be running a full blown out collar with all the premium apps and having them running.
and yes it is related to how long they have been in the region and the last time the scripts were polled for actions needed to be done or if the collar was recently interacted with by the wearer or the owner set on the collar. which is why some regions lag really bad when several people enter and then calm down a few minutes later. but at shopping events where people might be coming in often, it means the server never really has the chance to settle back down again for long. causing a laggy and sometimes unbearable experience for some people.
script usage is also affected by if the user is afk or not and if the viewer is foreground or background. which is why you cannot really ever trust any script monitoring system to be accurate about what is really going on at that time. you don't know who is there how long they might have been there compared to when you arrived, and who is afk, or who might be tabbed out thus using fewer resources.
I would think it would be better to optimize scripts for steady state, for unless a person is constantly teleporting around, not something most sub/slaves would probably be doing if their owner is online. over startup, to just try and get them up and running sooner. yes, some will disagree and think quicker startup is better since it begins to lower the effects sooner, but won't have as wide an effect at lowering compared to a steady state optimized script would.
Either way, I still think that having a queue would work for no one would really ever encounter it often unless the sim was full. Which not a lot of sims stay full all the time. So it would have a negligible effect since it wouldn't run or be active unless the sim was full or near reaching full capacity.
Or the other way would be to update viewers with a timed auto repeat teleport where someone didn't have to try and tp hammer to get in. similar to a phones auto-redial function. ie if teleport fails to try again in x minutes for y number of times. and then let each user be able to adjust those settings for how often they wanted it to retry and how many times before giving up and if succeeding maybe playing an alert sound to let them know encase they were away while it was trying.
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Well for today, I might decide to do something crazy! I might go outside in the sunlight! At least long enough to get the theater to watch a movie and then back home. then back to my dark cave again! The light it burnzzz!
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I live near the Springfield area. Weather here is so random, that you just listen to the news and nod your head and plan for anything or nothing no matter what they said at times. It's been 30ish here today and by later this week if not tomorrow it's supposed to warm back up to the 40s according to the weather, but then again won't know until then really.