CaerolleClaudel
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9 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:
Peeve: I never learned Latin.
Personally, I would put that more in the 'Things for which I am grateful' category.
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10 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Well, it also always seems to necessitate remembering passwords that I haven't had to use for, in some cases, a year or more.
Yes yes, I know that there are apps for remembering all of one's passwords. But that would require organization.
Organization. Is there an app for that?
To me it is less effort, as I only have to remember one password. And it is easy to add entries. I have so many accounts, and all with discrete unintelligible passwords, I would be lost without a password manager.
But we all have to use what best suits our needs! Just saying you might find it a relief once you got it set up.
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15 hours ago, Seicher Rae said:
Well, I considered it a warning as well and a darned good reason to stop posting. The bans I got were RIDICULOUS, the slaps RIDICULOUS and I can point to one or two people, some who are still here because of it. I know, without "knowing" it was part of people gaming the (then) system. I also know with knowing that it was an unfairly, unevenly applied "system." And I know it was because some people were doing it on purpose it seems. There was no doubt how this (original) thread and others got shut down.
It still peeves me.
It was a warning, yes, but a real honest THREAT that the next step could lead in permanent banning. For. Forum. Posts.
I always felt it was wrong to punish people in SL for Forum issues. Seemed more fair to me to ban from the Forums, not SL. But I guess that puts a lot of weight on the head of the hammer, doesn’t it?
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22 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Sure, of course. We've had some awful threads here, and they were often, but not always, centred on politics.
But it's important to recognize, at least based on what we were told here and at the SUG meeting, that it wasn't the "politics" as such that were the issue. It was that the politics tended to feed into nasty and toxic fights. The real issue wasn't that we were talking about things that weren't SL related, but rather that, when we did, the situation often got out of hand, and the mods were hard-pressed to control it.
Why were they not able to just lock the threads? Back when I frequented the Forums they seemed to do that for little of nothing.
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On 9/21/2022 at 8:06 PM, Persephone Emerald said:
This depends on what the current administrators of Second Life want to do with this forum. Maybe they don't think lively forum discussions help their bottom line? Maybe they view forum moderation using paid employees - Moles and Lindens - is a waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere? They might think they can't completely get rid of the forums because they need users to have a place where their questions can be answered, but they don't need our silly chit chat back and forth on a public board.
Killing these forums completely might not be their goal, but bringing them to a quiet, manigable, moribund state might be. They might want to treat us like that bothersome, demanding patient in an understaffed convalescent home. Move us to the end of the hall and overmedicate us, so we stop calling out for attention.
I wonder if it could be that the Forums do not make them any money. Seems like I have seen people write that they don’t go into SL much anymore, just talk on the Forums. Of course, if the Forums get less interesting or more rigid (pased those points for me long ago), that doesn’t mean that those people will go spend time in SL. But who knows. Maybe they are trying to sell the company again and usually the suits want as little controversy as possible at such times.
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On 9/21/2022 at 6:22 AM, Sid Nagy said:
The rules of moderation are simply to tight at the moment to keep the forums flourishing in the long term. A General Discussion where discussion is really general, is so important to keep any forums going.
LL wants the forums to be/become a for them inexpensive customers support. People come with their problems, we deal with it. But that is not how forums work. So more and more regular members simply will vanish over the months to come IMHO.
If I would come here only to do customer questions, like LL wants it to be, I would apply for any call center job and make a buck or two with it.
Very little excitement left on these pages.
I like a lot off people here, but no longer the environment.And yes, that is a peeve. A big one.
It makes me too often grumpy and sarcastic when I post here lately.The SL Forums becoming more bowlderized???? Wow, never would have expected *that*!!! 🙄
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On 9/17/2022 at 5:53 PM, Scylla Rhiadra said:
What I think makes this one a bit different is the revelation that the region won't be open to everyone.
Ok, fine. You want to create a private club? Solicit funds elsewhere. This is like advertising for a private golf club.
It already failed at that, long ago. Which I hated. Quite related to why I gave up on SL, the places I loved all shutdown, and I could not find anything to replace them in my heart. I so loved that place, they used to have a lot of (to me) cool events, was very much my vibe. Lots of interesting people, too. Now it is just a museum that probably few people even visit. I used to go there some just to reminisce, but that was long ago, too. I guess I just got too old and stuck in my ways to be in SL anymore, but it became something that no longer interested me. I am glad others are still finding a connection with it, though.
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1 hour ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:
report your own topic, they should lock it.
It’s fine, I stopped following the thread. I thought. Not sure how I got the notification on this one…
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1 minute ago, Pamus Bing said:
Sorry I asked. seems the apple lovers dont want to help
FS worked on the laptop. now the latest wont load, LL viewer will loat but it is so limited
You might try wording it as a simple request for help, rather than a screed against Macs. From a quick glance it seems you triggered reactions against your attack on Macs rather than engaging people’s desire to help others.
I am not going to read back, but that is likely why I started this thread in the first place. MacOS is far more picky about stuff, for security reasons, and you have to jump through some hoops to get Firestorm to load, or at I did. A pain, for sure, unless you have used Macs a long long time and learned all their idiosyncrasies. Definitely a different system than Windows or Linux. Good luck!
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Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:
Some issues never die.
I realize that, but threads that have had no new activity for over a year should. People should just a start a new thread or if their is important info in the old one, link to it. I cannot recall the last time I logged into the Forum and now I am getting email notifications. When I was here I hated seeing something that looked interesting and then realizing someone had bumped a three-year-old thread that had completely-out-of-date info. Just my opinion, though; I can just shut off notifications for me part.
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Guys, this is a zombie thread. I started it like 1-1/2 years ago. I so wish LL would lock thread that have no new responses after 30 days or something.
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OMFFG, a 1-1/2 year zombie thread sending notifications to my email, so I have to come on here and unfollow.
I so wish all forums would lock threads after 30 days of inactivity. People who want to revive the thread can start a new thread, and link to the old one. Of course, people could just to that anyhow, but I guess that is too much to hope for.
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On 5/20/2021 at 3:20 PM, Scylla Rhiadra said:
The idea that things like this only impact on our virtual bodies, and not on the mental and emotional state of our typists, is also more than a bit questionable.
THIS.
Finding this thread quite interesting. As you may remember (if not, no worries), I experienced something that was quite traumatic to me in my first days in SL that haunts me still. The guy who did it laughed at me as I chased him screaming at him, calling me a 'stupid hoe' because it was all just virtual and who cared. No one did or said a thing, and he said if he got banned he would just be back in a week. I did file a complaint but of course unlike RL (where there is hardly any more justice for rape or other sexual assault than in SL, but at least you get to see if the guy got arrested, charged, convicted or whatever, or not), in SL it is all secret in the name of 'privacy' for the offender. Not that *my* privacy mattered when it happened. So these hot takes on how ridiculous feeling violated in SL is really make me shake my head and frown.
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1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Oh hush! These old threads have so much value!
I have been in other forums where threads automatically lock after 30 days (or some other definite time frame), and so wish that was applied everywhere.~
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1 hour ago, Lyssa Greymoon said:
Drag your mouse cursor to the top of the screen and you’ll get the menu bar back, click the green dot to switch back to windowed mode. You can also use ctrl-arrow to switch between desktops while FS is full screen.
Ah, yes, thanks! I am an idiot, lol. User error rather than FS shortcoming. (rolls eyes at self)
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7 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:
All this has everything to do with Mac OS and nothing with the M1 processor.
In Preferences you can change from full-screen mode to in-window. You can also cycle apps and the Finder by pressing Command-Tab.
Thanks, I am sorry, I was also talking about FS on a Mac in general and the things that are opaque to a long-time Windows user, though I guess that was off-topic. As you say, the M1 seems to not cause any problems, though I also already installed some layer app for Microsoft apps, and I would guess it is needed for FS, too.
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I just loaded it on my new MacBook Air, which is the lowest model, and it seems to run fine on a mid-range graphics setting. I did find issues with it, though. For one, I am using Firestorm (the official viewer may behave differently, but is so poorly featured I won't use it), and the only way I could open it was to go to Privacy and Security and allow it there. Also, when I maximize the FS window, it covers everything else, including it's own system-level toolbar (or perhaps doesn't even have one?), so I cannot minimize it and I cannot access the Dock. I am new to MacOS, there is probably a way to switch among open windows using a keyboard shortcut, but I don't know it yet and had to use Com-Q and quit FS to do anything else.
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Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:
Well, I'm glad to have you back anywhere.
;-).
Awww, that is so sweet!! Thank you very much! ❤️
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Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:
Back to the Mac!
Lol, so I was wrong on both counts.
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1 minute ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Welcome back, Caerolle!
Back where? Here, or SL?
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6 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Thanks, Maddie! First Apple in a long, long time, lol.
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7 minutes ago, Lyssa Greymoon said:
Ctrl-Click should work on Firestorm too, but if it doesn't, go to System Preferences, open Privacy & Security and it should give you a button to open it anyway.
Thanks, I will give that a try.
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I just got a MacBook, and cannot get the Firestorm viewer to work. I get an error that the app cannot be verified to be free of malware. My understanding that the verification is something added in the last few months by Apple. The official throws a slightly less bad error, and the SL site says you can get past that with Cntl-click, but the Firestorm one just won't run, and the error gives really only an option to trash the app. I guess could use the official app, but it is so poorly-featured compared with FS (the worst is not having built-in AO, I would have to try to figure out how to set up a wearable one, and I have not done that in years). Any suggestions? Thanks! :)
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4 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
That teleport-like progress bar appears every time I return to the splash page, and takes 3.5 seconds. People who have never experienced SL will not understand that this is a reference to teleporting. They'll just see it as a senseless and frustrating 3.5 second page load delay. Those of us who do understand teleporting might see that as an ironic (though still frustrating) truth-in-advertising nod to the sometimes senseless teleport delays and failures that mar the SL experience.
Next they should model lag. Or the slow texture loading. My fave things about SL.~
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Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.
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Funny, I've spent more time on the Forums in the last three days than I have in SL in the past 12 months. An unusual situation, though, and one I guess that is unique.