Diedre Bloodrose

It doesn't even have to be every time you change clothes. This can be cached with saved outfits (caches invalidated when outfit modified). More rapid clothing changes and less processing. Lots of opportunity for caching at multiple levels of detail here. Additionally, baking the meshes themselves across the outfits makes it harder to rip complete original meshes from passers by (doesn't help when the avatar wearing the mesh is participating in ripping process, though). Might help protect creators.

My apologies as I am sure this topic has been covered before. I did a couple of searches and didn't find anything recent. One of the things that I have found difficult about shopping in SL is the discovery process, especially if I'm looking for something more esoteric. Marketplace helps, but it can be very hard to figure out how fresh listings are. Listings dates and product update dates aren't meaningfully exposed. Given that SL products do go obsolete or need support, that's a problem. I've been working in search for 15 years. Some of that work has been at the forefront of Information Retrieval (the computer science discipline that focuses on search). There's a lot that could be done with the search algorithms and UI for Marketplace that could greatly improve the discovery process while simultaneously doing a better job at rewarding innovative creators for investing their effort in SL. Alternatively, an in-world product search tool could be great. Marketplace is interesting because it's the closest thing SL has to working product search, not because Amazon for SL is inherently good for SL. A lot of this could be implemented independently of Linden, but some of the best freshness and relevance data is really only available in their logs (aggregate data, not individual tracking). What are the barriers to a better product discovery experience? Why hasn't Linden invested more in this? I don't know what I don't know and I am sure I'm missing some big pieces of context. --------- Note that Marketplace provides two big functions, discovery and fulfillment. I get that there's real value to SL in having people actually go to SL locations to shop. I am really only talking about the discovery aspect. If the result of putting something into a wishlist was a shopping list organized by store location, I'd be happy. p.s. This avatar is young, but I've wandered in and out of SL for years. My former primary owns a region it became simpler to make an alt for day to day stuff.

You do know that there are plenty of right wing LGBTQ people?

Both of the examples I gave are in reference to specific communities I am part of and where I have multiple opportunities to participate or be represented in the process. The use of "we" is appropriate in that context. I also use "we" when my synagogue or local Pride org makes decisions I disagree with. It's about community, not a monolithic platform. Where did I say that having other opinions isn't allowed? Or that you needed to be told how to think? I certainly don't think an LGBTQ forum section would have less disagreement than other sections. It certainly hasn't been my experience in other venues that have decided to create LGBTQ focused forums. I didn't say anything about you @Alwin Alcottand certainly didn't use any of those words to describe you. The most I can say about you is that I would guess you're angry about this proposal for some reason, but that would just be a guess. Do you think this proposal will hurt you (as an individual) in some way? If so, can you be specific as to how you think it will hurt you? If not, why do you care so much? Based on my experience elsewhere, I think it's likey to help me and others like me, whether or not there's any change in moderation.

Keeping people out isn't a goal. We don't keep people who aren't LGBTQ out of Pride and plenty of them show up. It's not a problem. The vast majority of non-LGBTQ people know it's a space that centers LGBTQ people and act accordingly. The ones that don't are annoying, but it's a usually minor annoyance. The ones who come with the intent of making trouble are rarer still, but most of those lose their nerve in a space where they are the minority. We don't keep Christians out of my synagogue, either. And there are a few that show up most Fridays because a spouse, partner, or child is Jewish. We have zero problem with people complaining that they don't understand the service or that the pages in the siddur (prayer book) are numbered backwards. And they don't get even get upset if they're corrected when they try to call the Tanakh the "Old Testament" during a discussion after services. Because they know it's not about them. It's not about excluding anyone. It's not about dividing the world into smaller pieces based on sexual orientation and gender/sexual identity. It's about a place that centers people who aren't normally centered and often have to decide if it's worth their energy to point out where they've been casually excluded. That centering tends to reduce a lot of the need for more aggressive moderation.

Absolutely true. However, straight women aren't ever murdered because they're straight. Cisgender women aren't passed over for promotion because they're cisgender.

One of the many problems faced by LGBTQ people is that so many people who aren't LGBTQ have strong opinions about what is and is not homophobic, transphobic, or biphobic. Opinions that have no basis in the lived experience of LGBTQ people. One thing that I would hope for from LGBTQ forums is that people who aren't LGBTQ would hold their tongue about what is and is not oppressive behavior. Absent lived experience, it can be very difficult to see how individual behavior links up with various kinds of structural oppression (something SL is not remotely free of). Another thing I would hope for is to be able to mention a problematic interaction in passing without having people who aren't LGBTQ jump in and demand the details of the interaction so they can argue it wasn't what I thought it was. Or be told that I am too sensitive. I would like to be able to use phrases like "cis het" without somebody raging that it's perjorative*. Or any of a dozen other exhausting things. It's not, "Keep Out, Queers Only." It's just "Here is a space where we'll assume people are LGBTQ and that LGBTQ people speak authoritatively about their lives and experience." Here's a space where our sensibilities are assumed. I have a several friends who aren't LGBTQ who thrive in spaces like that. When LGBTQ people say that they find cis het people exhausting, it doesn't mean they don't love the cis het people in their lives. It means that it is exhausting to deal with all of the ways they don't see how the world is arranged to suit them over us. When my Black friends tell me they find white people exhausting, I don't take it personally. I just try to give them the space they need. *Words like straight, het, & cis exist because y'all have been calling us abnormal for centuries. You can't have the word normal until the fact that LGBTQ people are normal is uncontested. Straight means not attracted to people of your own sex. Cis means your assigned sex at birth matches your sex and gender. There's no word aside from cis/cisgender/cissexual that describes people who aren't trans.