Chaser Zaks

I don't hide who I am. In fact I am very much a open book regarding stuff. It has gotten me in trouble though, such as getting ""DOXXED"" from my own public information(I'm just like "good job you posted stuff people already know"). I have had to remove some information temporarily due to harassment though. One of the reasons why I am so open about my personal life is because I myself have had to fight my way through many things, and I hope that my experiences can help others who are going through something, if not something similar, to what I may have gone through. I also feel it puts a bit more of "hey there is actually someone behind these pixels pls be nice" when people can see a face and name. But for others this can be off-putting, as now they know I am not actually a hyena. However, why someone would not want to make themselves known(or "hide" as you put it) is very understandable. I've talked with many resident in SL over the years and have came across these reasons: Second Life serves as a place to escape real life. They use second life to experience a childhood they couldn't and attaching themselves to the avatar would take away from that. They fear that they would endanger themselves. They are concerned about their career. They are concerned about their family. They are having an online affair. They are actually underaged. (This is rare, don't bully/discriminate those who don't want to reveal their identity over this rare case) There are plenty of other reasons as well, but those are the one off the top of my head. Why someone may not want to is their right, and they may not want to reveal why.

My honest opinion, this concern seems disingenuous. You worry that bots are causing traffic to be calculated for the wrong reason, yet operate a system which attempts to monetizes and manipulates traffic. Agents that are marked as bots will not count towards traffic, and agents that are connecting with specific viewers(IIRC) get flagged as bots for that session. My view is that traffic is not something that should be sold, traded, or otherwise manipulated as it throws off genuine interest statistics of a location. Traffic should be earned for what the region or parcel is, not through bots, camping chairs, bought by paying residents to visit locations, or any other means. As someone who loves statistics and is working on a a project that needs accurate statistics, manipulation of stats is one of the worst enemies as I have to go and rectify those values, often deducting up to 75% of a regions popularity value if traffic manipulation is detected. This seems more like "I fear bot traffic is harming my business model", rather than a genuine concern over the accuracy of traffic. (Don't take this as me hating or disliking you, I'm just very blunt/forward with what I say.)

Wall street: OH NO, MY HEDGE!

This should be fine as long as you own or have rights to the image in question. But please do be considerate with the tags and categories. I often see animated textures and pictures sold on the marketplace with irrelevant tags, or are in the wrong category. Specifically mentioning this because these tend to get added in the dozens, and reporting each and every one of them isn't something someone is going to do, as such they just stay incorrect forever.

The question is how much is 4,000 credits? There is also the issue of, how does LL prevent people from making alt after alt to get credits? I presume they could probably track who does the tutorial and check against the ID0 and recently rewarded IP addresses.

This is laughable, they didn't even do their research. They claim to have "the most" of anything(around 30 million items). Second Life has around 21 million items on the marketplace, and tens of million items that are sold only in-world. Not to mention, IMVU's movement system is poopy. Literally just pose ball, no physics, no driving, etc. Second Life in actual size is 1,674,706,944 square meters(According SELECT count(*) * (256 * 256) FROM map_tiles_agni WHERE lastseen > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - interval '1 week'). Meanwhile, IMVU just has "thousands of chat rooms" of unknown size, which can't even be traveled for that matter. There is also the fact that IMVU is targetted towards teens, despite them also owning a p**n site known for donation fraud. Honestly, they make roblox look like competition. (In case you couldn't tell, I despise IMVU for various reasons.)

Try: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + H 😉

Money trees I think are allowed and still around. I've been wanting to "plant" one for a while to give something to new residents. I'm not quite sure on the policy regarding camping though. I know people used to get money for high traffic areas and LL phased that out because of camping, as well as made tweaks to the "traffic" calculations, but I don't think they have been explicitly disallowed.

Yes, we still have satellite TV where I live, and if the weather gets bad enough, it can cause issues. But technology is a lot better than it used to be, I remember when a slight rain storm would cause the TV to go out. It would take really severe rain filled clouds to take out the signal. As for internet, I'd say some corrupt packets may occur during any form of non-clear weather, but those would mostly either get corrected or re-sent without the user even noticing.

You should be able to use satellite. While it is fast, it has the issue of latency, which means requests may take a few seconds to initialize, but the stream will overall be fast. A good way to explain this: High speed Low speed Line based Fast and responsive Slow but responsive Satellite based Fast but delayed Slow and delayed So while assets may download fast, you will likely experience a larger than usual delay, imagine pressing "w" on a line based connection and you moving instantly, but pressing "w" on a satellite connection and you move about maybe 0.4 to 0.6 seconds later.

If people didn't render for people who are blocked, this would raise issue with various stuff, such as: Targeted harassment without someone knowing: Such as wearing attachments with signs without the targeted person knowing. Region moderation issues: Blocking moderators to go under the radar. Privacy issues: some people don't want people to know they blocked them. There is also the issue of LSL would be able to relay blocked chat. It's also important to keep in mind, facebook is a social media platform, and second life is a virtual world. One of these has physics and other unique things that would make mutual blocking an issue.

Would that club be allowed? Probably, but the definition of nazi and fascist has been diluted so much these days, it can mean anything(I.E. they are used as buzzwords/dog whistles, rather their original meaning), so it could end up biting them in the butt if they use it for the more extreme definitions. Typically, if I was to visit a club and they used political language in their rules, instead of just saying "Be nice and respectful to your fellow guests", I'd probably avoid it because it is just asking for drama(it'd probably even have a no drama rule, which we all know means "twice as much drama"). Political opinions are not a "protected" class, so it would be allowed to forbid someone from visiting a region because of said opinions, however outright attacking a resident because of it would likely not be allowed. I'd however, rather spend my time visiting clubs that allow the freedom of opinion, rather than clubs that focus their time on finding out who has the wrong opinion that they didn't even bring up in the club. When I say allow freedom of opinion, I mean doesn't witch hunt people. Politics is not a good club topic, and if I operated a club, I'd probably tell people to knock it off.

Here is one of my kitties watching my Mom make them some food: He does this whenever the stool is in the right spot for him, so we typically will try to make sure it is there for him.

I want to open this topic off with the following statement. If you are just going to read the title, please at least just read my opening statement: I am not calling for a ban of all political discussions. I actually like that we can create such topics, but unfortunately, such topics have gotten worse and worse over the time, and it is just leading to fighting and division in the community. I really do not like the fact that I even am writing this as a suggestion, it goes against my very strict view of anti-censorship, but I feel that the longer this goes on, the further divided the community will become. Maybe at a later date this could be lifted, but right now stuff is just too heated. As for the full potato: As much as I like freedom of expression LL has fostered over the many years, when it comes to political discussions, especially with how stuff is right now, people simply can't refrain from attacking each other. All the political discussions I have seen in General Discussions has ended up being a majority of the following: Attacking other residents. Name calling. Insults. Attempts to derail. Calls for locking the thread. I do want to make it clear, this is not a call to ban all political content. If the topic is relevant, then it would be allowed, as long as it isn't a topic designed to create further division and harm the community. Examples of "good case" political threads: Discussion about some legislation that will impact virtual worlds. Lifestyles and Relationships, as well as Making friends: Looking for someone who has specific views or beliefs. Role-play: A topic is in regards to stuff such as WWII role-play. Favourite Destinations: A location which happens to be political. Events and Activities: Discussion about a upcoming in-world virtual rally/movement. A lot of people come to SL to get away from the divisiveness of the current world, and I hate that I even have to suggest banning off topic political threads. It goes directly against my views of "censorship is bad" and it pains me to even write this, but every time these threads are made, they turn toxic really really fast. Perhaps if this rule is enacted, it can be lifted in the future, but I don't think people can restrain and behave themselves right now. As a long time resident of Second Life, I really do not want to see it fall to division. I've seen enough communities get divided, I don't want to see one that I really love fall to the same fate.

I don't think amazon has a problem with SL. Even then, from my understanding, Amazon allows banned people to get a copy of their data.

Honestly, I hope this thread becomes a wake-up call for LL(with all due respects to LL, I just can't figure a better way to phrase this) to outright say "No more political threads" on the forums. All it ends up with is people attacking, name calling, arguing and bickering.

Whenever I hear someone say "punch a nazi" I think of this: Just call your enemies nazis, then you can justify punching them. What could possibly go wrong?

Interesting how some people here are advocating for violence, while also criticizing others for violence.

People have told me I am too old for the following: Halloween (The dressing up part, not the getting candy part) Cybergoth Cartoons I say you can never be too old for something. You only have one life, live it to the fullest and enjoy the things that make you happy. If someone says otherwise, say "well that's your problem. I however, am going to continue having fun.".

As for "rigging" the election, being another point people keep bring up here: If the election was rigged, I'm not sure. I, being a proud American citizen, hope to God that it wasn't rigged, because that'd mean our democracy has been compromised. But there are reasonable reasons to believe it might have been. Until then, I am going to sit in the "I don't know, no one will give me solid, unbiased, answers" camp. A major problem here that has me not sitting in the "It wasn't rigged" camp is the following: Censorship from big tech with bogus, non-ToS violating reasons. Politicians who claim "It can't be hacked" despite previously claiming Russia hacked the election. Reluctance, or outright resistance to investigate claims. Various instances of vote watcher's being kicked out or forbidden to observe. A actual dominion voting machine was proven to be hackable. When a large portion of America thinks the election was rigged, the list above is bad if they want to calm people who believe it was rigged or otherwise hacked. If they could carry on a bogus Russia meddling/hacking investigation for 4 years, they can bother to investigate for at least a month or two into whether or not there was fraud. I guarantee you at least investigating would help calm the situation down. Again, I'm unsure if it was hacked or whatever, but it does have me a bit suspicious. I'd love to see them actually investigate it properly instead of going "Nah it didn't happen". Regardless, I'll reluctantly accept that Biden will president. But less so reluctantly if these concerns can be investigated and put to rest. No amount of riots will change that.

Probably because this thread feels full of brick walls, and I'm just not going to argue when I feel a argument is going to go to brick wall discussion, or is filled with "HA GOTTEM". The issue here is, why has it only just become a problem? No one, not the news, popular websites, or political leaders condemned the violence and riots that occurred before, but suddenly they decided it is a issue and needs to be addressed. It is when I and many others get called fascist, or racist, or sexist, or whatever-ist when I try to explain a the opposing side view or as to why I oppose something, or just because someone doesn't like my views. It is all about dehumanising. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization. If you dehumanize the opponent, it makes it so that their concerns mean nothing and their voice means nothing. See in this thread how so called "fascists" have been dehumanized, it is easy to say that they do not deserve the right to free speech. Again, because people will take this out of context: I am not saying fascism is good, nor do I support it. When I say "Fascist" I am referring to the dog whistle that means "anyone with a right wing view".

I meant a reply that conveyed a meaningful response. See my first reply where I say "fascist" is a dog whistle. I've seen anti-white/straight/etc stuff pushed into publicly funded campuses and schools, but that isn't of a concern to you, is it?

Well, yes. Despite me having opposing views, if we limit who has the right to free speech, it becomes a slippery slope to censorship. Don't get me wrong, (actual) fascistic views are horrible, and I've outright left several areas because of it. But if I was to say they had no rights to those views, it would go against my own views of anti-censorship, as well as bring with the risk of becoming like the CCP where if you have anything bad to say about the CCP, they persecute you. Censorship is a very, very dangerous thing. I'm not even going to bother writing a reply to this, I can see that you don't want unity, only division.