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    People who should come back

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I was going to ask you this! I'm occasionally still sending people there. it's so great that you are still doing this: it's such a worthwhile SL institution.

    Is Gentle Heron still around at all?

    Yes indeed, Gentle Heron is still the boss, inworld practically 24/7.  

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    People who should come back

    in General Discussion Forum

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    1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Ok, I know I said I didn't want to post names here because I'd be sure to leave out many. But, in the interest of getting this thread back on topic, and inserting a more positive spin, here's a very partial, incomplete, and subjective list of people whom I wish were back. I am absolutely certain I've forgotten people I'll kick myself for having not listed here, but . . .

    I've drawn these from all of the periods I've been here.

    I'll start with those whom I know are sort of around because they've posted recently, or are maybe still active elsewhere on the forums, or I've noticed them online in-world. There are all people who should be here more often.

    In absolutely no particular order:

    @Elora Lunasea
    @Maureen Boccaccio (aka FC Den Mother)
    @Perrie Juran
    @Pamela Galli
    @Han Held
    @Gabriele Graves
    @Nika Talaj
    @Sylvia Tamalyn
    @Kylie Jaxxon

    Now others who, so far as I know, have not been around for a while, or at least I haven't seen them.

    Again, in no particular order:

    @Dillon Levenque (Wonderful person.)
    @Hippie Bowman (Well, duh.)
    @Treasure Ballinger (One of my all-time favourites here. An utter delight.)
    @Rhonda Huntress (Sad face.)
    @Clover Jinx (Another sad face.)
    @Argus Collingwood
    @Canoro Philipp
    @Parhelion Palou
    @Amaranthim Talon (One of the very first people to take me under her wing on the old RA)
    @Katheryne Helendale
    @Ghosty Kips (Because Elora will get lonely.)
    @Lexxi Gynoid
    @Rioko Bamaisin
    @Quinn Morani
    @Keli Kyrie
    @Eli Schlegal
    @Ossian1488303077
    @Suspiria Finucane
    @Lia Abbot (Always a hoot!)
    @Deltango Vale (Clever and sensible. She used to wrap my knuckles occasionally, in a nice but deserved way.)
    @Ags Falconer (My favourite monkey.)
    @Medhue Simoni
    @DQ Darwin
    @Sandra Frascati
    @Ceera Murakami
    @Mags Indigo
    @Elric Anatine (Such a gentleman, in the nice sense of that word.)
    @Magnus Brody
    @Jacki Silverfall
    @Snickers Snook (Ran into her in-world a while ago!)

    There are a TON of older people from the RA days not on this list -- people in some cases I still am friends with in-world, or on (*gasp*) Facebook, but this is a good start.

    And again, NOT COMPREHENSIVE. Basically, the forums have historically mostly been populated by lovely people. Lots of them.

     

    That's so nice Sis. I'm here. RL has not been kind, I've lost my RL husband to Covid. But I'm here. Will try to be more active. Thanks for the kind words. 

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    Can SL help people with disabilities?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

    VA is still there, although they're down to a single region.  I believe Gentle is still around, yes.

    Hi Lindal; Virtual Ability Island still exists, as do our 3 residential sims, Cape Able, Cape Serenity and Cape Heron.  We also have a sim for our educational and professional projects and a private sim for our group events.  We're still here.  

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    Can SL help people with disabilities?

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    1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Is Gentle still around? That's great news. I was wondering if Virtual Ability was still going strong.

    And where the hell is @Treasure Ballinger?

    Haha, I'm here.  Been a heck of a 2019, sorry for my absence.  I donated a kidney in RL, and my RL husband is in the midst of recovery from a kidney transplant.  I'm still here though, and more importantly, yes, Virtual Ability is still going strong, and yes, Gentle Heron is very much 'still around'.  I would hope the OP would indeed contact Gentle inworld.  Cheers to all!  

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    Kind of a newbie question but......

    in Linden Homes

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    Hello, long time no chat!  I have a house in Bellisaria that I want to give up, I assume I do that by abandoning the land, like any other land?  Where do I go if I want to try to return at some future point?  What's the website to sign up again?  And, last, how long before it shows that I've abandoned the land?  Thanks!

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    Camping Question

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Hello Avatars; hope all are well, been a minute since I've been here.  I am wondering, did LL ban camping?  The articles I find in Google are basically stuff from 2011, 2014, and just about traffic bots (the green dot crowd).  Is actual handing out lindens to avatars in any given area, a banned activity?  (I am not talking about skilled gaming here).  Thanks for what you can tell me, or articles.  Can't find a thing in the TOS either.....

     

    Treasure

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    Just Ignore and let this one die

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    /me chuckles.  Actually, Amythyst, LittleMe Jewell answered your question perfectly.  It's just complicated, you kinda had to be there.  There are a bunch of us, that have been chatting together on the SL Forums for many years.  MANY years.  This wasn't always the forum, there were a couple other ones prior to this.  One of our friends, made a post, back during the first SL forum, and then changed her mind about the post, and changed the subject to:  Just Ignore and Let this one die. She thought the post would just fade away after that.   Well of course we couldn't possibly let it die after she said that.  So, we kept it going.  Every time a new Forum reincarnation comes along, one of us will restart that thread.  It's a bunch of friends, who have been in SL together, for a long, long time.  We talk about whatever we want to talk  about here.  Maybe that's a little more detail, LittleMe Jewell gave you links to our old forums, but maybe with this additional detail, you'll understand who's here, and why.  Just us being us.  When you go inworld, check out the group:  The Forum Cartel.  That's us.  

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    How to use premium member tier to rent on private land

    in General Discussion

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    I'm following, to see what others say.  Have been an estate manager for Virtual Ability, since 2007, and far as I know, there is no way to use your Premium SL membership to pay rent on a private estate.  She said she saw this in some Linden article, so I'm just watching to see, how that is going to be interpreted.   My residents pay to a Hippo or Casperlet box, and it goes directly to Virtual Ability, who owns the sims.  How one would pay a private estate owner with using tier from a premium membership  is beyond me, UNLESS it means donating your free 512 parcel tier, to a group on a private estate and perhaps that would be accepted as partial rent payment.  Just guessing, no real clue here.  That would surely be up to the estate owner.  

     

    Just Ignore and let this one die

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    Came running over here thinking *this* thread, our Ignore thread had been removed.  (cause, they don't know who we are......)  I see I was mistaken, and Jewell, I hope you find your thread.  Waves at my Forum tribe, are we still here?  Happy New year, hope you are all well.  :)

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    Where do you live in SL

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Virtual Ability has 3 residential sims (plus some others that aren't residential) and I manage one of those, Cape Able.  I've managed it since before Virtual Ability acquired it, in 2008.  We are 'geared' to people who are disabled in RL, but we're open to all.  We have an art gallery where disabled artists exhibit (I'm a facilitator, not an artist!), a service center for disabled, etc.  That's my main home.  I also maintain a parcel on Justitia, the SLBA (Second Life Bar Association) sim.  I'm on their executive board, so I keep a parcel there to support the sim.  I used to have a parcel on Whitesun, right near the Forum Cartel property.  It was my RL son's, and I held onto it while he decided if he was ever coming back to SL; He's not, so I sold it, just last year.

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    Is It Possible To Transfer Land?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Treasure Ballinger

    34 minutes ago, Fionne Burleigh said:

    So, I'm a new old player and am learning, relearning and unlearning at this point.  I signed up with a new account because I thought I had deleted my old one - only to find out later that it still existed.  Is there a way to transfer the land my new account got after going preminum to my old account?  Or is there a way to ensure a sale only to my old account so someone doesn't swoop in and buy it while I switch accounts?  Thanks!

    Sure; do the sale.  When you are setting your land for sale, there is an option to choose 'to anyone' or 'to a specific person'.  So you are going to choose specific person, then select your old account name, from the selection menu that will come up.  Be sure you 'select' it and that it shows before you save.  then no one can buy it but that account.  (be sure you save, and look at the 'About Land' before you leave to switch accounts to be sure it's set to sale to your old account name.  then you're good til your old account comes in and buys it.   Assuming of course, your old account is premium too.  On mainland, I think that matters.

    How do I question an unexplained ban?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Canoro Philipp said:

    I think it has to do with human instinct, we have a tribal tendency, we tend to form groups of people with similar interests to have more comfortable interactions with them.

    people that are very different from each other may not be very welcomed in certain groups, and the elitism forms.

    i think is unavoidable that groups are formed, its human instinct.

    It's mean, and non-inclusive.  I'm not saying you have to be best friends with everyone in the world (any world) but this tendency we have to isolate 'some' is just plain mean.  In the case of this group, why is it like that?  Because a bunch of us know each other from 'back in the day'.  From the old-old SL forums and inworld.  Is there any other reason?  

    How do I question an unexplained ban?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Bet the OP learned something about posting to the forums, the way this took off and his (alleged and assumed) character has been shredded, stitched back up, and shredded again) Ya larn early 'round here.  I wouldn't have posted something like this, because I know how people turn to attack mode, on the slimmest possible info.  (what was he REALLY doing) Bet he won't do it again.     

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