[Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid]

I think the best thing someone could do is take this to the media and let them have a hayday and more or less have this game put under the radar for its own good. If they can put enough spotlights on the grid they could hopefully stop this from even being implemented. Its like cleaning a wound, it stings but it keeps it from becoming infected.

Its underhanded but its both legal and best for the grid to use two irrational parties to produce a more rational result.

So... get to writing and submitting this to anyone who can get it on tv and etc. It might get on there, they mostly seem to be grabbing for good news these days either way. Half the time the news is about things that happened years ago, ironically. Maybe they will get it to the soccer moms and they will band together enough to say no or at the very least watch what their children do online more (haha, thats a little joke: parents stopped knowing what they do a loooong time ago, they are mostly too busy watching tv and politics). Uniting the grids will divide the community further. I seem to see alot less people on the grid lately.. take a hint, shall we?

[Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid]

Linden Labs and all whom it is important to: I must state this honestly. I will sound harsh but I am simply going to state the obvious and try to be as nice about having to explain it as I possibly can.

 

All you want to do is "support" your income with a fresh new generation of young naive users- who will want to spend more linden. You want to expand the game to cater to a market that this game isn't even really that appealing to (they'd rather play WoW, mostly!) whilst cutting costs by getting rid of the teen grid. Sorry, but if you wanted to appeal to that audience you should have made a game designed to appeal to them in the first place. All you want is more money and you are willing to risk horrendous legal situations for yourselves and everyone on the main grid in doing so.

What about people with adult profiles? Why should they have to change!? We have had it this way for a long time and we have lived longer. We are entitled to do as we have done! Are people supposed to sweep things under the rug and give up every hint of honesty this game has? You do realize you are alienating a large portion of your audience? The viewer is not a web browser, secondlife opinion does NOT always agree with these decisions and this grid is NOT designed for minors. I'm sorry but you can censor something as much as you want and it will still not change the underlying ideas of the whole.

We were here first, we have built your grid for you, we have spent money into your company and we have the right to stay as we are. I have been honest that I am adult content. Instead of using an alt for adult content, I create content which supports the life blood of your grid on the same account. Many others do the same! We shouldn't have to change ourselves so some snot slinging brats can get on your grid and inevitably push the envelope as all of us did at that age. If they want to play, they can wait like some of us had to. What makes people so special that they deserve anything else?

Are you denying that age has any factor in development or that a person at 16 and a person at 21 are different? I assure you there is a difference in drive, reasoning, experience.. must I name the plethora of things which change over years? Has the wisdom of the rulers all but drained away? Do you lack common sense about what can and WILL happen? Do you care?

Do you plan to censor everyones IM to make sure nothing bad is happening? We don't want any! Would you like to push your values on us by doing this despite that we don't want it and that its a naive undertaking to begin with? We. Do. Not. Want. Any.