Phoenix Haight

I do feel like this really was a "I was today days old when I realized..." thing, but now I do know the tricks, and I'll remember that from now on, thanks! (The upside-down hemisphere worked and I'm fairly sure I moved the skybox rezzer up from the ground anyway, I just forgot.)

Okay, I'm trying that now, with the weird caveat that I'm also having issues building boxes... but hemispheres were no problem at all. It's a flat surface. I'll report back if this succeeds (though I have another odd workaround -- one of my items rezzed successfully on the actual land's ground. I surmise I could probably rez my furniture on the ground then edit the height to approximately where the skybox is, then fine tune from there).

The problem is basically this: I bought a parcel of land that's 1024 square meters and have a skybox that I placed, as I thought, dead center. I am now trying to place a couch of mine in said skybox, and I got the following: I own it. How do I set permissions so that I can rez stuff on my own land? Thanking everyone in advance, and sorry if this is an easy question, but my Google Fu has atrophied over time.

Okay, that helps. Thanks.

Oh... I know. It's just that I'd rather people just say it. I'm not a complete and total jerkass in reality but I do come across as one sometimes due to tone of voice and facial expressions, but it's frustrating when it happens in SL because I can't even blame THAT.

Oh, it's been a while since that happened... AND it was a bit 'adult' in nature. Flirting, encountering, "you're too tall" and she just logged. Tried flirting another time, she ended it abruptly, and apparently even she couldn't recall why she blocked me afterwards when I spoke about it, via an intermediary regarding a question about a sim she was admin of. (There are probably standards here, so you're going to have to take my word for it, it just did not feel like anything out of the ordinary for flirting or more-than-flirting. I just was not addressing her with the 'proper' amount of respect, apparently.) I just needed to vent about it and say that when the most recent case of 'am I blocked or not?' turned out to just be someone who gets her messages capped quickly, I was so relieved I cried. Because since the system doesn't tell me if I'm blocked, long periods of silence feel like I've been blocked when it could just be Second Life eating my messages, but as noted, it's actually happened, and I'm often not sure why.

But I need feedback. I legitimately do not know why I'm coming across as rude or horrible, and people keep on just blocking and moving on without telling me anything! I legitimately cannot figure out why she blocked me at all. I said and did nothing that I would consider rude or unreasonable, and if I'm wrong, I want to know it!

I'm just going to say that the presumptions of the previous people in this thread annoy me. As does the concept of blocking without making it obvious. I've been blocked without having any clue as to why, and the only indicator I got one time was when someone relayed a message -- and by that time she'd FORGOTTEN WHY. I've heard that sending a notecard is an indicator, but I'm not so sure.

I really haven't found a good match for this, so here goes. I saw a friend online from 'Jayla Clark's Dashboard' friends list, so I decided to log in to see her... only to not see her on my friends list in Firestorm. (Beta 4.5 at present; I'd seen her in-world before, after updating to said Beta.) I checked on Yahoo to find that yes, she was in-world, but didn't get my four IMs to her. I chose to send a screenshot of my friends list in-world via YIM to her... and she noticed from the local that someone was online from her friends list she didn't see either. I logged in with Viewer 2 (and automatically updated; it's been quite a while since I used it), and the problem persisted. Now, this is probably on her end in some way, but does anyone have an answer for what's causing that?

Okay, the L$50k was an estimate, but she was kind of a ridiculous perfectionist about SL. So many clothes, shapes, skins, looks, furniture... As for the severe addiction... from what I could tell, based on when I friended her 'return' avatar to when she got booted, her usage was far down from as Mich and Val. This probably has everything to do with my telling her 'you need professional help' and her actually getting it for six months or so. But let's be honest -- SL is about the best escape around. I'd bet a lot of people you know are at least a little obsessive about it, and ... I've had friendships from SL that, even with no RL interaction, I'd rate as top-five strongest friendships I've ever had. I can't blame the fact of her wanting to be here, just the level...

Just looking back, I wonder if I need to clarify: Her first instaban without warning was due to her credit card dispute on her primary (premium and verified) account. As noted, fairly stupid of her and fairly justifiable for LL to react as such. So no, I don't 'need to ask her' what caused it. I know. Problem is, that was thought resolved by her dropping the dispute. The full ban of her accounts that happened on August 5th was a tough one to figure out, she was so hysterical. Yes, hysterical. I had to walk her through everything... and also find out that she had panic-spammed the support ticket system and yelled at more than a few people in LL support. (I tend to suspect that her issue with being ignored by online support rather than disconnected... well, kind of rude, just dc her if you don't want to deal with her but I think she may have freaked out at them, as well.) So she got 'suspicious transfer of Lindens' in at least one response, though no one wanted to explain that clearer than that. (I'd like to know how anyone knows it's counterfeit laundering. I've never seen anyone with a Linden account define that term as such, or even comment on it. 'Disputed Lindens' got me to a court case where LL got raked over the coals on parts of the TOS that were thereafter changed, but no joy on the crime definition anywhere, even on this forum and ... were they Xstreet yet? I doubt it. Those forums didn't have any info either.) So, did she take large amounts of lindens from an account and transfer them to a NPIOF account? Yes, her own, actual money. Did she take payments from other accounts? Yes, she did. Though clearly not every account she took payments from got tarred with that brush, I paid her money for a gift that Valentine's Day, I think... So it seems to me that she ended up getting dirty money along the way or just looked like she was getting it, and acted suspiciously afterwards thus getting her no joy from support. But they never explained it out or gave her a chance on the original problem. She wasn't the best customer but she was a customer. That's the problem... she can't get past that and move on and I have trouble blaming her for it. So the big giant mess is this -- what was the original ban? They didn't ban her for the suspicious Lindens, they blocked her pending investigation. That investigation is either unconcluded or turned up a completely different outcome than they were investigating on (if that October message was the conclusion of the investigation rather than being unrelated to such; again, it's not clear. They cited paragraphs after saying the TOS was violated, and I don't recall seeing financial anything in those paragraphs). They did make the outright ban for attempting to skirt the block, and that message said nothing about appealing... Oh, hell. I'll talk her through a letter to write. And then try to introduce her to the joys of Star Trek Online while it's going through the mail. It can't hurt at all, can it?

Going to think this out here... but trust me, though the TOS has been reorganized, I recall clearly she was banned for 'misrepresentation of self with regards to creating an avatar'. There was also something about inappropriate content. I have no clue what that was about, but we were always in the same Mature sims, most of which are now Zindra. She went mostly off into her own Zindra sims after re-entering SL society as Kyra. They never gave her an explanation, solution, or anything about the original block. I extrapolated that her annoyingly kneejerk reaction to seeing the same charge on her credit card and Paypal accounts for purchasing Linden was what brought attention to her file. (She disputed the charge with both companies despite the fact that she clearly intended to purchase the L$. I facepalmed. I heard that her credit card was attached to the PayPal and nothing else, not even a bank account, thus... being the only possible place money could come from. I headdesked. I was too dizzy to do anything when she mentioned she never talked to Linden until after her accounts were originally blocked... but she cancelled the disputes with both Visa and Paypal and was allowed to bring one of her accounts back at that time.) Then someone noticed that she was getting paid a lot of money without a clear product in return to a NPIOF avatar. Tell you the truth, when she created Valerie I threatened to block her-as-Valerie for selfish reasons; I wish I'd followed through, considering I have such doubts it'd be as much of a red flag to her premium av (though she was keeping it separate for superheroine roleplay... anyone who laughs can slap themselves. ... ). She just never added payment information, she tells me, because she didn't see she needed it; she had a premium av to buy her L$ with, why put in the effort? This tips the scales of the mythical index and causes them to conduct an investigation. What bothers the hell out of me is they don't ask her any questions, they just 'conduct an investigation' and say 'we cannot comment on investigations'. Granted, justifying her interior design business is such a stretch, I bet if I hadn't heard her gush about her IRL work I wouldn't have bought it. Then again, there are rather a lot of people who make their living selling non-tangible product in many corners of Zindra these days. Iluminated by red lights. LL's not cracking down too hard on them last I heard, correct me if I'm wrong. The panic, well you'll have to trust me when I assure you it was real. Actually, maybe you don't have to. I just have my experience of always-in-control Mich spamming me with 27 badly typed lines in a row on YIM to go on. The mistakes in communicating with LL followed, the information that said she was doomed by uninformed people followed that, a legitimate attempt to make an avatar exist followed that, then two weeks later came the outright ban. I think going there to straighten it out in person might be the only thing she could do, but she'd better get Giants tickets and go on some trolley rides because she might end up going there for nothing.

She was not given instructions on how to appeal. She was blocked and ignored. She sent in a written appeal. That was responded to with a form letter. She shared everything with me and a mutual friend in the hopes I could help her. Every communication she got. She never got instructed on how to appeal. They said "sorry Val, you've been caught trying to come back so bye. Thanks for the 50 thousand lindens though." And a month later claimed to have a solution in an e-mail ... leading to the same explanation of why she was banned. Never commenting on the 'suspicious Lindens' to this very day. Please stop calling my friend a master criminal who has been playing me for all six years I've known her. She's just a severe SL addict who should've learned by now LL doesn't deserve her loyalty. I spent six hours one night talking her through the fact that she couldn't get to sleep because every time she closed her eyes, she was back on the grid flying in our sim. She did nothing wrong these past three years but exist.

God, I love coming here, I feel the love, you know? Fraud? Laundering stolen L$? She's an interior decorator IRL and decided to go into business in SL too, to pay for her perfectionism in her avatar. She did it with said NPIOF account. They gave her that message and never elaborated. Not one explanation. She did. Nothing. WRONG. You SANCTIMONIOUS .... I ... I'm sorry. She's just not a crook, she did something stupid that no one ever told her she shouldn't do... I can't take this. I just can't take this. They never completed that investigation, either, they said 2.6, 2.4, 4.1... are any of those monetary? No, they're avatar-related and content related...

That's what I wanted to know, if they have a standard, or if they just blanket 'forever-means-forever'. Seriously, I though the fact she went under the radar for so long meant they'd given up on her. Apparently not. I knew there wasn't much likelihood of getting any help here from an actual Linden, I just... there has to be something I can do... well, maybe all I can do is hand her the information and hope she can use it. I can't tell her what her problem is, though... I can tell her she was banned for the alts and she doesn't give a damn, she wants to know why she was blocked. She got red-flagged and ignored and treated like crap and I won't judge her for a second for doing what she did, I just wish she'd told me beforehand so I wouldn't have lost her forever.