Cynianne Hellershanks

I've been in SL since before you all decided to allow children in, and have both age and payment verification on file. Yesterday, I was trying to shop Marketplace, and only General and Moderate were available to me. So I relogged. Nope. So I went to the how to fix this and did that, and my preferences are set to gen, mod and adult, and I can still travel to all lands. My alts can all access adult content on Marketplace. I'm more than a bit frustrated, because I run a business and cannot access my own content, and cannot make adult purchases on Marketplace. I made sure I had the latest version of SL on board. Still can't access Marketplace Adult. Which is strange because I live on Adult land and NEVER visit General land. Help1

Well said, Ravena. All true and heartfelt.

"In response to your feedback from the early beta versions of Viewer 2.5, we've added some privacy settings that will allow you to control just how public your profile is. What? Wasn't this always part of the plan? Are you insane? This is my privacy I pay you for! I keep SL in SL. Period. No other options. Do you know what Facebook has done to peoples' lives? You have a wealth of intelligent, educated, articulate adults in this platform who can help you. But if you out us to our bosses IRL? We are not children. Your market is not 18 - 25 males. And now I will have to enable cookies to see profiles? Again, are you insane? Don't you realize this is our major social contact info? Oh you do and you choose to exploit that with data mining? Lovely.

Laneybug expresses the frustration of a lot of small creators of quality merchandice here. The Former Regime focused on big merchants and giant real estate conglomerates and pretty much told us small potatoes to just give up and stick to our day jobs, leave the content creation and sales to the Big Fish. They also went out of their way to keep the Big Fish informed, catered to their whims, helped them promote their businesses, price fix, etc. It's true. We had a party when M Linden left, even made him a nice grave in our cemetery complete with a personal thunderstorm over it, and set off fireworks when Pink and Blue left. They were clueless to their market and had no idea what customer retention was. The exodus has not slowed, I say goodbye to business owning friend and land owning friends every day who are moving to different grids. But I think Rodvik and his team are being responsive so far considering they have been here working for what, 2 weeks now? In this and other recent blog posts they have proven they are at least listening and not just tossing corporate spin mumbojumbo back at us. Perhaps this New Regime gets it that we are not "just" gamers, we are intelligent, articulate, educated adults who pay their bills.

YAY! Rodvik is reading us! Yay!!!!!

Applause to all the idiots who managed to turn this into, quoting someoen ehre, an adolescent food fight. Great quote. However, what you did manage to reveal is that SL is a culture, not your own personal little world where you get to be One Of The Gods. I am sure Rodvik has been briefed about the Zindra Forced March and it's financial repercussion on the grid for LLR. I am sure he understands that the very loud people who wish to inflict their terribly Wonder Bread view of how all of us should live in SL and RL feel. This was originally an adult platform where no one burst into literal flames if their eyes happened upon any pixel body parts or acts with out the ability to shut the thing off by tp ing out or turning the computer off all together. No one was harmed until the squeeky wheel was greased and the disneyfication began. Since then there has been major harm. Rodvik is a gamer and a business man. This is the best shot this company has had in a long time. Yes we are p..., uh, angry at what has happened in the last couple years, but please let's everyone take a big deep breath and let the man learn how to build a decent house instead of a ridiculously primmy log cabin (sorry Rod) and find his way around and meet people in his alt. This is a positive step. Welcome again, Rod, and please come visit our vampire/lycan/multi species mature sim where everyone is into BDSM in the privace of their own homes and silly as he..., silly as all get out in public. Cyn

Toysoldier Thor, well said. LLR: What he said.

It is refreshing that you post this, Amanda. However, I am not sure how this "new" guideline is different, all these options have always been available to us. And the FB and Twitter thing? The Former Regime tried to force this down our throats, too. No. Just no. I don't, I am not going to, and I in no way want my SL account attached to anything that deals with my RL. What I would like to know is does anyone read these forums at LLR after the obligatory first day or so? It takes a while for the non forum types to find out about what goes on here and respond. This has always been an outworld voice. Is it being heard? So far I am please with the New Regime and it's few weeks worth of stuff, except the assumption that we would accept the outing of our avatars on the internet via profile pages, FB And Twitter. Bad bad idea. I will look forward to having the inworld reason and experience be listened to as customers viewed in a different fashion than we have been.

So does this mean I need to dump my long term avatar and all her considerable non transferable assets including a business, lands and inventory to be assured my anonymity be preserved as was guaranteed when I joined SL? I do not choose to have a Twitter account because I do not choose to hear every random thought of every random airhead wishes to follow me, nor do I wish to have to reject all of the ridiculously long list of those wishing to "follow" me, including several rl stalkers. I am considering leaving FB altogether given the increasing security issues, and my lack of guaranteed anonymity and privacy for my personal information, though I do have it set as private as I can get it and jump through hoops every time they "update" ie wipe out my privacy needs. LL, really, bad road to go down. SL is not a social network we want our rl bosses tracking us through.

Thank you Mike. Well said. I have no desire to have my SL life interfering with my real one. My boss, My friends and My Mother have no need to know what my avatar does and seeing this may try to find out. This is insanity. Many of us depend on LLR for the security of our personal information and now we cannot depend on that. FB is known for it's horrible security leaks. I am seriously considering leaving it entirely because of the hoops they make me jump through to protect myself from their marketing campaigns. We are not stupid, we know why they/you do this. LLR does not have my permission to mix my rl personal information with that of any of my avatars. I trusted you all and have been very careful while here to protect my personal information. Rodvik, are you reading this?

Wow, Q, I just went to your public access link and clicked FB Like so I could comment there, and guess what? I can't. My comment was going to be Did you see there are only 6 Likes? One is mine and I wanted to leave my dislike comments. Get a clue here, those who want FB already have an avatar account there, and don't need you forcing us to jump through hoops to keep our RL bosses from finding out we like BDSM or are a gamer at all. Are you people insane?

Here is a prime example of why I will not use your V2s. I came here for anonimity. It was promised. I do not want FB linked to me in any way because of my RL business, friends and family. Bishop Placebo has a very nice HUD that allows out posting to these accounts IF YOU WISH without having and using your avatar's FB and Twitter, MySpace whatever without having to go correct all the security leaks to your personal information. That said, the V2 I version I have is difficult to use. Fix that. The noobs are struggling and there is almost no one that can help them learn how to do what they want to do in SL because so many of us have jumped onto the 3rd party viewers for ease of use. And when you force the 3rd party viewers into your V2 concept, keep in mind that you will be making it harder for the customer base you already have kept because of their contribution. Customer - like Rodvik has the courtesy to call us.

Welcome, Rodvik! I am also thrilled to see a Linden get out and learn. The big challenge for you is Customer Retention. There has been a huge amount of time and money wasted on expanding into different markets with complete disregard for the customer base already in existance. Land pricing is ridiculous, abandoned land is everywhere, and people having to close because they cannot afford to compete with the glut in the land market created by LLR. The Linden geeks know less about the experience than the residents, a lot of whom are very experienced geeks LLR could not afford to hire. Suggestions and solutions to common issues are offered and either ignored or handed over to some intern to bork. The outsourcing of customer service was a huge mistake. I am so glad to see a gamer take over. SL is an amazing place and we want to keep it!

My avatar closely resembles me - 15 years ago. Only the haircolor changes more frequently. And yes, there are companies that will take your rl photo and make it an avatar, but I wouldn't. Cyn

At 15 replies they probably do have SOMEONE reading it. And well said Bigger, I agree on all points. Can the Linden snowball fight land be set to damage please?

As I said in the thread titled "WOW, you people really don't like...." : I 100% believe parents are responsible for, and responsible for monitoring & controlling their children's behavior and actions. However, now days parents have abdicated that authority and now are blaming everyone else involved via lawyer. Lawyer is happy. So now days Mom looks over Timmy's shoulder and sees cartoon boobies. Instead of slapping Tommy upside the head and grounding him from the computer, Boobie owning avatar and LLR may be held civilly or criminally liable for leading Timmy down the road to perdition. Or how bout the friends we all have? We love them, we trust them and we have all been burned. We give out rl info pretty readily to those we trust especially if we work for or with them, or get into a relationship with them. So Tommy gives his lover his rl info and super nutjob shows up. It happens to adults in this platform all the time. LLR will still be sued, whether they win or lose is irrelevant. IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. It may even tank LLR. First line of defense with lawyers is expensive when you have a fender bender and a resultant neck injury. Child sex is a very convenient whipping tool even though we all know the kids are doing it like bunnies because we did when we were there age. The difference is now that we can be prosecuted or sued because of a lying cartoon. Or our child can be harmed by a lying cartoon. The thing I simply do not understand is why my favorite porn sites and stores have a one page disclaimer in english and legalese protecting them, but they do not in any way say "But we have a safe place for teens to explore over here....." I signed onto 18+ and have invested a huge sum of rl US$ here. Thanks, Lindens. While you are at it, feed and water the hamsters and hire a kid to come in on weekends. The poor little things are falling down on the job and the service is suffering. What's up with the serious coding issues you are having?

You are missing the point Nany. Or maybe you aren't. But then tell me, how is LLR going to support the lawyers? We have, many of us, invested a huge amount of US$ in this at LLR's urging. My point is, SL is the RW and predators exist. Another point is, LLR would have a lot more paying clients if they said No to broke teens and only let them in as paying guests at age 18 as Adults.

As a grown up with a 15 year old grandkid, I promised he could come to TSL when he was 15, I have withdrawn that promise. No way I am letting my GK in SL now for any reason. I discussed it with his parents, showed them around SL, and they agree. I love SL and think LL is being outrageously naive if they don't see the giant lawsuit coming their way when a predator manages to get a kid. To say nothing of the bad press .Here is the reason I am willing to pay a lot of money to buy Licensing from the artists I buy my buildig supplies from. LLR seems to be willing to risk my investment here. I simply do not understand why LLR is making all these changes that make SL harder. And with all the "technical difficulties" we have been experiencing the last few weeks I am truly concerned.

Mari, I recently had experience of having a credit card issue, and was not POOFED. I received an email teling me about it, was able to get inworld, all my stuff was there and I had time to redirect LL to a different payment method. Customer service at the first level is terrible, most residents do know more than the CSR. I trace the custormer service problem back to the consolidation of CSRs into a phone room and not a work from home. I do not live in CA or MA or TX, so cannot work for LL in CSR, and would not work in a phone room anyway, but usually provide faster and more correct service to those avatar's having an issue inworld. LL would do well to go back to hiring CSRs from the inworld population and work from home.

Shop by Merchant is one of my favorite features in the old XStreet. I have favorite merchant's and use that as one of my primary shopping tools. Recently tested finding a merchant I love in Marketplace search as a test. I never did find her. This will be a serious incovenience for me and a sales hit for both me as a merchant and those I shop with.

LMAO!!!

No. It is not abuse. It is misrepresentation. Myself and several of my friends have cross gender avatars. It is ill considered to enter a romantic relationship without being honest, but it is not abuse. It is dishonest, but not abusive. People take romance WAAAYYYYYYY to seriously in Second Life. I have no problem with a cross gendered mate. How would I feel about someone who lied? The same as I would feel as if they had lied about something else, they are a liar. Not abuse, except of my trust and sensibility. Not honorable, but not abuse. Cynianne Hellershanks