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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    Innula has a signature quote like that.
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    Uh oh. Peeved lion! Thank you, Love. 🙂
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    I was certain that one was Abraham Lincoln. Or was it Marilyn Monroe????
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    Lol Caer! No apologies necessary! I am just jesting! (And I DO have a somewhat pointy chin! I've spent enough time on my avi to know it! What really makes me self-conscious is my nose, though.) And thanks re. my pics! (And to Roxy who also said something kind about them earlier!)
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    Oh good lord. Are we this short of things to talk about???? 😮 Maybe we need someone to start up another child avatar thread . . . can never have too many! I know of at least two, and have met one in-world. She wasn't nearly as monstrous as I am. Oh, I don't remember this, but the RA was pretty insane sometimes, so maybe! I did sort of unintentionally imitate myself, briefly, when I showed up here in 2013/14 using my Laskya account, but I got sussed out almost immediately, so that doesn't really count. Too good an imitation, I guess? I'd be good with that! I can also see that! I do wear it in a side part quite frequently though. There are probably about 30 styles I wear quite regularly, so there's some variation! Usually though I part it to the left. Well, now I feel self-conscious . . . ! My pic here is a slightly modified crop of one that was part of my "Intimacies" project, and actually was intended to look pretty adoring, or at least very fond, because it shows me waiting for my partner (I imagined my RL one) who is late. https://flic.kr/p/2mUMVEQ I cropped and modified it for here because I wanted a "friendly" and sort of "open" look, and that seemed to mostly fit the bill. And of course I do utterly adore everyone here, sooooo . . . 😏 OK TIME TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE!!!!
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    I think I may have met them a few weeks back! Although there's probably more than one.
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Pfft. People say I have "convictions." Nonsense! Sure, there were a few charges, but they were never able to make them stick in court! Thank you, Caer, that's a very kind thing to say! ❤️
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    Garnet can correct me, but I think the friend in this instance was Lazarus. And it's ok, it had a happy ending!
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    It would never have occurred to me to think so, Ceka. That wouldn't be you. 🙂
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    you really don't want to know.
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    I do not want to be reflective any more Envying and despising unreflective things Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of sand Flushed by the children's bedtime, level with the shore. The tide comes in and goes out again, I do not want To be always stressing either its flux or its permanence, I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus But to keep my eye only on the nearer future And after that let the sea flow over us. Come then all of you, come closer, form a circle, Join hands and make believe that joined Hands will keep away the wolves of water Who howl along our coast. And be it assumed That no one hears them among the talk and laughter.
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    I was literally thinking the same thing.
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    Jesus wept.
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    Pretty sure they don't, except that sex (of the non a*eplay type) is only permitted, of course, behind closed doors in Moderate regions. In terms of the other sorts of things that have been in the past, or are newly forbidden by the ToS, it doesn't make a difference.
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    Ok, we're beginning to edge over into "SL should be all about sex" and "Gamers rule!" territory again. I think we've given BJ enough of what she wanted out of this thread, so I'm gone.
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    No, probably not. And Governance does very little about such RP anyway. The new rules barely address it.
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    Whether it was faked or not -- and I have good reason to think a great deal of it wasn't -- the effect was the same, and could well be again. I don't know if you've noticed what's been going on in places like Texas, but things are not getting more permissive for porn out there. Correlation, as they say, does not imply causation. There were a lot of factors that contributed to that. It's not 2006 anymore. Most of those really fun people who used to run around making life miserable for the rest of us have either grown up, or found better places to be. Meanwhile, Twitter has become increasingly lawless, and is absolutely bleeding users. Nostalgia for the "good old days" is fine and well, but that crowd isn't going to save SL. And if they did, they'd render saving it pointless in the final analysis anyway.
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    It's not a question of what I find "immoral and disgusting." I very rarely use descriptors like that because they are subjective and ultimately irrelevant. It's a question of what some jurisdictions find illegal.
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    You're really not getting that "in your best judgement" thing, are you? No one, and certainly not I, has said "AR everyone in a schoolgirl's outfit." My little scenario involved a number of other factors to be considered. Right, so . . . do nothing to enforce governance at all? And no one has suggested vigilantes or AR parties. I talked about "running across things." That's a classic instance of a strawman argument. For who? Yeah, I remember the "good old days" when WU and others ran amok in SL. Fun stuff. Oh, and remember when that German newspaper discovered there was a*eplay here? Really helped the platform, that did. No one has suggested it should be. The whole point of the approach LL has taken to self-administered governance has been to avoid the extremes between becoming a hell hole of griefers and illegal activities on the one hand, and a police state on the other. Your approach, if people listened -- which they won't, fortunately -- would inevitably lead to either the one or the other. Either way, SL dies.
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    The situation I described didn't involve "spying" -- I specified running across something "pretty obvious." What this suggests is that, so long as it is "consensual" and you think that both parties are adults IRL, it shouldn't be ARed? Well, it's pretty much always "consensual" in SL, in most senses. And the vast majority of cases of a*eplay are going to involve RL adults. So . . . do nothing about a*eplay in SL, in effect? The ethics of that aside, you don't think that letting a*eplay here endangers the platform?
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    No one who isn't actively and obviously causing real harm to someone else in my presence need worry about an AR from me. And, as I say, I haven't had a case like that in over a decade. So, no, I'm not going to be running around hunting down a*eplayers. The question, as I say, is hypothetical. If, in our best judgement, we see a case of a*eplay, do we do anything about it? Or do we wink and look away? And yeah, it's always, as I say, going to be about judgement, unless one finds oneself in the unlikely situation of tripping over them going at it on the road. Some have good judgement, and some less so, of course. But Governance ensures that that shouldn't matter too much because they have access to information we don't. I'd be very cautious about ARing someone myself for a*eplay -- it would have to be pretty obvious. But if in my judgement, that was what was happening, I certainly would, because without ARs the entire governance system here falls apart. OR we end up forcing LL to do the policing for us, which would not be pleasant for any us.
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    It's a hypothetical, Jaylin. BJ clearly believes, or wants US to assume, that this was a case of a*eplay. I haven't ARed anyone or anything that wasn't actively griefing my parcel in 13 years.
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Short girl in ponytails, smacking bubble gum through her braces, wearing a school uniform, bent over teacher's desk while she lisps, "Please sir, I'll remember my homework next week"? Could be anything, really, couldn't it? Why jump to conclusions? Just live and let live! "You be you!" This is always going to be about judgement, Coffee. Hopefully people will use it intelligently. And yes, your conclusions might be different than mine. How fortunate then that, if I send in a report and get it wrong, LL's Governance team will have access to the sorts of information that I don't have, and will be able to make an informed decision. It's utterly insane that, on the one hand, you don't want LL using invasive "proactive" policing (and I'm with you on that), but on the other you don't want residents availing themselves of the AR system to report possible or probable violations when they see them. I'll repeat what I've said before: I'll take resident-centred "community policing" any day over a surveillance society or roving bands of LL cops. Or, do we just shrug and give up on enforcing the ToS entirely? Serious question: what's left if you don't want to settle for either option? Do we just let everything slide because, on the one hand, we don't want LL snooping around, and on the other, we don't want to be snitches? How do you enforce the ToS then, Coffee? How do you "govern" SL so that it doesn't become a known haven for a*eplayers, griefers, etc.?
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    You know who could be sure? Governance. But apparently they'd never know if you have your way?
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    BJ obviously thought it was a case of a*eplay, assuming it did even happen. Playing cop, as you put it, is the only way of preventing SL from becoming a hell hole of illegal, shady, or toxic crap, which would eventually result in SL being abandoned by most residents or shut down by someone else. How else exactly do you think we should respond to this sort of thing? Who will stop it if we don't? And if we don't, you are leaving LL with no alternative but instituting the kind of invasive "proactive measures" you most fear. Winking at illegality when we see it isn't doing SL or any of us any favours.
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