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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    Agreed. Implementation is all: is this a bit of nice PR bumpf, or will it actually be functional and useful? And yes, if they're going to take this step, they need to expand it to include a really wide variety of communities. My thought exactly. On both counts. This WOULD be a good way to showcase adult communities in SL, something that LL has been reluctant to do (for fairly obvious if contentious reasons). I am doubtful, however. I think a community page for BDSM might be useful. On the other hand, if there is one for Gor, I'm going nuclear.
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    It occurs to me, thinking about it now, that one possible good move, although it would require uncharacteristic speed from LL, would be a "community page" on Ukrainians in SL.
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    From the SL Blog's "Featured News" . . . This seems to me a rather good idea, depending (of course) on how it is implemented. There ARE many diverse communities within SL, often of course overlapping, but there really hasn't been a good way to to support or reach these, except through the rather iffy channel of resident-created in-world groups. This might become a fabulous resource for helping people connect and learn within SL. This is bound, of course, to be a bit controversial. Thoughts? Here's the first of the new community pages:
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    I have never heard this, and I very much doubt it is possible, to be honest. What IS true is that enabling media in-world will expose your IP address, but that's of fairly limited use to anyone: it's not even a good way of identifying alts. So far as I know, there is no way you can be "hacked" from within LL's platform: whatever happened, it happened outside of SL.
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    I should apologize: my forum account occasionally gets "hacked" by a person who gets shirty over rudeness based upon unwarranted assumptions. This hacker person also gets distressed when newish forum posters are treated badly. I agree that it's not a bad idea to distinguish between "hacking" and "phishing," but will note that the OP clearly doesn't believe that the latter was what was responsible: A lot of this has to do with tone. Almost everyone who has responded directly to the OP did so in the spirit of helpfulness, and managed to avoid being snarky or judgmental. @LittleMe Jewelland @bigmoe Whitfielddeserve thanks for doing what I would like to think we all try to do here: provide assistance without subtext to someone who requested it. That's how I would like to think the forum operates. My objection to one particular response was that it was, frankly, not helpful, but seemed merely to be an opportunity to indulge in a bit of smug snark, and made speculative assumptions about the cause of the OP's distress that contributed not at all to helping the latter find a solution. This kind of tone and response is characteristic of the reason some have complained about the treatment new posters here on occasion. I would like this to be a friendly, welcoming, and helpful space. Some kinds of responses don't contribute to that much. I -- I mean, the person who hacked my forum account, of course -- should probably have just let this pass, as critiquing someone who is gratuitously nasty is probably unlikely to make them any nicer. So, I do apologize for that, and will now exit this thread as gracefully as I can, while administering smacks on the wrist to the person who posted in my name. Whoever [she] may be.
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    Helpful! Sympathetic! Also, speculative. But hey, why not blame the victim?
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Clubbing. And the perils thereof.
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    Pretty much everything is seeming rather trivial today.
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    Very much this, with some differences. If I'm IMed by someone who has been active and engaged in local chat, then I assume that something I've said or done has tweaked their interest -- and that's totally fine, although it is still often a red flag. But that's the way (in my view) that you DO make friends: gradually, and with progressively more intimacy, as you get to know each other. When I'm IMed cold by someone who has not been talking in local -- or, I have not, so there is no particular reason for me to have "stood out" and be worthy of their attention -- that's when I know there is a good likelihood that I'm about to be hit on.
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    Vandal! Philistine! Cut-rate landscaper!
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    Right. AND THANKS FOR PROVIDING A HANDY GUIDE OUT OF THE MAZE!!!! 😡
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    You aren't simply going to immolate the entire thing? Maddy, you're losing your edge!
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    We are now, I think, reasonably certain that this poster is in fact the alt of another, rather prolific and frequently trollish forumite who was, at the time, under suspension from the forum. So, my guess is, his feet and the rest of him went "poof."
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    As I've noted elsewhere in other contexts, they always look to me a bit as if they'd been glued on, and might break off if their owner brushed too hard against a table or something.
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    Terrible pic, because I was lagging out, but here I am yesterday at the opening of my new exhibition at @manoji Yachvili's gallery, greeting new arrivals at the entrance of the labyrinth in which the pics are to be found. From left to right with me, @Laurel Aurelia, @Aiyumei, [me], and Manoji. If you survived the maze (I suspect not everyone did), there was a dance party at the other end.
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yes, dear, but breasts are beautiful. And p****** are . . . well . . . um . . .
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    It is rather alarming to have to ask this question, but . . . . . . you DO realize that you are not, actually, a "Doll," right? I mean, that you are a sentient person with free will and all, who is RPing being a doll for the duration of a particular Scene with one or more other people? This may seem a subtle distinction to you, but it's an important one. The consent of the "Doll" you are playing is not required, because she is not real. YOUR consent, and equally the consent of the person playing with you, is, because you both are real people, with free will, and to whom real harms might ensue in the course of the Scene. Dollification is a reasonably well known and not uncommon sub-genre, so to speak, of D/s and BDSM. It falls solidly within the parameters of those fields, and prior consent, safe words, etc., etc., are still an absolutely necessary part of how it works. As for the "Community Doll Philosophy," I just want to underline what Maddy has already said: interacting as "Dolls" with "normal people" who quite possibly have next to no understanding of even the basic fundamentals of D/s and BDSM is quite simply insane. Apart from the fact that it's a recipe for misunderstandings, abuse, drama, and god knows what else, it is also communicating an absolutely false notion of how D/s actually works.
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, false equivalency in the sense that what you generally propose is much more dangerous than peeing in the pool. I'll explain, since you seem not to follow . . . Not peeing in the pool is a curtailment of your "rights" on the basis of furthering the common good. Exercising your individual choice to pee in a pool in defiance of this impacts upon everyone else also in the pool. Choosing to disregard Covid safety protocols, such as mask-wearing, social distancing, and vaccination, is similarly an insistence upon "your rights" that potentially impacts, and indeed endangers everyone else in your community. Deciding that you personally find the articulation of prior consent, or the setting of bounds and limits, etc., in a D/s context annoying, "boring," and deleterious to your personal enjoyment puts those who might choose to interact with you, including a Dom(me) at risk because you are exposing them to the danger of being subsequently negligent in not obtaining prior consent. (And there are other reasons too.) What this all comes down to, Arielle, is a marked tendency that I've seen from you over and over again to insist upon the priority of YOUR personal preferences and choices over the well-being of everyone else around you. Basically, you don't seem to care much about anyone else. I hope that made this clearer?
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    On both this and on Covid safeguards, Arielle, you're a little like someone who, arriving at the swimming pool and seeing a sign prohibiting peeing while in the water, opines that, really, that's a choice that should be left to everyone to determine for themselves.
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    Thank you for this, as well.
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yes. She offered it to me under the pretense that it was French Onion soup. It's the results of an "experimental" quickie recipe for apple pie. Rather like the sad, deformed survivor of some grotesque genetic experiment, really. I still feel queasy thinking about it.
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is what she wants you to believe. DO NOT BE FOOLED! THE TRUTH IS MORE HORRIFYING!!
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    That's only because you don't know how it is SUPPOSED to look.
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    My god, Maddy. Do you have NO moral compass whatsoever?
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    You are most certainly NOT an idiot. This all started about 4 hours ago. And thank you for your kind words. 🙂 I am half Ukrainian, actually, but second generation Canadian. We lost track of remaining relatives still living there a couple of decades ago. In any case, people are people. And bombs and guns tend to kill them, whoever is pulling the trigger.
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