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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    Been there. I'm so sorry, hun. Hugs.
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    Don't you dare. Yeesh, I once had to take Lil to task for threatening that. What an unruly mob you all are! Sit down and behave!
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    I merely named the two who most seem to have acclimatized themselves to the place. As Cinn says, we're always looking, or should be, for new and fresh perspectives, and I'd welcome any who decided to hang about, as you put it. And no, the forum is not "fit for the purpose," and never has been. That's been true of every major change or crisis that has brought people here in the past, and not just the current one. Some of that has definitely been on us -- and some of it has been because some of those new voices were merely here to unload, and were not particularly interested in what we had to say either. That's been true before, and it's been somewhat true of the current instance as well. The forum should be a place for discussion, but there are definitely some who treat it as a dumping ground for one-sided histrionics and rants. (We actually have a few somewhat longer-term forumites who also fall into this category.) None of this is very new. The main difference is that those running child avatars tend to identify as a coherent community. But what has been clear, despite that, is that community or not, they are still very much individual voices and perspectives. Not all of those are ever going to fit in here, and probably don't want to. But I hope that some will.
  4. Scylla Rhiadra
    I am not going to entirely disagree: it does take some people some time to integrate into the forum community. And partially that IS our fault -- although not everyone's, by any means. But we are nothing like as nasty as we once were here. I'm going to echo Cinn's sentiment in any case, and express my hope that some, like @brodiac90 and @Madi Melodious to name but two, decide to stay. They would be welcomed by the vast majority of us.
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    Not true, Coffee. And unfair to many of us who have reached out to some of those coming here to represent the interests of child avatars. Of course there has been some hostility. And yeah, it takes a while for newcomers to feel at home here. And at the same time, not all of those who are posting for the first time have been particularly willing to listen -- although they are exceptions, happily. I agree with Cinn -- I can think of at least two newish people I'd love to see hang around here more, and I, and most of us, would welcome others.
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    You asked. We heard you.
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Maybe if we shoot one in ten, pour encourager les autres, like the French did in the Great War.
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    Please god make it stop.
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    A fun thing we used to do at a place I hung out (same place I mentioned above, actually) was push avis that had gone AFK into the pond adjoining the social area of region. It was a totally harmless prank, clearly not deserving the title of "griefing." It was done to everyone, regardless of how new, or old, or popular they were. It was, actually, even sort of an affectionate thing: it showed you had been "accepted." It happened to me occasionally. I found it a bit puerile and very mildly annoying sometimes, but I accepted it as part of the culture, and understood that it was certainly not in any sense "malicious." There was one person there who really hated it. She felt it was a kind of violation, I guess? And she'd get quite upset about it when it happened. Silly, right? It wasn't "hurting" her in any way, and wasn't being done in a mean-spirited way. It was really, objectively, mostly a very small inconvenience. And yes, of course there were countermeasures she could have taken to prevent it from happening. But we stopped doing it to her because, regardless of how silly we felt her objections were, it was bothering her. The "fun" we got out of it was incommensurate to the upset and discomfort it seemed to cause her. Our "fun" didn't depend upon making someone else upset, however irrational we might feel that reaction might be. We didn't mean it to cause harm -- but clearly it was doing that, to some extent, and that made it "not fun" anymore, because that fun was based on how we all responded to it, perpetrators and "victims." We stopped doing it because we cared about how our actions were impacting on her. In other words, because we weren't frickin' sociopaths.
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    In an SL context? Maybe But it is, as Coffee says, a rather unpleasant reminder of some realities concerning how we as a culture judge femininity.
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    Or statutory r*pe, but, yeah, sure! Heck, in some places in the US you can marry 'em off at 15 so maybe LL should just chill a bit, amiright?
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    At last!!!! My chance to be A-rated!!!! "Hey Big Boy! Wanna come by and test exactly how "material" my dialectic really is? You've got nothing to lose but your chain." *wink wink*
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    Years ago there was a guy who used to hang out at a very popular chat place I spent a lot of time at. He was mostly pretty pleasant, and when he was, I quite liked him. But he clearly had "issues" of some sort, and on occasion he would become quite frenetic and filled local chat with attention-seeking inanities and sometimes offensive comments. Mostly he was tolerated by the community, largely because we all recognized that, as annoying and occasionally obnoxious as he could be, he was really just trying to find a way to fit in. I suspect too that he was pretty young, and that likely factored in too. Then one day, when he was in one of his attention-seeking spells, he went off the deep end and dressed his avi up as the most offensively racist caricature of a black man he could manage, and began to spout the worst crap to go along with it. Needless to say, everyone was repulsed. I tried to talk him down (because I'm stupid) and get him to stop, but clearly someone had (understandably) ARed him, and a Linden suddenly appeared above him. Seconds later he was gone, never to be heard from again. I suppose he probably fits into your 5th category, although he most often was not like this. I think that trolls can be . . . complicated.
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yeah, actually, kinda. It was certainly one of my conclusions from that thread that large and well-aired boobs "age" one. A little sad, no?
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    My goodness!
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yeah. I had a 20 year old who kept proposing nude shots that I should model for him. I'd seen his pics. The offer was not about "photography." Or at least not the kind that gets on the SL Official Flickr page.
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    Not my gallery, so the music, dance balls, and tip jar aren't mine sadly. (I did once put out a tip jar at a show, at the insistence of the gallery owner, and did quite well from it, so maybe I rethink that policy!) But I'm very happy to hear that @Bagnu and @Cinnamon Mistwood had fun there! And of course it's appropriate! It's a gallery, not a church!
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    I agree! And the people here! BTW, your ensemble is perfect for gallery viewing! There are too many gowns or pencil skirts at such places, and not nearly enough fuzzy slippers! Let's open these places up!
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    This may be the exhibition of which I am most proud. Thank you so much for visiting it! I hope you enjoyed it!
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    I don't want to get rid of it!! I really kinda love it and feel comfy there; as you say, it has real character. There really isn't anywhere else on the grid quite like Voroznia, and I like how I've decorated my place. I'm just not sure I can justify the expense, really. But I'm also (clearly) in no hurry to lose it. The hair is Magika ... "Esme" I think!
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    This was taken at Cravone City -- where I bumped into (almost) Cath @Aiyumei, who was hanging out there with friends. (Cravone is actually where we first met together in-world.) https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cravone/41/82/29
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    Still haven't let go of my Voroznia apartment -- in part because I haven't taken enough "good bye" pics there. This is in my favourite room, the kitchen. Behind me, on the wall, a 70s tourist poster for Kyiv.
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Absolutely. But then, any change to the maturity ratings is going to involve a fair amount of churn. I don't think a lot of landowners and creators yet appreciate how much even the new guidelines for child avatars is going to involve recalibration. (In part, because a great many people are still largely oblivious to the change.) Consider what designating some Moderate places as "mobile accessible" and "inaccessible to mobile" would involve in real terms. It's going to be a mess either way.
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    It's potentially going to impact, though, on creators, on landowners, and anyone who doesn't want to find themselves inadvertently "excluded" from the mobile market. So not LL being "evil," for sure -- just not thinking it through, I would bet. We really need a lot more context to know, I think.
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    I disagree with none of this. Again, though . . . this was not what Arielle said, which is what I was responding to.
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