Pussycat Catnap

The Lindens are very very very unlikely to be willing to help. This is why people need to consider buying mainland. There's a -lot- of it out there right now. There are reputable estate managers out there. If yours isn't one of them, leave. Unfortunately... I really don't know how to go about finding which ones are reputable. About the only one who's reputation I know speaks for itself solidly around SL is Caledon. Outside of that... you're going to have to hit google and look for reviews, ratings, or whatever is out there.

The serious answer to this is to ignre that spam. Are you sure it came from your item and not your partner's item? Check your chat log if you keep one to see which item was chatting. - check to see if it has a feature to disable such a feature. The brands of these items I am aware of, xcite and sensations, do not to my knowledge even have such an ability in their scripting. So it may be time to switch brands if you can't figure out how to disable an unwanted feature. You can also edit the item, and under tools, reset its scripts - if you really want to keep that particular item but it tries to insist yoy now have to go through the full routine.

Dr.Dahlgren wrote: Ah yeah, right... Well, my alt had protected sex but still got an SLSTD and his parts fell off. I think he would have rather been pregnant, count your blessings.... Boys and their toys.

This is just one of those things... Rather than use a system whereby the lindens could rez water on your lot, or rather than putting the pool just outside so your lot - so that they could unlike the water and make it phantom... they just plopped it down there as one big linked build... so that the water has to be solid... The easiest way to avoid that would have been to have the pool's water linked to a different root prim than the rest of your home, and that whole separate link system made phantom...

Ravin.Draconia wrote: While I'm not sure, I think you can get the DPW to do some stuff for you. Maybe not a river, but perhaps a pond or something? Check the Knowledgebase for the Department of Public Works Ponds are easy to make btw. Look at my plot in Voidicus for an example (Voidicus/1/1/1 - take door that says exit if that puts you in the club in the sky). Neirbors on the sim behind me and to the west of me also use similar ponds. If you depress some of the ground enough, linden water will appear. If you're too high up for that, as is my case, you make two layered prims and put in a slow motion animation. The prims are highly transparent, and each uses a different water texture. And make them phantom. I learned the technique of making such water at an NCI class, and then applied it to a pond rather than the fountain we made in class. Not long ago I landed in a shop selling a full kit for making rushing rivers, rapids and all. I -might- have a LM if someone really wanted me to look. The thing was made with sculpties.

If you are exactly the right altitude, you -CAN- change the texture on the land by raising or lowering the elevation. Parts of my Fietzo land are like this, but most of it is not. It seems to automatically adjust when it crosses some particularly z value. But this is not from grassy to snow. Rather, there is a general theme to the textures, and a sublist based on elevation within that. What happens to me is that it goes from grassy to rocky with grass. But on other sims, there is snow land that is lower than my land - thus my observation that within a general theme, there are specific sub textures.

Radars are not always accurate. I've been seeing a lot of people on my adult sim that the radar says are near me by the number, but are out of range for camming to. When I've ever finally found someone, they were nowhere near where the radar had put them... This seems to be a recent issue for me though. Since the last server update, Emerald seems to have trouble tracking some of the time.

Technically this is also a criminal act on his part. Cyber stalking. The question then is whether your local police will take it seriously, or the San Francisco Police (who have juridisction as LL's is in SF). Because if they do, they will crack open his account like a hammer against an eggshell and somebody will be in jail... Cyberstalking has led to RL stalking and violent acts in the past, so police have no excuse ignoring it; but that doesn't mean they will pay attention... I managed to stop my own cyberstalker some years ago by outing him publicly on a forum in front of his employers who happened to all be in a discussion together. But that tactic rarely works. I got lucky. Do realize that if you don't report it, your partner may end up on a police blotter someday under very unfortunate circumstances.

There are some people who I have chosen not to interract with in world due to the poltics they've expressed in forums (and I mean expressly, rather than implications both sides might make in a debate. If you expressly declare a certain set of political ideologies)... - But that's it. I don't take the arguments and discussions in world. I just tell myself "there is a person I could not get along with, no matter how hard either of us tried." I leave it at that, and simply don't bother them. I'd probably leave if I landed somewhere and found one of those people there, just because I'd feel awkward. But that would be it. Not many people even that. Choosing to actively pursue someone inworld over something out, is just not a good way to go about things. But I have vented about a person inworld on an outsde blog...

Just look up some case law on why you have to click an 'accept terms' checkbox now rather than tearing through some random paper glued to the shrink wrap like it used to be. Its not really guessing.

Daria.Afterthought wrote: Wrong. And people click "I agree" by engaging in the IM and "I disagree" by not engaging. Ignorant consent = Passive consent. Maybe in Red China, but not in the USA. Need active consent to waive a right in the USA.

Abuse Report her. You can't share them unless you get EXPRESS ACTIVE CONSENT from the party waiving their right to keep it private. Like this: A: gossip, gab, gossip, gab, gossip. B: OMG, I so have to tell C about that. Can I? A: Yeah, go ahead and copy the chat log. - If you don't have that, you don't have consent. Break out the abuse report function.

Deanna.Moonwall wrote: what actions by this female avatar could be considered abuse? Its only abuse if they're on a Frankenbarbie: over 6', DDD-boobs, hips at 0, waist at 0, torso length at 0, leg length at 100, arm length at 0, hand size and foot size at 0. Bling everywhere, and blond... and it doesn't matter if its a man or woman playing that AV. (I wish it was abuse...) - But if that were actually abuse, 90% of SL would get AR'd.

I've been standing next to a friend and she 'went offline' according to that monitor while we just kept on talking to each other... Glitches happen. But some people will uncheck the box if they're not feeling social but are online anyway and don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Read assorted office hours, and look at statements made about incidents on various external forums. During the office hours as the adult policy was going into and then went into effect, it was a common theme that certain names would pop up, along with details, and the linden in attendance would have no more than a non-answer to why those names were still popping up. That same kind of info can be found when looking at conversation about bots.

Its a popular theory and seems the only way to explain why, according to some, there are very specific people who get AR'd hundreds of times and yet have no action taken. But it is a theory.

Divine.Tokyoska wrote: Wow.....if you are a perv...you are the most polite perv in SL.....lol I WISH a man would approach me in that manner.....I get more offensive IMs when I'm simply shopping or sitting at my home sim. I know... I was thinking... geeze, come perv me like that, please. It'd be a nice change. We need to have Olsin teach 'perv classes' at NCI so some of the other pervs can learn how to be successful at it. (actually I tend to end up with mostly the nice pervs. Usually they big me when I don't have free time though... /sigh )

I think I read the wrong part of her blog. The Coakley campaign thing. That blogger seems to a be a woman who deeply hates her own body and gender. Repeatedly she disparages womanhood and the experience of puberty - seeing it as a trial almost described as 'punishment from nature' rather than a blossoming into something wonderful. That's kind of depressing that someone could have so negative of a self identity. And it leaves me not at all surprised about her other posts and claims of being harrassed. This is someone who thinks nature / God / whatever harrassed women by making them not men. When you start out with that viewpoint, you can't win... I don't think there is anything you can do to make peace with this woman. She has to make peace with herself and her own body first. Far from a dissapointment of burdens, the female body is a thing of grace, inner power, and elegant beauty. As for a direct answer... reading the chat she herself quoted, there's no harrassment on -your- end of the conversation. Maybe she cut that part out. But the parts she left in seem to show her harrassing you. That said, a sex club on mature land is a TOS violation. She should have just reported that, and left. It belongs on adult land.

Bots and traffic gaming are not allowed unless your an approved traffic gamer... How yo become one of those I dunno - maybe having a Linden as a RL friend, or being an xstreet top-10 seller, or something... That said, nothing stops the rest of us from filing a new AR every 5 minutes against the traffic gamers until they either openly declare the bias, or start dealing with it. With the personal caveat that I have yet to find one of these places. I'm just going off of what I keep reading over and over again in these forums. If you're finding those people still doing it, just get an AR party going and file a few dozen ARs at once. That's how land reform groups deal with ad-farmers and micro-plot makers.