Porky Gorky

Yep, as ZIggy said it is against the rules. You should flag the item for takedown, choose the option "disallowed listing practices".

Tateru Nino wrote: No, he didn't actually - though it is widely said that he did. He said that SL would remain the primary focus of the Lab - and that they would be hiring some extra people to work on non-SL projects. Did he? Oh. LOL. Well I haven't got time to sit around reading blogs all day learning the "facts". I'd rather pick up tit bits of misinformation from unreliable sources, run it through my Porky filter and spew it out the other end straight onto a forum with the vague pretense I know what I am talking about. That's just the way I roll. :matte-motes-big-grin:

Rod told us in his blog that the Lab would be focusing on projects not related to SL. Maybe he neglected to mention that they would be spending all of Q1 focusing on new projects and would pop their heads back in to SL around Easter to catch up on a bit of paperwork. It would explain the eerie ongoing silence on the blog front, plus we know how LL corporate culture works, employees are generally free to choose the tasks and projects they work on, so maybe when Rod said "who wants to work on something new" everyone just stood up and charged for the door.

Deamon Easterwood wrote: Why call the police when you have proof of the stocking and stuff. Why after giving the liden labs the information have they not done anything because that is the first thing the police are going to tell you to do. Why not have these avi's spendened or deleted off for harashment. I can get permently banned for doing stupid little things yet stocking and bullying is okay? If indeed LL has not done anything to help as the OP claimed then any victims are left with no other course of action other than contacting the police. The OP has plenty of evidence it seems so I am sure she can prove to the police that she has already contacted LL for help.

I couldn't care less about censorship in regards to this forum. This forum is run by a private company . They make the rules. I have a choice of either following their rules or not participate at all. It's as simple as that. If you care about your comments being censored then you should stop posting here. With regards to censoring the forum from the teens. I never said the current level of moderation has succeeded in protecting the teens. Of course it hasn't, and that's because of the reasons you outlined. I was simply saying that one of the reasons we have increased moderation now is because LL is trying to protect the teens. Whether or not they succeed is irrelevant to the point I was making. I am saying LL's attempt to protect the teens is a factor in the current level of moderation. With regards to protecting LL's reputation, you have taken a much wider view than I have. I don't for one second think that the moderation we are currently seeing will undo years of bad publicity. I was thinking on a much smaller scale. Despite the years of bad press we still have lots of new people signing up every day and some of them will eventually make it to the forum. Obviously LL would not want these new customers faced with a barrage of anti-LL threads when they arrive. It's not good for business or customer retention. So this is what they are trying to protect I believe. They are trying to protect their current standing as a service provider to new and potential customers. I want SL to succeed and grow again so this makes good business sense to me.

Extreme cyber bullying is a prosecutable offence in some countries now and there have been instances of cyber bullies being prosecuted and imprisoned in both the UK and the US as well as other countries. I guess if you have lots of evidence and this is truly affecting your life then you should call the police.

I think allot of people on the internet get confused between trolling, flaming and simply disagreeing. I have been active on the internet for a long time, starting out on newsgroups when that was all there was. I have been accused of being a troll many times over the years, but I can comfortably say I have never trolled in my life. Generally people mistake flaming for trolling. I have done my share of flaming but more often than not when I am accused of flaming I am actually legitimately disagreeing. There is a distinct difference between the 3. The more people that flood online as time goes on, the more often these 3 terms are misused, generally due to the ignorance of the user,

LOL Phil that is funny. Sounds like a scene out of a Carry On film.

As you know Rene,...."Back in the day" when this forum was at it's most active, it was a total bitchfest. We had resmods who constantly failed to maintain order and you could essentially say whatever you wanted as long is it wasn't too extreme, i.e. no racism or overly explicit language. I used to get quite involved. I like debating and arguing with people, especially the LL cheerleaders, it's entertainment to some extent and a good way to pass the time on slow work days. I'm tactless and blunt so generally there was no shortage of people to debate with, they were normally queuing up to pull my posts apart and to offer their opinions. I would be active for a few months on the forum, then would be inactive for a few months as my workload increased. I saw no difference at all to my profit levels or my bottom line in SL. There is no notable correlation between my forum activities and my sales of digital content. When debating with someone, quite often they assume that I am hurting my business through the comments I make and they are smug in the assurance that they are not hurting their own business as they are hiding behind an alt. This is just nonsense. And in the event that my contribution to the forums does have minimal impact on my sales then it all balances out anyway. Some people may choose to not buy my products based on comments I have made. On the other hand, some people who have never heard of me before will check out my profile or MP listings and become customers. It's all exposure after all and generally there are some people that agree with what I say and some people that don't. As I said before though, it's all negligible at the end of the day. The active userbase here is really small and always has been when compared to the inworld population. If people are so desperate for business that they let it dictate how they present themselves on the forums and it forces them to put on an act and not to be their usual selves, then they need to take good look at their marketing strategy and find more effective ways of reaching out to new and potential customers. I have lots of effective marketing tools at my disposal. This forum isn't one of them. Compared to in the past, my posts nowadays are tame and rarely confrontational because you can't get away with it any more. We have real moderators now who actually know how to do their jobs. I take my hat off too them, they have certainly cleaned up the streets as it were. Unfortunately the forums are allot less interesting as a result but that is the price we have to pay for helping protect the teens and helping LL protect their reputation on a publicly accessible forum.

DaiUretic wrote: Ever heard of the concept of burn phones? If the cap fits wear it, sunshine. Your reaction tells your potential clients everything they would want to know. Dai Luckily for me I'm not desperate enough to have to rely on a forum with a small userbase to generate sales. So I feel no need to hide in order to avoid alienating potential customers. Infact I would have said exactly the same thing to you in world if you were a customer. If you contacted me inworld with the intention of buying a product and then laid the whole "I am elite" speech on me with a brand new account, i would have happily told you that you are talking bollocks and sent you on your merry way. So why are you hiding Dai? Are you just here with your alt to flame? Or are you planning on doing something that would besmirch your good business name?

DaiUretic wrote: Which one am I? I am one of the elite, look you. In fact, I am the only remaining member of the forum elite. I used to be here a lot, but that was in the days when there were posters worth jousting with here, when mods occasionally made jokes and told people off for taking things too seriously. Plus ca change, eh? Now, the forums are barely concealed ineffective commercial propaganda vehicles, frequented by those who don't value their reputation as highly as even their time, it appears. There are more fakes posting here than there are ex-LL staff working for Facebook. It's not worth posting anything of consequence here, not even a good trolling OP, since some pansy liberal will AR it and it will be disappeared by a bilingually semiliterate mod who won't bother to read it, or if it criticises LL a Linden will use its Godmode to eliminate the evidence without leaving a trace. This forum used to be a place where people came to discuss what they did in SL. Now it's a place for those who can't work out what they want to do inworld, if they can be bothered to go there at all, and the ambulance chasers use it for free promotional purposes. They must be desperate. All that happens is that anyone trying to sell their stuff in GD gets their names put on The Black List. Yes, it exists. Watch your sales plummet once you have demonstrated your lack of care for your customers here. The feeds are now the place to be for flaming, trolling, drama queens and poseurs. I don't know if there are many spectators there. I would like the spammers, oops, commercial forumites, to turn up there in force, which would compel LL to do something about their ill-designed and partially functioning software, and perhaps convert the Trending tab away from something that a man and his alt could game on a 24x7 basis. I'm off to the pub now. I have to see a man about a sheepdog. Dai That statement might have made a bit more impact if it hadn't come from an account that was made today. As it stands it just sounds like you are talking bollocks. :matte-motes-agape:

Perrie Juran wrote: Remember me? Haha that's very weird.....and also worryingly arousing.

This question came up in a group chat last night and resulted in some funny stories so thought I would ask here. For me the weirdest/funniest thing I ever saw in SL was at a town hall meeting in 2007 or 08. Sidewinder Linden was at the front in his lizard avatar talking about Havok 4, when all of a sudden another giant lizard avatar dropped out of the sky next to him. The other Lizard proclaimed his love for Havok 4 then attempted to mate with Sidewinder right there in front of us. Apparently he wanted to have his babies. I guess you had to have been there to appreciate the full weirdness of the situation but that experience has always stayed with me. What's the weirdest or funniest thing you have ever witnessed in SL?

I know people age play in SL, I just never realised it had grown to be so popular and that it required external services such as hospitals to support the community's roleplay. As I said, I am ignorant to such things but I will be impressed if you can actually create a business out of this. Good luck to you.

Six Igaly wrote: Anyway. I used to use PS7 but since i returned to a Mac i decided to not use illigal software anymore. That is where PSE came in lol. I am not sure what is worse, the fact that you used to pirate software or the fact that you are a Mac user :matte-motes-big-grin:

In this thread that you started yesterday about drama in SL, you said Lucinda Bulloch wrote: .......to be honest it was a mistake posting this question, what it has taught me is to stay away from this forum, way to many disturbed people here. Yet here you are again, moaning on about the same issues as yesterday in a new thread. So what happened? Did you forget the lesson you claimed to have learned yesterday? Why are you again seeking the opinions of the same people that you insulted yesterday. Do you think they will be less disturbed today? Or are you just a hypocrite with a flair for the dramatic? Enquiring minds would like to know?

Just to clarify, you are looking for investment to open a hospital for adults that are pretending to be children that are pretending they are in need of medical attention? Im probably ignorant but that seems like a very niche service you are trying to provide here. Is there really a market for this?

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: So can buy a fast car but not a 2 dollar skin, lol, lets stop here shall we, i think you just got in a pit with a pitbull, and you have a bag on your head, lol. Yep, bascially. as I said I am a cheapskate. My clothes are freebies as is my 2007 skin and also the free bag I wear on my head. I didn't get my fast car by pissing money up the wall on skins and clothing or by wasting my time and L$ shopping. I got it by focusing on building and selling, covering my basic expenses and cashing out the rest. I could have created a new skin for myself or a more fancier head bag. But that would mean less time spent working on sellable content. I rarely ever meet anyone face to face so really don't need to worry about it.

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: So a bag over your head is not drama then, ok, lol, what ever you say dear. LOL no. I Have a bag over my head because I am lazy and a cheapskate. Peek under my bag and you will see a skin from about 2007. Basically I was embarrased by the quality of my skin, and could not be bothered to look for and buy a new one. So I shoved a bag on my head. End of story. I am not suprised that you think SL is full of drama. You seem to seek it out wherever you look, and when there is none to be found you start inventing it. Just like in this instance with my head bag. I shoved a bag on my head because my skin looked rubbish. End of story. You look at my AV and assumed something completely different. You see drama where there is none. So I think we can conclude that SL is not all about the drama. However Lucinda Bulloch is.

Read Rod's crimbo blog here. In the blog he states "we will introduce a "creators" program in which verified members will be given access to these very powerful capabilities." As far as I know LL have not yet made public what the criteria is for being validated. That's why i said "selected".

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: Maybe you only feel at peace in that kind environment, that's fine, why not try to be someone else cos maybe being you all the time is not doing you good, don't know, you have a box over your head. I would disagree. being me in SL has benefited my RL a great amount, it's allowed me to pay off my mortgage, bought me an expensive car and allowed me nice holidays for the last 5 years, so I would say my current approach to SL is doing me a lot of good. If I want to roleplay I'lll go and play Skyrim. And it's a bag on my head, not a box :smileyhappy:

Forget about making money from rentals. It's not worth the time or effort and the return is poor, IMO you should focus on one of the following. Content creation - there is a big gap in the market right now for well designed and cleverly optimised mesh content, I think filling this gap would be the easiest way to make a million L$ or provide a service that people are willing to pay for. or provide an experience that people are willing to pay for, there could be allot of potential here as in the near future LL will be offering "selected" people a toolset to create games and content along the lines of Linden Realms. This is going to open up potential new sources for earning L$ in SL.

Much like real life, SL is what you make it. The places you go and the people you interact with define your experience. So I suspect the title of your thread "SL is drama, period" is only applicable to you and others like you, mainly due to the choices you have freely made since you have been here. I've been here 7 years and focused on building content, creating a business and generally interacting with other like minded people. I try to avoid drama at all costs, it's not something I desire in RL or SL. I deal with customers on a daily basis and obviously come accross some that are pure drama queens. At this point I am presented with 2 options, I either stoop to their level and engage with them, perpetuating the drama, which is what they want, or I can choose to ignore them. I always choose the later, even if it means loosing a customer and revenue. I just don't have the time or inclination to deal with drama queens and quite frankly I can't be arsed with it.. So I don't..... period.

Infohubs replaced the telehubs that existed before LL rolled out point to point teleporting in 2005. Back then telehubs were a natural gathering place as that was the point in a region that avatars would arrive when teleporting into the area (unless they had a personal TP request). Land around telehubs used to be in massive demand as well due to to all the passing traffic. So I think the popularity of infohubs as gathering places stems back the telehub days and has existed ever since to some degree.

Make sure your SL name rhythms. It makes it much easier for people when they want to write songs about you to honour your greatness. oooh Porky Gorky, he likes to talk on his walkie talkie, whilst eating dinner with his forky, and draws a picture with his chalky......