Prokofy Neva

There are so many annoyances you have to bat away in Second Life. There's that homing beacon that won't go away after you land -- it's supposed to guide you to the place you clicked on the map, although most of the time you don't need it. Yes, there is a trick to get rid of it -- open up the mini-map and click on it -- but that's not enough. You have to then right click, look for the menu on the right, and select "Stop Tracking". There's the edit menu that opens up over the very object you are trying to edit -- yes, it does that. Yes, you can push it to the left or right -- it's a tear sheet. But it keeps coming back. There's no way to get rid of it permanently. I know some don't believe this, but it's real, and documented. There's the glaring object highlight that illuminates all the vertices in a mesh object, to the point that you finally have to turn it off. Yes, then you risk picking up an entire house tthen, when you merely when to pick up a flower off the floor. But at least you're preserving your eyesight. Leave aside grey squares -- if you wait, they go away. But be sure not to tab out of the window and do something else while you wait -- it won't go away then. Oh, and the fact that since the new installation, pictures won't save to the drive path that in fact does exist, saying it doesn't exist. Oh, well. There's always "print screen". But now there are two new annoyances. One seems to be gone in the latest patch; another is back. When you hover over an object, you get its name (all discussions here reference the regular SL viewer, which should be made to work; I don't use Firestorm and will never use it). Great, you need that object's name! But that's when you *right* click. Lately when you *left* click, you get the hover, too, which blocks the edit tab. You can't go into edit until you re-try several times to get past the stupid hover. This happens regardless of whether you first right-clicked to seek the object name; if you're editing it, chances are you know its name or don't care, because you're editing it. You have to bat it away multiple times. This seems gone now, but boy, what a pain. Now, there's the "intrusive parcel border line" back again. This is NOT the line you get if you check "show parcel borders". On group land, that would be aqua. On individually-owned land, that would be bright green. THIS IS DIFFERENT, and obtains even when you have NOT checked "show parcel borders". When you go to edit an object, the parcel border intrudes with a yellow-hued line, as you can see below. Now why would any Linden think that is useful? Obviously, if I'm in a house I've already placed between my borders, and I'm hanging a picture, I don't need to know the parcel borders. I have a rough sense of them anyway, even if I am just randomly putting around flowers or lawn furniture. I can't think of a time when I would need the parcel borders to glow up in my face to "help" me place an object -- especially when they render in a foreshortened way. I can't see any way to get rid of this. It's quite possible in fact this isn't a "boon" a Linden has conceived (although they do that and annoy the heck out of users) but simply a glitch -- but then it doesn't annoy Lindens enough to get them to remove it as it keeps coming back (or maybe never went away).

Nothing "morally superior" about investigating the vicious blow-hards on the forums and finding their super-sad stores. No, they are not getting rich off old pose-balls. I have absolutely no qualms about checking out people who have harassed and harangued me and others for years with all kinds of know-it-all arrogance on topics from traffic to building to lag. Nope, none at all. It would be hard to believe that somebody would have a modern, productive wealthy alt making bank from their store and also an old has-been alt or main with a pathetic store. But of course, people will contort themselves into any kind of pretzel to make arguments in support of the forums queens.

Just tried your theory once again -- you never know, and I don't mind being declared wrong on something as vexing as this, if what you say works. But it doesn't. I tried rezzing a prim over a floor -- tried different depths -- it was not linked; also tried linking it. Doesn't work. The mesh bounces. It seems as if when it is invisible, it can't be found to rez on (although of course in the sky, lots of things will rez on an invisible prim). So now I have a half dozen houses where this bounce problem is from mild to severe -- some so bad you can't even rez a prim on them, let alone mesh -- and I've tried your solution repeatedly, and it doesn't work.

Nope, that's not the issue at all. In fact some people LIKE to have a recognizable forums avatar that is THE SAME AS the business one so they can attract more attention, in theory. They may not realize it's negative. It doesn't take time to look up an avatar, TP their store off the back of the picks or profile, and see the traffic etc. It takes a few minutes. You are trying to make an issue of it because you likely know what I'm saying is true.

You can set home on all the Linden info hubs and welcome areas and also on the resident-run info hubs on Linden land or their own land. We maintain the info hub at Ross and also have areas around Iris, Baileya, and Warmouth where you can join the open group and set home.

Yes, I use it to see if there are any avatars squatting in my rentals or stalking customers. It's also vital for direction as the world map is always facing only one way. It can get very confusing. This is why I don't enjoy sailing very much, because you have to keep looking at the mini map versus the world map and constantly reverse course.

Oh, why? I always like Ingrid's prefabs. I still have them. It's too bad she's not in the business any more.

Flying. Flying is all well and good in dreams and in SL. I like flying in SL and dreams. In real life, while it sounds fun and wondrous, even, think of how the sky will be when everyone gets the same idea. Like traffic on roads on the ground, only worse. And inevitably, there will be collisions and "sky rage" and people not finding their way to bathrooms before they fly and a whole bunch of other problems. It's not as God intended.

Hardly "stalking" to go to the public business of a public personage on the forums, Good Lord, that's ridiculous to consider it otherwise. Jeska Linden used to urge people to take their differences in-world and discuss them there, not on the forums. She had an idea people would be more civil. That's not the case, I've found, but whatever. It's extremely useful and extremely valid to go to a person's place of business and examine their build, their wares, their traffic, etc. -- especially when they are so loud-mouthed on certain issues of the economy. And instantly you will be transformed from anger to pity, I assure you. It would be another thing to stalk someone to their home, if you could somehow find it, hang around and scope out their visitors or what's on their nightstand etc. That would be ethically wrong and I believe against the TOS if pushed too far. But certainly going to the place of business of someone who has spouted off about some policy regarding SL is exactly what needs to be done. Especially if you are a blogger on SL issues. How do I know they don't log on? They are never in their stores. The open groups they are in -- including even their store's own group! -- shows they last logged in ages ago. Not too hard to discover.

Good question. For many people on the forums, their game is in fact the forums; they no longer log on anymore. I log on several times a day to help my customers and spend long hours working on my rentals or creating things or exploring. So I'm not in that category. But too many of the highly-opionated on here -- whose high opinions start with themselves -- don't really go in SL or do anything there. If they do, they might sit in one spot in IMs the entire time. I once made it my business to go and visit the shops of some of the loudest mouths on the forums, people who had heckled and harassed me viciously because I expressed opinions different than theirs. And to my surprise, their stores had not changed since the first time they were built -- in 2007. Or 2004! Their vendors were pathetic, and contained things no one bought any more because SL had evolved to other forums. The traffic on their stores was...8. Or "0". I then switched from annoyance to pity. These people had nothing going at all. Some of them had once had thriving businesses, but then changes in fashion or the very materials of SL or changes in policies (against trafficking) put them out of business. And they are frozen in time. I don't gloat over people who are behind, as I am behind myself, and a very slow learner. But I do have an informed opinion from logging on nearly every day and helping customers and learning of their problems and their joys, what works and doesn't.

Wouldn't it be great if all ban scripts were effective only up to 16m before the border of the property. Or better yet, 32. Failing that, wouldn't it be great if people who insisted on having ban lines would voluntarily make a strip of easement around the property if they are on waterfront and then the rest of the parcel they could have their ban lines/orbs -- surely that's sufficient. In Keuka, someone has deliberately terraformed up their land to block a creek and put access-only ban lines up so that you literally cannot navigate the creek. I asked the Lindens if they would be willing to push down the edge of their land (a steep hill) on this creek to make it navigable, but they wouldn't. And I understand their reasoning -- if they give into one request for Linden land to be changed, they'll have a zillion. On the other hand, it's their poor terraforming and bordering in the first place that created these waterway horrors. They could have made it wide enough to boat through and not have any of the land in the creek sell to individuals like that. But since none of this is likely to change, it's portage or do without...

Look, you're pre-set to suspect evil and ill will, and then to antagonize, particularly anything from me, as I've seen before, so I won't reply. Others will understand what I'm talking about and get back to me on or off the forums.

Gals, I don't care about seeing my own ad. That's not the issue. Um, I'm not "advertising to myself". I merely want TO KNOW IF IT WORKS. It's a mechanical question. Because I don't see evidence that it does. It's not about "wanting" or "wasting one impression," that's silly. It's about finding out from others if it works. How do I know it works if I don't see my ad? Everything else on the MP and inworld works differently. If I post something for sale, I see my page for that item. If I check off the search/places ad inworld, if I search for the name of my store, I see the ad in search. Same for classifieds, which of course also work on some formula where they aren't always visible, but still, I see them. Not so with the MP -- that's all there is to it. The entire business of "impressions" -- upon which digital advertising is based -- never impressed me and I don't think that's really what makes sales, except in some theoretical world. Impressions don't make sales, sales make sales. People click through and buy not because there were 1000 impressions and they were one of them, but because you reached them with something they wanted, or your ad sounded compelling. I'm not going to be buying them again for the simple reason that it doesn't seem worth it, because there are too many people chasing the tiny window of viewability. $799 in fact seems like way too low a price for this tiny window. It should cost 10 times as much, the way the top view does on classifieds. If I spend $1000 and not $10000 on a rental ad, I know I'm not going to get as many views, TPs, and sales. This idea that there is some "fair algorithm" at work that maybe puts me in the queue and in the view sometimes doesn't seem reasonable to me. That tiny, rare window should go to whomever can spend the most money, the end. I won't be one of those people, but at least I know that I haven't been put in the view due to socialistic theory but by market motives. It seems to me you are overthinking this -- and your experience isn't universal. I've gone to the page, refreshed it a half dozen times, and I don't see the same ad, much less my own. That leads me to conclude that there's an enormous queue of people chasing this window, and therefore it's crazy. There's also this: I never look at the ads on the main page. Ever. They never have anything I'm remotely interested in. Occasionally, the ticker of things that people actually bought is interesting, if it is furniture or a house, and that I will click on. Perhaps I've even bought things a few times but I don't recall that. Only search works for sales, not ads. Google knows this, too, of course. The people who buy those ads at the top of the page of search results endlessly annoy me because they never change and I will never go to their stores, even though I have in the past precisely because they are annoying me so tremendously with some really lousy junk that they should know better to be paying money to advertise. It's a mystery why one top creator in particular is putting that discounted junk up there. So how do you get at the top of search? Obviously one way is by being viewed, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy -- you are viewed because you are viewed. But over time, I tend to think that the best made items in a category float to the top by more purchases. Even so, I will scroll through a bunch of pages because you never know.

Several times against my better judgement I have put "listing enhancements" for a specific product tied to a holiday or special occasion, on the front page even, for $799, which is a lot of money for me. Then you get a report showing all the "impressions," which is merely whom it was put in front of, the click-through which are of course much less, and you see the sales on your control panel. But what I never see is the ad on the front page. Now why is that? I look at the front page, I scroll through the offerings, and my ad isn't there -- even a day or two later (and they last 7 days). Then I figure, "Oh, they must have so many front-page ads that they can't show them all on any given scroll, but it probably comes up some other time." So then when I remember, I go back and check for it -- I never see it. Of course it's annoying that you have to remember to cancel it before it bills again, and now two ads billed again and I haven't seen them on the front page in 7 days, randomly checking. I don't mean the front page for a category, I mean the whole front page -- that's what it is, no? What's the deal?

I think you have a built-in problem in that RL photos don't sell as well in SL as photos of SL. There's something jarring about photo-real that puts people off. You could consider using your photography skills to take good *SL* photos and they may sell better. But regardless, to get noticed by the market, you can't just put keywords in search or put a picks on your avatar, you need to go rent a mall so that you will get shoppers to see you, or get into a gallery sim, or get into an event. This takes time and research but that's how it's done.

Now, if only they would add another filter for those crates that have only a picture of a thing, but not the thing itself.

The more pertinent question to ask is which adults -- and did they involve parents -- deployed their children against Pelosi in such an obviously politicized way in the first place.

The problem with the language LL has in its TOS is that you could either use it to "indict a ham sandwich" or use it to do nothing, or both, depending on a given Linden or a given day or a given workload. When we had a police blotter, we could build up some sense of jurisprudence. We could see WHAT and WHERE. We could figure out what clubs perhaps to avoid, or certain sandboxes. We could see their "thinking" on things. I could write reams (and have) on what this told us about their mindset, but the operative point now is that they took it down. You can only find it on the Internet archive if you really, really work at it, only for a few dates. It wasn't complete, and that's a shame. A full-time, 24/27 ticker of actions taken on abuse reports in real time would be immensely instructive and serve as a deterrent, in my view. But the Lindens don't wish to publicize this proprietary information any more. There are certain RP groups that I view as despicable that endorse racism, slavery, persecution, denigration of women, and more. The Lindens leave this alone as "consensual among adults". I think it lowers the whole culture of SL considerably. @ clivesteel I don't know who Jagix is or what your ARs have been about so I can't tell what your story is.

Perhaps you can tell me what exactly the Linden policy/enforcement record is right now. You can't abuse report a Trump sign per se, as is. But if there were more than one on a sim, could you? One on every one of 10 sims in a row? What might work? Encroachment doesn't count, because it could say "We are for a blue sky" and if it encroaches they will remove it. I do wonder specifically about these Trump sign infestations what might be done within the enforcement practices of LL.

What I find disturbing is how many Trump campaign kiosks are all over SL now, and mainly owned by just one person who runs a rentals business. Just one person can have that kind of effect, and if they don't put more than one per sim, they aren't in violation of LL's rather half-heartedly enforced ad rule. But if they were to cap that world-wide, we'd see less of that and other obnoxious stuff. What's also sad is that there are few counter kiosks. Maybe there's a Sanders kiosk here or there. But what is really needed is some kind of anti-hate kiosk. But people have also big networks of yellow jacket (French) kiosks that seem questionable to me. As with the "Impeach Bush" guy who defaced SL terribly and didn't really care about politics as much as being obnoxious and pushing Linden limits, I think this attention-getting visual and verbal behaviour isn't necessarily of substance but about other things. Linden Lab is in the US, and like most Silicon Valley Internet companies, it tends to try to have a First Amendment level of free speech, even though as a non-state actor, it cannot enforce this protection and is not required to offer it, either. Most Internet platforms have TOS rules that are shy of the First Amendment. But for all kinds of historical and lifestyle and idiosyncratic reasons, you might find the Lindens responding more against hate of LGBT than they do hate of Jews or Trumpian white supremacist rants. One of the ways I have been griefed by a set of very hard-core 4-chan type griefers is by impersonations of me as a "bot" named by my company (I don't use bots at all) and spewing of racist, Trumpkin stuff in groups. This leads to slews of hate mails against me and bans from properties -- that's why it is done. I and others abuse report it, the Lindens can take their time on it, but eventually, those day-old alts are deleted, only for new ones to appear. I think Linden libertarianism and also the overwhelmed AR system contribute to this problem. One of the problems companies face is trying to define hatred. This shouldn't be so hard as they imagine as there are very well-established UN definitions in CERD and other tready bodies, but in the US, the bar is set high for free speech. And given how rabid and crazy the Twitter far left is on these subjects, that is a good thing, quite frankly. As I said on the libtech list, I think they should have a ban on racist remarks and of course racist incitement because they are a university, and it is not only unbecoming of a university, but usually universities have their own standards against racism that they should enforce on their lists. Wearing a MAGA hat is not something you can lawfully qualify as "racism" even in a university sense, and the atrocious disinformation and lies that went out about the Covington boys around their face-down with the Black Israelites and a Native American are a very good indication of that. The media didn't comprehend how the Black Israelites started this rumpus, insulting not only the boys but the Native Americans; Black Israelites have now murdered 6 Jews and an Italian-American policeman in Jersey City. This isn't trivial. Online hatred leads to offline violence and that is why we need to care more about it. I personally believe Trump is responsible for the murder of Jews in Pennsylvania, and attacks on media figures and the escalation of white supremacist violence. But I am certainly not going to let anti-fa off the hook because they have a long history of violence and extremism here and in other countries. The problem with your post is that it doesn't have definitions or plans but just an overall indignation. It's ok to vote with your wallet even when your sense of injustice is only vague, but frankly, I wouldn't want to put you in charge of deciding what free speech should be tolerated and what is not, because I suspect your views are leftist and narrow on this subject because what you appear to wish is to outlaw all explicit Trump supporters and voters. And you and others do not have grounds for this. A Trump voter can be someone fed up with campus political correctness (with good reason); there are black Trump voters; there are people wearing a MAGA hat because someone merely gave them a free hat; there are workers who lost jobs who voted for Trump who five minutes before that would have voted for Sanders if the left still cared about workers, and so on. It's a very blunt axe to go hacking away at all things with the name "Trump" on them. I'm a Hillary voter, liberal but not progressive, and a first-term Obama voter and second-term Romney voter who will vote for anyone but Trump. But the task then and now is to persuade my fellow Americans that his policies and beliefs and antics and just overall immoral craziness are damaging not only to liberal values for America and its ideals in general and in practice, harmful to all kinds of people. THAT is the problem. The various forms anti-Trumpism takes is simply not persuasive; his followers have only doubled down; they have only found new reason to support him as the Democratic Party splits more and more and lurches left more and more. When a left-wing Democrat who wanted to take guns away, who is gay himself and a mayor, is slammed because he fund-raises in a wine-cave, we are doomed. Try to understand that. To accomplish this goal of opposing Trump, I'd rather support protection of refugees and ending of mistreatment of asylum applicants rather than police transgender bathrooms and provide abortion up to birth; I'd rather provide better and subsidized medical care than "Medicare for All" which is an outrageous expense; I'd rather re-join the climate change treaties and re-start the practices of the Obama era than have the "new green deal" which is merely socialism in a poor disguise and so on. And I'm not alone in this in the Democratic Party off Twitter. I suspect AOC's voters are not likely to vote for her again, because their jobs and medical care and public transport have not improved on her watch, even as she has gone further afield in search of national glory. The best way to counter Trump is to start alternative groups and movements and support of alternative candidates, not abuse-report Trump supporters which will go nowhere in SL. LL can only shrug at losing your $11.99 per month. But if you started a group or held meetings or bought some microparcels for another candidate, the media might cover you and you might find others to share your common cause.

I'm so glad you mentioned this. I've been meaning to ask for this, too. I really feel constrained by having only the 10 picks. I can't put all my rental communities in, for example. 16 or 32 or whatever would be great! However, I bet I can figure out why the Lindens are going slow on this. There's a system some store owners have where if you put their store in their picks, they will either let you enter a lottery, or give you money, or give you *something*. And so perhaps they feel this is "gaming the system" although I don't think it's as bad as camping is/was. Still, it's an abuse of the original intent, which was really to be for genuine picks. The reality of "picks" is that people tend not to use them for actual "favourite places". They use them for stories, since there isn't room on the profiles for actual stories, especially if long. Or they make elaborate things, like their RP preferences, or their rental policies (in my case), or just their thoughts on life. So they are not really picks as such. Long ago and far away in another galaxy, when we debated about how to keep search from being gamed, I suggested to Philip Linden that he use "picks" not merely "traffic" or searches as traffic was now inflated by paid camping (and today by bots). This was before picks were gamed as much with store raffles. And I was confident then that I, who refused to use traffic gimmicks, might get higher in search because a lot of tenants would snap a picture and put it in picks, not so much to say "this is my favourite rentals company" but more like "my first kiss" or "home sweet home" or "my RP limits". So each time they did that, it would report my land as the place. Then you would see what people actually cared about. To be sure, this could get inflated, too, if someone merely happened to be in my little rental while they proceeded to use up 10 slots in picks to put in all their favourite poems or rare cat breeds as people can do. This is called a "folksomy". I tried to introduce this as a device where people could leave their favourite places' landmarks and share them but of course that had the problems of needing to be updated and cleaned out from people putting scammy "business in a box" sales illegally in sandboxes etc. I'm rather have more picks than groups at this point even though I am out of groups now and forced to keep alts going to have more groups.

I totally understand what you mean about that. And yes I have put houses on myself and messed up my clothes. But most of the time, double clicking on a folder only opens it, but doesn't put it on me. And I don't recall if in fact I turned it off somewhere to make it not do that. I have another thing where each log-on puts a system newbie shirt on me I then have to take off, but that's separate (I think). Your advice about the "string of letters" makes me recall the trick to try to force up lost things -- first clear cache, the re-log and just type "A" then "B" then "C" etc to force it through a relog. That seldom works but it does enough times to make it worthwhile as a thing to do for lost inventory. So your idea seems to prime the system to make it "settle" better. The thing is, almost any set of random letters with my huge inventory is likely to turn up actual things in a search. So i'm going to try with random series of numbers with a letter that generally will not turn up anything.

I have no idea if I have a large enough sample to really make a definitive comment, but I just note that certain houses seem to work and others fade in popularity. I think you can never go wrong with cottages. TOO rustic and they don't work. Hive, ionic, May, Wayfarer Wishbringer, Post, LAQ tend to work. I'm mystified why Artisan Fantasy's gatcha cabin set doesn't work, but maybe because people don't like to see a bed in an open first floor and want that sequestered or in a skybox. A cabin that has witch/herbalist themes built into it works, the Dragon Magick Wares houses work, but not all. Who knows. I put out something and if it doesn't rent, I am forced to change it, even if it doesn't work. I think you should make larger places because I think that is desirable. If you can't swing a cat in them, people won't move in.

Yes, I did notice it in some rooms in the Victorians. But not in the campers. Which gave me hope.

Um, yes, Chic, I know that you don't link that fix-up prim to the mesh DERP. And DERP DE DERP I know you don't make it phantom. Honestly, can you trust that other people know how to build besides you? Hello???? I have literally hundreds of houses and skyboxes -- no, thousands -- do you? And I have tried everything on this problem, including transparent prims put down on them set to 98% or totally $100 or whatever, of different thicknesses, and not on physics, and it does not work. You're trying it on your own houses or a few; so is moira. I'm trying it on tons of them. It does not work. Go to my office and you'll see a typical example. There's a KIDD gazebo which I like and many people like because it's one prim! Hello! All in one! So you can try to put a floor over it -- I have, of different thicknesses, to get rid of a chronic mesh bounce problem I have there, in my 50% off gatcha section. I get sick and tired of not being able to quickly rez out gatchas for sale there. IT DOES NOT WORK. Try rezzing a gatcha out on that floor -- IT BOUNCES. Why? Likely due to that all-in-one nature -- the sides or top make it bounce because it's all-in-one. Go to my office, join the open group, try it and you'll see what I mean. You cannot cure it. I left it there so that at least it's there to pull out to rez on rather than the deck itself which can have other problems. Or take a house, like the one in Hector. Trust me, I put in a floor there -- it does not work. Likely again due to walls being linked, or something interfering somewhere. I wouldn't report this if it were not true.