Prokofy Neva

It's not about piety or prudishness. It's about the TOS which bans child pornography. This is child pornography. In the EU, as you may know, even cartoons like Hentai are ruled as child pornography, not just RL children. And RL law isn't the issue here, as it is the Linden TOS, which was amended more than 10 years ago when EU prosecutors began to investigate Second Life. I'm well aware of how vicious, hateful, and obsessive those who justify child pornography are. I personally don't make it a "cause". I AR it when I see it, and I show solidarity to those who AR it as the OP did. That it continues is one of the worrisome facets of SL that costs them customers.

The ad says "for boys". It doesn't say "teens" or "fembois". It says "boys". The end.

These are not fembois, and the ads do not say they are. They are children. Just because the ads say that female avatars are used doesn't mean anything. Nowhere is the notion of "femboi" introduced here so it shouldn't be invoked. If the original poster could contact me inworld with the relevant information, I would be happy to help abuse report, as will others.

You mean just because I don't like *your* answer. Do you rule the forums?

The pictures you're invoking are nothing like those shown in the ads from the original poster. Anyone can see this. Having a few holes in a shirt is NOTHING like having half a shirt or a BDSM harness and loincloth. Ridiculous to claim otherwise. The ads are pictures of children, full stop. No where in the ad does it say anything about "teen" or "femboi" - using the female avatar doesn't mean that. Support for ageplay dies hard in SL, not only because of its devious and zealous practitioners, who are vicious against critics, but because of people who think it's freedom of expression. LL needs to step up, as they are a private company who loses new customers because of the visibility of this stuff, and they are not obliged to provide First Amendment level expression for deviants.

So, any of those replying here themselves the makers of clothing like this? I think some of the famous child avatars could explain the difference between fembois and the *children* in these ads who are not fembois. Anybody who thinks any of this clothing is available in a real-life store, please send proof.

I don't believe this is acceptable -- BDSM outfits for children! I think we need to get an answer from Linden Lab on this question, not just from regulars on the forums. I think if "ageplay" is banned (a euphemism for "child porn") then the props for them -- these awfully suggestive outfits -- should be banned as well. After all, you can't be claiming to dress up in a BDSM harness and g-string to go on a picnic with Mommy and Daddy, right guys? And the implication that RL stores have clothing that is sugggestive like this has no merit. I don't recall seeing any BDSM get-ups for kids in Machy's or JC Penny's, you know? That's ridiculous.

This answer justifies not only "suggestive" clothing but clothing that is very obviously designed for "age play" (a euphemism which means "child pornography") with child avatars and as such, it should be banned. The claim is that in real life, there are very suggestive clothing options like this for children for sale in stores. I don't recall seeing BDSM outfits for children -- harnesses, g-strings, and the like -- in Macy's or other stores with sections for children. That's patently ridiculous. And truly, guys, you dress up in a BDSM harness and an evocative g-string in order to go on a picnic with the family in a G-rated sim? Really? I will go on abuse-reporting these offerings when I see them go by on the Marketplace as "what other residents are buying". It's wrong. If Linden Lab has a policy against ageplay -- which it does and should regardless of what people think regarding the application onf the First Amendment -- then it has to extend that to the props for this banned activity.

Hacienda Cascada is a new area just developed by a Linden waterfalls so come check it out! It's beautiful! You get your own furnished private room and a sky home (Sayo's Ocean Rare) with a locked teleporter and security, plus you can use the main floor to entertain friends and all the grounds, spas, farm etc. Teleport to Room 2 in Polia    Or you can choose toiz's rare art spaces home. Teleport to Room 3 in Polia    If you like, you can ask to remove any or all of the furniture for a $25 fee, and then reset the box to have more prims for yourself. Self-join group, no waiting! Then get resident powers in the group (ban, media, etc.) and have your home locked by IMing Prokofy Neva Refund any time. 4 wks 10% discount. Pets welcome.

I would say buy land of no more than 1536 to start which would put you at $15 monthly tier. If you put yourself at $25 monthly tier (plus the $9.95 for the premium account itself) you may feel you have too big an expense. Or even less, $5 a month for 1024. It's a buyer's market now so take your time land shopping, figure out the content you want (which has the textures you like on the ground -- these can't be changed, i.e. New England, beach, etc.). Or buy from the auction which has some better pieces of abandoned land put back for sale. You get 224 prims on 1024 and 351 prims on 1536 which is more than enough nowadays for a nice mesh house and furniture. Go to the sales events like collabor88 or Lost & Found or Shiny Shabby etc. and get houses and furniture on sale when it is first released. If you like this experience then you could transition up but the worst thing is to get stuck with land that is too big with a monthly fee you don't want to pay and then feel you have to sell your land cheap or abandon it.

Here's a nice big flat meadow for a breedables farm -- or for your palace -- overlooking the Linden sea. $1400/1235 prims/5408 square meters -- great bargain! Teleport to Furness   This sim also has a waterfront lot - $450/350 prims. Teleport to Furness  Also available is a waterfront property in Alston next door with hilltop rolling down to the sea - boat to the old Hidden Lakes sims in the Old World Teleport to Alston  As always, self-join group -- no waiting! And refund any time -- don't get locked in! You will get ban, media, parcel description change etc powers in the group.

Have your own store with your own name, landing, and music next to St. Paul's Cathedral, in the SL Destinations Picks. $150/150 prims. Teleport to St. Paul's.  Self-join group, so no waiting for absentee landlord while you set up your vendors. Store ad included in the price of rent -- you get change description powers in the group after you pay and contact manager, so you can write your own ad and put in landing. Refund any time for small cancellation fee. General content only, please. Also available here is a church yard for $300/300 prims -- use as store or home on ground or sky. Teleport to Grace Church Yard IM Prokofy Neva

 Here's a great bed & breakfast room on Hector Lake with teleporter attached to Post's skybox with Bazar's Toronto bedroom and other nice pieces from the latest events. $150/100 prims Teleport to B&B  You get 100 prims of your own to decorate and management prims do not count. Or you can ask to have them removed for $25 and have the box set to $200/150. You have your own private room and the use of the bottom floor of the house to relax with friends. Then you teleport to a locked skybox. Boating and chill spaces on the lake.  Here's another B&B in beach style which has a lot of nice touches -- table with beers from around the world, and sharks you can pose on. Hang out on the dock and use the living room and grounds as well. Pets welcome.   Then teleport upstairs to a sky box with more cool features.  $100/50 prims. Teleport to Hite B&B. Self-join group, refund any time. You get ban, media, change description etc. powers in the group. IM Prokofy Neva

Yikes, this gatcha rare from dust bunny is a whopping 258 prims!! But now you can live in it and not have those prims count, and have 200 prims of your own to add for furniture or an additional skybox. Teleport to Hector Lake  If you don't want this house but want to live on the lakeside, you can ask to remove it for a $25 fee and place your own in theme (rustic, cabin, tent, etc). IM Prokofy Neva. You can also ask to reset the box to $350/250 prims. Also on Hector lake is a camp for $100/100 prims. Teleport to Hector Camp    Also another little camp for $50/50 Teleport to Hector Camp  You need an SL Vacation! 4 weeks advance for 10% discount Self-join group, refund any time. You get ban, deed media, terraform, change parcel description as group powers. Pets, skyboxes welcome.

These are great! Here's Soy's Abandoned Warehouse. RENTED  Teleport to Hector $650/500 prims The buildings takes up 173 prims, leaving you with 327. Here's Soy's Minimal Needs House RENTED   Teleport to Hector $550/400 prims - you have 282 for your use as the house takes up 118. You can ask to have the houses removed and place your own if you prefer and pay at the same rate for more prims. This area also has some camping spots for $50/50 or $100/100 -- great place for a little vaction! Then there's Soy's Sea Shanty RARE in the Lakeside gatcha: RENTED   Two locations with this house. Teleport to Carlisle Then finally there's hive's shack gatcha RARE - $200/125 prims for your use.  This is in the Old World sim of Mocha right next to the famous Mocha Cathedral. Teleport to Mocha Here is Soy's Shanty Boat in Mocha - $150/100 prims, mgt prims don't count.  Teleport to Mocha Also for a one-time fee of $25 you can ask to add anything from a shoutcast radio to more tables, beds, bars, hot tubs etc. prims allowing.

It's working fine though.

No, but I know tenants who are aggressively obdurate and ignorant who pretend that their ignorance of Firestorm isn't the issue but somebody's rental land or procedure is. Imagine! I think publicity is always the best weapon in our closed society but unfortunately not on the forums!

Amazing that you got that suggestion through to execution via the JIRA. Something for the annals of SL history! And great boon to those of us around the Great Wall.

Linden Lab does not get involved in user-to-user transactions or disputes, read the TOS. There used to be escrow services in the land market in SL but they all seem to have gone out of business, the risk is high. You might find some large rentals agent who would perform this service for you. Basically, if you don't have the cash to buy the land you won't have the cash to pay the tier month after month so don't buy it. There are plenty of nice sailing places in SL without being right in the Blake Sea.

That simply isn't true. Try putting out 50 rentomatics or 50 horses on your sim and you may find a difference in performance that has nothing to do with "the work put on our machines."

Anyone who would like to IM me inworld about this issue and these claims is welcome to do so. One of the biggest forms o f lag on rental sims is a very popular rentomatic that uses up a lot of script power. And another very common cause of lag is the obsession of some tenants with counting prims with scripts which adds to lag -- because their landlords can be ferocious about kicking them and their prims if they go even one over. Get rid of this obsession and these scripts and you will have a lot less lag.

Hi, I have hotel rooms for $50/50 prims at multiple locations; I also have camp sites for $50/50 or $100/100, I also have a few skyboxes on sale for that amount. Check out my latest listings at my office linked below or IM me inworld.

Linden Lab will not get involved in user disputes or user-to-user commercial transactions, which is a plus in that it gives us a semi-free market and a minus as you have to do a lot of caveat-emptor sort of homework. I am very seasoned in this obviously as a rentals agent but even I have gotten burned on purchases sometimes due to clever tricks. I always take off "volume" on any land for sale as people can use various sculpties or other things to make it look like you are purchasing "land" that is prettier than it really is, or "land" that is water. I also turn on property owners view to see if the seller has put little "donuts" into the property that shows they've retained ownership, which they may then try to extort me to buy or put up an ad or something ugly until I beg to buy. And so on. So basically the "we need" part is not something that can be (or should be) delivered by Linden Lab and it could only be delivered by a free media and open real estate registration and consumer review web site that some third party would have to operate.

I have studied this issue for 12 years intensively and never found a happy answer. If Linden Lab would manufacture (or offer) a computer designed explicitly to play SL well, I (and many others) would buy it, even if it cost more. I wish they'd do this. Currently, the way it works, the people who make Second Life have their own hand-built rigs with parts from New Egg and such and they endlessly tweak and adapt and don't realize what it is like for us norms to try to find some machine that can play SL. The average computer available at Best Buy simply can't play SL. This, despite the fact that there are blazing game rigs that play things like Final Fantasy or WoW beautifully. But as anyone who spends any time at all on this subject rapidly discovers, blazing game rigs are irrelevant to the problems of playing dynamically updating SL across different servers with user generated content. When my latest computer crashed really finally after only about 2.5 years of use (that's how long they usually last) I studied this issue extensively. I ended up buying a $399 HP and then grafting on to it a more expensive NVidea GeForce GTX 970 ($325). I selected this card because it had the last amount of complaints on forums and because certain very opinionated and talkative forums' regs claimed this card worked at least a year ago. Nothing works perfectly and this isn't even the best solution *but it was what was available at Best Buy". I live in NYC which ought to be the world capital for computer purchases but after very long experience with all the various outlets I have found that none of them have the computers or even the graphic cards off the shelf, only Best Buy has a relatively cheap maintenance program with their "Geek Squad" and no, I'm not going to get a hand-built ever again, that just doesn't work for all kinds of reasons unless you yourself are a computer programmer and a technician. What was involved? Well, first I had to turn over the cheapie HP and expenso graphics card to the Geek Squad to graft it in. But after several days they then told me I needed a different power supply and fan or otherwise it wouldn't work and would burn out. So there goes another $60 for that. Then I picked it up, brought it home, and it didn't work. There were cable problems (buy another one for $20), switch problems who knows. More tweaking and a lost week, then I got it home again. I was forced to accept Windows 10 which comes put on it by force, there is no other choice unless you pay money. Fortunately, SL more or less works better with Windows 10 now. To no one's surprise, SL crashed constantly. Yes, I updated the drivers. I finally found a YouTube that also showed how to set the drivers for max performance, maybe not recommended but finally SL worked. To be sure, this expensive (for me and most people) card is last year's card, and not the ne plus ultra that the New Egg crowd would order, but here we all are. SL more or less works, crashing perhaps once per hour.

In one sense, anyone who is living on the Mainland is living in a commune whether they want to or not! This can be...interesting. There are some very old communities in Second Life of furries and elves and Gor that have had these collective experiments for years. But you have to fit into the lifestyle/belief system and not everyone wants that level of RP. I know there's a hippie commune or two of some sort but I'm not sure how rigid it is, despite claims of hippie-ness. There was an educational community called Chilbo that worked well for awhile but I'm not sure it exists anymore. One thing that is very hard to do is get people to keep contributing tier month after month in a group. This almost always ends in tears. That's my experience. One person shoulders the load despite it being "a commune." I guess it's like many things in life, if people don't already come together on their own naturally for a shared purpose, it's hard to make them come together. So you know all that and I would have to say -- try to start something and see who shows up.