Lyndka Cochrane

I have to say @Coffee Pancake that you summarised my first thoughts about it - lots of stuff to create drama but no actual evidence (a bit like SL drama in reality)

Indeed - I agree but my preferred choice of words was "some venue owners have a stick up their a**se" but I was trying to be polite. Ultimately - "They pay the rent - they makes the rules"...

Sadly there are venues out there that are very.... "Puritanical"

Didn't "The Police blotter" in SL used to do this? Not really sure why they gave it up - it wasn't perfect but there was some indication that governance was happening and in a timely way.

If we're not careful - we're in serious danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water. Just because a Sim is rated Adult - doesn't mean that it's hosting anything more than folks dancing, chatting & taking the rise out of each other using language that G & M sims tend to ban people for.

There's some 'irony' that the event named like a famous taxi service is letting folks give out gifts with SL "taxis" inside (old host joke)

Try The Midnight Cove Club (TMCC) over on Jasmine Cloud, ShenaniganS Music Cafe on Ocean of Orchids or Skyfire over on Sabnock. They're all small venues compared to Muddy's or Big Daddy's but that works for them in having folks to talk to... They'll all have sets at different UK times so you'll take a wee while to find a "rythmn" to your visits that suits you

This *points up* - not all our staff are premium and to be honest with all the DJ events being bundled in to the "Live Music" category - it became rather a snowstorm for us. I think one of our DJ's argued for us to keep posting events but even using a "promo" for 3 weeks - we showed that no one was coming to his sets because of events. It was a shame that charging happened and that the system isn't more granular in it's categories - it used to be a good way of publicising events but these days not so much

Try this knowledge base article - it's a long read but worth a read... Maturity ratings

Having owned a venue for 8 years that never hides the fact we're folks based in the UK - there does (sadly) seem to be a bit of stigma/shame/embarassment amongst some folks that they visit a UK owned venue, there's actually quite a few venues run by folks from the UK e.g. Midnight Cove, Blitz, The Hummingbird, Wet Willies, High Voltage Rock & of course my own venue ShenaniganS on Ocean of Orchids. There does seem to be a presumption that the good DJ's are only at american run venues however the paradox is that those venues (Muddy's, Big Daddys, Rockin Robins for example) all have UK based DJ's in UK friendly slots. Perhaps we're too 'british'? We don't have union flags hanging off every wall, our staff don't wear bowler hats or union flag underwear (though I can't be sure - I've never checked!) or end every sentence with "Want a cup of tea with that love?" but let folks get on with enjoying the music, the company and the occasional references to farts & 'Are you being served?" It's probably fair to say that if you're looking to hook up with someone then don't head to a UK owned venue (too many lothario's/Romeo's get put off by having the urine taken out of them I suspect) but if you want good music, some new friends or simply some good company that doesn't gasp when you talk about enjoying a ***** (f@ggut) & pea batch or twiglets - then you won't do better IMO You can find my venue here ShenaniganS Music Cafe some of the others named above are in SL Search. Now I'm off to make a fine cup of rosy lee to dunk my bourbons in

Geoff - thankfully we never suffered the same issue when we first started out on mainland (apart from our pet griefer - 7 years & he's still not given up!) - if you want to sort the issue because you envisage being there for a while then could I suggest a visitor tracker at the point that all seem to land - I.e ArtiZan do a nice effective one that stores names in a friendly format as does Fred Allandale. Rez the tracker - create the most basic setup from it's instructions and let it run for a few days - it will accumulate a nice list of names for you. Once you've got the names list - either add them the parcel ban list (but this might end up almost filling your ban list) or buy the CasperSafe Security Orb (I recommend that because if has some nice visitor tracking features but it's not too hot on doing much with the visitor lists it's creates i.e. you can't add a visitor to it's internal ban list from the CasperPanel) and add the names from your visitor list to it's ban list then let it do it's thing. Banned Avies arrive but get ejected and TP'd home almost straightway... You'll find after a week or so - the new random visitors will stop coming....

I had some silly issue with Firestorm dropping it's settings every few days - after a long discussion on the JIRA - they thought it might be Firestorm crashing as it closed down and corrupting the settings files What eventually "cured" it for me was turning off Windows Write Caching on my system drive - it seems that Firestorm was exiting, Windows was being asked to Shutdown by me & probably thought the cache was now invalid so not writing it... Now - I get missing content in Inventory folders every few days necessitating a clear Inventory Cache & restart - which does solve things for a few days... I can't help wondering if this is also disk cache related and whether there's any Windows API calls that Firestorm could use to flush the caches as it closes down. The irony is - we all used to say "You need a decent computer to run SL" and now we have - the inner workings haven't caught up

Franks/Prive was not without controversy or criticism... 😏 FlickR Post

Oook - you're worried about giving us an eMail address so we can reply to your message? Fair enough 🤔

Sorry - only just seen the post. Yes the website is working but our hosting provider has been doing some hardware upgrades & their load sharing is abysmal - that might have caught you out. It's also not https so Google will whine like a little kid about it not being safe... It is safe - we don't need https - we're not taking any personal or financial data off you.