Solar Legion

Apparently you're such an immersionist that you cannot begin to comprehend another way to view the various Avatars within Second Life. Here's a hint: You're not the majority and can only speak for yourself. The same goes for every poster in these forums. I, personally, don't give a crap what the avatar looks like. The only time I expect an avatar to act as it appears is when the person behind it is engaged in role play or otherwise identifies as an immersionist of the most extreme type. My avatar itself changes so often it isn't even funny. As such, there is no set action or behavior for it. Basic mannerisims? Yep - those show up for each appearance change. Nothing deeper unless I am actually engaged in role play or similar. As for child avatars? You are aware that the entire real world would be classified as Adult going by the sim rating criteria which Linden Lab uses - right? Linden Lab has stated their polict regarding Child Avatars: I personally believe they should investiagte each and every AR concerning them that crosses their desk ..... and permaban anyone found to be targeting them in a manner which goes above and beyond simple abuse reports. What does that mean exactly? Child avatar pops into an adult sim. Derranged User sends in an abuse report and fills it with utter nonsense. Derranged user gets the boot. There is but one example.

Ah yes, someone complaining about what they believe is spam .... You do know that there are still companies out there that hand out or sell your e-mail address .... and they often do not explicitly warn you of this fact? You are also aware that it is not against the ToS to set up a scripted item/bot which reacts to the presence of a nearby avatar by recording their name and possibly sending out a message at a later date? You visited the shop - that is all that is required according to the ToS. Now then, instead of complaining and getting indignant over being sent a message concerning a shop you visited, either IM the owner and ask to be removed from the list .... or mute the object/bot. By the by? Spam is defined as unsolicited mail/messages/calls, usually from a business. Like I said, you visited their shop .... Not spam until you ask them to cease and they continue to send.

Actually Void .... If anyone was truly concerned about the information - and truly believed it was historical - a backup would have been made elsewhere by now. Frankly, I saw something like this coming eventually. PR issues, data cleanup ..... The Wiki was going to have information deleted eventually. Personally? The only "historical" information concerns the origins of Second Life and its progression out of Linden World. Technical notes, Town hall meeting notes/transcripts, Linden profiles .... All of that is information that should have been mirrored elsewhere by the users and former/current Lindens.

It's a wiki .... owned by a corporation. There's nothing in it that is truly "historical" - unless you count truly outdated information concerning employees who no longer work for Linden Lab and/or information on Sims that have since been shut down and/or other truly outdated information as such. It's their wiki. They decide what information to keep and what information to discard: Period.

This group is not endorsed by Linden Lab and has no power or authority anywhere on the Grid. They are like all the other "police"/vigilante groups in Second Life. Not a one of them is any better than the "griefers" they seek to remove. If it were possible, I would add each and every member (with very few exceptions) of each and every "police"/vigilante group to my own personal ban list.

Phil Deakins wrote: Darrius Gothly wrote: I also find it ... at least hard to believe, if not most likely incorrect .. that LL would permanently ban an account without at least one prior incident. I agree with that unless the 'crime' is really bad. I also agree that the OP may not have been told the full story. If the person hadn't previously had a warning, then the reason for the ban must be really bad and she would know what it is. If the reason isn't really bad, and it's something she did, then I'm sure she would have previously received a warning or a shortish suspension for it. So, assuming that the person who issued the ban didn't get out of bed on the wrong side that day, either she knows the reason and isn't saying, or it was caused by some vindictive or nasty ARs which descibed a really bad 'crime', imo. It could well be that the use of the word "daddy" was gone to town on by some stupid person who reported it as child sexplay. The fact that LL doesn't provide the reason is a side issue, but is abominable. There are a few things which Linden Lab bans for without any prior warning. Before the merge with the old Teen Grid, being underage was one of them. Filing such a report was a favored tactic of griefers in Role Playing areas. Using my prior post as a jumping off point, sexualized age-play is another insta-ban issue. That one is yet another favored tactic of griefers visiting RP areas. It's also something that most users are utterly unaware of. The friends I do have who Role Play or who are into BDSM (both being groups I 'play' with regularly) used to ask me why one of my "Limits" and unstated rules concerned specific terms and words. Crap like this? There's the reason.

Zen Muliaina wrote: I know her well and she is not a person that would do anything wrong, or anything different from anyone with an adult RP lifestyle, no child play, kept only to adult sims when in RP, she had no notification at all just the ban. The only thing she had said to me is that she has used the word "daddy" in a sim that I don't know the name off but is a BDSM sim that uses daddy as a reference to a DOM.. I am myself not that familiar with the whole BDSM RP scene but as far as I know its not a child related term in this context. As you see she is really clutching at straws to think of anything that she could have been banned for. And there you go. A third party or anyone new to that sim and the jargon they use may well have sent in a report. In many instances, Linden Lab doesn't care what the context is or how terms are used in a specific sim. Linden Lab can ban (and has banned) people over things which are normal in the sims they frequent. All on the strength of a single, well worded report.

DanielRavenNest Noe wrote: A security warning if you own this device: http://alphavilleherald.com/2011/03/zf-redzone-security-breached-sl-passwords-compromised.html From the Article: "A shadowy group of Second Life hactivists claim to have breached the Redzone server’s security, gaining access to the server database and discovering cleartext passwords for most Redzone customer accounts on the site. As if storing raw Redzone customer passwords is not bad enough, there is apparently a second table that tracks passwords from failed login attempts in the hope users will accidentally enter their Second Life account password. These failed passwords are conveniently displayed on the user profile page of the "Admin Overlord App" as "Possible SL PW(s)". In light of these revelations, the Herald strongly suggests that all zf Redzone customers change their Second Life account passwords immediately – and ask themselves why they would continue to run a product that attempts to guess their Second Life password" Considering that the Herald is well known as being little more than a tabloid rag and not known for using any actual fact checking methods .... The information and video is suspect. Go ahead and look through some of their older "news" stories ... You'll note that all of them are more than 75% authorial opinion.

Venus Petrov wrote: Solar Legion wrote: My sig ought to be self-explanitory. However, in the prior versipn of this forum, some users made an attempt to turn it into something it simply is not, so .... My sig is a warning and instructions for contacting me outside the forum to discuss a topic started in the forum. I have lost track of the number of times I have had to mute people simply because they could not maintain basic civility. In the forum? That's one thing. As my sig states however, if you're going to contact me elsewhere (in world is the most used method), you're going to have to keep it civil as I won't waste my time dealing with a lack of social grace. I see nothing wrong with your sig, Solar. I have also been contacted inworld a handful of times because of a post. Only once was it an obnoxious comment and it was from a lurker (or an alt). People who hide have nothing of consequence to tell me anyway. More or less some actally seem to think that my sig means that I'll be nice, kind and caring in the forum itself. I'm blunt when I need to be - or when irked.

My sig ought to be self-explanitory. However, in the prior versipn of this forum, some users made an attempt to turn it into something it simply is not, so .... My sig is a warning and instructions for contacting me outside the forum to discuss a topic started in the forum. I have lost track of the number of times I have had to mute people simply because they could not maintain basic civility. In the forum? That's one thing. As my sig states however, if you're going to contact me elsewhere (in world is the most used method), you're going to have to keep it civil as I won't waste my time dealing with a lack of social grace.