Madonna Milena

No. If I'm being told to just logoff if I don't like the experience, I certainly don't feel in control of my SL experience. Nor do I feel in control of that experience if I basically have to "opt people out" of my home, as opposed to "opting in" those I want in my home while keeping everyone else out.

Being able to handle security proactively as opposed to reactively does make a big difference, though. Along with two key issues: 1. My parcel ban list hits 300 people... Now what? 2. Minimum time setting... What's that? 5 seconds? 10? 15? Do people gripe about "it's not enough warning!" and it gets increased? I'm sitting here this afternoon thinking LL is far more concerned about the people who don't live in my home (which, again, I'm paying for) than the person who does live in it.

Nor does blowing off someone speaking of prior instances of stalking, harassment and violations of privacy, along with expressing concerns that this decision is going to cause such things to happen again. I think you're also blind to another one of my concerns: In the next 12 months or so, I will either have to move into a new Linden Home, or, not have a Linden Home at all. Then what? Some of us have spent the last few hours reading this thread and listening, even if we strongly disagree. Yet, it sure seems like us in the minority (or silent majority? I don't know yet) are just being told "Take it or leave it." I'm wondering how many of you would maintain that stance if you put up with what some of us have had to over the years? As far as voting with my dollars... This will make me strongly reconsider staying as a premium member when the old Linden Homes get phased out. Something LL may want to think about.

I'm amazed I never caught anyone doing so before I put up the banlines and before they improved the privacy settings several years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen, and, I am pretty certain some of the people who used to treat my home like a fish bowl were doing so in RL. Sadly, I feel your pain. And that is exactly what I'm not looking forward to enduring again thanks to this "grand bargain" that went into effect this morning.

Fewer problems thanks to the combination of ban lines, along with blocking people outside the parcel from looking in at me and chatting away without a care in the world. But now since there's nothing to proactively keep people from entering the land (just the house - supposedly), I'm now right back to where I was circa 2010.

My stay in one of the new Linden Homes lasted about 8 hours. Upon waking up to seeing the settings changed this morning, I packed up and moved back into an older Linden Home after stewing for a while over this. I had had my previous Linden Home for nearly a decade. For the first several months, I tried to be a good neighbor and did not have banlines. I figured, hey, the fact the place was furnished and the doors were locked and the blinds were down would get the point across. In the immortal words of the late, great Roberto De Vicenzo: What a stupid I am. I lost count of the number of times I saw people find anyway they could to enter. Sitting on objects in the house to enter. People standing outside and clicking the front door repeatedly for 10 minutes, thinking that maybe click #319 would be the one that would cause it to magically open. People flying over the house. People standing on the roof. You name it. Privacy? Peace? Nowhere to be found. My patience finally snapped, and up went the banlines. Even then, I'd hardly call it a peaceful experience until we were finally given the feature to prevent people outside of our parcel from seeing us in our homes, or chatting. Not only did I have the joy of listening to neighbors 70-80m shouting, I also had to put up with people camming in and either making lewd/offensive/abusive comments in local chat or IM's. Mind you, it's not like my old home was perfect after that. Yes, I'd still get the occasional IM's. I had two instances of someone pushing objects into my home. But at least I no longer had people standing or hovering right outside my walls, or three creeps standing outside my door, pretending to pound on it, while shouting (and later IM'ing) "We're drunk! Let us in! We need a place to crash! Ohhh, and, wanna %^*@!?!" But the combination of ban lines, along with the parcel privacy, combined to reduce a good 98, 99% of the hassles I had during my first couple of years in that home. Between the rave reviews over the new homes (bigger! more prims! new styles!), along with knowing the old Linden Homes would eventually be phased out, I figured I'd get it over with and move this morning. Hey, now I can even have a skybox! What's not to love?! Feeling like security and privacy aren't allowed. That's what not to love. I have, just this morning, gone from a Meadowbrook to a new home back to a Meadowbrook, solely over this "compromise" you've imposed upon us residents who would like privacy, would like to live in peace, and would like to be able to use our homes without dealing with creeps and stalkers. Oh, sure. We are getting "security orbs" in the next week. And, hey, someone wants to TP right in and harass me in my home, hey, I can add them to the ban list! That is, of course, 300 times. At which point? I guess it sucks to be me, eh? A huge number of the problems I had trying to have a meager little home where I'd have peace and privacy disappeared thanks to options that allowed people like me to be PROactive on security, as opposed to REactive. I am supposed to take the time to add person after person after person to a ban list/blacklist, as opposed to blocking everyone but a small whitelist... Why? So someone can't fly over the house? Because someone doesn't like looking at ban lines? Hey, between you and me, I don't like how ban lines look, either... But they sure look better than some naked creep standing in my house uninvited, or, having some psychopath standing outside my house screaming all sorts of vile and hostile names because they think they're entitled to enter my house as well. I don't think "compromise" thinks what you think it does. In order to get a new home, I'm just supposed to give up privacy and proactive security. After all, all there is are locks on the doors. Which only, in theory, can keep someone out of the house (right!). There is no way to proactively keep people out of the yard, or from standing or sitting on the roof, or even entering the shiny new skybox I can rezz. Someone wants to TP right in? What's going to stop them? Someone wants to sit on my furniture? Hey, help yourself! How about chat privacy, or not being ogled and leered at in my home? Oh well, that's the price I have to pay to be in my new (old) home, since anyone can now walk right into the yard, cam in, and see me... Or listen in on my chat. No. I give and everyone takes is not "compromise". Subjecting myself to harassment, griefing, stalking, and having an insecure home with no privacy because of a few people whining about flying is not "compromise". On that note... We're allowed skyboxes on the new homes? Awesome. I like that. So what's going to happen after a few people crash their planes or choppers into our skyboxes? Will skyboxes be banned too? Maybe someone doesn't like the pictures on our walls. Do they need to come down? Someone deciding to loiter in my yard hates the radio station - so, do I have to pick a new one? I'm not sure whose opinions you sought on making this decision, but, it's painfully obvious to me that you sure didn't ask for the thoughts and feelings of those of us who have been sexually harassed, stalked, griefed and abused in our own homes in the past. I'm looking forward to the next several months in a first generation Linden Home, until I'm eminent domained out of it. At which point I lose the ease and convenience of a "freely"-provided home (One I technically pay US$ for every month). Which means in a year or so, I either am trying to find a plot to put my home on, or just don't have a Linden Home - at least not as long as this policy remains. My world, my imagination, my home - until I inconvenience some stranger who isn't paying my premium subscription? Thanks to this decision, it sure feels that way. Yay for all of those cheering. I for one am quite disappointed.