Selene Gregoire

Exactly. Thank you.

Those are my words and they were not hostile in the least. You chose to take it as being hostile by reading far more into it than what is actually there. All too often people read other's posts using their own "voice" and giving emphasis and emotions to the words of another that simply do not exist.

No, I don't "hang out in places like that" and I still get those out of the blue IMs that 999 out of 1000 are some random guy looking for pixel bumping. Standing on my own parcel in a private region and no one else is on the region. Nor do I belong to any of the "pixel sex" groups that exist. I never have. I'm not in SL for sex. Never have been and never will be. Point being it doesn't matter where you hang out or what your groups are, there are still those who think it's ok to IM someone out of the blue when it really is not ok by any stretch of the imagination. Don't even get me started on the ones who go through a store group's membership list and IM all the female avatars just to proposition them.

It's not surprising really when you consider how often a woman is raped in the US alone (one every 2 minutes or so). And there is more: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence Yes, it sucks that the younger male generations have to deal with the fallout from privileged white males ruling society but think of how much more it sucks for those of us who have to live with it on a daily basis because we are not male or white or privileged. Does it make me fighting mad? You're damn right it does. Livid, white hot anger that would destroy the world if it were to ever be released.

All of the above. The bolded part is what sets off the red flags. That is exactly what it feels like when someone I don't know IMs me out of the blue. There aren't any advantages that I can see but plenty of disadvantages. I know etiquette changes over the decades but that doesn't excuse the rudeness of people cold IMing someone they don't know. Does it never occur to anyone that the polite (correct) thing to do is ask the person in open chat if it is ok to IM them? I'm not talking about PC here. I'm talking about good old fashioned manners that parents are supposed to teach their children but apparently no longer bother to do so. If you can't be bothered to use good manners, I can't be bothered to deal with you, much less want to be your friend.

So that's what DM stands for, Desperation Messaging.

Where?

Doesn't make a bit of sense to me, since local can be logged. All chat in SL can be logged... local, shouted, whispered, IMs, group... all of it can be logged. I've been logging it all since 2005. And even then, logs can be faked very easily. Good thing LL logs everything so they can tell when someone has altered or completely faked a chat log. Timestamps just makes it easier and quicker for them to find the pertinent logs.

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The shift in RL happened before the one in SL. SL reflects the changes in RL after the fact. When SL was the "new frontier", most residents used local before ever jumping into IMs. IMs were reserved for things that you didn't want just anyone over hearing. Gossip, intimacy... all those things that call for privacy. Hence the original term of Private Messages (PMs, not to be confused with PMS). For me, that has not changed, nor will it. If you approach me in IMs for the first time, I am going to assume you want to say things you don't want other people hearing, which immediately sets off my red flags and I will shut you down in a heartbeat and likely not very kindly. I'm a rape survivor. Deal with it or stay away from me is how I feel about it. What I want and need are friends. The close kind, not the sex buddy kind. The friends that are so close they "might as well be family" friends. The ones who are there for you no matter what. The sort that don't just take his word that it's ok with me if you hop in the sack with him. Then there are the ones who accept you as you are... Been looking for those kinds of friends for 60 years. Haven't found any yet. I don't think they exist any more, for me.

Nah. They just can't figure out what accelerant you've been using so they baited a trap.

And when you are done running cleanup, time to run defrag.

Chat logs. Settings. On the other hand, there's no way SL would take up that many GBs. FS viewer takes up only 400 MBs and it has way more bells and whistles than the LL viewer. Maybe tone down the pron dialers a bit.

I am a preverted prevert.

I see I missed all the drama. Again.

You have a point. Another one would be account bans. Like how LL can suspend/ban people from the forum but not SL itself and vice versa. They don't do that by IP or MAC. That is done on a per account basis and if you have more than one, LL will know. If you do something that really ticks LL off they can pick and choose what accounts to ban. Usually it's either the one you (general) messed up on or all. Every now and then LL misses getting all of the accounts but usually the person gives themselves away and "poof", gone again.

Nope. She's said it herself.

In FS you can derender mesh clothing. They are attachments, after all. It's why I always use either the underwear applier that comes with the Lara body or I alpha certain body parts out. Sometimes it's just easier to alpha out most of the body, if not all, depending on what you are wearing.

Yes, she is, but, even she will tell you she doesn't know everything there is to know about SL. That's one reason why the support team does have some direct communication with the devs. Who in turn have some direct communication with LL devs. So, questions can usually be answered, just not always quickly. The fun part is when you ask a question and not even the Lindens know the answer. If you go digging around in the names listed as part of the team (both past and present) in the FS viewer, you'll see my name listed. I worked with Whirlz for more than 5 years. Poor thing. I probably drove her nuts with my questions and rock diving. /me dives back under her rock, leaving a cuppa behind for Whirlz. ☕

I don't want a pickle. Just wanna ride on my motor-sickle And I don't wanna die... Just wanna ride on my motor-sigh. ~The Motorcycle Song, Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant Massacre

Rubberbanding can and does. That's why it is called rubberbanding and the cause is lag. Been that way for 16 years.

The same link I posted 3 posts above yours. lol

I... am addicted to creating and building.

Except he tried logging in from a neighbor's who would not have the same IP. These were account bans, not IP or MAC address.

I think you are talking about bake fails which are not the same thing as rubberbanding. Bake fail fixes won't work for rubberbanding. There's no connection between the two.