Dave Carmichael

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Anybody who thinks they can "safely assume" anything in Second Life is not grasping reality. The scenario you paint is no different with underage teens freely flowing into SL than it was before Zindra. It's up to you to be careful who you interact with whether you're on the adult continent or in G or PG or Mature or Moderate or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days. (How ridiculous is all that by the way??) Nothing SL does should change the way any of you are behaving online. Which renders all this arguing completely moot. And it's "moot" not "mute" for heaven's sake.

I'm really quite mystified what many of you are going on about. If you're not a criminal you're not going to be put in jail. I've seen kids coming on SL even since I downloaded it in '06. It's common sense to be careful if you're going to do any sexual chatting with somebody you don't know. Get to know who you're talking to before 'going there'. If you're not sure, don't go there. You're all acting as if the act of any kind of conversation with somebody under 18 might end your lives. Here's a wake up call: You are talking to them now. They are here. They are responding to your comments. As I've said numerous times now, (to Linden Lab) if you're going to put underage teens amongst us in our strange and unsanitized SL world, you need to let us know who they are. I don't care if that means they can be seen more easily, because that beats them being hidden. It also beats the adults being hidden. However, despite all that, you (my fellow SLers) should have always been careful, you should continue to be careful, and if you're not a sex offender you should have nothing to worry about. I'm no lawyer, but I believe in common sense.

Spelling "experience" with an "a" is not dyslexia. Especially if you do it twice, and even more especially while patronizing younger people. God this thread is funny.

I find it staggering any of these posts are coming from adults.

My point, Ms. Sakai, is this: spelling is important. Trolling aside... as I said before, it's not a democracy, it's Linden Lab. They are already doing this. Teens are already moving over. Now 13-15 year olds are moving too, but to areas where they can't come in contact with adults. Fine. Whatever. I have a 13 year old and he's not getting anywhere near SL. But for those parents who are out of their minds, as I said before, give me the tools to identify the kids (sorry, young men and women - I'm 42 so 20 year olds are kids to me). I want floating text, or a color signal or hey, a huge arrow pointing to the top of their heads would be fine. Something we can all choose to see or not see. That solves the issue for me. I have adult land, but one of my biggest stores is on a Mature Sim.

Of course kids will lie. Kids can also sneak out of their houses in the middle of the night and lay across the highway if they want to. "Kiddies" will also have REAL sex earlier than they are supposed to. My ex wife lost her virginity on a dare at 14. Life is dangerous, Second Life? Far less so.

Mkay so fine. Let kids come on board. I have Adult land, I have Mature land also so I don't care so much in general, I spend my adult time in adult regions, however I have one suggestion that would make it better for me: I would like an easy way to see who is under 18. I don't care if you have to change the way you colorize floating text, or add a tag that all can choose to hide ( like a 3rd line of text above our heads that I can turn on or off if I want not to see it ) but I would like the ability to KNOW at a glance what level of adulthood I'm dealing with. I can do that in the real world, I'd just like to be able to do it easily here. I kind of agree on the bigot comment. Feels a bit like this forum is a lynch mob. Let the kids in if you need to, personaly I think it's a bad idea, but let me have a way to know they're kids. That's the answer. Not only that, where are the parents in all this? Let the parents stop them from experiencing the 'dangerous internets'. A lot of people here need to give their head a shake. Linden Lab is a business, not a democracy.

I'm assuming the regions of the hosting organization means "Island". You can't cam from an island.