and yeah they do have a bad PR but being a long time fan of MMOs it’s not the first time i see things like this happen, so i guess i’m just unphased about it all and know it’s going to blow over pretty quickly, just to be replaced by the next big drama thing.

well just pile up that rant then, if it confirms that well what your thinking, i think we are not alone. we are just the noisy minority.

yes i agree they must deal with it, but not on the community’s back. and I read all your stuff, I know what your opinion is. i just dont agree on taking pity, there a corporation making huge profits, if they cannot PR, this is bad news for us, content creators, that invested thousands of dollars (in my case) in this metaverse.

cheers!

Codie

On a side note, given the current state of the affairs, I’ve been suggesting to improve the world by prohibiting the XOR operation in any computer as an example of the terrorist boolean operation ( 1 (something - target) XOR 1 (something - attacker) == 0 (nothing, empty), and replace it with a much more peaceful combination with equivalent functionality [A XOR B => (A & ~B) + (~A & B) ] - however this idea so far did not get much of the mindshare…

So far unfortunately the narrow-minded performance circles have been winning and I’ve not been very successful with that proposal, but I still have hope - maybe we could do something together on that ?

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second of all, the things you are ranting about are in my blog so i dont know why you didnt just post it there.

third, i agree with you that linden lab should never have gotten involved in the age-play afair and just let the police do their job and cooperate like the internet does but it’s too late now. they did the mistake and now they have to deal with it.

for the rest of the stuff you are ranting about, i always said on my post what my opinion was. i’m not gonna repeat it again.

Don’t forget the Lindens invented it, but it’s OUR world, it’s driven by us, the economy is fed with our tiers fees, we create the content, we create the places of interest, attracting other companies to this huge user base. We are the wooooorld… (sings cheezily).

As a computer programmer and system administrator and owner of a web hosting company, I know damn well that kind of things they have to deal with. But or you deal like you should, or not. SL is a web hosting farm, nothing more. If they start treating it like a game, then they expose themselves to lawsuits. Am I responsible for what one smuck of a customer puts on its website? The answer is no. So LL is not responsible if you buy a sim and plant child porn on it for example. But it is NOT the Lindens job and it is NOT the community’s job to police those criminal behaviour! Let the cops do their jobs.

Neither the community or the Lindens needs to become the police in this issue. They just have a PR departement that did’nt think enough about those issues to deal with it properly to my own sense. Therefore they just stumbled in the carpet, made broad statements about offensive contents, furthermore infuriating an already sensitive user base, rising their own user base into a grieving fest. This is called shooting themselves in the foot. In PR you have to keep your head cold, and defend your user base, while offering authorities your collaboration in case of complain. That’s it! Does’t take a MBA to know that.

Sorry for the long rant, hope i’m making sense

Codie

futhermore i did not say i agree with everything LL did. i think theres a lot of things to be done still but i wish to give them a chance and see what they will do.

Disclaimer: this is satire blah blah blah, i actually found that part about me very funny and the space needle thing was really quick thinking ^^