Kit Lacy

True. But using my bank analogy again. The nice person behind the desk could block my account or drain every last penny from it.

How many banks would do that? And how long would they last if they did?

/me looks at US financial sector.

Um...forget I said anything.

Seriously though, it's their sim their servers but if I was them in these tight times I'd be doing everything I could to keep my paying customers happy.

Sarah Nerd

Yea it was concierge information group chat.

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Redhead

What makes it bad is that Linden Lab bills it as being conceirge service.

This absolutely was NOT conceirge service by any stretch of the imagination.

This was minimum-wage-guy-behind-the-desk-who's-just-there-to-answer-the-damn-phone level service.

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Maddie Blaustein: the very definition of wit.

Sarah Nerd

Trying to decide if I should hang this in my sl house beside pictures of all of my special SL memories and moments. Maybe between the first time I was proposed to be a partner, and the picture of my sl land mentor.


Dear Sarah Nerd,

This email is notification of action regarding your Second Life account,
Sarah Nerd, for violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or Community
Standards. The violation in question occurred on October 27, 2008 in the
region of Nerdagara Falls.

Violation: Community Standards: Harassment, Verbal Abuse

Communicating with another Resident using offensively
coarse, intimidating or threatening language, or in any
other manner that is unwanted or likely to cause annoyance
or alarm is a violation of the Second Life Community
Standards.



Action:
As a result of this violation, your Second Life account is
being temporarily suspended for a period of 3 days. It will
return to active status on Thursday, Oct 30, 2008.

Appeal Process: The decision to suspend your Second Life access was
reached after investigation of your use of the Second Life software and
service. If you would like to appeal your suspension, you may contact
Second Life Support, in writing, at the address below:

Second Life Support
Linden Lab
945 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

You may also appeal electronically by filing a support ticket via the
support portal at Second Life | Support: Helpful tips and tricks for your virtual world experience.

Please provide relevant information that you believe would explain the
above violation. Linden Lab reserves sole discretion in considering
whether to take any action on a written appeal.



Sincerely,
Linden Lab

Lucifer Baphomet

outrageous

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Charlemagne Allen

What morons they are....

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Charlemagne Allen: YOU'RE A RACIST!
Charlemagne Allen: I HAVE CHATLOGS!
smokergirl Lowenhar: HOMOPHOBE
smokergirl Lowenhar: CONTENT THIEF
Charlemagne Allen: RELIGION SUCKS DONKEY BALLS!
smokergirl Lowenhar: KISS MY ASS YOU CLOSE MINDED HYPOCRIT
Charlemagne Allen: YOU WERE AN ESCORT FOR BARN ANIMALS!
Charlemagne Allen: ZOMG BIG SIG!

Pretty things:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlemagneallen/

CoyoteMomiji

So Lindens are now residents? And one sentence is harrassment?

*cracks her knuckles* That could be an interesting interpretation.

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Slick closed until further notice.

Recidivist Sideways: YOU'LL TAKE MY ROUGH, BUTTERY FRIENDSHIP, AND YOU'LL LIKE IT

Redhead

Hey Sarah look PUPPIES!!

Puppycam!

Vengence Opus

Fuck you, LL.

You bitches need to remember who got your little VC experiment off the fucking ground.

USER CREATED WORLD.

Does it say "built by Lindens"?

Fuck no it doesn't. If that WERE the case, SL would be a single laggy sim with Phillip avatars circle jerking in the middle.

Pull your heads out, you bell ends. Way to get butt hurt because someone used language your virgin ears have yet to experience outside the playpen. I've seen better customer service in a jail.

Eat shit, Lintards.

I'm glad you don't see a red cent from me any more. I'll be damned if i pay for you to continue treating people like shit 'cause you found a grain of virtual sand in your otherwise "perfect", happyland snatches.

I hope you get bought out by the Hello Kitty franchise.

Adventure Island is only a step away.

Fuck.

Sincerely,

Vengence F. Opus

Pissed



p.s. - So sorry this happened, Sarah. Glad you've been reinstated.

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“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.” ~ Charles Bukowski

Sarah Nerd

I say we script a bloodline style game, only people can only move up in rank by biting Lindens. Yea that'll teach em!

Psyke Phaeton

Catcam! OK well not really but.. what do cats get up to when alone?

Mr. Lee CatCam then click "Photo tours - join a day in the life of Mr. Lee"

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Beezle Warburton

"This message is hidden because Anya Ristow is on your ignore list."

Just a suggestion. I know it helps me get through the day.

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Vengence Opus

Someone needs to make me a shoulder pet.

I want a poo-flinging monkey that attacks by avatar last name.

/1 set target: Linden

Beezle Warburton

So, when are they going to enforce AR's against 'em?

Aminom Marvin

Wow, the train of stupid from LL is unending tonight.

I said "bullshit" in multiple sentences tonight in concierge chat, at the same time period as Sarah talked.
In addition, numerous people used curses as well, which, in my opinion, is perfectly understandable.
The fact that only Sarah was suspended shows that this is completely political by LL's behalf. Unfortunately, this sort of bias and abuse of power is all too common by the "in world governance" team.

9.5/10. Great form: concise, bold delivery, and colorful. Haiku-like, flowing, and poetic quality which wonderfully mixes with the stern tone to create a vibrant livelihood of linguistic delight. Points minus for being too kind to offender, but otherwise high marks all around.

You madame, are a poet.

Vengence Opus

seriously.

Has someone fired Linden Lab yet?

I'm waiting on that monkey. If you build it, I will fling. I'd log in and everything.

Me: Hello, Linden pukes! I am a disgruntled former paying customer. YOU GET THE MONKEH!!!!
***** Linden: Noooooo not the monkeh!!!
Me: Oh fuck yeah!!!! The monkeh, you get it!!!
***** Linden: Can we kill the script?
**** Linden: It's broken!!!
***** Linden: Damn you dirty server monkehs!!! Damn you all to hell!!!!
Me: Bwahahahahahaha! Your broken world can't stop me now, Mr. Barfy Linden!! YOU LIKE THE MONKEH?!?!! HUH?!?! Do you?!!
*** Linden: Is that a trout?

Xiomara Mendes

Here's the thing that kills me: sooooo many things that are clearly against TOS run rampant in SL, and those avatars don't get banned. I'm talking about underaged kiddies, griefers, thieves, etc. The way that Sarah was treated is the way I'd expect someone like.... hmmm... me to be treated. I would assume someone who actually pays for SL via tier and a subscription would be treated better.

Now, I do understand that people who provide customer service don't want to be cursed at or abused. My RL job involves online customer support. We've had to discipline a few customers by suspending their online accounts because they became extremely abusive. I can assure you, however, that they did much more than fling one simple "fuck you" our way. Anyone who works in customer service should be thicker skinned and be able to handle a curse word or two.

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NOBODY IN THIS HOUSE ORDERED ANY MILLIPEDES.

Macphisto Angelus

Just 2 cents from me and you can disagree/agree or moan away.

It is true that the grids popping up are not ready for prime time. It is VERY true they are in need of content and the like. LSL scripting is not to a great level yet and grids often crash when they are used.. there are lots of bugs, crashes and sometimes frustration and tears involved in making yourself a resident of them from a technical stand point.


But.. (you knew that was coming)


There will be no content until people go there and build (many are.. but there is room for more)

They will seem slow (not populated) until people do more then land.. see it is slow and go away. The more people log in and hang out, the busier they will get.

It takes people willing to be there and grow the communities for things to get going. I remember my first log in on Second Life way back (Mac is a later account) and how I looked at the small world, the lack of many people, the ugly ass avatars with the crappy emotes that made The Sims Online and There.com seem better. It was ugly and it was awkward and I didn't give it the chance I should have.. but in time people made it happen. As people made it happen with content and giving it a social dynamic it attracted more people. Soon LL was able to hire more coders, buy more servers, etc etc and they grew into the dominating force of online virtual worlds. Then I went back and fell in love with the idea of what was then "my world and my imagination". The things created today that are so amazing are directly birthed from the early people who stuck it out through the crashes, frustrations, etc.

You can say opensim is slow, you can say X grid sucks.. but the potential is just as much there in this stuff as Second Life had. They may never get a Mitch Kapor or a Philip Linden to bank it and get others too.. but I see the same passion. If anything they are ahead of the game since LL and the residents layed such a great foundation of knowledge.

So.. if you are serious about wanting something away from LL, pick a world and see what you can do to make it grow.

I chose mine in OpenLife. I found people there I am very fond of and a admin that is always trying to help and grow his grid. Some have chosen OSGrid, some are looking at that new Legend City Online one and there are others out there. Visit them, get a feel for their communities in the forums, grid meetings, etc and see if you are ready to help out. Just remember when you crash the first 80 times and feel like a total noob all over again that Second Life came from the same awkwardness and instability.

There are alternatives.. they are just young and awkward.

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Ame Lefevre

I thought the same thing when I explored the showcase list for something to do last night. Why the hell isn't Sarah's freebie paradise on there? It's the #1 place for all newbies to start their SL existence, and one of the main reasons that they stay.

I'm really sorry to hear that this has happened to you Sarah, I was so shocked when I saw the title of the thread and saw that you were the OP.

Walker

Wow. A three day ban for saying fuck you. It's a good job you didn't call them a bunch of cunts.

Qie Niangao

Righto.

Followed by a phone call to M, for a more direct delivery of the "Fuck you" message. That's probably how Anshe will do it. Or possibly in person. With props.

Ned Easterwood

I'm still confused.
Did you get back in-world, Sarah, so Brenda could throw herself at you?
'Cause if you did, I want pics.

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Jerboa Haystack

Now hold on one second! That freakin' Open space tier announcement was communicating with Residents, pretty danged unwanted, and certain to cause annoyance, and alarm? getouttahere!.

BAN THE LINDENS FROM SECOND LIFE!!!!!

Eirik

For ages I've been saying I'll start making content. But I never did out of laziness. It's like ... why raise your own pigs in the garden if you can buy bacon in the store.

But since I'm out of SL now, I guess I have a reason to grow my own bacon. Maybe something good will come out of this after all.

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Walker

You know, I don't care about the bugs, crashing, and lack of maturity of aspects like scripting.

The only thing that stops me straying to opensim grids is the poor physics. It's the one thing that really breaks immersion in my opinion. Oh, and it causes prim heavy structures because you can't walk into hollow prims and such.

If people really want to vote with their feet, there are plenty other interesting and creative things to do with their computers that don't involve logging into a virtual world.