Second Life – Page 272

March 11, 2011March 11, 2011

Posts That Are Too Hot To Handle On New Forum

So I asked in the Roleplaying forum:

“In April Fantasy Faire 2011 will be upon us, as explained here.

Anyone displaying anything there, or planning on visiting?”

Then away I went and played some Goblin power in WoW for a bit and returned to find, my post has been deleted and I’ve received a warning for violating the rules. Now my first reaction isn’t suitable for a PG blog, nor was my second, third or fourth. Seriously, in a roleplaying forum about roleplay in Second Life, I’m not allowed to discuss one of the biggest roleplay events of the year or provide background to it by linking to their website?

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March 7, 2011March 7, 2011

SL Capex relaunched

Sometimes you get blasts from the past in Second Life and one big blast from the past appeared in a notecard yesterday when I was informed that not only is SL Capex still going, it now has a new CEO in the form of Skip Oceanlane.

I’d forgotten all about SL Capex, which became JT Wallet or something like that during the great banking crash and burn after banks were banned, but it’s still there, there’s a website still there: http://www.slcapex.com/

Stock Markets in Second Life have been fraught with danger and a lack of oversight, when they were at their peak there were still plenty of questions about them. This is going to be a hard road to tread but if people want to try again, that’s their choice, people just need to be careful of what they’re doing.

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March 5, 2011

Tonight’s Entertainment at Isle of Dee

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March 5, 2011March 5, 2011

Twitter Party!

Last Sunday Skate Foss threw a party for the movers and shakers in the world of Twitter and Second Life, she also let those of us in who don’t move or shake that well. However there were signs that this party could be troublesome, when you arrive and find SecondLie there you start to worry:

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March 4, 2011March 4, 2011

ZFire should apologise to his users

A content creator whom I’ve know for quite a while inworld contacted me last night to berate me for being anti Redzone, said content creator has suffered badly at the hands of copybot over the years and felt that Redzone was the best solution on the market. This content creator is convinced that the anti Redzone rising has been instigated by copybotters who have been thwarted by Redzone, even when I pointed out Redzone’s own miserable statistics for dealing with copybot, they wouldn’t have it, the propaganda war on both sides has taken hold and for many there is no middle ground here.

Some Redzone supporters refuse to see the alt exposure as a problem and feel it’s silly, Some Redzone opponents refuse to acknowledge that IP bans have worked and that griefers coming back with throwaway alts have been thwarted by Redzone.

This of course was always going to happen, in my view Redzone remains unethical because it does not seek consent and uses an exploit to harvest data. There is no need for Redzone to harvest data on people who have done no wrong, if it’s a security tool, but the lure of the nosey parkers seems to have been too much for ZFire to resist.

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