Fantasy Faire 2011 – Press Release

Official Press Release regarding this year’s Fantasy Faire 2011, complete with some info on sponsors.

Fantasy Faire 2011 Logo
Fantasy Faire 2011

* * Fantasy Faire 2011, April 2 – 10th * *

Proudly brought to you by
Friends Fighting Cancer
Strong!  Together!

With The Spirit of Hope!

From Saturday April 2nd to Sunday April 10th 2011, thousands of Second Life residents and creators are coming together to support the American Cancer Society’s vision of a world without cancer.  Friends Fighting Cancer (FFC) have transformed nine sims of Second Life into a fantasy wonderland:  the Fantasy Faire 2011 to benefit Relay for Life of Second Life (RFL of SL).
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Techcrunch slay the trolls – Collateral Damage Is Heavy

I don’t like Facebook, let’s be clear from the start, I don’t like the way it tries to share info, I don’t like the way it operates beyond what it tries to sell itself as, it’s great for people who know each other and want to keep in touch, but it goes much deeper than that spreading all kinds of personal info to people whom people don’t know. Therefore it shouldn’t come as any surprise that I’m not keen on sites who employ Facebook comments, one such site is Techcrunch.

Techcrunch introduced Facebook comments at the start of the month, they felt this would help cutdown on trolling and within a week were saying it had, as described here. However they weren’t exactly jubliant about this because, they’ve stifled comments full stop, admitting themselves that comments are dramatically reduced, therefore suggesting there are plenty of people who weren’t trolling, who now aren’t posting. There are those who use Yahoo to comment there, but generally comments were down.

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A Question Of Trust

So the big news of the day, Hamlet Au of  New World Notes tells us on Twitter:

OMFG I just narrowly survived certain death from a 6 inch stiletto heel flung at Mach 2 speeds by a half naked club girl off 6th st!

I did titter when I read this, but really, that could have been a very nasty incident and it sounds like a very nasty girl was involved, and I don’t mean nasty in a good way. Ok Ok the real talking point of the weekend, the Redzone hacking issue and the Video. Let’s start with the Video. A Video posted to YouTube had a person appearing to tell someone how they logged wrong passwords because people often type passwords for other services when logging into other sites, this could be a way of cracking people’s accounts, the product that was apparently logging these mistyped passwords, was allegedly Redzone.

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Moderation and Common Sense

I think I’ve discovered why my forum post asking if people were participating in or attending Fantasy Faire 2011 was nuked, leading to a moderator warning for me, it seems that the guidelines on community participation forbid references to websites if they promote specific merchants or services and the Fantasy Faire 2011 website does have merchants who are attending the event there, I still don’t see how that really falls foul of the spamming reference, or why it’s forbidden in the Roleplaying forum as it’s a Roleplaying event, but there you go.

Others have found that referencing other wesbites that have the answer to a question in the answers section, also ends up with your post being deleted. The thing lacking here is of course common sense, and it’s all the more galling when you consider that Linden Lab are happy to push people towards Facebook and Twitter to find information about what’s going on in Second Life.

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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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