If you’ve never been to the Zindra user group meeting, you won’t quite understand the issues of the people who do attend. They have issues with lack of visibility, lack of promotion, Linden Lab’s apparent fear of adult content, which is odd as Zindra is no holds barred adult, but Amanda seemed panic struck when residents asked for an adult discussion forum at the resident tools user group meetings, and we know from articles like this over at Massively, that plenty of people find the whole adult issue to be unseemly.
Yet every Monday, regulars come to try and make things happen, to me it’s like Groundhog Day there, I went months without attending these meetings but when I started to go again it was still all about a Zexpo, or an event, or who had control of a group, but to be fair to the guys who attend, they keep trying to make headway, they of course all come to see Blondin:
The thing is adult isn’t going away anytime soon, as much as some would love it to, it plays a big part, even for people who don’t see themselves as selling adult services, landlords and clothing makers aren’t inherently adult, but the people who use adult items are intergrating amongst all of us. This week, Inara Pey made a surprise appearance:
Inara has been trying to get a dialogue going with Amanda on some issues, but so far it has been a tricky road, I feel sorry for Amanda in some ways, she’s the face we interact with on many issues but her hands are tied by those above.
Couldbe Yue, also attended, I told her she had forgotten her skirt, “Hotpants” she purred at me!
The setting for these meetings is rather pleasant, although on the horizon you can see adult venues, the park itself is a sort of coffee bar with nice seating, which not everyone takes advantage of, as Qie Nianagao demonstrated:
However most people do find a seat, as Innula Zenovka demonstrated:
The question of course remains, what do these guys want? I honestly don’t know the answer anymore, they want to organise events and feel part of the Second Life community as a whole, rather than outcasts and they certainly do understand why they are on adult land, but when attempts to get some involvement at SL8B get short shrift because of the same fear of adult that the refusal to create a private adult discussion forum raised, they rightly feel sleighted.
As it stands these meetings, which are well attended, will continue and hopefully somewhere between the bickering, booing, agreement and frustrations, an acceptable solution or two will be found and things will move past Groundhog Day.
