Second Life – Page 271

March 18, 2011March 18, 2011

Change Isn’t The Problem, Application Is

Hamlet Au over at New World Notes recently posted a very provocative post , suggesting that Second Life users fear of change could lead to the downfall of Second Life. The problem I have with Hamlet’s post is that it’s simply not true that Second Life users have this great fear of change, but like any userbase, they question the motives and fear the changes will not improve the Second Life experience.

If you go to the Jira, and type the following query in the new query window:

issuetype = “New Feature”

You’ll find 6,591 results, that’s 6,591 suggestions from Second Life Users that will involve in many cases, change. The problems really aren’t a fear of change, they are a fear that changes will lessen, rather than improve, one’s enjoyment of Second Life.

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March 16, 2011March 16, 2011

The Dick Van Dyke No Show

There’s a great episode of Family guy called PTV, basically Peter sets up his own television station after the FCC censor all sorts of things after someone has a wardrobe malfunction at the Emmy awards, Peter is aghast at the censorship, which includes Dick Van Dyke having Dick and Dyke blanked out. So where Family Guy treads, it seems Linden Lab follow, because I was discussing that very episode of Family Guy on the official forums and found that my post had been edited.

Yes, if you type Dick Van Dyke on the official forums the result is: **bleep** Van **bleep** …. I’m not making this up!

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March 14, 2011March 23, 2012

Fantasy Faire 2011 – Press Release

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

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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March 12, 2011March 12, 2011

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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March 12, 2011March 12, 2011

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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