Ciaran Laval

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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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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