Happy Thursday kids! It’s me again with a recap of some of the news floating around Second Life with an extra helping of my two bloody cents. And boy howdy y’all been busy. So let’s get to it shall we?
Number A: The Lindens Fuck Up…..again..
So y’all know Hybrid Ansar right? She owns the shops: Savoire Fair Shapes, Not too Shabby, and Tendrils? Well she’s been banned from Second Life as well as somebody named Ikaru. Apparently this banning was the result of one ass clown and her partners in stupid filing false abuse reports against them as some form of “revenge”. This of course is bullshit as Hybrid is one of the most up and up people in the community. So hey Lindens, way to drop the goddamn ball on doing some research before hitting the ban button. Jesus Slam Dancing Christ, you clowns are like the Barney Fife’s of the internet. Never there when we actually need you (Being griefed, copybotted, or otherwise have a legitimate complaint) but hey, when you have your facts wrong you’re all over it like a fat kid in a candy store.
The Letter 2: Second Life Advocacy/Charity Group Formally Notifies Just About Everybody of a TOS violation.
Second Pride is a group in Second Life that centers around the LGBT community. Starting in 2007 they picked a real world charity to help out every year and they hold monthly fundraisers and also have a big Second Pride event. Overall after reading through their charter, about us, their forums, etc they seem like a very upfront and good organization. Now as you can probably guess this charity group handles a lot of money. In order to do so they created an avatar just for the purpose of handling the money. The avatar is of course controlled by the Treasurer. Well apparently this year, there were some problems getting the avatar back from the former treasurer Lemonodo Oh. The hows, the whys, the whole drama there isn’t the issue as that seems to be a rather internal affair and frankly I piss enough people off just by saying “Hi” I don’t really need a whole well organized group coming after me. While yes, may be fun it would be total headache after awhile. The story here is this: YOU ARE NOW ALLOWED TO SHARE AVATARS!! Look, as stated in Number A the Lindens are not the sharpest tools in the shed (Read: They ain’t bright folks). They will see a good charitable organization breaking the rules and they will come down like a ton of bricks instead of going after things that need to be addressed. Y’all need to be smarter than that. Seriously.
The Number 3: The Internet Police say you can’t sell shit you’ve purchased.
You know what the Transfer permission is for? It’s for giving stuff to other people. Also, it can be used for reselling items that frankly you no longer want in your inventory. That is why they have these things called Yard Sales. Shoot, if I remember correctly they even used to have a search feature for Yard Sales. Everybody who has transfer items can have a yard sale. It’s actually fairly easy to do. Yes Virginia, even bloggers can have a yard sale. It’s okay, really it is. It’s not unethical. Sometimes bloggers acquire a lot of inventory from review copies to simply out of tendency to go “OH shiny want now!” Sometimes we need to clean out our inventory, I mean once a day I see somebody on plurk post about “Cleaning out their inventory.” So somebody had the idea to charge a small fee for furniture and home decor they don’t even actually blog. That’s okay. Actually it’s pretty goddamn smart. Especially for such cheap prices. It’s not like this person went “Hey, great idea! I am going to charge a shitload for stuff and make a mad mad profit”. So you know what? Lighten the fuck up. Lay off your overblown sense of “Ethics”. Tend to your own very glass house before you meddle in others and you know what will happen? Life will go on, people will be happy, and like so to the overly pixelated sands through the bad sculpty hourglass so too the days of our Second Lives.
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