SLsecret: Week 229

I thought obvious secrets weren't supposed to make it in?

Gogo

well, moo money broke it

Cake

no secrets for me

Gogo

i think i can pull it up in my reader

Gogo

ah yea, there it is

the site just takes a bit to load be patient

anyway one of those I will probably be accused of making. I didn't make it. But its the reason I asked about it. That is all.

If it's the obvious one, I didn't think you made it. I noticed that Iris did the posting, so maybe she wasn't aware of how obvious it was, but if it's a mention of a plurker, it's generally obvious.

Also how many times can I say obvious in one plurk? *Whoa.*

sdfjslf I'm so fail at italics.

oh and 24...

I concur

Juniper♫Arwyn

Number 10... Shut up. Just, shut up. There's enough shaming put on women having abortions, shut your mouth and get over yourself. You are so selfish.

Miyani

Number 10 was the least offensive of the times she got called out. Doing it anonymously isn't "right," but I get it. 5 and 21? Be ashamed. Be very ashamed.

Wow I didn't even think about those being about her as well. Sad.

I don't know who # 10 is about, but I want to give them a big hug (the one who had the abortion, not the judgmental bitch.

Also LOL @ #17

Tillie

What's this 20 thingy?

I love how you all wash your hands from responsibility for this venom. It is brilliant I tell you, brilliant.

Anyway... you all can get the bee out your bonnet. I've done my one good deed for the year. Enjoy...

Congratulations, I'm glad you are happy with yourself too.

I look at SL Secrets as a direct representation of the climate on Plurk and Second Life. For as long as SL and Plurk are full of hate mongering asswipes, so will SL Secrets be that way, too.

The end.

I only look at the secrets every week so I can make sure that MY friends aren't being targets by the pathetic swine who want to spit at them.

So don't get up on your high horses thinking we ALL here want to look at people's dirty laundry. I'm sure I am not alone.

Anyone who is friends with those who make these hateful secrets? Take a look in the mirror before you open your mouth.

But that's the world these people live in. SL Secrets, from what I gather, was intended to be a sort of Postsecret-esque thing. Not a place for gossip. However because that's the way of Second Life to be petty,

thoughtless and a bully behind the anonymous screen, that's what it has spiraled down into.

Well if that is the case & the authors allow secrets that are quite obviously about very specific people intended to hurt them? Sorry, the directors are as responsible for this as the writers.

No one wants to have a discussion anymore. It's all about fighting and who is most correct and has the best opinion. There's never any "agreeing to disagree".

The feature is what brings people to the site and generates traffic. It's the same thing as slowing down on the highway to look at a car accident. It draws attention. It's not great attention but look

at the source(s).

If SLDisco doesn't take a hard look at themselves, the humans running this page & who they are? Is this really who you are? Weekly World News? A dirty SL tabloid?

Congratulations if you want to be that.

on Friday we had 3 Sweet Fridays an outlet we created for people to be positive. Today we have 22 secrets and a good percentage of them are not positive.

If SCD staff began disallowing secrets based on what they feel popular opinion would dislike then that's them essentially applying the rules however they see fit. People would still complain.

Yeah, use Sweet Fridays to justify Secrets.

If you hate secrets don't read them You can read and submit a sweet friday and be part of something positive

Yeah, just.. don't send in hateful secrets. OR counteract them with good ones.

artfrakture: I'm not justifying Secrets. I don't have to.

I feel like the obvious plurk related secrets should be pulled from the running. Its like the same secret every week

I told you, I read secrets to make sure my friends aren't being hurt by them, I HATE secrets

for forever and ever, worded differently about plurk and the people on it.

No one said that Sunday SL Secrets has to be terrible. The Postsecret guy heavily filters what he posts, mostly for space, I am sure, as he gets bazillions of them. But he doesn't have a set list of rules.

like why are you even here if you hate it so much LOL just set to private and pick who you want on your TL

Here? We need rules because people are idiots and whine over every little thing.

So if I want to make a site that talks shit about women in SL and how they are are whores & bitches who have issues & people post horrible things on that site, you are saying that my hands are clean?

Oh I didn't put it there

someone else did

Sorry, I'm questioning the value of Secrets

Certainly. There is a comment section down below where people can comment. And the following week, put up your own secret.

It's no different than writing the same in a Plurk.

People are assholes all the time. Some of them go into politics.

As long as people read and submit them they have value.

Technically it's free speech. You can't take that right away.

It's ugly and hateful and their opinion is morally wrong but there aren't Plurk Police or the Facebook Morality Squad who skims every post made and doles out tickets for being a douche.

I'm not taking anyone's right away from free speech, I'm questioning the people who want to continue to produce a rag that is involved in the act of talking shit about others

Good job, those of you who produce this. I'm proud of the way that you wipe your hands

you know what

So they should shut down Plurk, too?

And the whole internet?

my right boob itches and i have no idea why.

this is really important you guys

Jeli you are right peopel talk shit.

I know!

I have my right to free speech & I have seen friends get trashed in here

I have had at least two wonderful secrets written about me wonderful sweet ones

I'm just pissed off, I see my friends get thrashed through here.

Then you could tell your friends to have the secrets removed by contacting SCD directly. Otherwise, submit something that's not full of hate.

If someone posted a secret about me, good or bad, I would be completely amused.

Even if it's horrible and wrong, the fact that I ME annoyed someone that much would bring so much glee to my day that I don't know what I'd do.

But I know other people don't share that view so they do have an option to remove them. No, the secret author shouldn't have been such a jerk but people are adults here and shouldn't wear their feelings

on their sleeves either.

Thanks, I'm removing the people associated with secrets & I could care less about anyone supporting this shit.

Welp, looks like we all know who wrote this secret.

artfrakture: Your friends are adults, they don't need you to white knight for them.

LOL Sadly there are many people every week who post how they hate the SL Secrets but then talk about them all day long. It's not just Art, I assure you! And I have a fairly small timeline.

SL secrets are a reflection of us, they are not shocking because people on SL are arseholes

Oh, I know it's not just Art who rages against the oppression of the Shopping Cart DIsco regime, but he's the most vocal in this plurk.

I see nothing good at ALL about secrets. I think its time for them to go honestly.

I find his outrage rather obnoxious tbh.

http://images.plurk.com/xGlU7cKd2G4fCWdtxXrwR.gif

Darkley: That's exactly the point I was trying to make, too.

Well with the reflection comment anyway. LOL

i litteraly got a headache from this weeks. and i KNOW its my own responsibility to read them or not read them, i'm jus twondering, WHY? what does it bring?

Why do people keep asking why? Like it's a question that's going to get answered, or like the secrets will magically go away after 3 years just b/c people keep asking why they're still around?

Don't read them. It's that simple.

If you read them, you have no one to blame for your frustration but yourself.

Beck i know...its up to everyone to read them or not. I just think its getting so fucking NASTY each time around ya know..

whats the use anyway

It is nasty, they've been nasty for years, this is nothing new.

It's not changing, they're probably not going away and everyone just needs to get a grip and realize that. Don't read them if you don't want to.

I don't understand why that concept is so hard for people to grasp.

RL PostSecret isn't exactly all sweetness and light either.

RL post secret is a lot worse

people live in a little unicorn and glitter bubble where everything is lovely, and everyone is amazing, and they are blind to their own nastiness and their BFF nastiness

I don't know RL secret lol. but i guess you got a point Beck. i don't HAVE to read them. It just gets increasingly vile and personal (hell they always have been) and its really really fucked up each week

and when out of the blue one of 'theirs' is on the recieving end theres uproar

to have that drama about it

It does not get any more vile or nasty than it has been in the past. The bad secrets have always been vile and nasty and personal to the people who know what they are about.

Your only mode of defense is to take responsibility on your own and stop reading them.

Anon is not going to hack SCD and take down the secrets. So it's time to start practicing some self-control.

if you have ever stood silent while one of your friends has attacked someone on any social media then you stfu

Ms. Natasha

Amen tobefree

Doom Cookie

Actually I don't think they could take Kess. Her kung-fu is strong.

Yeah Kess probably IS Anon, so in that case you're double-fucked.

Darkley, me?

no, not specific

cause this IS one of my friends being attacked ont he social media

and i'm not standing silent for that reason!

im just saying people need to police themselves

no, if your friend is the attacker

thats my point

well as i said earlier, i have to agree with that.

ooooh! ok

i have NO idea who the attackers even are

Tillie

The statement "Your friends are adults, they don't need you to white knight for them." is just wrong. There are many adult people around who are NOT strong enough to fight for themselves.

Tillie

Please don't compare other people with yourself, thank you.

CapitánSileny

I agree with that Tillie. When I was going through a rough time with harassment my friends stood up for me and helped me get the strength to then stand up for myself.

See I disagree with that. We're talking about adults who should have life experience, not middle schoolers being bullied.

The internet can be a tough, scary place, and adults should realize that.

Yes, I have had friends on here who were harrassed and bullied in SL, plurk, etc. Of course they were worried and scared.

But they handled what was happening like adults, and didn't demand that everyone become their personal army.

Not everyone has a strong resolve and a fuck you attitude to handle bullying. While I generally don't agree with the whole plurk army defense thing for most of the silly situations that pop up, I think people

are so genuinely outraged by her treatment that they're speaking out.