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Fun with ad parcel owners
Second Life Insider
Oct 5th 2007 6:13PM Maybe someone can clear something up here: does an abuse report automatically generate a notice/IM to the person being reported? I've received a couple of IMs in the last couple years stating I was AR'd. (For ludicrous reasons, the last being a notice that I was reported for planting a "listening device" when I had an accidentally lost vehicle end up on their property... at a location that turned out to be ~40 meters from their house- bwuh?) The only notice I received for the two instances (spread out by a year or more, two different people) were IMs from the person themselves. Aside from taunt IMs from the reporter, how do you even know you have been AR'd?
Fun with ad parcel owners
Second Life Insider
Oct 5th 2007 10:55AM Sorry, misread- I seem to have repeated what you wrote, re: my first para. I still say go ahead and remove the tree unless it's particularly important to you. Life's too short to deal with idiots over something trivial like that, and there's really nothing to be gained by testing the system here.
Fun with ad parcel owners
Second Life Insider
Oct 5th 2007 10:35AM Umm... Much as I hate to side with the owner of 16m with a billboard, if the branches cross the property line, he has grounds to be upset. Not act like a petulant three year old and tattle to Mommy Linden at the first opportunity, mind you, but grounds to be upset. Trees are just like any other prim- you don't have the right to lap them over someone else's land, even if their root point is on your side of the line. (Not that you were deliberately doing that for nefarious purposes, of course.)
Were it me, I'd move the tree ASAP, put him on my ignore list, and get on with my life. This guy is likely going to be immune to any lessons about "more flies with honey than vinegar" and so on, so there's no percentage in dragging your feet to make a point that will be ignored. Of course, I'd also swap the tree out for the biggest, tallest, densest Ponderosa Pine I could rez, and push it as close to the property line as I could manage... Without getting it so close that it passes the line in a high wind. He's within his rights both to post billboards on his land and defend his property lines. But with his behavior, he's lost any expectation of consideration one iota beyond those guaranteed rights.
Leaks, still leaking
Second Life Insider
Jun 14th 2007 11:30AM Can someone cure my ignorance here? Say you have a program like the Second Life Client that has a memory leak. It's been running for a few hours, and your computer has ground to a halt. Is quitting the client and relogging sufficient to free up this leaked memory? Or is a complete reboot of the computer required?
Send Daniel for on the job training!
Second Life Insider
Jun 3rd 2007 5:03PM I wonder things have grown to the point where LL needs an official PR flack (and perhaps even a contract lawyer) to vet any and all posts on the blog for clarity and coherence with company policy. "Good communication skills" may simply not be enough anymore. And boy would that be a tough job, given the number of people who will be picking over every word like the lawyer of a vindictive spouse at a divorce settlement.
I'd hate to see it come to that, of course. It's been great to have a direct line from the developers to the residents (and theoretically vice-versa), and it's been painful to see said lines of communication eroded by fiscal, legal, and numerical necessity. But it's become all-too-clear that LL can no longer afford informal communication with the SL community.
The cost of such a review process would be a lack of communication in general, beyond cold official decrees from on high and terse release notes. (And you wonks out there reaching for the reply button to say, "And how is that different from now?!" can just not bother. You know better.) And, of course, an incredible loss of nimbleness in dealing with the public, as every word is held in someone's inbox for three days, on weekdays 8-to-5 PST. I just don't see how things can evolve any other way. There are a few hundred thousand active users now. The cost of a malformed sentence or an unclear point, in terms of general unrest and uproar, is just too high.
In the short term, it might be a good idea for the Linden Bloggers to show any post to a few of the pickier and more cynical people in the LL offices prior to posting. It's easy to forget that a weblog is reaching potentially tens of thousands of people. Perhaps just keeping that in mind, and the stark terror that comes with it if you think about it too much, would be enough for now.
And now I'm really struggling to hit the "Add Your Comments" button...
American significance on the wane?
Second Life Insider
May 5th 2007 10:23PM So are there any statistics showing where the paid accounts are coming from? It would be interesting to see if that is spread according to the new overall population statistics.
Airlines in SL?
Second Life Insider
May 1st 2007 5:45PM Which controlled safe routes do you mean, Gaius? I've not heard of such a thing, but that's not surprising. I've pretty much given up on vehicles altogether.
Cube ARG - What We Know So Far
Second Life Insider
Apr 26th 2007 7:15PM Well, I don't think I'd go that far. I enjoy a mystery as much as the next guy, and this one seems fairly innocuous. But I am bracing myself for a disappointment after all the build up.
Cube ARG - What We Know So Far
Second Life Insider
Apr 26th 2007 5:29PM FWIW the PHP variable name in the CubesQue.com PHP has changed again. It's now "...index.php?qarl=XXXX" The transition is from "corner" through "qarner" to "qarl". No clue about the significance there, aside from confirming this is all Qarl's fault.
The Cubes Have Eyes?
Second Life Insider
Apr 26th 2007 11:26AM And now CubeOverload shows a pic of a plywood sphere and "IT'S BIGGER THAN YOU AND YOU ARE NOT ME." (A snippet from REM's "Losing My Religion." Can't fault his taste in music, in any case.) The sphere pic is called "iamyou.jpg."
