Comments on: BallerMoMo King: “they know they can”t fuck with me”

By: JC Soprano

JC Soprano — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:17:11 +0000

If anything all the gangland role playing does is add content to the game. Granted its content that not all players want, but it is content that produces customers and obviously media attention which equals free advertisement. Here is something that Joseph Lazzlo a business analyst said about players like myself.. In this case he was talking about me:

By: urizenus

urizenus — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:06:10 +0000

It’s seriously brain dead to think that the Herald increases the amount of scamming, griefing, and gangland conflict. One Song had never heard of me at the time of the Second Jessie War, and to the best of my knowledge sexypimp hadn’t either when he attacked Reno. But just wait and see, next week a Linden will blame the Herald for Grimmy Moonflower on the grounds that he foresaw our existence. We heard the same thing in Alphaville. “The Herald is creating the scam houses” — yet the Free Money franchises existed before we entered the game and they still exist. Please stop blaming the messenger. Or, to put it more clearly, don’t blame me for your perceived failures.

And I’ve yet to see anyone address JC’s point that the gangland game is actually good for these social MMORPGs. I’m not saying it is and I’m not saying it isn’t, but could we at least let that thought furrow our little Linden brows for a nanosecond before we get all huffy and blame the virtual media?

By: JC Soprano

JC Soprano — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:10:14 +0000

Ian:

You would agree with Andrew.. =P

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
Ian is hard headed, but ok with me. =)

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:48:32 +0000

I agree with what Andrew has to say…but if Uri didn’t report on the grief in SL, who would . And this blog doesn’t give me the thoughts to go around on SL Lagging rampage. It makes me laugh.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:26:32 +0000

“It is an inevitable result of all this that we should seek in the world of fiction, of general literature and of the theatre compensation for the impoverishment of life. There we still find people who know how to die, indeed, who are even capable of killing someone else. There alone too we can enjoy the condition which makes it possible or us to reconcile ourselves with death—namely, that beyond all the vicissitudes of life we preserve our existence intact … In the realm of fiction we discover that plurality of lives for which we crave. We die in the person of a given hero, yet we survive him, and are ready to die again.”

Sigmund Freud
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Collected Papers Vo. IV, London: Hogarth Press, 1953, pp. 306-7.

By: Wen Nomad

Wen Nomad — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:27:40 +0000

Man….
You people are really something. Do you really feal that just because someone dosnt like you, or even says one thing slightly bad about you, it is acceptable to go on some sort of rampage and makeing sure no one has fun unless you are “respected”. People have a right to thier own opinions. I agree strongly with much of what Andrew has said, but really the pure and simple truth is your need for attention forces you into this alternate ego of l33t web terrorist and you wont rest until you are known and “feared” by all. SL is not about just having fun yourself(especially not at the expense of others), its about working together so that everyone can have fun.

By: JC Soprano

JC Soprano — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:33:02 +0000

Is this Jeff Brown’s twin brother? Cry me a river… You look at it as a headache, when you should be looking at it as job security.

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
*Has flashback of Tigger from TSO*

By: Andrew_Linden

Andrew_Linden — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:08:53 +0000

Sigh. As the person who has to clean up messes such as this as well as spanking the perpetrators I find the sensationalism that the Second Life Herald lends to acts of grief as counter productive to my job.

Just as people like to role-play in games like TSO and SL while mixing in Real Life aspects of their character, the SLH is role-playing as a pulp gossip newspaper that occasionally mixes in real news.

Unfortunately, it has become clear to me that some acts in SL are actually done with partial intent on getting mentioned in the SLH for fame and glory. That’s why I consider SLH one of my headache’s — it provides much of the reward that greifers seek. In fact, the SLH provides belated dividends for griefers’ investments: the SexyPimp incident was months ago, and the SLH likes to dredge up old names and events to inflate fame and infamy.

We at Linden Lab take griefers seriously. Users who engage in behavior similar to SexyPimp are bascially burning an alt, risking their other alts, and jepordizing their plans to expand in SL (such as buying private estates and such).

SL griefiers usually receive warnings first since we at LL believe that the SL environment is open enough that even users who initially turn to grief for entertainment can eventually find a creative and productive aspect of the world that is just as entertaining or more so. However, a single griefer can ruin the experience for 100 people, so it is not within LL’s best interest to let them continue. If the grief continues we escalate countermeasures to raise the cost (time and money) that the griefers must spend to continue their game. Unfortunately some griefers have a lot of time and money to burn.

Finally, I’ll offer some advice (and a plea):

Please don’t Drink and Drive SL. It really makes my job difficult when I have to deal with drunk mistakes.

By: Robert Vito Leone

Robert Vito Leone — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:57:55 +0000

Nice nukes..Could blow up some major things with enough of those lol..

By: JC Soprano

JC Soprano — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:30:08 +0000

Love the pimp suit! lol

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
Pimpin ain’t easy