I even have to admit that it takes a lot of effort to figure out what the mental kinks and justifications are.

I think this is an attribute of leadership. To listen to people’s concerns, take them to heart, and synthesize your thought process into harmonious problem-solving.

Personally, it takes a lot of courage for a person to state an opinion. If the opinion is not reinforced with strong indications for an identity, then of course it is natural that anyone or any system designed to analyze the information will weigh it differently. So, personally, I think we have less to fear about libel and more to consider in regards to picking out fact from fiction. Effort is always appreciated and even if people are just starting to try to find their voice and gather their thoughts it is so much better for them to make an effort with their identities protected so that if they have obvious flaws or find writing hard, then these mistakes will not permanently affect them.

As I quickly scan the pages, I see concern, vindication, muddling various issues and topics together.

I have seen similar situations to those people post above and from what I know, I think we should respect her mental health and keep that information anonymous. We need to separate different types of issues from one another. I think a good way to summarize is this: When we feel concern about another person’s well-being, even if they are attacking us, what we must do is learn the skills required to listen to their problem, truly understand it and support them in the best manner we can.

I would love to talk more about such an issue, but I am currently studying my butt off (even on a weekday night >_<)

As for the banning from the Second Life forums all I can say is that since the forums are wholly owned by Linden Lab, the company has a perfect right to ban whom it will. Many would like to have seen LL make that ban permanent and even extend it to a permanent ban of Prokofy and all her ALTS from Second Life itself.

The point is moot however since Prok has been back on the forums for some time, spewing acid as usual. Some of her rantings would be hilarious if they were not so obviously products of a disordered personality in need of some serious therapy.

Though sympathy is misplaced, pity isn’t. So give the old lady a break. If Cathy wants to prove time and again that her mouth and her paranoia are both much bigger than her brain, let her. She’ll pay the price by becoming even more a pathetic, isolated object of ridicule than she is already. If that’s even possible.

Imagine somebody so disliking your criticism of their bad ideas on Twitter that they would threaten to report you to the child protective services of your city as somehow a threat to your own children (!) and make up ridiculous stuff about your childhood and your real life.

Fortunately, any law-enforcement authorities who get this report would likely understand that what we are dealing with here is a broken personality that is mirroring the very problem they purport to find in others — and God help their own children.

At the very least, even if my assumptions are incorrect, I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed human. I feel sorry for this person.

Catherine Fitzpatrick (aka prokofy neva) just seems to have a bad rap on the internet, always the same, personal attacks and violence.
Here’s another example.

it ought to be clear even to a fool, just from reading the system
requirements for 2nd life that these people are elitists and that they like being elitists. so it should surprise nobody that lindens
create a culture that values exclusion.

what we are seeing here in my opinion, is another manifestation
of the board ho syndrome. prok is a board ho to the forums. so long as prok is driving eyes to the forum whether they are happy or unhappy, he is doing his job — he is doing what he, as a board ho,
has signed up to do. he is a big trader in the economy of attention.

in my opinion, the problem is with lindens, and again with terms of service agreements. terms of service agreements in my opinion come for the most part from the big scribery in wonderland. they embrace an assumption that they are exempt from the requirements that earthspace operates under. terms of service
agreements are totalitarian in outlook. there is no dignum and justum for the end user within terms of service agreements.

but yet, endusers celebrate their captivity to these agreements because they either have not read them or do not understand what they have read. endusers are collared to the lindens through the terms of service agreement. the wording in these documents is purposefully vague relative to endusers — and endusers, one would
think would have a very personal and real awareness of the fact that if they stopped creating businesses, content, relationships, bling, and empires, there would basically be *no* second life at all whatsoever. without endusers, second life is a large and magisterial empty land of glowing pixels. it is endusers who bring spirit and life to the land.

in my opinion, leading citizens of second life should go to lindens and say: we wish to negotiate a terms of service agreement that is respectful of users. a terms of service agreement that does not suggest the possibility of ridiculous terms like the term used to kick prok out.

prok can be a pain in the ass but he has a right to be that way if he wants to be that way. lots of his questions are good, and i, for one, enjoy butting heads with him even though he makes me rage more than a forest fire. at least with prok you know that there is some *there* there. & aimee what he said to you was *nothin* puhleeze be a big girl. if you are gonna play on a message board you have to grow a thicker skin. thinking is for grownups.

i say this in honor of mr sklar and mr neva:
LET RIGHT BE DONE

-montserrat snakeankle