The evidence: http://www.dragonscoveherald.com/blog/index.php?p=746

She’s also George Bush, and was the shooter in the grassy knoll that killed kennedy.

gee, we can’t stop there.

She’s a practicing satanist that eats butterflies (so that makes her a cannibal).

To be honest I know a decent amount about the RL Aimee, and even if every bit of it is a lie i’m still very happy she’s on my friends list.

Oh…and Jeff Linden you say? Well that explains something…but I’m still checking on it : )

Re: ”
Here’s what I wrote: “Not only is he feted, he’s Ben Linden, no?” That’s a question. It has a question mark on the end of it. It’s not a statement. It’s a right and just question to make about a story involving feting by letting a resident tout his activity in “General” instead of under “events” or “announcements” so that he can get maximum visibility.

Re: “He related one word of it”. Actually, I think there are two or three words related, “scumbag” and “crone” etc. but what of it? It’s not an offense. And I didn’t post the transcript of the conversation anywy. What, we’re not allowed, even on the Herald, to post information about attempts to bully, silence, harass other residents for their questions???? Not even to post a few words out of a conversation????

1. Saying what someone has done is a “scumbag thing to do” (it’s not) and then doubling back and whining that they didn’t really call them a scumbag as such, is wimpy. Geez, if you’re going to essentially call somebody a scumbag, call them a scumbag, Hiro, and don’t be a wimp.

2. Publishing conversations, or quoting from them, without the consent of one of the parties, is a violation of the TOS of SL, but it isn’t any violation on the Herald. The Herald doesn’t routinely practice this, but I believe, and the Herald editors have also demonstrated in the past with things like the IRC channel transcript, that in matters of public interest, one should publish such conversations especially if they involve the federal government and its chosen ruling class, i.e. the Lindens and the FIC, attepmting to gain favours or influence situations outside the regular channels.

If this was a personal matter, it wouldn’t be appropriate to publish it. It’s not. It concerns a smackdown and a threat from you, leader of the Development Team, the SLCC, and the FIC, as well as a major company enjoying considerable feting, and therefore someone constantly conversant with those in power and capable of influencing how our actual world gets changed (without our poarticipation).

And it concerns the issue — the primary issue of this thread — involving whether a resident-turned-Linden got to have special coverage of his pet project by having his threads left in General (they were moved likely due to being covered in the Herald, that’s all) — and other issues, like the original Stagecoach Contract, etc.

3. I don’t believe that covering the issue of how residents and Lindens collude to obtain special privileges not available to everyone else — which is what this is all about — is one that should rightfully, in a just society, constantly be kept covered up in the name of an individual’s privacy. Indeed, invoking individual privacy and threatening people with permabans if they can’t out corrupt practices is actually the recipe for the destruction of any free society, and while such tyranny might have a run, it can’t last and won’t last.

If the Lindens meant to have any privacy regarding this matter of which of them came from the former resident base, they’ve completely eroded this concept by having Zarf write on a notecard on his own business, himself, that he had become a Linden, and having Torley transform into a Linden before our very eyes. It seems to me that all bets are off.

If an individual becomes a member of the federal government, capable of exercising power over other residents, why is this a matter of privacy? It isn’t.

If there are individual residents-turned-Linden who are trying to keep their privacy because they don’t want to be bothered by customers constantly searching for help or fans wanting socializing, or even harassed while on their individual accounts, everyone quite understands. Lindens shouldn’t be bothered on their individual accounts. But if Lindens use their individual accounts to mount major businesses, events, activities, RL contracts, RL mass media coverage, etc. then the public has a right to know what’s up.

4. Your overweening and arrogant notion that the TOS of Second Life, which you arrogate yourself to interpreting, is applicable to third-party sites, i.e. the free press, such as we have it, is the most troubling thing about your post. You just take it for granted. Of course, where were you when the Sluniverse.com was making these same kinds of “violations,” outing my RL, pasting conversations from me, and libeling me with the *wrong* real life — all actions that can’t be violations because Sluniverse.com doesn’t sign the TOS — it’s outside it’s purview.

The minute LL starts enforcing the TOS outside of its own sphere, it’s own game, it’s own forums, and reaches any long arm out to fansites and the free press, I hope you would hear some howling and resistance, even from the Herald, whose backbone is getting pretty rubbery these days.

I wasn’t aware that it was “ruled OK to out alts” on the forums, but it is true, this is routinely done, was done to me, like the continual outing of RL info that isn’t on the first-life profile (regardless of where it might appear outside of the SL sphere) — and nobody lifts a finger to discipline the perpetrators *inside the sphere of SL* — so honestly, in that climate of non-enforcement and selective-enforcement, one really has to wonder about the rule of law.

Re: ” really truly hope this nets you a permaban, and if not, I’m pretty sure you just earned yourself a ticket that is waiting for you to slip up in-world to be punched.”

I really marvel at your notion that you can come here, threaten me, bully me, and announce yourself as the Linden’s enforcer. Is that what you are? It’s more like you’re just the stalking horse for some rogue group of vindictive former beta-tester residents, some of whom became Lindens — and I hope that isn’t the official face of Linden Lab.

Why would comments on a *third-party site* net me any kind of permaban? The TOS does not apply to them, nor should it. If the Lindens begin to try to reach out beyond their sphere and affect free speech outside their sphere, they are really going to face some resistance. They know that, they know it’s wrong, and they don’t do it. If they decide to do it, than they had better put something inside their TOS in the next patch saying they enforce the TOS even on third-party fan sites, because they do NOT have any restriction to that effect now, so that their punishment of anyone under a law that they didn’t write yet, based merely on fanboy whinings, is one that any RL lawyer would be happy to take up — it’s a no-brainer.

As for your other threat, that the Lindens lie in wait for people to “slip up” (swearing in PG? allowing a tree to wave on to another’s property? ???)because of some perceived or imaginary “violation” that their fanboyz are howling about, I actually do think that your Lindens are busier than that, and in any event making a vicious threat like that, implying that a) you are an enforcer and interpreter of the TOS b) you can apply to any sphere you like outside of the Lindens’ actual sphere c) that you are able to keep some kind of threat ongoing over my head — lets me know all I need to know about you and your protectors — you are thugs.

Let’s remember what it was that started my crusade against the injustices of the forums and the world of SL: the unequal, biased, favoured, non-enforcement or selective-enforcement of the TOS. It began with the Lindens (like Jeska) letting a long thread just about one resident go on and on and on, just because it was about a “land baron” (me) and just because it involved a FIC member (Pahoa Jade) wishing to vent herself about a lot of things she didn’t like, like land barons in general. That was wrong.

It went on as I saw that on any occasion, whenever other people started threads about individuals, started polls to bash Anshe, used swear language, made personal attacks, even outed RL or made false accusations of crimes based on the wrong RL — if it involved the FIC, the mods did absolute nothing. Even a demonstrable, documented case of creepy stalking, harassment, and attempted blackmail and the outing of RL netted only the mildest of wrist slaps. This is wrong. Everyone knows that it’s wrong, except that tiny clique of forums rulers who believe it’s ok to keep throwing the world their way.

The private life of a resident, the private life of a Linden, are of no interest and they can be rightfully kept private. The ONLY reason they *become* of interest is if it appears the intersection is used to obtain privileges — and it looks like they are, very commonly. The public is right to ask questions about this.

Also, I’d just like to remind everyone that the ToS/CS *does not apply* on the Herald, so please don’t pretend that what is said here is something that LL has any authority over.

Also, Hiro, Prok didn’t post your private conversation here. He related one word of it. Very different.

Ben Linden would not even be the guy’s REAL NAME.

Heck, it’s been ruled okay to out people’s alts openly on the forums. (A ruling I disagree with, if for no other reason than half the time, they are wrong.)

If anything, a resident should be more entitled to the privacy of his alt than a Linden.

coco