In real life, common residents are not allowed to run around in police uniforms and misrepresent themselves as REAL PUBLIC SERVANTS–i.e., cops!

This all sucks, I am very disappointed those in authority in secondlife allow such pseudo-criminal activities. Personally, I have been griefed to a much greater degree by those displaying “S.L.P.D” (or some other public servant misrepresenting text displayed about them) than by the real griefers themselves!

It is time for the Lindens to get tough on these bozos and ban them!

Regards,
(RL) John Smith

I dont think so…….. it’s more of a mirror.

“I consider it good that more groups exist to be available to those who wish for protection or enforcement. Having more groups who follow strict rules and perform a duty of service to those who ask for it would violate no rules but simply be a service.” – Raideur

I do respect those who consider such service groups to be griefers. I don’t necessarily agree, but I won’t argue. However…

We are constantly told this is OUR world. Except of course, when someone griefs you. Then if you dare to fight back the you might be banned yourself. That’s understandable because it’s hard for LL to figure out who was griefing who. Except you’d think after a while certain users would build track records and the griefers would be known. Except that of course LL allows ANYONE on the system with no particular ID requirements except a never-used email address, which allows griefers to conceivably set up dozens of ready-to-use alts, which makes them very difficult to patrol if no other security measures are in place.

BUT… if this is OUR world, then club owners, private land owners and home owners have every right to protect their property, don’t they? If a club owner puts up a sign that says “Beware of Guard Dog” and a griefer gets attacked by a scripted attack dog, hey, he’s been warned right?

At the same time, if a club decides to hire a swat team member to act as a heavily-armed-bouncer and take care of the riff-raff, if it’s OUR world, they have that right, yes? It’s their club. They’re paying for it. So no matter how other people feel about it, they have no more say in it than anything else that goes on in the club. Some might consider an onsite swat team as “freedom of expression”, just like they consider so many other things on SL.

Read the post from the Gunfighter rep above. It’s pretty obvious this guy is not working with a full deck and has to use weapons to try to prove his worth. It is equally obvious he is going to attack anyone he wants to attack, for whatever imaginary reason (or just for the sheer meanness of it), and has no conscience at all regarding the matter. So if a Swat team decides to hire itself out to protect people against such known-but-not-ousted griefers, then who is to say that club owners can’t hire them?

It’s an old conflict. If LL doesn’t protect people, do they have a right to protect themselves? Does LL have enough anti-griefer staff to handle millions of users? Do people have the right to play a part of SWAT members if they want to, and do other people have a right to hire them for protection?

Come on people, it’s a game. LOL

Wow, despite you being a total moron for saying such stupid things, this is a very old article, why are you even commenting on it? Sparta will take you on any day, despite that you orbit and use other griefer weapons when you attack, while we do not.

Bruno Ziskey
King of Sparta

If they impose themselves, that is different.