Absentee Landlord Removes Griefer’s Objects – Eventually
by Alphaville Herald on 11/11/07 at 5:15 pm
PN suicide grief bomber WutWut Foggarty deleted after one day in the metaverse
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
An un-named Linden staffer was eventually enlisted to remove WutWut Foggarty’s griefing objects from Mowry and at least 10 – 20 adjacent sims Sunday morning, after several hours had passed between initial reports and the virtual cleanup.
Ultimately both WutWut Foggarty’s objects and Mr. Foggarty himself were removed from the metaverse. Before being disappeared from the people list, Mr. Foggarty’s profile showed his account was created Sunday – and so yet another virtual suicide grief bomber came to a sudden end at the hands of the Linden game gods. Few tears were shed for Mr. Foggarty, however.
I was able to personally confirm reports of twirling cubes making loud noises, spewing particle effects, flooding the text chat channel with quaint PN gang sayings, and continuously sending requests to animate avatars. The onslaught of virtual spam was bad enough that it was nearly impossible to IM while in the presence of the attack.
Some investigation revealed that this was at a minimum a regional affair. Not only was Mowry sim infested, but as I teleported to nearby sims it appeared that the griefing cubes where spreading, possibly along Linden-owned roadways and waterways – where local landowners cannot return objects.
Red (offline) sims near Mowry during griefing
Escaping from the cube-spam-bombed sims to Public Help Island was instructive. The volunteer mentors on Help Island were explaining how to file abuse reports, while residents were complaining that they couldn’t tell who made the cubes that griefed them because they rest of the multi-media grieifing show made it impossible to do much other than log out or teleport away. The mood was ugly:
ChaosSun Woebegone: I wanna know what the lindens are doing about this
Pixeleen Mistral: doing about what ChaosSun?
ChaosSun Woebegone: the Item that everyone here is complaining about
Zarkof Illyar: what amounts to SL terrorist attacks
ChaosSun Woebegone: I’ve got it on my land, and it was in one of my other shop locations..i couldn’t tp, i couldn’t move and Muting it didn’t work. i couldn’t even file an AR because my typing wouldn’t work it was so lagged
Samual Runo: he has one in nearly every sim round the phoenix regions
Shelly Blachere shouts: OK THIS IS A MAJOR ISSUE THEY ARE ON THE CASE DON@T PANIC JUST FILE AR REPORTS
JuJuBee Klaar: I was in Inari..it happened during the nighttime hours
Grief cubes come rolling down the road into Netherbeck
When I asked a mentor to call a Lindens to respond to the large scale griefing in progress, the initial response was to tell me to have the land owner return the objects. But after a bit I found a mentor that seemed to realize that asking landowners to return objects is not the most helpful approach when the attack spans a large number of mainland sims with innumerable land owners.
Even worse, the largest landowner – Governor Linden – is perpetually missing in action. Linden staff have taken to retreating from their customers by hiding their online status from most residents. which makes contacting a Linden for some immediate help an interesting problem.
So, after a few false starts with less than helpful mentors, I did find someone – Shelly Blachere – who went to see about locating a Linden staffer. Several hours after I first heard about the incident in Mowry from a local resident, the last of the griefing cubes in the vicinity disappeared – but not before a number of sims went offline, and an unknown number of players were disgusted by the chaotic world the Lindens have created.
What does it all mean? Maybe one day old accounts should not be able to rez large numbers of objects? Or the absentee landlord does not really care about the chaos?
Do griefers target Linden lands and roads?
Greefin Oh
Nov 11th, 2007
The only way to fight a griefer, to is to beat him at his own game. Use their tactics. Learn their lingo. Learn the signs.
Residents, it’s very simple. Their language isn’t as complex or random as you think. There are sources all over the internet. Use the Google.
There reason I say this is because many people in SL want to treat the game as if it is Real Life. So let’s say this “Terrorism” was happening in real life … oh wait it is! And what are we supposedly do about it? We’re at War.
So take those situations, apply them to SL. Because frankly, the Lindens aren’t doing shit.
FrizzleFry101
Nov 11th, 2007
HAHAHAHAHAHA OH WOW
I heard you like my cubes.
Bladen
Nov 11th, 2007
I’m sad. You guys didn’t include my Big Mac Attack harassing the JLU.
Oh, and just in case you guys didn’t get that from the article, Cosby’s back. ZIP ZOP ZOOPITY BOP.
Lulzvan (i am a PN lol suck my ass prok)
Nov 11th, 2007
MAH BOIIII THIS “REPORT” IS WHAT ALL TRUE GRIEFERS STRIVE FOR.
Seriously? Comparing this to terrorist attacks? So crashing a sim is like bombing a train? or hijacking a plane and crashing it into a building? So a few hundred people not being able to play a shitty game is as bad as human death?
Its just a game you idiots.
^ban^
Nov 11th, 2007
All I have to say is:
JELL-OWNED
You can has your cheezeburger nao.
Missdrr Alderson
Nov 11th, 2007
lol
yeah
shoot us back
while our shit is still fucking up your beloved sim
we’ll be long gone by then anyway, moving on to extract lulz from your friends
d3adlyc0d3c
Nov 11th, 2007
ZOMG ORBITS?!?! AND E-GUNS WITH E-BULLETS. I JUST SHAT MYSELF.
Bladen
Nov 11th, 2007
Oh hey guys, have fun cleaning up my Mario Moshpits everywhere. <3
Kahni Poitier
Nov 11th, 2007
This is why we have to get rid of the “no payment type on file” accounts.
Go ahead and leave the basic accounts free, but require some form of ID to open one.
These disposable, anonymous accounts just *BEG* for this sort of griefing.
The Lindens don’t care.
Noname
Nov 12th, 2007
And here we are, right back to the Herald’s bread and butter. The PN and /b/tards and everything that goes with them. These comments are full of the typical /b/tard braindead banter.
This article was just a fluff piece to get the PN and /b/tards back on teh Herald’s front page. Between this and Urizenus’ stupid Bush furry article, we all know what slant the Herald leans towards, full on /b/tard. Even if they don’t lean that way (Urizenus sure seems like he does now) they still use the PN and /b/tards for page hits knowing full well what attention these articles bring. Urizenus and Pixeleen create these “article” that end up becoming a great sounding board for the PN and /b/tards.
This BLOG masquerading as wannabe tabloid is nothing more than a sham.
n00bhax
Nov 12th, 2007
@bladen
you mean that lame 10m spheres with eyestalk scripts? where you were able to rez 10 of, before you got owned by me in goguen?
Pauleh Kamachi
Nov 12th, 2007
lame lame lame, pn pretty lame to ^^
anon
Nov 12th, 2007
Sometimes I think “you know, annoying the hell out of that stupid Gay Yiffy Club back in December with Ulzuki and Lynch was a really stupid idea in retrospect.”
And then stuff like this happens and I laugh my ass off.
gg Lindens.
Bladen
Nov 12th, 2007
“where you were able to rez 10 of, before you got owned by me in goguen?”
lol, there were a whole bunch more than just 10, and anything that spilled over into Goguen was from the massive overflow of lulz from my raepage of the JLU base.
Gaspacho Asturias
Nov 12th, 2007
And now we can see the real reason they do it – to see their names in the Herald.
Because dropping digital trash in a computer game is the greatest thing they’ll ever achieve in their lifetimes, and they all know it.
They mock people for spending so much time and energy on a video game.
But when you think about it, how long have these five idiots been doing just that? Nearly a year now. They’re totally obsessed with it, certainly more obsessed than any of the people they’re attacking in game. Because they have nothing else in their lives besides failing schoolwork, a drug habit, an alcohol habit, abusive loser parents, larceny and felony. They NEEEEED Second Life. They can’t live without it and they desperately cling to every post so they can have something to laugh at in their IRC channels.
Because frankly, nothing else in their lives gives them any joy.
And I know they’re going to post this in their IRC and laugh at it too. And they’ll all “laugh”. But then they’ll all go away from the keyboard at some point and think about it, and say to themselves, “oh shit. She’s right.”
Nacon
Nov 12th, 2007
“What does it all mean? Maybe one day old accounts should not be able to rez large numbers of objects? Or the absentee landlord does not really care about the chaos?”
That’s what I’ve been suggesting to LL about… except take the build&script tools away if they are unverified Basic Account. Only able to rez, move, and delete/take objects. Ok… how does this would stop them from rezzing? Creator’s name would have to be verified to make something, thus… LL can just ban that creator and all objects from that creator.
They tend to use unverified Alt accounts to do stupid things like that to hide.
FrizzleFry101
Nov 12th, 2007
@n00bhax
Im assuming by owning you mean that you shot pushbullets at some object that spilled over into the sim.
@Gaspacho Asturias
No need to project your obsession of SL onto others.
@Kahni Poitier
When that happens, LL loses their money and goes under.
Bill Cosby
Nov 12th, 2007
O LAWD!!!!!1111!!!!!
Hazim Gazov
Nov 12th, 2007
Says the person named after a gross soup?
Nina A
Nov 12th, 2007
At least no one got raped.
Rape-Ape
Nov 12th, 2007
@Nina A
Someone always gets raped, always.
n00bhax
Nov 12th, 2007
@frizzle
no by owned i mean that i used a exploit in the physics engine of SL to send his avatar to 2 billion meters (if it worked well) in a second. in a sim where push is disabled.
the eyestalk spheres he could rez before i got him barely lagged the sim. i could still use it to script. -> FAIL
need moar practize
FrizzleFry101
Nov 12th, 2007
@n00bhax
You mean orbiting, that’s nothing special, nopush or not. And it shouldn’t take a full second to orbit someone anyways, it’s hard to believe that you orbited someone who didn’t actually go to that sim.
Eyestalk scripts aren’t meant to lag anything, they just annoy fa gs. The fact that the server lagged at all due to it shows how shitty sl is. Also, writing scripts takes place clientside, lag only matters when you try to save it.
d3adlyc0d3c
Nov 12th, 2007
n00bhax = retarded
x
Nov 12th, 2007
hahaha Nice.
And we don’t do it for the attention, contrary to popular belief, we simply do it for the lulz.
Witness X
Nov 12th, 2007
“hahaha Nice.
And we don’t do it for the attention, contrary to popular belief, we simply do it for the lulz.”
Which is why so many of you PN are flooding these comments. Which is why so many months ago the PN purposely attacked the Herald’s inworld headquarters and were sorely disappointed when no article showed up pertaining to the attack. Which also why the typical /b/tard refers to a victim as a “lulzcow” because they give them attention simply by reacting and trying to fight back. I’ve seen it time and time again that if someone doesn’t respond to /b/ or /i/ or PN or whatever lame lettered board or silly name is attacking that you chantards get bored right quick.
Contrary to how many times you chantards say it, you DO things for the ATTENTION. No attention to give you a rise then you get no lulz.
Artemis Fate
Nov 12th, 2007
Saw some of it in Nexus Prime. Returned all objects not owned by group, set build to group only, turned off particles, and was done with it.
Still, I miss the days when griefers were a bit more personal and creative with their actions, when it was more of a social commentary on SL and internet culture, now it just seems to be one object that isn’t even made by the people, passed around, and dropped somewhere then they log off/get banned and go to laugh about it while it spreads around, doing the same thing that’s been done over and over.
It’s hard to believe anyone can find one thing so funny repeatedly, but then again, babies can play peek-a-boo for hours without getting tired of it.
n00bhax
Nov 13th, 2007
i don’t know if it was the user who posted here, but someone got definitely owned by me when he was rezzing that bigmac crap in goguen.
btw the sandboxes are mine. gtfo you scriptkiddies and attack other sims. the sandboxes are for my lulz, not for yours.
when i see you next time, i’m gonna stick a longcat in your butt.
n00bhax
Nov 13th, 2007
btw frizzle. you say that nopush orbit is nothing special?
then tell me how it is done.
but i doubt you patriotic tards know any more than scripting than “hoho its funny when you copypasta that script 1000 times”.
so it’s understandable why you always say “fail this, fail that”. because you project your own failness into the others.
FrizzleFry101
Nov 13th, 2007
@n00bhax
It involves physically smashing an av with alot of force, rather than using push commands in the script. Look on our wiki for a free nopush auto orbiter and auto crusher, it probably works better than what you have.
Also, bawwwww less, you’re only sounding butthurt.
Machine Code
Nov 14th, 2007
>>but i doubt you patriotic tards know any more than scripting than “hoho its funny when you copypasta that script 1000 times”.<<
That’s one of the only ways to rez thousands of blocks so quickly. Of course there are others.
TORUS RAAAAAAAAAIN, SOME STAY LAGGED AND OTHERS FEEL THE STRAIN.
TORUS RAAAAAAAAAIN, CRASHED THE SIM BUT NOW IT’S UP AGAIN.
TORUS RAAAAAAAAAIN, THE LINDENS MAKE YOU WONDER WHY IT BREAKS.
TORUS RAAAAAAAAAIN, RAISED YOUR LAND OWNER TIER PAYMENT RATES.
Tearz
Nov 19th, 2007
I shed about 2 mol worth of tears, thank you very much, rendering your statement about “few tears” very untrue.
anon
Nov 19th, 2007
2 mol isn’t very much. Assuming the best-case scenario, which is your tears are made of 100% H20, 1 mol of H20 = 18g, and density of water is 1g/ml. So we’re lookin at about 32ml of water. That may seem like a lot, but consider that tears have a large sodium content as well, significantly adding to the molecular mass. With all the rather complex and dense compounds in tears, I’d say we’re looking at about 5ml. Which isn’t very much.
Testament
Feb 7th, 2008
Ahaha, oh wow. You just labeled Lindens as “gods.”
You’re pretty damn pitiful, you know that?