Yeah, this is the same reason that when I go out for a drive in my car, I just start ramming other people’s cars for fun. I mean – the damned government didn’t take measures to ensure I can’t ram other people, so it’s THEIR FAULT! It has NOTHING TO DO WITH MY PERSONALITY, right? I also spit in salad bars, because they don’t have some sort of spit detector/catcher! And that’s the fault of the restaurant owner! NOT me, for being a totally antisocial dickface!

Pre-teen logic, FTW!

I find the term “The way some people see it” a euphemism for “The way I see it.”

I’d like to see this evidence of stolen goods. Seriously. I honestly cannot see any kind of logic in that statement other than someone trying to further demonize tizzers by painting him as a thief. Next Tizzers will be labeled as a Toddler rapist, puppy killer, kitten smasher, and someone who sets fire to orphanages and plots to destroy america.
I’ve never known Tizzers Foxchase to steal anything. Hell he’s someone who wastes more money on trivial things than one should. If you mean “stolen” in the sense that he and he alone crashed sims and “potential” business (which you cannot put a value on, as you cant predict those kinds of numbers.) that’s bullshit too. Last time I saw, there was this group called the P.atriotic N.igras (damn spam filters), and another one called W-hat who were stirring up shit long before this Tizzers person came into play.

Seriously, get over yourself.

It’s. just. a. game. It isnt reality in any sense. It’s VIRTUAL. Virtual as in, not real.

The fact you get this worked up over someone on a game who doesn’t play by your rules shows that you are a very deeply disturbed person with unwarranted self-importance. Which people in reality can see, thus condemning you to this pitiful existence where someone who shoots a fake penis at you is an act of war.

Kill yourself so you stop wasting precious resources that more deserving people can use.

Voice and glow are cool and all, but how about making the existing product work, before worrying about adding additional features? How about fixing the product to be grief-proof, instead of taking the blame out on people like Tizzers because they associate and sympathize with those who cause issues for the grid? How about increasing FPS and decreasing crashes and freezes instead of holding conventions and soirees?

Witness X: your statements about Tizzers are illogical. The problem isn’t that there are people who let griefers use their land… griefers don’t need land to plan and organize. It’s the internet! They can just use group chat, Skype, IRC, web forums, or whatever the heck they want in order to plan their raids. They do not need to congregate in virtual land in order to plan raids … that’s just ridiculous.

The thing that has cost LL $1500 or more in damages is their own incompetence. You can’t blame Tizzers or anyone else for the fact that Linden Labs’ sorry excuse for a platform is so unstable that teenage kids with no credit cards, minimal knowledge of computing, and who live in their moms’ basements are able to bring it crashing down and flood it with flying penises and Mario characters.

If Tizzers literally hacked into LL’s computers or something, then that’s a crime, and ban him. But banning him for posting one line of a chat log, making a caricature of a well-known public figure, or doing a hilarious trick-or-treat? Where is anyone’s sense of humor? I have found that people in this country seem to have some really GIGANTIC sticks up their asses, which they use as an excuse to be mean to others and demand blood for really harmless acts. And, almost always, it’s in the name of political correctness. Whatever happened to irreverence? To the class clown?

But then when it comes to truly disgusting and offensive shit, LL doesn’t care.

I mean for Christ’s sake, there are RAPE SIMULATION sims… PEDOPHILIA sims… SEXUAL SLAVERY sims where women are treated as being below animals… how any of that more acceptable than a sim featuring some guys in afros and the “n” word? So rape, child molestation, sexism… that’s fine! But borderline racism is somehow worse? Even on 4chan itself, people often whine about the presence of racism there, but even I think it’s hard to read any ideologies of racial superiority/inferiority into those particular memes. Even gangsta rap is more racist.

But I’m not here to defend racism, nor 4chan memes. My point is that, apparently, the general theme of SL is that if you want to have a sim to do whatever you want, then you can. If people don’t like it, then they don’t have to go there. That is the standard (or lack thereof) that LL sets. I’m in favor of free speech within someone’s own land, and I am in favor of free speech on the internet.

Yet the existing version of SL also ALLOWS griefers to go to other people’s land and spread hateful/annoying messages and imagery, crash their sims, etc. LL has not taken enough steps to put the tools in place that would allow land-owners to stop this sort of thing. They can’t even get their own damn client to run without freezing my MacBook Pro. They could, but they don’t. They also don’t make progress in preventing scripts that crash their sim servers. Then they go backwards in these efforts by open-sourcing their code — possibly the worst thing they ever could have done from a security standpoint.

If they made the grid and the clients actually work, and be stable, and they took the proper steps to prevent griefing and empower people to stop griefers, then people wouldn’t be able to grief in the first place, and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

Just one basic thing they could do: prevent the creation of unlimited anonymous alts (or do not allow alts who lack pay info to generate particles nor run scripts). Also I saw that IntLibber has posted quite a good list of features that, if they were implemented, would significantly reduce griefing:
> > >
a) allow avs to have more than 25 group memberships, perhaps 64 or 256 memberships, this will
eliminate the only reason for honest avs to need alts.
b) limit alts per IP/MAC/HDD serial number to 3-5.
c) only allow one basic account per IP/MAC/HDD, and actually mean it. it is too easy to bypass this
in the current client.
d) remove parcel level bans from client-side enforcement. this poor security decision by LL has
allowed PN to develop their ShoopedLife client, that is not bannable by parcel level bans, from the
Open Source client.
e) Make the crime of sim crashing a permanent bannable offense for the IP/MAC/HDD or processor serial
number, and enforce it, even if its a child of a Linden…;).
f) Create a subset of lsl for estate managers to be able to script estate security features to better
automate responses to griefing attacks.
g) allow estate managers to ban people by group association, to drop a list of names into the estate
banlist, and to expand the estate banlist beyond its present 300 name limit, to around 1000 names.
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(from the ED, of all places)

Anyway that’s about all I have to say on this matter. If you disagree with me, then you’re an idiot. What do you want, a grid that is easy to crash? Easy to grief? An LL who selectively persecutes individuals and groups while ignoring others who are much worse from a moral standpoint? And then do you want to spend all your time whining about the problems this creates, without even addressing the real causes? This is truly the age of Eliot Spitzer.

But yeah, I’m sure I’m completely off base. I’m dumb to think that LL could create a solid product that is free from all these glitches that enable script-kiddies to pwn it. We should just ban people. Yeah, that’s the solution.

Hiding from douchebags in tights?

Poetic.

He stole a lot more than $1500 from Linden Lab the way some people see it. Much ado about damned little. Good riddance, once we finally ever get rid of him.

All this shit is ridiculous.

Tizzers Foxchase spent over $1500 USD in purchasing created items within Second Life, I was told. In real life, even if you get arrested for a crime, the police cannot just take your belongings. Tizzers did nothing to deserve “the death penalty” of having their account permanently removed… having $1500 USD worth of items permanently taken away. That’s just how I feel about it.

Nobody’s perfect, and we’re all going to the marble orchard. This is little stuff. There was no crime here. I’m not perfect, far from it. I just think this was a bunch of horseshit, the perma-ban of Tizzers. How about a fine? How about limiting it to a month or two?

LL needs to fix the damn bugs in their crashy browser and stop acting like they are some moral authority. They need to stop having conventions and soirees, and concentrate on making SL a decent product instead of the unstable, crashy, poor-performing laughing stock that it is. LL is responsible for opening the code to their system, resulting in huge security issues like ShoopedLife.

Then they make idiotic rules like you can’t copy a chat-log or show what someone looks like IRL. As if people shouldn’t be responsible for what they say — besides the fact that ASCII proves nothing, since text is easily editable! As if someone having seen your real face is an “invasion of privacy” — if that was the case then anytime you walk down the street IRL, your privacy is being violated when people look at you. What should you do, wear a V-mask?

It’s as if LL wants to protect every resident’s right to be anonymous, but then when Anonymous shows up they get their panties in a wad. What a crock of shit.