SL is fed off of three things: creativity, drama, and sex. All three are of course not mutually exclusive. Creativity is indulged in by only a few. Sex is the focus of many more assorted fucks. But drama, that lovely drama, is enjoyed by all, whether they admit it or not. Nomatter if it be scandal, grief, “trolling,” or flamewars, drama makes up the bulk of non-sexual energy put into Second Life. Alliances are made, friendships found, enemies scorned, and discussion urged all by the gnashing of teeth and the tears of many failures. With the absence of any _real_ gaming mechanism SL it itself a social game. That’s why the Herald- which is little more than an interactive tabloid- is one of the only remaining “news sources” in SL that has any considerable readership.

Instead of denying your humanly love for drama, embrace it.

El.

We hate /b/. It is full of furfags and endless copypasta. Meager attempts to save it have all failed. “The best of /b/” doesn’t mean a damned thing because /b/ is an image board anyway, it was never intended for raid organization. The places that actually do have an interest in organizing raids will often actually willingly use some kinds of DoS attacks. The things that deadlycodec does, on the other hand, are not explicitly illegal. Maybe you would consider quasi-legal malicious software childish and worthy of demerit, but it causes a annoyance and failure of a system that is hardly worth mention except that it’s fairly easy to exploit. None of us griefer-type will be winning any awards for cleverness, and this award seems more like an insult due to SLH’s somewhat condescending attitude.

So yeah, no awards, no recognition. Just your pissed-off banter, plz. We’ll know it was us.

I nominate Ratcloner101 Stoop for griefer of 2008. You really should cover this guy. He’s a real treat, trust me.

I consider Intlibber a lesser Prokofy; it’s very obvious that he’s actually attempting to troll much of the time (probably based on some moronic being-loud-and-stupid-is-good-for-business-tactic), and he tries way too hard and only causes a minor ruckus.

As for the mentioned leetspeak-emblazoned duo of failure, they are but minor script kiddies who know how to fool around with a bit of code, no more. They are the best and the brightest of /b/- which is to say that they are notable only by their mediocrity and fail. Currently, n3x15 spends his days trying to hang out with Waterhead trolls, and begging Lindens (and even Intlibber’s nonexistent “connections”) to not ban him.

My personal choice for third place Avatar of the Year is no less than Pixeleen Mistral. Throughout the year she has excelled in causing drama and trollbait by exhibiting the shittiest fucks to ever sit on a pose ball. Congratulations, you have shown that the worst grief is done with the pen and not a prim.