I have. Plenty.

Following the proven true Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, absolutely nobody should have any powers over others, as long as SL remains an anonymous game.

I havent met a single avatar on SL, that disproves the theory.

Definitely agreed. Groups such as W-Hat and the PN can be annoying, but they never really ruined the experience of SL for me. When I started playing, I knew I would run into groups like these because this is, after all, the internet. The thing that nearly made me stop playing wasn’t a bit of cube spam, it was JLU harassment. I know I’m not the only resident who would like to see the JLU removed once and for all.

http://jlu.sl4.me/

There often seems to be a lot of Lindens doing things on their own, that’s why I’m not surprised one of them contacted the group and made all these promises and suggestions of more power and official status, and even less surprised when it was suddenly and quietly dropped. Considering they dropped the official SL Mentor group, I doubt they have any plans of starting a new one based around JLU standing. They never used the SL Mentors, and as I saw it, most of the Mentors just abused their power and made newbies uncomfortable. A Mentor group filled with JLU members with actual power would inevitably be even worse.

@GreenLantern Excelsior

The problem with the JLU is that they’re just, by nature, ineffective. They can either use push weapons and tools to do their “peacekeeping” which makes them no better than the griefers, or they can send abuse reports which makes them no better than anyone else in the sim at the time.

They tend to make things worse even. Put it this way, a lone PN griefer (or whatever group is popular these days) shows up in a sim and hits some house. In normal situations the person gets bored after a little bit and leaves, but let’s say this day the person getting griefed has one of those JLU emergency signals. JLU members show up, in full uniform, and start sending abuse reports. By this point, the Griefer is laughing his ass off and wondering how he got so lucky to have them show up, and calling in friends to check this out. Before you know it, you have a whole group of JLU and griefers, JLU uselessly sending abuse reports on every move they make, and the griefers slamming the crap out of the sim and everyone near it. Without the JLU this would have been a momentary annoyance as most griefing is, with them, it turns into the JLU’s holy crusade and the Griefer’s dream of getting to grief their favorite target. JLU won’t want to leave until “the job is done”, and the Griefers will be too entertained to leave so long as the JLU are there.

I think you JLU people still fail to understand, and maybe it’s ego or ignorance, that griefers aren’t afraid of you. They don’t take anything in SL seriously, and their targets are the people who do and are ready to make a big dramatic stink about it. You have a group that takes itself WAY too seriously, while at the same time dressing up like superheroes: you’re entertaining them more than anyone else could.

Griefing is a minor annoyance at worst, if you’re a land owner, you ban them, turn off object entry or scripts, and call it a night. If you’re not, then you file an abuse report and mute them or if they’re crashing the sim; go to another sim. They want a reaction, the best way to be an “anti-griefer” is not give them one. When a bunch of people in superhero costumes show up to prattle about justice and peace with a straight face in a virtual world, you’re giving them one hell of a reaction.

Oh, and if anyone wishes to claim this is not the real me posting, they are welcome to contact me in world for verification.

May the farce bewitch you all.
PK

http://firehax.pearlhosting.0lx.net/

For those who haven’t yet seen the leaked wiki files for themselves. As this was literally shouted in open chat for everyone to know about, I feel it should be fine to post the link here.

Yes, “Clear and Present Danger”