I’m not really sure how I should respond to your comment.

TG HAD SOMETHING THAT WAS UNIQUE AND IT WAS ARMIES TEEN GRID WAS NOTHING BUT ARMIES, NOOBS AND PEOPLE INTO BUSSINES. DOLLAMAN LEFT TG DESTROYED BY BUYING OVER 200,000 S.Q.M AND THEN THE ENTIRE LAND SET TO ABANDON, SERIOSULY? THE BIGGEST LAND THAT YOU CAN BUY IN TG IS 4,000 S.Q.M.

However, ….

Yesterday I have been to a real great soccer club who ordered me to do all the team photos of the starting season.

That means: 26 teams will pose for me, aged 6 to 40, most of them youth teams.

Yes, there IS a risk that one kid from will point at me and shout: “Look, a photographer taking pics of kids. Must be a P”

However, I feel deep appreciation for the coaches and parents who give a lot of their time to coach and teach these kids and visit their matches to support them and try to give them the heck of a fun time.

So, yes, I will do those team photos.
And I will do it for very little money, not for my normal prices.

If all adults start to fear those monster kids, and stop teaching, coaching, supporting …. what future will be there for our kids?

The Herald isn’t just for Second Life. A while back they changed names back to The Alphaville Herald and stated they were going to start covering other worlds: http://alphavilleherald.com/2009/02/alphaville-herald-acquires-second-life-herald.html

@Danziel: “Parental types of people: It’s a pity that in RL if you want to coach a youth soccer team or become a teacher you are looked at wit big scary eyes and often declared to be a monster. ”

Well gee, maybe if the kids today weren’t such freaking monsters themselves? The main reason I didn’t follow in my parent’s footsteps and become a high school teacher was simple. If I do one thing wrong and some kid doesn’t get his way? He or she will turn around and claim that I tried to molest them, that I exposed myself in front of them, or some other god awful fabrication designed to ruin my life.

Sorry, but I’m not willing to go walking around in public disgrace with the scarlet letter “P” tattooed on my forehead for the rest of my life just because some amoral brat didn’t like his or her grade. The same goes for SL, OpenSim, or any other game. If its not limited to adults only, hence its likely overrun by amoral brats with a chip on their shoulder, I ain’t goin there!

Imagine this:

Brat Monster: Hey, can I have $200L to buy a gun?
You: Sorry, no. Kids shouldn’t have guns and I don’t give out money.
Brat Monster: But please? Please please please?
You: Sorry, but no.
Brat Monster: Fine.

*10 minutes later*
- You’ve been logged off by an administrator. *BANNED*

*24 hours later*
- FBI comes knocking on your door, “So, what’s this we hear you’re trying to pick up teenagers on a video game?”

No freakin thank you!

How many posts a day on the Herald comments does he call “minimized involvement”?

Sl is t e “800lb gorilla” in metaworlds, like it or not you need to keep up with the latest dramas I just choose to minimize my involvement.

If you’re not involved in SL, what are you doing posting on a website based off of it – much less making your opinion known on a Second Life that has drastically changed in the past 2 years?

FWIW the “internet” originally was a term used to describe “invisible gateways” between the hundreds of proprietary nets of the 1980′s – does that sound familiar?