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Flagging Virtual World Provider Linden Lab Now to Flag Content
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist Second Life residents in some select groups like SLDev were alarmed this morning to discover that in addition to nerfing traffic, and pitting residents against each other to police their “avatar rendering costs,” the Lindens are planning on instituting a system to flag objectionable content on SL parcels via search results. [...]
Full StoryTier Nation: The 26th Group
Linden game gods violate laws of nature to party By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist today 26 groups – tomorrow – 513? Our game-gods imposed a curious kind of metaversal democracy on us yesterday, in their accidental wisdom, creating a ginormous entity called “Concierge Party Group” inworld with 6,926 members. Wait. Make that 6,727. Because the chat [...]
Full StoryThe Re-Invention of Philip Linden
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist [update: photo credit for the picture below - Tara5 Oh. The original picture and Tara5's interview with King Philip can be found here: here] Mrs. Linden’s little boy is growing up. The fair-haired, Donnie-Osmond-cute repository of our hopes and dreams, “El Chefe” who says we can “blame it all on him,” [...]
Full StoryMona Lisae
Fishy man, fishing in troubled waters. By Prokofy Neva, Art Dept. Art — and the figures in and around it — can be inscrutable. In the much-commented thread about the raid in Blister, Dutch amateur artist Lisae Boucher finally provides a link to another SL store where her controversial works are on sale — images [...]
Full StoryWhen the Music Stops, Or When the Griefers Go Live
Gavin MacKay, Kim Seifert’s manager, at the Lily Pad Prokofy Neva, Music Critic/Griefer Watch/Hey, when are we going to get a real music critic? Now with open and moderated comments! –Uri and Prok An ardent fan of Second Life’s popular singer Kim Seifert, IM’d me, hopping mad at the Lily Pad Lounge in Clyde. Or [...]
Full Story‘Broadly Offensive’ Raid in Blister; Lindens Review Teen Anime Paintings
Porn art cabana in Blister. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Tipped off by some newbie helpers who staff a monitoring network with Linden support, Linden staff may have seized or “force-copied” anime paintings said to contain what was deemed illegal child anime pornography from a cabana tonight in the working-class water sim of Blister — [...]
Full StoryBoxed In: A Nation of Landlords
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual EstateThe other night I attended an off-the-record meeting of inworld business people who, for some reason I couldn’t fathom decided to use the new outworld Crowne Plaza meeting space (claiming to be the first such private meeting facility in SL!) under the theory that this was “safer” or “more [...]
Full StoryOp-ED: Criminal Gangs Can’t Ask for No “Guilt by Association”
By Prokofy Neva/Op-Ed In Second Life, you can make a group with only 27 cents and one other person. Don’t like the group you’re in, because it’s taken over by a tyrant or filling up with griefers you don’t want to be associated with? Make a new one — and the tools enable you to [...]
Full StoryIntlibber: “I am sure Tizzers is in on it and works for the prof”
By Prokofy Neva The story of Woodbury University — “Griefer U” — is now in the real-life Chronicle of Higher Education. You need a subscription to read the article (the link is just to the blog) — it’s one of those old-media proprietary establishments that needs a paid pass or sub, because the journalists and [...]
Full StoryAttack–I Mean Educational Seminar on Ravenglass
By Random Unsung, Dept. of Barn Doors of Perception Left Open After Horses of Delusion Are Stolen
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