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LINDEN ADMITS TO INSIDER SNOW SIM DEAL ON TEEN GRID
By Dow Jonas In a fascinating glimpse into the life of teen-agers in Second Life and the internal pressures with which Lindens cope in their San Francisco office, a land scandal has emerged on the Teen Grid (TG) involving confirmed charges that Blue Linden gave a teen land buyer an unfair insiders’ heads-up about a [...]
Full StoryEXTRA! EXTRA! BARONS LOSE BIG WITH TELEHUB REMOVALS; ANSHE STARTS CASH OUT
All that’s left of a once busy SL Telehub by Dow Jonas In a move that is likely to cause profound economic and social changes to Second Life, Linden Lab announced last week in the official Linden forums that it will be enabling the platform for point-to-point teleporting (p2p) and removing telehubs, the main portals [...]
Full StoryA Solution to the SL Lolita Gap? Bring on the Goth Lolitas!
by Kendra Charlton The Lolita look; while it has become increasingly popular in Japan, I have never seen a Lolita in SecondLife. I even joined a Lolita club but I have yet to see any of my fellow group members come online. So I asked myself, “why are there so few Lolitas in SL?” Perhaps [...]
Full StoryAbout Freaking Time! Lindens Threaten RL Legal Action Against Global Attackers
Hopefully, this means I don’t have to write that editorial tearing the Lindens an new one for fiddling and diddling while griefer organizations openly organize denial of service attacks on the grid. For some reason, the Lindens have been treating these attacks as “geez aren’t these kids clever” little pumpkin smashing and toilet-papering exercises, forgetting [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Linden Firelane Foils Latest W-Hat Attack
by Walker Spaight Seems like only yesterday that Herald correspondents were warily eyeing W-Hat griefers in the wake of the group’s notorious Grid-crashing attack on Second Life. [Actually, it was two days ago. --Ed.] Well, they’re back! But this time Linden Lab whipped a new weapon out of its arsenal, slashing and burning their own [...]
Full StoryNew evidence of griefer being feted by Linden Welcome Wagon.
The smoking gun! Click on the picture for full sized screenshot. Thanks to a friendly W-Hat for passing this along. — Undercover Hat
Full StoryPhilip Linden: “Welcome to Second Life, Griefer!”
By Prokofy Neva, posted and edited by Undercover Hat Through one of those strange set of circumstances that make you cry, “Only in SL!,” the very first person to make it from Orientation Island to the newly-launched Help Island the other day was an avatar sporting the name Griefer Overlord. So I am told on [...]
Full StoryRate my Linden .com
How’s my driving? Rate Second Life Support: by Pat the Rat Are you concerned about Linden behavior? Have you ever gotten mad at the way a Linden has treated you? Most people are so grateful that the Lindens are *there* that they don’t think of them as problematic, behavior-wise. They are so earnest, and so [...]
Full StoryAnshe Declares War on Ginko: “It”s a Ponzi Scheme!” (Lindens block discussion. Transparency is first casualty.)
SL Power Player and Business Girl, Anshe Chung By Dow Jonas A fierce debate about trust in financial institutions is rocking the business community of SL, pitting SL’s largest land baron, Anshe Chung, said to own SL properties valued at U.S. $200,000,against Nicholas Portocarrero, SL’s largest savings and investment bank owner, reportedly holding more than [...]
Full StoryLindentown Provokes Land Baron Outcry: Stop GOMing us!!!
by Dow Jonas Sim crashes and texture upload failures, “I see grey people” and frozen avatars – all the joys of the new Second Life software update 1.7 and its patchlets have played havoc on SL’s volatile land market in recent weeks as both would-be first-land stakers and land dealers give up when they can’t [...]
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