Archive for 'Scammers, Griefers and Goons'

Refunds For Banned Second Life Players!! SHOCK!!!

Ban hammer rebounds, hits Linden Lab’s wallet One ex-player hopes for $60,000 USD refund as class action settlement mandates payments to exiles Over the last several days, players banned from the Second Life virtual world have begun receiving notification of a proposed class action settlement (full text here) which will pay the involuntary exiles for [...]

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Barrett Brown Calls and the Herald Answers!

Barrett Brown Last week I was on the Herald Yacht, steaming towards the Herald retirement villa in the Turks and Caicos islands, when the emergency phone rang in the ready room. Helmut, my trusty cabin boy summoned me. Barrett Brown was calling. Mr. Brown, for those of you who don’t know, is currently in federal [...]

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Linden Lab Nukes Sandvich Sim

JLU gang leader claims responsibility – thanks Michael Linden for swinging banhammer Monday, Linden Lab suddenly deleted the Sandvich sim, a popular Steam-themed region in Second Life which inspired a chaotic YouTube video tribute. The Lab’s action sparked a round of protests as banned players were stripped of their virtual assets – without any sort [...]

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Shock! Griefer/Egghead/Hollywood Conspiracy Exposed!!!

special to the Alphaville Herald – by Pat the Rat Someone pass me the Pepto Bismol, please! That is all I can think of saying after surviving the social event of the decade in the new, post-Linden, metaverse.  [photo by Paparazzo Joenz] Attending this A-list event were Alphaville Herald staffers Urizenus Sklar, Pixeleen Mistral, and [...]

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The Great SMS Cramming Game

“MobChance IQ Fun Facts” ganks phone bills with unauthorized charges As I prepared to expose a horrific virtual pet abuse scandal in Second Life this afternoon, a pair of SMS messages brought my iPhone to life – and put virtual pets on hold as the prospect of being scammed out of $9.99/month by phone bill [...]

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Jumpman Lane – The “Kang” of Second Life

Last week, well-known virtual world entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine threw in the towel on Second Life after a long running series of feuds with Linden Lab and the notorious Jumpman Lane. Mr. Serpentine announced his departure in a series of tweets that caused alarm among his friends at the news that he was apparently exiting the [...]

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JLU Shamed – Green Lantern Excelsior Turns His Back on SLUniverse

Superheros “standing in front of a monkey cage and being pelted with waste products” For almost a week, a particularly ugly chapter in Second Life’s social history has been playing out on both theListSL.blogspot.com and the SLUniverse.com forums. While it is impossible to know if all the claims being made are true, the sheer body [...]

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Meeroo Food Supply Safe At Last Thanks To Cordon Sanitaire?

Scammers denied access to sim-edge no-rez exploit Roo sim – the home base for in-world access to vital Meeroo food supplies – is now encircled with a quarantine corridor in hopes of blocking scammers from using an exploit to create objects in unauthorized areas. Will this novel parcel configuration become a “best practice” for those [...]

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Meeroo Scandal No Surprise – LL Hides Behind Privacy Shield

Linden Lab doesn’t fix exploits or provide customer service – it’s business as usual, then? A predictable scandal erupted over the last few days as Meeroos began abandoning their owners to wander the grid in search of food. Meeroos are a popular form of virtual pet that require continual petting and feeding with scripted food [...]

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The Hand What Taketh

by Pappy Enoch, Philanthropist My enormus fan klub at the Herald will know that I gits me a heap o’ mail thru them-there Internet-tubes. I done writ about this befo’ but I reckon it are too good to omit when it happens again. In fact, I done got this-hear same letter a year ago from [...]

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