Archive for 'Scammers, Griefers and Goons'

Angel Fluffy’s Security Services Connected to PN Griefers?

Sources claim Angel Fluffy is Mudkips Ackronym – notorious PN leaderGriefing group created to fuel demand for Proactive Security? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Running what may have been an anti-griefing protection racket in the virtual world could have backfired on Angel Fluffy – if the rumors flying around the metaverse are true. A [...]

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17 Sims Crashed in Swastika Pattern. Rosedale Sim Among Them

SL Gang Leader Vows Revenge By Urizenus Sklar We are used to griefers taking sims offline, and it happens so often we usually ignore it. But this time, Cinda Valentino, an old friend of the Herald and leader of the Valentino Mafia (one of the oldest vigilante groups in SL), asked that we call “enough” [...]

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Photo Essay: Homeless /b/tards Construct New Base in Eon

by Urizenus Sklar Never Forget. /b/tards pay respects to the permabanned. Forlorn and despondent and more than a little suicidal after being cast to the street when the Lindens shut down Woodbury University, the never-say-die /b/tards of 4chan’s /b/ board (not to be confused with 7chan’s /b/ board /b/tards) have fashioned a new home in [...]

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Ginko Financial’s End-Game

L$200,000,000 in obligations, no liquid assets — queue up and wait by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk get in the Ginko queue Sunday afternoon, GinkoTec and Ginko Financial honcho Hinoserm Rebus sent a notecard to customers who have deposited Linden space bucks in the role-play bank known as Ginko Financial. The notecard and announcement at [...]

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Attack–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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Woodbury University Island Destroyed

LL’s extreme smackdown – Woodbury University’s island deleted for TOS violations!“a fascist company-controlled cookie-cutter world” – Tizzers Foxchase by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk not even a smoking crater was left… Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University’s Second Life island dropped off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown accustomed to intermittent outages [...]

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Supine SLLA Spawns SLDF, SLDM

SLLA goes tits up, spawns new groups to fight the powers that be“one av, one vote”…except alts by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Sunday morning visits to the Herald offices can be rough – there is always the possibility that Walker or Uri have been “working late” on a “special project” and have decided to [...]

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Griefer’s Delight – Live Help Discontinued

“Pyramid of Death” SpamTex, SpamLM flood crashes clients LL support for paying customers “has gone in the toilet” by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Wednesday’s demise of Live Help left most residents without a way to summon instant assistance from their metaverse service provider – Linden Lab. The Lab’s removal of live resident support has [...]

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Updated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?

Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]

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Extra! Prok and Plastic Tie the Knot!

In a cross-border caper organized in the wee hours of Saturday morning by otakup0pe Neumann of libsecondlife, notorious griefer Plastic Duck and infamous blogger antagonist Prokofy Neva were married at a brief ceremony on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. The deliriously happy couple then disappeared into a HoJos after downing some Red Bull purchased [...]

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