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It’s hard to believe…

but true: every time you think “Those linden labs fools can’t do worse than that”, someone there raises his head and shouts a defiant “You wish!”.
Looks like by now, mentioning other online shops in XStreet listings can get your account suspended.
This was found on the slapt.me forum.

Dear ***,

This email is notification of action regarding your Second Life account,
Yevad Doobie, for violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or
Community Standards. The violation in question occurred on November 5, 2009
in the region of .

Violation: Community Standards: Rules of Conduct

Within Second Life we want to support residents in shaping
their specific experiences and making their own choices. Our
rules are simple: treat each other with respect and without
harassment, adhere to local standards as indicated by
simulator ratings, and refrain from any hate activity which
slurs a real-world individual or real-world community.

All of your item listings on the Marketplace are in violation of the
Marketplace Listing Guidelines, located here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_ … guidelines -
Links to competitor Marketplace web sites are not permitted.

Action:
As a result of this violation, your Second Life account is
being temporarily suspended for a period of 3 days. It will
return to active status on Sunday, Nov 08, 2009.

In a related sidenote, I’m about to finish moving my wares from XStreet to slapt.me. Find me there.

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“East meets west” Fashion show…. not.

November 21st, 5am SLT: “East meets West” fashion show.

Cool event… not.
“Region full”, “could not fulfil teleport request in a timely fashion”, and so on… and when you finally manage to somehow get into draw distance to the runway, nothing rezzes… seems that grey is the new black this fall.

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Would you place any trust into a company…

A weird-looking creature.

where employees are allowed to “dress” like that at work?

…that, dear audience, is a linden labs employee, who’s name shall be kept secret to protect the guilty.

The drawbacks of Zindra

Damn…

now that you have to be a “credentialized” avatar to go to adult places, the horny noobies hang out in fashion shops to hit on girls!

like this guy…
born one day ago…
a very interesting person to talk to… not.

[10:49:41]  Andress Tylman: Its go make sex
[10:49:48]  Andress Tylman: I man
[10:49:57]  Moriko Inshan: this guy is going to get an abuse report
[10:50:20]  Yuukie Onmura: you are a DEAD man as soon as i’m done filing an abuse report for sexual harrassment, buddy
[10:50:46]  Andress Tylman: Vai se foder vcs
[10:50:50]  Yuukie’s Google Translator: Andress Tylman:Fuck you vcs
[10:51:11]  Andress Tylman: Vai tomar no seu cú sua prostituta
[10:51:21]  Yuukie’s Google Translator: Andress Tylman:Go fuck whore

News from Linden Labs…

Q: What’s the difference between a LL “higher-up” and a griefer?
A: A griefer doesn’t usually do permanent damage to SL.

more info here.

Sculptmaps are the next Business-In-A-Box

…or maybe not, I don’t know yet.
All i can say is that someone sells sculptmaps on xstreet, for reasonable prices, and suddenly more and more shops are selling the same boot or shoe, for increasingly low prices, usually just with different scripted features and maybe different colors…
Crave sells the default sculpted overknee in pastel colors, Kashoez sells it in normal leather colors, and a lot of shops are selling them in all kind of animal patterns.

Then there’s the sculpted bare foot shoe. Y’all know that moody asks 4 digit prices for those… Now something similar, made from another full perm sculptmap, is down to 25L$ per pair (unless the price has dropped any further since I last looked).

I don’t know about you girls out there, but although I’m as happy as anyone else about good shoes for good prices, but I can’t say that I’m happy about stuff becoming too commonplace…

Edit: by now the aforementioned sculpted bare foot shoe is a freebie on XstreetSL.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all…

…you run into someone like this.

Yep, thats a freenis.
On a noob.
A noob wearing nothing but long white underwear.
Editing appearance at the landmark location of a site that’s in the showcase under hotspots.

Too bad the sim is (M) or I’d have AR’ed him to hell and back.

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Customer Service… or not?

Just a moment ago:
[6:16]  Lance Corrimal: [6:14] [ hoorenbeek ] SL Exchange Magic Box 02 owned by Limer Fredriksson gave you ‘[ hoorenbeek ] Patagonia Boots – Black Leather’ ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/JT%20World%20VI/63/141/321 ).
[6:14] Xstreet SL Central Authority: LapisLazuli Tomorrow has given you a gift of “Mens Boots Timberland like – Black Leather” from XstreetSL.com!

…or in other words, that stupid boot has a completely different name on xstreetSL than it has in the in-world shop, and in my inv. So now i have it twice. Doesn’t really help much, especially since the shoes are copyabe anyways.

So, I’m trying to talk to the owner of the shop.
After telling him what happened…

“[6:25]  Ansor Hoorenbeek: ok, but she bought the black leather boots and you receive the black leather boots
[6:25]  Lance Corrimal: yep
[6:26]  Lance Corrimal: you could at least name the stuff in slx with the actual item names
[6:27]  Lance Corrimal: so that ppl dont buy stuff more than once.”

… now he stopped talking at all.

great attitude.

how about putting up the very same shoe on SLX under ten different names, just with the picture matching the item… and people might buy ten copies of the same shoe and it’d be “perfectly ok” since they got what the picture was showing.

This sounds kind of scary…

…something that I’ve heard on the radio yesterday. Some guy was talking about the latest fashions for the coming winter season, describing the latest ideas of several designers thusly:
“First it looks horrible, but after a while you start getting used to it and you actually start to like it…”

I dunno, a “fashion trend” that can best be described like that is pretty much dead on arrival.
Lets hope that trend stays out of SL.

Protest Sailing around Help Island Public and Linden Village

On Wednesday, November 12th, several Sailors gathered for a protest cruise through mainland waters, around Help Island and Linden Village.
At the end of the cruise the boats were moored right in front of Help Island Public where the closing speech was held by Liv Leigh.

[6:18]  Trudeau Leetle Cat “Pollux – SOS” #LC42 whispers: Mooring…
[6:18]  Trudeau Leetle Cat “Pollux – SOS” #LC42 whispers: Ready.
[6:18]  Trudeau Leetle Cat “Pollux – SOS” #LC42 whispers: Retrieving stored data…
[6:19]  Liv Leigh shouts: is everyone back?
[6:19]  Lance Corrimal shouts: sort of
[6:19]  Liv Leigh shouts: okay. let me just thank all of you then
[6:19]  Manni Lusch shouts: seid ihr alle da?
[6:20]  Dahral Huet shouts: jaaaa LOL
[6:20]  Lance Corrimal shouts: sind wir denn hier beim kasperletheater?
[6:20]  Manni Lusch shouts: fine action, Liv
[6:20]  Lola80 Rossini shouts: thank you Liv :)
[6:20]  Liv Leigh shouts: yw.. thanks to everyone
[6:20]  Second Life: Your object ‘CatInvisiPrims’ has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Jeska Linden from parcel ” at Help Island Public 153, 56 due to parcel auto return.
[6:20]  Milly111 Franizzi: Can I fly, too?
[6:20]  Manni Lusch: Linden Lab Kasperletheater
[6:20]  Liv Leigh shouts: if you experienced as rough spots as i did on this trip.. you know what cause we are fighting for
[6:20]  LapisLazuli Tomorrow: yeah .. thanks for organizing liv
[6:21]  Jonsky Foxtrot: excellent i will be your friend
[6:21]  Liv Leigh shouts: without dedictated sailing sims.. this virtual world will be a lot smaller for us
[6:21]  Lola80 Rossini: this is what we are going to have if the USS closes down
[6:21]  Lance Corrimal shouts: and banlined to hell&back
[6:21]  Liv Leigh: well not necessarily..
[6:21]  Liv Leigh: it s not just the USS
[6:21]  Milly111 Franizzi: lol
[6:21]  Liv Leigh: there is more in slsailing than them
[6:21]  Milly111 Franizzi: do you speak german?
[6:22]  Liv Leigh: but fun things.. like this.. will be a lot harder from january
[6:22]  Liv Leigh: no more sailing, no more golf in private estates
[6:22]  Liv Leigh: just free sexplaces and freebee resell LOL
[6:22]  Lola80 Rossini: unless someone pays for them

Youtube link here.