tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79274341220604789492024-03-13T16:20:54.361+00:00Pep's Parenthetical PostscriptsMusings, which may make you laugh, make you think, or may annoy you; especially with their accuracy - even if they are complete fabrications.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-53867234236223095572014-06-17T11:11:00.000+01:002014-06-17T11:12:41.279+01:00Breakdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://robistishistishisrob.wordpress.com/tag/rob-van-kan/" target="_blank">Mr Tish</a> has <a href="https://twitter.com/tishcoronet" target="_blank">completely lost it</a>. Again. Won't he learn? Is one of his many psychological defects a memory problem?<br />
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Pep (suggests Mr Tish gets his medication changed to something that cures the STDs -
that's Sarcastically Transmitted Destruction - that infects attention
whores that fuck wth Pep.)<br />
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PS The photo was taken of a previous incarnation of Mr Tish before he got "sunburned" . . .<br />
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PPS You'd have thought that Mr Tish would be better at recognising Pep's alts by now, wouldn't you! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-60732420274571291272014-06-15T10:25:00.002+01:002014-06-15T10:25:22.440+01:00Have I quoted this before?Because I should have!<br />
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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." Horace Walpole<br />
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Pep (He was a smart bloke - for a politician. He wrote the first Gothic Novel: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Otranto" target="_blank">The Castle of Otranto</a>.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-6253473713777112202014-06-12T14:51:00.002+01:002014-06-15T10:28:05.646+01:00I can't even quit without someone talking about me!Mr Dillon Levenque said, on Storm Clarence's feed:<br />
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they hangin', Pep? There is room for divergence between the terms.
Courtesy in particular suggests respect for the other party. Given that I
have no respect whatever for Storm (or you, for that matter) I can't
really think of myself being courteous. I can usually remain civil. Not
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obviously, he isn't up-to-date reading this blog, or he'd know I'm out of LL web-properties for a while. I'm not surprised that he misidentified Dewi Silures (Cool handle, by the way!) as me, since the number of LL users who could type "civility" without an "s" - or without copying it from the preceding post, as you have done, Mr Dillon (shades of Chester!) as with "courteous" - could probably be counted on two hands.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It ain't me babe, as the mispronounced minstrel sang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Oh, and the disrespect is mutual, although I have a basis for my opinion, whereas yours is defined by your ignorance.</span></span></span><br />
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You may have noticed that the Second Life account of Pserendipity Daniels is no longer available to the public; this is - unfortunately or otherwise - concomitant with an offer I could not refuse which would allow me to "put my money where my mouth is" as my Dad might have said, except that he's pushing 90, has never touched a keyboard in his life, and refuses to turn his hearing aid on except to listen to the sports commentators, all the better to berate their ignorance. And you wondered where I might have got my attitude?<br />
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So, for the time being, Pep is going to have to back out of all and any Linden Lab net properties; his retirement is, of course, reversible, but certainly not for a "probationary" period, which just happens to end soon after the <a href="http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/" target="_blank">soccer World Cup</a>.[Editor's note: You're over-using commas; keep it simple, stupid!]<br />
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I hope this ends the speculation. Contrary to the rumours - which I, in fact started - my "demise" has not been caused by the deleted feed post in which I might have implied that Lee Senderov's disemployment as VP Marketing was a consequence of her ineffectualness, exacerbated - how dare she! - by her reprioritisation from promoting SL to transferring her reptile-brain focus from <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EXviWA7W34E/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAHI/24uPwNzu3-w/photo.jpg" target="_blank">rat-like dogs</a> to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lee.senderov?fref=nf" target="_blank">new human beings who look like Winston Churchill on a bad day.</a> Good luck with the diaper changing is what I say; I am sure that the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aircrunch.shopalerts" target="_blank">Shopular</a> free samples she will be getting from her new (presumably part-time, working from home) position will come in useful, if the <a href="http://registry.thebump.com/lee-senderov-gideon-senderov-december-2013/5918216" target="_blank">begging on the baby registry </a>didn't work out. The settlement in lieu of litigation will also have bought a few baby bootees.<br />
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If I had an agreement, part of which would involve the denial that an agreement existed, it would probably recognise that it would be an unfair restraint to prevent activity outside Linden Lab properties, so Pep will live on, but only here on his blog. Anybody that you might think could be Pep in other non-LL 'net properties is not Pep, however good their English and acerbic their tone. {Editor's note: And however many commas they use.]<br />
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Pep (Has also been asked to confirm that neither <a href="https://twitter.com/ebbelinden" target="_blank">@EbbeLinden</a> nor <a href="https://twitter.com/pep_linden" target="_blank">@Pep_Linden</a> are official LL Twitter accounts)<br />
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PS This is a much more amusing visual commentary on the situation:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-33321661074025349602014-01-21T10:19:00.001+00:002014-01-21T10:19:35.365+00:00OBR - One Boring RantSt Valentine's Day is fast approaching. Well, even though the days are getting longer (OK, it's daylight hours that are extending, not the days themselves; that would be ridiculous, or if true it would mean that climate change would actually be something worth talking about) they are becoming more boring as everyone recovers from overindulgence during the Solstice holidays. Apart from the false hope offered by Jumpy's re-emergence (sorry, mate, you are now officially yesterday's news) and the continuing fascinating news from the subcontinent regarding the availability of professional sex-surrogates, the various Linden Lab internet properties are officially a source of mind-numbing ennui. That's not to say that LL hasn't tried to improve things by removing Private Messaging (not that I allowed anybody to message me anyway) although their other attempt to enhance the Feed by preventing the posting of lookatme images has only been an incomplete success.<br />
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But other internet platforms are available. For example - and this is why I referred to February 14 at the start of this post - the liberal lack of taste censorship - even in a fascist semi-democracy like Greece - means that Moaner is allowed to persist with her <a href="http://monaeberhardt.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/its-the-start-of-one-billion-rising-for-justice-in-sl-2014/" target="_blank">quasi-libellous campaign</a> to convince anybody who can stay awake long enough that I am pro-rape. The silly girl is persisting in her delusionary belief that just because I consider that "gender-based violence" is a misleading term when it is actually used to describe violence against women, I support the latter.<br />
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Statistics show convincingly that males are significantly more likely than women to be subject to violence - to such an extent that four out of every three are likely to be victims of violence during their lifetime, if you used the same nonsensical presentation as the OBR semi-amateur PR machine endorses. So if you are going to have a campaign to raise the profile of "gender-related violence" why does it focus solely on women as victims? I am not going to suggest they enjoy that role - even though I consider that everyone who participates in a less than regulated internet forum is masochistic, except me - but rather I am going to call the organisers out as hypocrites: Say what you mean, you propaganda cowards, stop using mealy-mouthed inaccurate politically incorrect terminology and publicise the event as one which has its focus as violence against women because they are women.<br />
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That isn't just about sexual violence, either. It's about them being easy victims because they are relatively weak in comparison with men; because they allow their emotions to rule their logic, and hang on to relationships with violent men (because they love them irrationally, or because no rational man would have them?) and remain silent when offered the opportunity to change their circumstances.<br />
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I find it situationally ironic that OBR schedules its terpsichorean celebration (yeah, dance against violence, that's effective) on the anniversary date universally recognised to commemorate a man being beaten, stoned and beheaded. Are those feminists organising OBR deliberately celebrating violence against men?<br />
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Pep (Of course, you might subscribe to the belief that St Valentine's cult was invented by Chaucer, as a cautionary tale warning those who wished to encourage the insanity of inter-gender commitment that it would end in tears.)<br />
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PS I also find it amusing, particularly since it directly contradicts those who claim otherwise, that the most recent publication of Eve Ensler, the born-again lesbian and false memory syndrome sufferer who founded OBR, is entitled "I am an Emotional Creature", an extract - expressing its main theme being: "Things do not come to me
as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas".Work that reptile brain baby!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-11000549681005126532014-01-07T11:44:00.000+00:002014-01-07T11:44:36.833+00:00Your dogma . . . . . . will get run over by my karma.<br />
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Pep (It's not a very good one; it's a Puma.)<br />
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PS I'm making a really good curry to eat tonight; it will be a korma!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-46499376480927228202014-01-04T15:50:00.000+00:002014-01-04T15:51:11.793+00:00Death by LOLcat? Death OF LOLcat!<br />
Storm apparently recently invited, <a href="http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/quot-Death-by-Lolcats-quot/td-p/2417775" target="_blank">in the SL Forums</a>, grammatical batterings by humour-challenged felines. This is what is likely to happen if one intruded upon Pep.<br />
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It looks so civilised it's hard to believe that there are at that table:<br />
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<ul><li>two banned so-called forum flamers who have the audacity to use polysyllables in posts</li>
<li>a social leper - as denounced by the cult's Mad leader - with a mind of her own</li>
<li>and a social media professional who persists in denying that she is one of Pep's alts' alts!</li>
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PS The house and dining environment are the astonishing products of <a href="http://lagalleriasl.blogspot.com/">Pamela Galli's La Galleria.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-88713453976670442182011-12-16T11:44:00.001+00:002011-12-16T11:46:20.991+00:00Flooding in!I am being inundated with messages from SL forum posters who have been warned for violating non-existent guidelines and banned for protesting that they have been framed. Trumped up charges seem to be the order of the day against anyone who dares suggest that SL is not a place of unicorns and rainbows during this week of sycophantic mindless posts being stickied in what should be the residents' discussion forum - especially since the only time a Linden representative turns up there they avoid addressing any of the serious issues. Here are a couple of posts which incurred the wrath of Viale and the Mods:<br />
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I presume that it must have pressed one of their buttons marked "extremely sensitive" as removing it gives it a lot more credence than ignoring what is a pretty obvious potential loophole (or rather, dirty great gaping cracks between the systems binding the various LL 'net properties) for exploitation.<br />
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Pep (thinks they should be thanking Fidor, not warning him off)<br />
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PS The warning was for flaming - in a thread entitled "Security Flaw in The Second Life Web Site" which appeared otherwise uncensored. So who in the forums was going to feel provoked by the extremely ontopic post? Maybe the mods were demoted from design and coding to their current status because the login system is so rubbish?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-29140463515466985892011-12-08T20:19:00.002+00:002011-12-08T20:22:19.085+00:00Xoxalee Song For The Dead<div><div><br />
<b>How you will be missed, my friend,</b></div><div><b>so sadly gone, ha ha ha.</b></div><div><b>Your life has come to its end.</b></div><div><b>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.</b></div><div><b><br />
</b></div><div><b>The death caught you with a gaff</b></div><div><b>and trapped your soul, ha ha ha.</b></div><div><b>Now all we can do is laugh:</b></div><div><b>ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.</b></div><div></div><div><br />
<i><b>Dadatic The Elder </b></i></div><div><br />
</div><div>Posted in memory of the departed Gypsy . . . </div><div></div><div>Pep ( . . . whose brain shuffled off this mortal coil long before his body)</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-63229986087196894772011-12-08T19:41:00.000+00:002011-12-08T19:41:37.423+00:00A star is born!And herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Caity . . . <br />
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Pep (is pleased he can post something good for a change!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-27601454951021181982011-12-07T16:19:00.002+00:002011-12-07T16:40:40.551+00:00How Wrong Can You Get Something?DQ (Deek, as she likes to be known by her friends, after Rib Di Castella's notorious incident) Darwin, after a long day in the wool mines in the Great Barrier Reef, was supporting her morally misguided friend Lillie in her breakfast feed (presumably pleased that Gypsy had, the previous day, publicly made an even bigger asshole of himself than Deek herself had in Linden Lab's feed) attributed this weakness to pserendipity.daniels (that's her private snookums name for him) <br />
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Pep (thought everyone would have a good laugh at her desperation and ignorance)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-72754984291868605212011-12-06T10:13:00.000+00:002011-12-06T10:13:35.158+00:00IdentityYou may have noticed that Botgirl's Identity Circus has appeared in the list of blogs I find interesting. Botgirl is also curator of something called <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/plusgate/p/745714590/gina-trapani-google?sc_source=http%3A%2F%2Fbotgirl.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F12%2Fspeed-of-nostalgia.html%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BBotgirlsSecondLifeDiary%2B%2528Botgirl%2527s%2BSecond%2BLife%25C2%25AE%2BDiary%2529">Nymwars</a> which collates references to articles relating to the struggle relating to online identity which Facebook, and now Google+, are fostering, not because they have any concern about the morals or otherwise of the issue, but because they want to know who you are so they can convince advertisers to pay them more to target you because they are collecting masses of profile information on you.<br />
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This may not worry you - if you have nothing to worry about. Although, in the unlikely event that you have nothing to worry about (hand on heart - you have no skeletons in the cupboard at all?) it is easily conceivable that someone has made a mistake, or an enemy has lied, or an AI routine has put together 2 and 2 to make 5 and hey presto, your reputation is sunk, or you find youself barred from visiting a country or you're up in court for racism for making a joke about Martians.<br />
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I have lots of online persona. Every one carries the explicit or implict tagline "opinions expressed here do not reflect the management's views, nor necessarily those of the person typing" especially since sarcasm is only effectively expressible face to face - but then, you're smart enough to realise that. (Aren't you?) Which makes every online instantiation a character in a virtual fictive novel; if you choose to believe the words you read, <i><b>with absolutely no corroboration</b></i>, then that is <b>YOUR</b> decision. The motherhood and apple pie, nanny state, politically incorrect, ladies who lunch, incorrectly self-considered empathic whinging minority can go fuck themselves if they want to blame me for the feelings they themselves <b>choose </b>to have in reaction to any words of mine they read.<br />
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Here is an idea - instead of complaining, why don't you raise a petition to have Sir Anthony Hopkins sent to the electric chair for murdering and eating all those people?<br />
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Pep (is just a figment of YOUR imagination)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-78305742038807282342011-12-03T11:00:00.000+00:002011-12-03T11:00:16.927+00:00Rik Rolar? Get it?The mods didn't, permabanning poor Rik without warning for "spamming YouTube videos".<br />
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They removed all his posts too, so here are a couple for posterity:<br />
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Pep (is busy this weekend)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-35925372298207955132011-12-02T10:46:00.002+00:002011-12-02T11:34:51.746+00:00The game is on!Well, I have Rodvik's attention now. Isn't it great when one small 'amateur' voice can transcend the great void of global communications and force others to action! Now he has worked out that I am not going to go away he is taking steps to mitigate my influence upon the operation he controls and the way in which it presents itself to current and potential customers. Having been conned into responding to a post by an alt set up for just that purpose (I had thought he might rise to the bait of the U3A post highlighted below, but it probably didn't last long enough for him to see it) he has now not just had removed the alt's posts from that thread, but has also had removed his own post, which embarrassingly for him, condoned my sense of humour, that very sense of humour which got Pep banned by the humourless mods.<br />
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It would never do for residents to think that the CEO appreciated British sardonic observations, in contravention of the unwritten sections of the Guidelines distributed (probably in English, Spanish, Polish and Vallese) by Amanda to protect over-sensitive little flowers who run crying to Mommy when a nasty big boy points out that the world does not revolve around them. You see, I KNOW that Rodvik gets it. I can understand that he has to put a public face on to keep the board happy, but underneath he is sympatico with my agenda, if not the bloody nuisance my methods are creating for him personally because he does not have staff with the competence to deter me from my campaign, nor the technical muscle to change stuff on the fly (that doesn't work in the way it should, anyway) to isolate the Second Life world from guerrilla unmarketing.<br />
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I am sure that the last thing that Rodvik wants is for a large segment of the more intelligent, active and vocal of his customers to rise up in a "Virtual Spring" because a part of their world has been corrupted by a series of unthinking and unsympathetic marketing wonks who do not have a clue about LL's USP: that the product is what the customers generate, NOT the technological infrasturucture that LL support and pay for. Anybody in their right mind, who has seen the furore caused by indignant security fetishists following their IPs capture, with the fallout raining on the Bloodlines pyramid scheme, would have realised that a SpampireFest was NOT the best way to initiate promotional events in the forums. The principle was good (still is, even if the Games event has been largely ignored except by the games suppliers) the execution abysmal, but then, that's LL marketing for you. And the launch of Rod's new initiative "Game Within a Game" has disappeared beneath the antiPR that Viale and his "Linden Lab" gestalt identity (probably Kim's timebomb she left ticking) have created.<br />
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But back to the narrative. Having eventually woken up to Rik's status as my alt (the moderators were completely unaware of that until I posted as such, which makes me feel confident in my cloaking operation; I might post a tutorial on that should anyone else want to create alts with access to LL properties without let or hindrance) Rodvik also realised that the Profile Feeds were being contaminated by truth and turned off his own for a while until the disturbing posts had been removed. He obviously had not been previously advised by Viale, the guy responsible for promoting use of the Profiles for Facebookalike feed-based communication, who has his Profile tied down so tight that no-one except Magic Linden can converse with him.<br />
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Now Rod has his feed back on, in Advertising Mode, that recommended for inworld spammers who want to promote their goods 'legitimately' on the Trending feed by setting their feed read to 'Everybody' and feed write to 'Friends' only. Since you can "love" yourself, it only requires one alt to "love" your ad and the AI (Artifical Idiocy) selection protocol picks it up and puts it into the "Trending" feed - and there is no charge! You can even put images of your products up now. Don't forget to include the price.<br />
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So what now? I have checked and all the rest of my alts are able to access and post to the forums, but the kids have a day off school and I have my chauffeur's cap on so I think I shall give Rodvik a free Friday to contemplate what he might salvage from the situation. An apology to Void might start the ball rolling. Celestiall got one, albeit from a fake/non-existent marketing entity, but I have a feeling it will take a more personal approach than that to persuade the most helpful scripter ever seen in the forums to return.<br />
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The there is the weekend, when our Polish mod, Joanna Gangbang, is usually on duty, and if she has a sense of humour her semi-literacy in English camouflages it most effectively. Perhaps, if Rodvik doesn't give some indication of his willingness to review the situation <b>QUICKLY</b> my alts might have some fun.<br />
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Pep (is enjoying this)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-8735973963387827122011-12-01T18:33:00.001+00:002011-12-02T09:51:04.594+00:00A response to Rod in the "Negativity" thread<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">(This was posted in a forum thread, now rendered incoherent by deletion of posts, about negativity</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> in the Profile Feeds - yet another bug in alpha software - where Rodvik was NLPd into responding to one of my alts, unfortunately - for him - making a careless spelling error then exhorting others to <i><b>post carefully</b></i>. Ironic? Not in the correct sense of the word - but the story continues . . .</span></span>)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't you love it when that happens!<br />
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I'm pretty sure that Pserendipity (Pep) Daniels would be pointing out that such errors, caused by simple laziness or impatience - the poster can't be bothered to use the built-in forum editor spellchecker - demonstrate a lack of care for other residents and a disregard for the communications values which indicate a respect for potential participants.<br />
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This would apply particularly to the CEO.<br />
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In fact, I'm pretty sure that Pep would be pointing this out because Rik is his alt, an identity Pep has been forced to don because he was permabanned by the moderators, presumably acting under Amanda Linden's legacy instructions (as admitted by a moderator in a private message) not to allow a sense of humour interfere with their arbitrary imposition of discipline upon posters who do not follow the party line in complete synchronicity. Those poor benighted moderators, apparently selected by their semi-literacy in multiple languages, perhaps struggling to cope with polysyllabic postscripts they possibly perceive as potentially pejorative posts, misinterpreted as spam three very similar posts by Pep in the Role-playing forum bemoaning the fact that his memory was dwindling in his old age (the thread was about "mature" avatars) making a joke that was also imbued with satire regarding the officially condoned spamming of the Vampire subforum with multiple posts that were very similar and added little to the library of humanity's knowledge.<br />
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I presume that acknowledging this flagrant beach of the Tos/Guidelines will earn Rik a permaban too, but LL's inability to curb an amateur nuisance like Wasted, to say nothing of the programme spammers who are perpetually recurring, make it likely that the Hydra will grow further heads until Pep's case is reviewed and he is reinstated. Or something bad happens.<br />
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I'd love to think that you would read this Rod, and instigate a review of not just Pep's treatment, but that of the much more valuable Void Singer, as well as other forumites who have suffered, in Lexie's absence, at the hands of the moderators under the direction of Marc Viale Linden in a failing attempt to protect from publicly noticeable opprobium his disastrous initiatives to marketise the forums with no prior consultation, as well as his ridiculous decision to make the Adult Forum public, subject to a General classification that effectively renders it pointless.<br />
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I'd love to think that, but the moderators will probably delete the post without calling it to your attention, as they do anything remotely contentious, however positively intended.<br />
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If you want to call a ceasefire to negotiate a cessation of hostilities (which might mean that you may also receive less - albeit meaningless - disapprobation for your picture postings in your Profile Feed) then I am contactable at pserendipitydaniels@gmail.com . Don't send a gestalt menial (yes, I am talking about the weasel-wordy Linden Lab) to discuss terms though, as I will send him/her/it back as enough sandwich-filling to feed everyone at the next brown-bag lunch that the headless Marketing Function convene to decide how to drag LL further into the mire. If Lexie is now back at her desk then I am quite happy for her to act as a mediator, though.<br />
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Rik (doesn't generally use parenthetical postscripts.)</span><br />
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Pep (does though)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-65344176884836848192011-12-01T18:00:00.000+00:002011-12-01T20:00:53.413+00:00Mike The Mod Humiliates HimselfHe just warned me for posting this parody thread - I just revised the first paragraph so it was about under40s not over40s as the ageist original poster had impudently posted - for ADVERTISING! It would be funny if it was not so pathetic.<br />
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He pulled the thread twelve hours ago, and it is apparent that it has obviously taken him this long to try and find <i><b>something/anything</b></i> to try to justify his actions.<br />
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Pep (is PMSL as well.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-15403099336025702942011-11-29T19:54:00.001+00:002011-11-29T19:55:18.113+00:00You have been asking about the new LL Community Manager?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQRHIrNWjYw/TtU3fV4RFVI/AAAAAAAAAUM/WrEv_cP_mxc/s1600/Gestalt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQRHIrNWjYw/TtU3fV4RFVI/AAAAAAAAAUM/WrEv_cP_mxc/s400/Gestalt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I managed to get a screenshot of the OP by the "CommunityManager" before it got taken down, which was as predictable as it was unfair.<br />
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Pep (Or do the moderators know something about the actual new invisible Community Manager that we don't?)<br />
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PS I am astonished that the registration process allowed the name. Next thing you know we will be having names like GennModerator Resident . . .<br />
PPS Oh no, I've just given somebody an idea, haven't I!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-36441736241168659612011-11-28T17:15:00.002+00:002011-11-28T19:20:44.281+00:00Warthog Revenge!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mGVl16FBeOc/TtPe2fGT8tI/AAAAAAAAAUE/PcUrW7b1u3g/s1600/warthog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mGVl16FBeOc/TtPe2fGT8tI/AAAAAAAAAUE/PcUrW7b1u3g/s400/warthog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LxcpMd7NPvM/TtPAXO0d0bI/AAAAAAAAAT8/HukLnzY5iCo/s1600/mompies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="121" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LxcpMd7NPvM/TtPAXO0d0bI/AAAAAAAAAT8/HukLnzY5iCo/s400/mompies.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Charly returned (not from a safari - that was his piss-take of Rudi, intended to confuse the LL Moderation Team even further - but from a fortnight's course learning how to sell exotic foreign exchange instruments to rich bastards) started this thread and was promptly canned - with <i><b>no warnings</b></i> (just like last time when his removal was <b>specially</b> instructed by "a Linden" - probably the Mods were on alert for his return) and within an hour or so. And the ban last time was one week, and normally the ban increase to two weeks then four, but they have promoted him a level.<br />
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Pep (wonders if he'll meet the boss next time)<br />
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PS He also wonders if they have realised that Charly can post to Rod's Profile Feed<br />
PPS He also wonders when they are going to start putting moderation and disciplinary measures into the Feeds.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-78037696465693862082011-11-27T22:35:00.001+00:002011-11-27T22:50:17.358+00:00LL's Losing Streak ContinuesVoid Singer, justifiably pissed off at being warned for expressing a sensible opinion presented in a civilised fashion (which unfortunately did not accord with the "message" that the <strike>Marketing</strike> Community Manager was trying to enforce on his <strike>users</strike> customers ) gave warning that she was going to give it a fortnight and if nothing was done to rescind the ludicrous disciplinary action, she was leaving. Rod has done nothing, so she has gone, and the forums have lost a talented and charitable resource.<br />
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Pep (wonders if there will be anybody with an IQ over room temperature left in SL by Christmas; this dumbing down already appears to be the case in Marketing and Community Support, aka Moderators annoyed at having to put in shifts over the long Thanksgiving Weekend and flailing out without justification at anyone who remotely appears to be "off message")Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-49271310803704258882011-11-25T11:37:00.003+00:002011-11-25T12:20:14.889+00:00Rudi's even more upset now!!!Poor old Joanna <strike>Fuck</strike> Moderator must have pulled the Thanksgiving night shift (any other suggestions on what might be worse, like Christmas Morning if you have kids, or the whole week after Hogmanay if you are Scottish?) and her hypersensitivity was given full reign (without any superior authorities around to rein in her delusions of power, I would guess) by Rudi's OP, which he has kindly sent to me to publicise:<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Rudi is EXTREMELY annoyed and said he has responded to Joanna, and copied Viale and even Rod in on his reply:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Joanna</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Please could you explain in what way my post violated the Guideline? I can find absolutely nothing in it which transgresses anything stipulated. It is <b>not</b> sexually explicit and there is nothing in it that could be described as Adult Content in the way that LL specifies it. A philosophical discussion about why a virtual taboo might exist which has its roots solely in the physical world would illuminate questions of identity. The Guidelines specifically allow content which has an "important educational or cultural function, and therefore would be appropriate for all Second Life audiences."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And if you truly felt that it walked the line of "General" proscriptions then why did you not simply move it to the Adult Forums?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I would also wish to complain that you have given me a ban on the basis of one single posting contravention since my last ban. I understood that two warnings at least had to be given before a further ban. Or are you acting on the basis of "we may act without warning or explanation" power that the Guidelines confer upon you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rudi</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Welcome to my world Rudi! If you haven't received any warnings recently then I reckon this is Joanna grasping at straws to desperately find <b>something/anything</b> that she can hang a disciplinary charge on, to silence what I perceive as being your part in a most amusing and effective campaign to highlight the recent inadequacies of Linden Lab's Marketing function.Second Life appears to be <a href="http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2011/11/22/nowhere-to-go-but-up/#more-5246">going to hell in a handbasket </a>as a result of <a href="http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/communications-and-the-lab-again/">the poker-in-ass corporate attitude encouraged by Kim</a> recently and Rod - who should know better - is doing nothing about it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Never mind Rudi, you can always post stuff to <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/rodvik">Rod's Twitter account</a> and on <a href="https://my.secondlife.com/rodvik.linden">his publicly available Facebookalike Profile feed</a>, especially since Marc Viale Linden was in such haste to get that out of alpha (they haven't yet) that they omitted to draft and publish a code of conduct or set of guidelines for its use in what is a very complicated area to monitor, as Facebook keep finding out.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Pep (did you notice the play on words sounding like watery precipitation?)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-64004134874383323022011-11-24T10:49:00.005+00:002011-11-24T10:52:07.427+00:00Rudi's upset!Rudi just posted this in the Forum Feedback section of the official Second Life forums, and emailed me a copy. He seems to be more emotionally distraught than normal - there aren't even any asterisks!<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"I thought it would be appropriate to bring to the attention of the Community - and possibly other Linden Lab authorities who may not know that such activities are being conducted in their name, despite a historical public commitment by Lexie, who I understand may be returning to her post next month, which can't be too soon! - that posts are being deleted from threads without any notification to the posters (and not as a side-effect of the deletion of other posts, which is the usual excuse given for stealth moderation) or indication left in the thread that such censorship has been effected. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is despite those posts not contravening ANY elements of the forum Guidelines or Terms of Service! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To explain: I am currently considering an involvement in role playing of a family/relationship nature, but my previous experience went really sour when I was involved with a blue werewolf with whom I had twin hybrid progeny, care of whom I initially entrusted in my partner, who brought them to maturity quickly and then proposed multiple incestuous relationships.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I was horrified!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There was no sexual ageplay involved, and it seems that incest is not forbidden by the ToS (I checked) but I am afraid that my underlying moral framework generates a repugnance of even virtual incest.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Therefore, whenever I am investigating a potential rp relationship, the first question I ask is - in an entirely neutral fashion, so that the response is not skewed by expectation bias - what their views on incest are. This generally provides me with sufficient information to know whether I might wish to proceed with further research regarding the opportunity for involvement.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have asked several such questions recently in these forums of those searching for "friendships" and "relationships" and received fairly negative responses, although I perceived a reluctance to commit which might have been related to a disinclination to judge, or open-mindedness on the subject, neither of which would endear me to the underlying proposition - so I have not pursued the possibilities.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">However, despite this being, as far as I am aware, an entirely legitimate use of the forums, it appears that my posts have been removed without notification or explanation.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I understand that the forum Guidelines state that "the actions taken (or not taken) by Linden Lab and our moderators are at our sole discretion, and we may act without warning or explanation" and I would guess that the mere mention of incest was enough for someone with the relevant powers to take peremptory capital action.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In that context it seems that there is little I can do except protest here publicly, until perhaps my protest is removed as the Syrians have shown they are more effective at doing than the Egyptian authorities, and hope that others in the forums might note that their apparent "freedom of expression" apparently offered if you comply with the specifics of the forum Guidelines is being eroded by the personal and private sensitivities of those with the autocratic power to be able to act upon their prejudices."</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Pep (isn't surprised) </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927434122060478949.post-65768233670883462442011-11-24T00:33:00.000+00:002011-11-24T00:33:14.519+00:00Riding the tiger?As Linden Lab tries to snuggle up even tighter to Facebook, the latter are busily acquiring the talent to put a 3D user interface on their nasty little sneak marketing operation. <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/11/15/facebook-mailran/">Cory is busily recruiting the best of his ex-buddies</a> and putting them to work on "secret projects". Next thing you know, Philip will pick up on a non-executive directorship there and Kim will be offered a nice little niche position.<br />
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Pep (doesn't think FB are likely to be too worried about LL's buggy and insecure "Profiles" initiative, given its lack of leadership)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0