I am headed to Dragon*Con 2006. While I am there, I would love to get ahold of any Fireseeds readers or just any Second Life players who might be there, just to chat and meet F2F.
Let me know if you’re available!
“No appeal, no parole…” That’s what Tina Turner said in the movie “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome” but this time Kin Keiko’s experiencing it in Second Life.
She’s a hair designer in SL, apparently has been around for two or three months, has been trying to make money in Second Life to go to school. Then, apparently because her brother had been banned before and she was using similar-to-her-brother account info, she was suddenly banned. No appeal. Just banned.
At first the Lindens took all the money she’d made, but now they’ve given it back. But she’s still banned.
This just points out a few things:
1.) The world just needs a damn good virtual driver’s license for the Internet (one with some pretty strong crypto, if you please).
2.) SL money is still pretty tenuous. I’m sure all the other content creators are swallowing their gum looking at this. The idea is you should be banned based on what you did, not on what your account seems like.
3.) People are contacting Dazzo Street to sign a virtual petition to ask that she be re-instated.
Let’s say for the sake of saying that Kin Keiko is not innocent of being a Ban-workaround account. She’s spent the past several months developing lovely hair, not griefing or causing trouble. Whatever debt to Second Life society needed to be paid, she’s paid it, I say.
So I hope that Linden Labs will decide to bring her back. I applaud their giving her the money she earned, but I think that it’s time for them to establish special circumstances to help substantiate identity and/or prove rehabilitation.
No appeal, no parole? That’s no way to run a society.
Well, we’re all going to have to pitch in and make our beloved Forum Drama happen somewhere else from now on.
I’m a Free account now, and it’s interesting - I don’t really feel differently. I do feel a bit aimless when I’m in-world but whenever I start to feel that way I just head to a sandbox and take a look around.
I’d like to thank Merlyn Bailey for linking to me, and Stella Trenchmouth for posting a comment.
More SL RP goodness to come soon.
I’ve decided to go down to Free status for a while. My current financial situation’s really bad, and although the $9.95 isn’t too much, the fact that it came through unexpectedly meant that I had a bounce charge of $30. And I could buy a new game every month for $39.95. So, for now, until I can get things back up to snuff in my financial life, gonna make myself a Free user.
Of course this shouldn’t affect my scripting or building projects anyway, because I will be building my stuff and doing scripting practice in the sandboxes.
What this does mean is that the free bookstore has to move because I’m going to have to give up my First Land. It pains me to do it, but that’s how it is.
Anybody want to buy some First Land from me for very inexpensive? I’ll sell it to you cheap, otherwise you’ll have to buy it from Gov. Linden.