DISQUS

We ran into this today during one of my live music shows, and it was definitely annoying. Tips and other L$ transactions were also haywire as well. It's pretty typical for LL to spring this stuff while the grid is simultaneously suffering such horrible performance that it's hard to even move, much less bother checking profiles and so on. The latest update has been a nightmare. Although I'd like to have confidence in the SL platform as a whole, it's this continual "one step forward, three step back" approach that will make it easier for people to jump to another platform once a truly viable alternative comes along.

I think it's great that you're doing this specifically for Australian presences in SL. measurement tools, especially for a kind of nebulous landscape like SL, is important for other usinesses to judge the value and weigh the option of adding their own presence in SL. Good stuff all around. I don't even understand the problem of the first responder to this article... what could possibly be bad about having another, more specifc, choice in this regard? It sounds like Gary is upset that he didn't think of including this level of specificity, and sour grapes being what they are, he's here to complain about a competing service. No class at all.

This has been being discussed for a long time. As a microcosm of the rest of the real world, SL has some form of representation of every fetish imaginable. The two sides of this that make it more difficult than one would think to take a stance are as follows.

1. This is kiddie porn and is internationally reviled and illegal and needs to stop now.

2. This is merely age play done between consenting adults who are acting in roles, and while some people may not find it to be their cup of tea, no one is actually harmed by the fulfilling a fantasy, which may in fact have a cathartic effect and keep would-be molesters from acting out their urges in real life.

Which is right? I don't know; I never claimed to be a moral barometer.