Individual = dumb? A rant about conformity pressure

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It is difficult to get banned from here. Ordinarily what happens is someone arrives with an axe to grind, works up into a froth at the lack of sympathy and attention, then will quit in disgust. Sometimes multiple times.
I can only really think of one person that was around for a bit being real issue, and it may have been on SLU. And I can't even remeber her name. I just remeber she was weirdly obnoxious. I have no idea if she got banned or just left.
 

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I can only really think of one person that was around for a bit being real issue, and it may have been on SLU. And I can't even remeber her name. I just remeber she was weirdly obnoxious. I have no idea if she got banned or just left.
Can count the number on one hand, that's for sure. I remember one "I just spent more on a car wash than you make in a week". And Cris, in his quiet and dignified manner, helped them out the door. It was a good precursor to the MAGA 'cruelty is the point'.

Bigfoot Girl might have been booted out too. And the loco Salome stalker. And someone claiming to be former military intel. And then there was a very short lived one that a mod kicked out under the spam tool because they showed their genocidal hand too fast and since it was a European who pulled the cord we did not see* much here in the Americas.

*See what I did there?
 
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Can count the number on one hand, that's for sure. I remember one "I just spent more on a car wash than you make in a week". And Cris, in his quiet and dignified manner, helped them out the door. It was a good precursor to the MAGA 'cruelty is the point'.

Bigfoot Girl might have been booted out too. And the loco Salome stalker. And someone claiming to be former military intel. And then there was a very short lived one that a mod kicked out under the spam tool because they showed their genocidal hand too fast and since it was a European who pulled the cord we did not see* much here in the Americas.

*See what I did there?
Wasn't the Lunatic the last one to be banned on SLU?
 

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Well, its like 9AM here and I just finished my first cup.
It wasn't even 7am yet here. I was still trying to go back to sleep after Snow woke me up at 3am.
 
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Truth be told, I was talking about OpenSim in-world communities rather than about forums.

It is difficult to get banned from here. Ordinarily what happens is someone arrives with an axe to grind, works up into a froth at the lack of sympathy and attention, then will quit in disgust. Sometimes multiple times.
Now, since I was talking about OpenSim and only OpenSim the whole time, allow me to elaborate:

There are "freebie sims" on the Hypergrid that are chock-full of content illegally ripped from Second Life. Some sim owners, not nearly all, but some pride themselves in not having a single legal item on their sims save for a few custom-made marquees that wouldn't make sense in Second Life ("FREE NEVER BUY IN OPENSIM") and the OpenSimWorld beacon which wouldn't even work in Second Life because Second Life doesn't have the necessary technology. Others say that copybotting is necessary because OpenSim would literally have no content whatsoever otherwise. Maybe allegedly save for "old Linda Kellie crap" from 2008.

"Drama" refers to everything ranging from someone mentioning that something on this sim may have been copybotted from SL within earshot of the sim owner to threatening the sim owner with an IP lawsuit, combined with the forced closure of their sim by the grid owner (or the closure of the entire grid if the grid openly supports copybotting, or sim owner and grid owner are the same). Regardless of what on this scale you're caught doing, not exactly few sim owners will kick and ban you for it upon first strike.

This is very normal, moving around until you find a good place to hang your hat.
In-world, less than you may think. I've only moved once, and that was also because I had started out on an already half-dead grid.
 

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I accidentally banned one as well when I had that power. Accidentally, not "Accidentally". The guy was on the way out anyways and no tears were shed.
 
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Some of what seems like 'copybotted' content from SL might not be so.

It might have been uploaded to OS by the original creator, using a different name from their SL one.