The answer to that question is no.

Always no. When it’s asked to me anyway.

Today I received an IM from an estate owner asking me if I would accept L$ 7500 to write a post saying how wonderful his real estate company is. I have never lived on his estate, but apparently that does not matter. He did not want me to mention that I was being paid for such a post and simply wanted me to write it like I would any of my other posts – essentially to pretend I had lived there and loved it.

I have a policy when blogging about people in world. If I am blogging about something public they have done, for example a stupid classified that someone posts or traffic gaming on their location (ie things that people could easily go see for themselves) then I will name people happily. If it is something that comes to me in IM then I generally do not name. My reason for not naming this guy here, however, is more because I don’t want to give him any publicity on the blog!

Anyway, I’m going off on a tangent here. I do agree that if people wish to charge for advertising on their blogs, that’s fine (though don’t get me started on asking for ‘donations’). If people wish to have banners and so on, or GoogleAds, that’s all good and well. Personally, this, for me, is a Second Life blog purely for recreation and I won’t attempt to cash in. But even if I were to cash in on advertising on this blog, I would never do it through sponsored posts. Pretending you have used a product or service and singing its praises in exchange for money is just bullshitting. There is no other way around it. It’s pure lies.

Needless to say, I won’t be posting about his real estate services….

I came across rather an odd classified earlier. Allow me to share:-

“Stalked? Harrassed? Grieved? Act Now!

Are you being followed, harrassed or stalked by the unwanted attentions of an SL avatar? Then Splodger Panache would like to hear from you.

S.P. leads a band of merry men, who in the best interests of his clients, formed a group intended purely to scare away griefers and other antagonistic individuals.

Starting with racists and homophobes, Splodge and his crew quickly found that stalking is one of the most common reasons that people quit SL.

Don’t give up. We’re here to help.

Should you feel like I could help, please IM me or send a notecard with as much information about the person you wish to be rid of as you can.

Splodger operates on GMT time, but he can always stay up late. Affordable, ladies get a discount. You can be present when the confrontation occurs or you can be as far away as you like.

IM SPLODGER PANACHE NOW FOR A MEETING TO DISCUSS YOUR PROBLEM! He can even provide a refuge if need be.

Keywords: Stalking, Afraid, Intimidation, Aggression, stalker”

Ok… is it just me or does this guy sound like a griefer? A griefer who charges for his griefing services!

And what’s this? “Starting with racists and homophobes, Splodge and his crew quickly found that stalking is one of the most common reasons that people quit SL”?

See, I thought that the main reason people left Second Life was, according to the stats, difficulty in usage. I would be particularly keen on seeing his research… you know, the research that states that racists, homophobes and stalking are the main reasons for people leaving Second Life.

And let’s be honest…. ‘please send me a notecard with the detail,’ translates to, ‘ooh let me hear about your gossip!’ And how can this guy even verify the stalking? Before he goes and ‘confronts’ the ’stalker’?

He can’t. Because he is not a Linden.

Fucking self-appointed pixel police piss me off.

/end rant.

This is a Second Life blog…

I set it up exclusively virtual worlds… not a crossover type blog. I therefore don’t post anything that does not in some way relate to Second Life or virtual worlds.

But…. but…. but…. I have to post this.

Cheryl Cole Fight For This Love from wowwowme on Vimeo.

(I would have embedded from Youtube but they have embedding disabled on all versions of it).

This is Cheryl Cole’s new single, Fight for this Love

She is FIT. Like proper fit. I therefore excuse myself this non-SL related post.

What?? Still complaining. Fine…. I will relate it to SL.

I WISH CHERYL COLE WOULD COME IN SECOND LIFE TO HUNT ME DOWN AND REQUEST TO HAVE MY (NON-PIXEL) BABIES.

Though, you know, Cheryl… if you ditch the dumb footballer, you can just ring me… don’t have to log in if you don’t want!