Ok, what is with these tools that announce to the world when you teleport in with some metallic clanging noise? It’s like the Secnd Life equivalent of the super cheesy, ‘Honey, I’m home,’ line. Urgh. You could be having a perfectly civilised conversation, teleport in a friend and instead of the new arrival just quietly sitting down and joining in the conversation…. oh no. Cue a sound reminscent of fifteen space ships landing on a roof, while inhabited by seventy thousand singing aliens with cat like voices, a million or so heavy thuds and a “Hey, I’m here.” No fucking shit. We heard you arrive. In fact, they heard you arrive on fucking Pluto. Did you never learn to close the door quietly behind you?

Attention tools. I hate them.

Silence in Second Life!!!!

I posted last week about the self-appointed voice police, who leave voice on and then bitch because they can hear people speaking.

Well now we have those who don’t want people typing either. No, I am not joking.

Check out the ‘Silence Monitor,’ a L$290 product by ProductPM.com (PM Sands in world) that basically polices your venue so people DO NOT TYPE in open chat!!

The note explains that you rezz the sign and then anybody (INCLUDING YOURSELF) who types in open chat will be ejected from the location.

WTF???

L$ 290 to turn your venue into a fucking military school? Now the fact you would have a sign up in the first place suggests a public place. Public place…. socialising? Do they not work well together?

It seems that I have been a little mistaken about Second Life. You know, for some odd reason, I thought that communication was a big part of that.

Evidently not.

Silence monitor?? A fancy name for the Gestapo?