Not much excitement in the ACUG… The forum is becoming interesting. A few discussions going on there. A few topics came into the ACUG meeting.

Visitor Hub Counts

There is a grid wide problem of visitor counts not working. This is true in Adult Hub areas too. You can see this in that the Destination Guide will show zero people there and the map will show people in the region.

I thought it funny...

Destination Kiosk

An idea has been presented to have an in-world kiosk that uses a feed from the Destination Guide. The idea is considered important because Third Party Viewers may not have the Destination Guide. So, some form of in-world guide would be helpful. Presumably these kiosks could be placed in hubs.

Today Kelly Linden posted about a new function added to the Linden Scripting Language:  llTransferLindenDollars(). The highlight of the feature is its ability to return the transaction result. You will know if they got the money, refused it, or whether it failed.

See: Upcoming LSL feature: llTransferLindenDollars and transction_result

This function is currently in testing on the ADITI or Preview/Beta Grid. It is in regions; Bethel, Fortuna and Sandbox Wanderton.

This can greatly improve the reliability of vending machines in Second Life. All those failed deliveries we have been dealing with may soon be handled by new vending machines.

Oskar was talking about it in the Beta Server Group today. He said, “…it is major Moundsa. Kelly has been working hard on it. Do all merchants a favor and hop on to ADITI and try it out.”

The rumor is circulating that a group called the Freedom Continent has won the ‘contract’ to provide gateways to Zindra, the Adult Content continent. I have yet to see any formal announcement of the winner. Venus Petrov points out the gateway privatization in a post in the SL Forum and brings up another interesting point. She asks if this privatization of gateway hubs is a pilot project that may be extended to gateway hubs in PG and M rated regions. You can read the thread and see what people are thinking. If you are a shop owner and this is a pilot, this will affect you.

Along with that rumor is news from Viale Linden that searches using the term ‘Zindra’ will no longer return the Linden owned gateway Zindra (region) as the #1 result. I guess because they changed the region’s name. So, privatization is underway.

In the 11/7 Adult Continent User Group (ACUG) meeting Blackcrow6667 Garmes spoke. I was late getting there as a preceding group meeting ran over, or at least I stayed over because of interesting conversation. According to Black the first part of the proposal Black was making is to build a learning center. The idea is to teach people to build in SL with Prims, Sculpties, Mesh, and to script. I wonder if it matters that the Zindra Help Vortex does the same sort of thing?

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Unfortunately I have RL commitments for each Saturday noon and missed the meeting. However, the meeting transcript  is posted. So, I looked through it to get the meat of the meeting. The hope is that we can create a group that can have influence with the Lab. We seem to ne having problems with the new management doing more and more things in secret and then springing them on us. The result is land owners are leaving SL for other grids. This meeting is about building an influential group to improve communication with the Lab. You may want to follow it to how it does or does not work to pattern a group after it or avoid its mistakes.

Facilitator

Ginette Pinazzo instigated the meeting and facilitated it.

Ginette runs a city called Future Femdom, in the Zindran region of Popke. Also she is one of the continuing officers in the Zindra Expo group. She is generally active in developing Adult Content within Second Life.

Purpose

The underlying purpose of the meeting is gathering those of like mind interested in promoting various adult activities and businesses in Second Life and the Zindra Adult Continent. That coincides with the purpose of the Zindra Expo Group.

Adult Content in this context is about what interests adults. That includes but is not limited to sex.

Gathering Land Owners and interested residents is an effort to gather a group that can work with Linden Lab and discuss the SL user interests with the Lab. A primary focus is gathering the Land Owners as it is felt their voices will carry more weight with the Lab.

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An Open Invitation has gone out to Adult Estate Owners for a 1 PM PT/SLT Saturday meeting, 2011/10/22. The meeting will be facilitated by the Zindra Expo Group.

The Zindr Expo Group asks that you please spread the word!

The meeting is for all Adult Estate owners in SL. Also all residents that are age verified as adult are welcome.

The primary purpose of the meeting is to connect with estate and other land owners with an interest in Adult Content. Zindra residents, and residents with an interst in Adult Content, have a voice. But estate and land owners special interests are often overlooked in the general residents’ group. This is your opportunity as a land owner to connect with other land owners and form a group

For more information please IM or NC Ginette Pinazzo.

The meeting will be in-world in Distrel. This is a region requires Second Life Adult Age Verification.

Please get the word around. Thanks.

We now have an Adult Content section in the Second Life Forum. It looks like it came into being today, or at least today it became public.

There are Community Guidelines posted. These are pretty much what you would expect, no harassment, spamming, advertising, not personal information. But surprisingly nor is sexually explicit content… Nor are nudity or adult content per the SL Guidelines allowed… well… then what is it they are going to talk about that is different from other sections of the forum?

The forum section does not require age verification. I can read the forum without logging in.

Secret Forum

I hear that the previous Adult Content forum made by Blondin Linden was a private by invitation only section. If that is accurate, then this section of the forum has just been made public. Personally I thought the private thing was an SL Group, but what do I know? I’m not even 4 years old yet.

Who’s in Charge?

I’m not sure anyone outside the Lab knows. I think the moderators are in control of the forum. At some level above the moderators there is management. In some fashion direction from various management levels reaches the moderators. Somewhere in that management tree is Viale Linden. How much control he really has over the moderators is unknown.

The Zindra area of Second life is the adult continent. Adult does not mean its XXX, but it may. So, along comes the Naughty Snowman. This is an annual winter event. In past years it has been for Zindra residents only. That MAY change this year. The residents of Zindra are planning the event now.

Snowman by gaelenh via Flickr

The event features snowmen made by residents. Votes are taken for the best snowman. Whether there will be a prize or one just gets bragging rights is yet to be determined. Want to sponsor a prize?

I like to write positive and informative articles. Adult Content should be fun. I also think Adult Content is a popular …item?… in Second Life. After all sex sells and meeting people is a major recreational activity. Just look at the online dating sites. I’ve long thought SL could be a new level in the Facebook and eHarmony type dating game. But, I have yet to see the Lab get a handle on Adult Content and take the sexual aspects of SL in a positive direction. They have yet to figure out how to move from escorts and hookers to matchmaking, casual hookups, and romance. So, I am rather negative when it comes to the Lab’s management of Adult Content.

It seems no agenda items found their way to Viale Linden, the Adult Content User Group (ACUG) facilitator, this week. You may or may not know agenda items are now handled by Viale via email now. The email address is on the Ault Content User Group’s agenda page…

Meeting Schedule Changes

The meeting time shifted from 11 AM to 10 AM SLT/PDT. Also this was the last weekly meeting. Meetings will now be bi-weekly. The next meeting is 10/24.