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Enough is enough!
Posted 7/28/2010 5:00:24 PM by Rorrim - [Show All My Posts]

Why oh why do some people insist on taking the piss!?

What I have as a home now has taken me time to get to.. I started off by renting a small home, as did my friends too.. we all started out on Mykonos (if I recall that was the name of the island.) we then moved on to bigger and larger homes too.. I've ended up with what is a lovely home. Ok part of the island is a sand box for me to build in but all in all the house is the best part of the island as is the small pond next to it, made by me as a spot for friends to chill out in when we are not around.
So all said and done I've been patient, polite and positively charming when strangers drop by my island home unannounced. I've talked to them when I've been there and some have been real nice too and also I've had some decent conversations with them as well.
They've then departed and carried on Region hopping around SL just looking around. I've also done this plenty of times but I never take the piss out of peoples hospitality like some people do.
If there are homes in the region.. I don't enter unless invited in by the owners.
I take a look around the region but I don't cam around (ie snoop) as I am always looking around stores and regions that have things I'm interested in buying or even looking at builds to see what people are using in Urban regions/sims. I get ideas that way for mine, and then I go to my platform and try some ideas out for builds I may use... or not. But I never intrude on peoples privacy.

Having said that there are the other types of people in SL.

These are the downright rude and ignorant types

I still am polite to these people, even when I explain that my Island home is exactly that.

MY HOME

It isn't a flop house for all and sundry to use as a squat, just because I'm not there.

I have security on it, but due to the region restarts that SL keep doing it needs to be reset for some reason, this at least keeps them out of the house at least (there is a way of getting past locked doors in SL but I don't do that) but despite this I caught a few people, on different occassions using my land/home as if it was their own place. When asked to vacate the land immediately they basically acted like they were afk etc. One person even had the gall to continue playing the piano in my home despite my constant requests for him to stop and leave. I ended up banning him as he returned a short time later, thinking that I wasn't around. He proceeded to wander around my house. He spoke perfectly good English too so there was no chance of him not understanding me at all.

Then there was the case of someone using my island as an airport! He parked his plane there twice.. I removed it the first time and he was "apologetic". Claimed he didn't know about it. pffft!
Then the next day it was back there. not for long either. I saw him go in and then start using it there.. I was on him like a flash.. returned his plane.. sent him an IM and then he claimed it wasnt even his despite the fact that it was in his name. Banned and then muted.. after getting some rude words from him.
Others had decided to use my home for RP... I asked them to leave and if they wanted to do RP then to use the region next door, irrespective of the fact that it is being rebuilt there is the JSP Lobby and a few other spots in the region that they could use. But oh no.
They seem to think that my home is an open house for all of SL to use!
Well it isn't "open to the public" now. Not any more!
As a result of this I have now set my Island home to Group access only. Friends on my Allowed List can still access my Island without any problems. If, however you are on either the Friends list or in the RBH Group and still can't access the Island then please do let me know and I'll sort it out to allow you access, that way you can drop by and see Becky and myself at home anytime.

So to all of you freeloaders and spongers that seem to think that you can live on my island for free then forget it. If you want a home then talk to me and I can sort something out for you in the other region!

So to all of you who want to drop by and see either Becky or myself and you couldn't access the Island well now you know why and I do apologise, but as I've said, why should I let some freeloaders, spongers, and transient fly-by-night prats get to use MY HOME as theirs?

So to all of you transient freeloading types.

No more of this:

Mi casa es su casa

but more like this:

¡mi casa es mi casa, él no es su casa!

If you can't understand this then use Babel Fish to translate it (like I did) but I'm sure you know already what it means!

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1. I lived in a home right below a mall and constantly had people dropping in. I had a similar experience to the piano playing man. I've had people curse me out for ejecting them from my property... I've logged on and poseballs have been rez'd... ewwwwww. Now I live on a private sim where you have to have a clan tag to rez stuff and are ejected if you don't have it. It's fabulous!!!

Wow you have a Babel Fish??? I want one for RL!!!

Posted at 4:26:17 AM on 7/29/2010 by Chelsie

2. I know what you mean about the poseballs. That never happened this time, but it has happened before when we were renting elsewhere and we saw people using a friends place, we told the landlord who was a friend and these people claimed that they were allowed to use the house as they were friends. It turned out they weren't and they got banned.
So glad I never lived below a mall before.. normally housing is above it (in RL). Like I said I was lucky that only one person used expletives.. He got muted! As for a BabelFish.. I so wish I had one to poke into my ear so I take it you've read the books by Douglas Adams then.

For those of you who don't know what a Babel Fish is...

From the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

"Babel fish
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. It takes the brainwaves of the other body and what they are thinking then transmits the thoughts to the speech centers of the hosts brain, the speech heard by the ear decodes the brainwave matrix. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst traveling in space.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.[1] Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only 'Eurgh!' when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry - not necessarily a good thing.

The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore proves the existence of God as its creator. However, certain people say this proves the nonexistence of god as proof denies faith, and without faith, god is nothing. "'my, that was easy', says man, and goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing."

So with that I'll leave you with this...

42!

Posted at 11:47:50 PM on 7/30/2010 by Rorrim

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