The Archivist: 2011

Friday, December 16, 2011

Glitching (December 16, 2011)

We're glitching. I have opened a support ticket. My apologies for the inconvenience.

ETA: I received a response from the YUKU support team.

"Hi, thanks for the report. We are currently experiencing server caching and/or white pages across the system. The caching would cause your issues. The technicians are looking into this now. We apologize for the inconvenience."

ETA: I received another response from the YUKU support team.

"You're welcome :)

Most of the issues have been resolved at the moment, we have an announcement here:

http://announcements.yuku.com/topic/51
However, due to current server lags, the announcement may disappear temporarily. Just in case, I'll include a copy with my reply:

At approximately 11pm PST last night, our hosting provider performed an update that caused failures across the entire network. The engineering team worked until 4am to stabilize the network and are currently working to restore all services and we are confident that this will happen in the next few hours. Issues that we are aware of include:

Sites not loading (502 errors and white pages)
Members not connecting to chat
Posts not displaying or missing
Who's online not working

If you are recently experiencing any issues that are not on the list, please create a help ticket."

Friday, December 9, 2011

Crimes Against Convention (CAC, a private forum)

CAC is a small adult-content, private, closed, somewhat transparent (members are asked to identify themselves by common forum name and to have only one account on CAC and to use it or lose it) membership-by-approval-only forum. It's not public and I'm the only admin or mod, so it is run completely by me. It's my virtual living room. Topics include Second Life, the Utherverse (RLC), lifestyles and relationships, human behavior in the real and virtual worlds, erotica, sex, silliness, gossip, forum games, viral videos, entertainment, movies, music and more. The usual stuff, but with perhaps, a different tone. There is definitely gossip on the forum, naturally, and disagreement too. We're deluded enough to think we are witty about it though. It's a pretty good environment to say what you want among adults who will respond accordingly (without calling for "mama" or resorting to "WoW-speak," unless ironically). We do ask that members understand that while it is a private forum and we all agree to the mutual understanding that "what happens in CAC, stays in CAC" there is no way to guarantee privacy. We respect each other with a kind of virtual gentleman's handshake agreement. Beyond that, I'm the tyrant of CAC and the final law of Leeland.

http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com

Useful Links for New Members

YUKU: http://www.yuku.com/
CAC: http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com or http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/directory
Welcome & Intro thread: http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/topic/5/Welcome-to-Crimes-Against-Convention
YUKU & CAC Help & How-to: http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/forums/84/YUKU-CAC-Help

Navigating for New Content on CAC

Start at the top:

http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/directory

And click into any forum with a little

icon next to it.

Once in the subforum, you can click the

button directly to go to the first unread post in that thread.

Home Page. Look for "Unread Message" indicator. Click on Subforum title link.

Subforum. Look for "Unread Message" indicator. Click on the "Unread Message" indicator.

Notice that clicking on the "Unread Message" indicator in a Subforum will take you not to the first or last page of the thread, but to the last place in the thread you've read.

http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/topic/276/Navigating-for-New-Content

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

YUKU-CAC Downtime 11/16/2011 8:45pm SLT

It's not just you! http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com looks down from here.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

CAC & YUKU Server & System Check

Quick status announcements: http://help.yuku.com/
Detailed announcements: http://announcements.yuku.com/
Down for everyone or just me: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
YUKU Support Ticket help: http://help.yuku.com/submit

ETA: Comments to my blog will roll to my gmail.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Crimes Against Convention (CAC) Forum

A small, private, closed, invite-only, MBA, adult content forum.

The forum is based on my blogs.

Lee, Here in a Virtual World
Psi Shrinkers
That's What She Said
Total Randomness

Beware of forum whores.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

A CAC Explanation on gV

Let's see if I remember all the questions.

1. What I said about Lain and Bunnie. I said there was a period of time in which Lain looked like she went on a "nothing but cute smilies" post tear a little while back and I thought she was posting like Bunnie.

2. I have a set of blogs. The content is open and public, although rated "mature," but the comments are moderated. The blogs have been linked and discussed here on gV.

3. I have a new, small, private chat forum that mirrors my blogs to some degree and was meant to be a replacement for the private social groups I had on RLetc, most especially the "Psi Shrinkers" group that Orfeu and I have talked fondly about here on gV and to expand the conversation around the blogs with more functionality.

a. The membership is made up almost entirely of people who either participated in the Psi Shinkers social group on RLetc or took an interest in my blogs and commented on them. (The blogs have been up for quite a while...either people were interested or they weren't.) It was meant to be a space for people who were interested in those posts and those topics, and hanging out with me, to comment with more functionality than was available as a blog commenter.

b. It was stated, on day one, as Jolene has pointed out, that the blog would be closed and private, and yes, in large part because I wanted an 18+ adult content forum and that was how the host site said to do that. Before adult content was added, and for the ease of the new members, I left the forum open for five days because YUKU was having system issues and the registrations weren't working properly in a timely manner. The system issues have been resolved and we are now adding adult content.

c. There is one thread for gossip and bullshit and what-have-you. The rest of the threads mirror the blogs, like "Psi Shrinkers" and "That's What She Said," or forum threads from gV, RLetc and the Utherverse that I've OPd, like forum games and "Second Thoughts." Not surprisingly, it being a new forum and all, most of the threads are about forum functionality and forum moderation at this point. There's something like 120 total threads at the moment.

d. There are some people who enjoy posting with me and will join me in conversations, projects, sites and ventures, and, as you have no doubt noticed, there are some people who really can't stand me and don't want me being me on a forum with them. Such is life. I've made comments in the past about "quarantining" myself or "dialing back" my posts for the comfort of others. I finally made my own quarantine. That is not to say I intend to stop posting on open, public forums in general, or gV in particular, just that I opened my own place to let loose and be me. I can post often, I can post about sex or odd experiences in Second Life or philosophies and viewpoints, I can play forum thread games...I can post without driving people away or getting trolled or creating some major issue for people. And the people who are there know that it is my forum and that I will be there and posting often and what I will be posting about and they have made the express informed decision to join me. Win-win.

4. I can do a lot in 24 hours. Like sleep, eat, do laundry, take out the trash, prepare for the week...and build a forum. I'm learning all about CSS and HTML and ACP. It's work!

I think that about covers it.

http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/whos-alts-were-banned.2707/page-12#post-122243

Monday, September 26, 2011

You are probably invited if...

1. You found the topics discussed in my blogs and threads interesting and participated in them.

2. You can and want to have a conversation, possibly disagreeing with other posters, but not flaming the thread or doing the forum equivalents of shouting, stamping your feet or crying "No you!" or "Neener neener" over and over again.

3. You are able and willing and of age to participate in adult-content discussions.

4. You won't respond to each and every adult-content post with the forum equivalent of "Yes dear," "You're all going to hell" or clutching your pearls.

5. You are willing and able to try to post to the post a little more often than posting to the poster and the poster's reputation on other forums.

6. Your version of wit is not adolescent WoW and 4chan l33tspeak gamer language.

7. You are not a griefer or a troll.

8. You can be trusted. You did not join the forum to chase down a member or enact some kind of forum feud grudge revenge plan or get a big scoop.

9. You get the humor of my "Tongue-in-Cheek Rules for Forum Posters" thread.

10. You can laugh and think, post thoughtfully, have some amount of impulse control, aren't freaked out or frozen by controversial topics and don't make conversation and communication near impossible or post things that read like you are crying, stamping your feet, howling into the wind and running home to mommy at the first sign of disagreement.

11. You're an adult.

12. This forum host software (YUKU) won't drive you nuts.

13. And since this is my forum, then you are invited if you want to post with me and actually enjoy posting with me. And Pep...

ETA: CAC members are asked...

1. to be over 18 years of age
2. to identify themselves by commonly-known name (forum handle or virtual world avatar name, for example)
3. to have only one CAC account (no alts)
4. to visit the site openly (no invisible-status lurking)
5. to self-moderate
6. to respect the relative privacy of CAC and its members
7. to roll with the quirks of a free-forum hosting site like YUKU

ETA:

8. to understand that I will prune and close unused accounts.

What happens on CAC, stays on CAC.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Temporary "Open House" on CAC

I just opened a small, free, clunky little private forum. It is not meant to compete with or replace any of the forums like FIH, gV, SC MKII, SLU or anything like that. And it will not be open to the general public. It's just meant to be a group of friends yakking and it is primarily a kind of adjunct to my blogs with the idea being that commenters have a little more in the way of capabilities like posting hyperlinks and Youtube vids. The forum is temporarily open for ease of registration.

CAC: http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/directory

The validation email worked quickly for me, but it was brutally (hours) slow for Orfeu.

Here's some screen shots, btw, that may or may not be helpful.

CAC: http://crimesagainstconvention.yuku.com/directory

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Crimes Against Convention (the forum)

I found a free forum hosting service that allows mature content.

I created a community forum called, naturally, "Crimes Against Convention." It is a mature content "Member By Approval" (MBA) forum for people 18 years of age and older who want to post freely with LeeHere Absent and her forum friends, i.e me and any of you reading this (who else would read this blog?).

My intent was not to create a "porn site" per se, natch, but rather to create an environment where adults can speak freely about a variety of topics, much the way we do here, but with posters having abilities they just don't have as commenters.

The site itself is simple and easy to use. The initial registration process, however, is a bit complicated, particularly because it is a "closed" forum.

Anyone who wanted to join the forum would need to create an account on Yuku first, then plug the Crimes Against Convention (CAC) url in the browser address field, then apply for membership and wait for administrator approval before replugging the url back in the browser address field and completing the member profile and start posting.