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
