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A modest little something to pay tribute to our dear Luna.

Free to copy at Cherry Freebies landing point and PoP space

🌟 Big news in Sciattisi!
A new Sim opens today… all about shopping!
Welcome to MiaBreilSciattiShopClothes – the place where your style comes to life in an instant, and every detail speaks volumes about you.

But be careful… this isn't just a simple opening.
It's the beginning of something very special.
✨ An explosion of new, exclusive outfits, carefully selected and crafted by the legendary Mia Breil – yes, her!

I know… many of you have been waiting for them for a long time.
And now they're finally here.

🛍️ There's only one thing left to do: hurry up and try them on!
Your new look is already catching your eye...
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/MiaBreilSciattiShopClothes/95/...

Yinni Benelli: Reborn and legacy superstore? Amazing!! Thanks ❤❤ 12 months ago
***NEW RELEASE*** OPENSIM ONLINE WEATHER SYTEM V1 (*)

🌦 Opensim Online Weather System V1 🌦
Bring your OpenSim region to life with real-time, dynamic weather!

✨ Features
🌍 Live weather updates for any city worldwide
🌡 Temperature shown in both °C and °F
⛅ Realistic conditions: rain, snow, blizzard, drizzle, thunderstorm, lightning!
🎨 Automatic weather textures and matching sounds
🕒 Customizable update interval
💡 Low-lag and optimized for OpenSim
🛠 Easy setup via a dialog menu, no need to fuss with scripts!

PLEASE READ NOTECARD "READ ME" BEFORE USING IT.
AVAILABLE AT WEATHER SECTOR - FREE AND FULLPERM!

(*) Replacing the old Scandinavain Rain/snow Rezzer HUD

Hope you all enjoy :)

Betty Klein: I missed the Sculpts set too 12 months ago

New Outfits by Mia Breil, In collaboration with Sciattisi. Come and try them, there is something for everyone.

hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopClothes/19/110/29


Khiron Ametza: Gorgeous sets! A pity that they are to the Legacy body only 🥺 1 years ago

May the Easter Bunny bring you all baskets of love and eggs full of positive surprises. Happy Easter!

Wish you all your Nasti


AleksanderDesousa: Frohe Ostern euch allen 2 years ago
Upgraded the horse rezzer script from the popular NPC horse rezzer to an "All-in-One" Animesh Horse Rezzer, with a load of features in the animesh horse.
Tip: to avoid the horse from dying, remove the "animesh horse rez" script, and have it roam around an area of your region or parcel, follow other horses, and other options.

One of the major benefits of the animesh horse is that it can cross regions (if allowed by the sim owner).
When you own the animesh horse, you can wear it an teleport around.

ThundergodThor: Positively awesome, I love it! The horses are so realistic looking. Awesome job Roland! 4 years ago
Phew musky.....:
after a half eternity of brain bashing, my new zero-lag projekt is finally taking off.
You can grab a copy of the brandnew ZZuperZZwan, in my shop @ ZweetZurroundingZ

I can watch it swimming about endlessly without being bored.
mine is confined to a fairly small pond, but its lively behaviour works for me.
grab a copy, slamm it into your own water, do the menu fiddling and......
enjoy!

Kimm Starr: Love all of your creations!! 4 months ago
In short, I don't think Politics belongs on the OSW page. There is Facebook, Instagram, tictoc and other social media platforms to express our views. Most of us come here to Opensim to escape the BS, and we use the OSW page to see what is new in Opensim, not to have to deal with more ideologies and agendas. Please keep the politics out of the OSW page.

TheFerret: Absolutely! I hate polititards. Well said. This is our escape world, away from the bullshit. 4 months ago
Just updating teleport system at sim FLORA.
Btw, this is the tp system I`ve released at URBAN MUSEUM - it uses only 1 tp script and on that board from this pic it has 8 destinations! (but can be used for many more!!)

Fiona Sweet: love your work. always a joy to visit Flora and find new things 7 months ago

MERRY CHRISTMAS


Xaria Aubrey: Happy Xmas Adriana. If yer stocking ain't full, let me know, and I will stuff yer stocking ;P 8 months ago

Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Luna Lunaria from all of us at Arkham Grid.

Hey lovely people! Just wanted to give a heads up that is getting veeery busy at work at the moment, in case you see me a bit less active around! Layoff season so...having to do double!
Also last sets I am bringing are much more complex on hudding, blending, masking, which take more time...
Huuugs!

Govani13: lass dir die nötige zeite .das ergebnis wird usn wohl all e für das warten netlohen .. deien arbeite ist einfach super und einer der wenigen shops , welcher auch nooch was neues bring .. 1 years ago

even today there are 6 more new heads
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopClothes/53/170/23


EllenOptinett: Thank you, very nice things you have 2 years ago
LETS SPREAD POSITIVITY NOT HATE!

Lately I have noticed a lot of drama, hate and bashing towards other people. I try to ignore most of it but lately it has become to much. Why do people feel the need to use hateful words or put someone down.

No matter what religion we are, gender, political views or whatever it is, cant we just agree to disagree.

I have seen a lot of people in my time in Opensim do amazing things, anyone that can DJ, build, script and anything else, is awesome to me. For the ones that constantly tell everyone they are awesome its because they are. They do a lot of things i do not know how to do or cant.

So in conclusion, I would like to say thank you to all creators, builders, scripters, and etc, because without all of you, my regions wouldn't look as good as they do. I may take things and place them and put them together but the credits go to the creators, builders and scripters.

Instead of name calling and tearing people down, lets be a little kinder, lets ignore the negative and worry more about spreading positivity.

Comment's welcome but please be kind :)

Mistressdalgato: Any negative and or bashing comments will be deleted 2 years ago
Mein geliebtes Weib, meine Siwas
Ich will versuchen dir nur zu versprechen was ich auch halten kann.
Ich kann dir die Welt nicht zu Füssen legen, sie gehört mir nicht.
Ich werde dir keine Sterne mehr vom Himmel holen denn das habe ich schon und du hast deinen Stern.
Ich habe damals gesagt dieser Stern soll dich beschützen und über unsere Liebe wachen. Das hat er getan und uns nach unserer Trennung wieder zusammengeführt.
Vielleicht merkt man erst bei einer Trennung was man wirklich verloren hat.
Wir sind wieder zusammen und nun will ich dich endgültig als meine Frau und werde alles tun dass wir zusammen glücklich sind und unsere Liebe für immer bleibt.
Siwas, du warst immer, du bist und du bleibst für immer mein Baby,

Hange: félicitations plein de bonheur 3 years ago
Celestial Vine Arm Cuff
Inspired by moonlit gardens and flowing vines, this upper arm cuff is designed to add a touch of elegance to fantasy, historical, and everyday avatars alike. The intricate scrollwork and natural iridescence make it equally at home with an evening gown, an elven ensemble, or an Egyptian-inspired look.

three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

John Sheppard: Mari... I did notice something about your 250th necklace... Lovely picture/ad but the necklace is cloudy blue. 1 month ago
💬 Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of messages filled with anger, judgment, and sometimes even hate. And honestly, I find that quite sad.
🤔 Before writing these kinds of messages, maybe we should all take a moment to reflect. Try to understand the why behind things instead of reacting immediately. Behind every person, every project, every decision, there is a story, a context, and reasons we might not fully know.
🌎 We already live in a world where conflicts and wars exist because people no longer take the time to listen to each other. Everyone talks, but very few truly try to understand.
✨ So maybe, at our own small scale, we could try to do better.
🗣️ Instead of posting messages filled with hate or jealousy, why not simply talk to the people involved? Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Try to understand.
🤝 Dialogue has always been more constructive than attacks.
❤️ None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But if we took a little more time to speak to each other with respect, many tensions could simply disappear.
✨ A little more discussion.
🔥 A little less hate.

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💬 Ces derniers temps, je vois beaucoup de messages remplis de colère, de jugements et parfois même de haine. Et honnêtement, je trouve ça triste.
🤔 Avant d’écrire ce genre de messages, peut-être devrions-nous tous prendre un instant pour réfléchir. Essayer de comprendre le pourquoi du comment, plutôt que de réagir à chaud. Derrière chaque personne, chaque projet, chaque décision, il y a une histoire, un contexte et des raisons que l’on ne connaît pas forcément.
🌍 Nous vivons déjà dans un monde où les conflits et les guerres existent parce que les gens ne prennent plus le temps de s’écouter. Parce que chacun parle, mais trop peu cherchent réellement à comprendre l’autre.
✨ Alors peut-être que, chacun à notre petite échelle, nous pourrions essayer de faire mieux.
🗣️ Au lieu de publier des messages de haine ou de jalousie, pourquoi ne pas simplement discuter avec les personnes concernées ? Poser des questions. Écouter les réponses. Chercher à comprendre.
🤝 Le dialogue a toujours été plus constructif que l’attaque.
❤️ Personne n’est parfait, et nous faisons tous des erreurs. Mais si nous prenions un peu plus de temps pour nous parler avec respect, beaucoup de tensions pourraient simplement disparaître.
✨ Un peu plus de discussion.
🔥 Un peu moins de haine.

SheaButter: I totally agree Vlad. People need to be nicer to one another. But on the other hand. If one posts something on here. They should expect the odd disagreement, on the topic at hand. The importance of a ... 6 months ago
⚡ ARKHAM GRID — 6TH ANNIVERSARY ⚡
🟦 Six Years of Evolution. Innovation. Virtual Life. 🟦
Since 2018, Arkham Grid has been more than just a virtual world.
It has been a place of creativity, experimentation, and continuous growth.
Over these 6 years, the Grid has evolved through
✨ technological innovation
✨ improved game mechanics
✨ higher-quality regions
✨ immersive environments
✨ and a strong, passionate community
This journey would not have been possible without you.
💠 Thank you to all creators, builders, developers, explorers, and residents
who believed in Arkham Grid, contributed their ideas, and helped shape this cyber world.
🚀 The future is still being written.
New regions. New experiences. New horizons.
Welcome to the next level.
Welcome to Arkham Grid.
🖤 Thank you for 6 amazing years — and many more to come. 🖤

CeeMaid: Congratulations and best wishes for many more years to come! 7 months ago
Opening Day Party - Today - Saturday November 8th 2025 @Noon GridTime at the Kitely Expo Center!

grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely Expo Center/116/95/23

https://www.syntheticdreams.info/

Synthetic Dreams is a digital art gallery dedicated to pushing
the boundaries of artistic expression. Our platform offers a
glimpse into the innovative world of virtual reality, where
traditional concepts merge with technology. By merging
AI’s creative force with the immersive space of virtual reality,
our pavilion transforms art into a world you can enter and
experience. Virtual reality convinces our brain we’re sharing the same space, making us feel truly present in the experience.

Misty_Falls_VWZ: All I have to say is WOW! .... a must see for sure. I dont know how they created the giant animesh, but wow again. Thanks for this gem added to OS. 10 months ago

NEW !!!!!
Toscana Suit
4 Colors
Happy Shopping :))


Amelie: Thank you, adore it 1 years ago

New area :POP
Inspired by the figurine made in homage to Mal, I am making new pop doll toys.
Frida Khalo Doll available


Thirza Ember: so cute! 1 years ago

✨New Avatar complet CELIA✨
hop://agartha.ovh:8002/Agartha/218/57/1514


Tellawow: Whats body tis dress for? 1 years ago
Our latest addition to the Sub-Version mall: The Garden Centre.

Large collection of unique items for your garden - many with a fantasy feel to them.

As always many many items at other stores at Sub-Version Mall.

SteveMaryweather: Check out all the NEW things in their mall! I went back a second time and found tons of new stuff in their mall. I'm glad I did. This place rocks. Keep up the great work! 1 years ago

New women's face skins have also been released today


LisaLandar: thank you for making it possible for us to look beautiful ♥ 2 years ago

Not dead...working on the new store for all of you!


Jared Seda: Super Excited!!!! 2 years ago
For all of you interested in animesh: I made a new animated free roaming dragon thats now available for testing peer review. Pick up a copy in my shoppie, read the notecard and knock yourself out!
Lemme know if the notecard was clear enough...its a bit tricky with this roaming script....
Have fun!

Caribia: oh that looks cool :D 2 years ago
Tired of people coming to ur SIM/region/parcel just for copying stuffs? After u had a loot of work on doing it and all u see is.... avatars with arm stretched copying from A to Z? So the "COPY MY ASS" 3D sign is perfect for u.. Available for FREE and FULL PERM! Enjoy :)

Sabrinastav: Excuse me, I'm not understanding, you complain because people take things from your sim ?... or do you complain because people copy your sim's stuff? 4 years ago

...Mood...


Jerralyn Franzic: Another sim I must visit soon... :) 5 years ago
I'm currently developing a new OpenSim "Front End" - as I've not had much success with others. When its "done" it will be freely available for others to use if they like.

It will feature:
* account creation (automatic or admin approved)
* avatar selection on account creation
* change your grid password
* profile page showing profile pic and about - and also picks (both currently working)
* offline messages (currently working)
* friends list - also showing online status (with a caveat that presense is bad in opensim)
* partnering (send a partner request to another grid member who can accept in the web interfface, and also disilve.
* admin interface where admins can approve new members or suspend existing users
* restart regions if you are estate owner, manager, or grid admin with a high user level
* shutdown or start regions as above permissions
* take oars of regions as above permissions
* restore oars of regions as above permissions

And any other items I add. Currently the system allows you to log in with your grid account and see your profile and offlines. Other things will be added over the next days.

The system is php based - and will have a few php module requirements. Direct database access is used for GETTING some data (currently it only supports MariaDB - and "probably" MySQL) - but no writes will ever be made directly to the database - any WRITES will be by api calls through Robust / Simulator calls.

Tonia: Very interesting but for me on my Standalone Mini Grid now with "Postgres Database" I will have to stick to "create user" in my terminal! 3 months ago
Merry christmas to you and your loved ones!
We wishing you all peace, joy, and all the best this wonderful holiday has to offer.
May your christmas be filled with love, laughter, and goodwill.
We sending you warm greetings for a season full of blessings.
Crazy and Carmen C&C

Frohe Weihnachten für euch und eure Lieben!
Wir wünschen euch allen Frieden, Freude und alles Gute,
was dieses wundervolle Fest zu bieten hat.
Möge euer Weihnachtsfest voller Liebe, Lachen und Wohlwollen sein.
Herzliche Grüße für eine gesegnete Weihnachtszeit.
Crazy und Carmen C&C

Aphra Hendrix: Lieber Crazy, Dir auch schöne Festtage und nur das Beste für 2026! 8 months ago

AnKaBi wünscht allen ein frohes Weihnachtsfest ♥♥♥


SheaButter: Merry Christmas to you and all your family. :) 8 months ago

„Wenn uns bewusst wird, dass die Zeit, die wir uns für einen anderen Menschen nehmen, das Kostbarste ist, was wir schenken können, haben wir den Sinn der Weihnacht verstanden.“


Alina Custom Vehicles: Es ist mir immer eine Freude, Ihre Region zu besuchen. Frohe Weihnachten! 8 months ago

Release Now
Lots of women's hair with different hairstyles and 46 different colors
Come and get them!
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopClothes/167/39/23


victorialogan: I loved the store, excellent place to visit 2 years ago
Hello, I try to participate by mixing the useful with the pleasant, I wanted to make a gallery of people on Opensim, and I opted for a gallery on Flickr, more easily consultable. For this I need the help of all those who want to participate, without your help, the project will fail because it is about the people of Opensim. I take the photos, I try to capture something special in each of you, if you like it, and to bring out the image of a community in black and white, you have to come into the world to see the colors. Here is the beginning of the gallery. Thank you for your attention, friendly. Send me a message here or in world to help me and dont be shy :)
https://flic.kr/ps/44oMtB

Luna Lunaria: @Hella Was happy to participate and it was very nice meeting you :-) 2 years ago
*** NEW RELEASE JULY 23th 2024*** ANCIENT MOSSY OAK TREE - Seasonal textures with smooth animations on leaves. Available for FREE and FULLPERM at GARDEN AREA, BOX 05.
Textures and scripts available! Models available for each season and added a scripted version! yes, just one click and u change the tree for SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER and WINTER icy..
All models are 1 prim only and the seasonal script works for 1 or more trees (when connected and if within same region).
Enjoy :)

IndigoQueen King: Awesome as usual Jimmy!!! Thank you 2 years ago

CLOE: bravissimo 3 years ago
*** WILD COSMOS FLOWER PACK NEW RELEASE *** 09 Kind of FLOWERS available to decorate your place! Seasonal textures included and leaves has a smooth animation to make it more realistic! Available for FREE and FULL PERM at GARDEN AREA, BOX 02. Enjoy :)

Jimmy Olsen: ****For your information ***FLORA, GREEDY MUSEUM, LIGHT and SOUND MUSEUM will be remain offline for one day or two: It`s about grid server issues. Will post again as soon they all get online. thx 3 years ago

CopyKat Grid Back On-Line
We had a problem with the server restarting as it should. That's been taken care of. Adachi is now back. The other regions are getting back on-line one by one.


Ellen: What happened? 3 years ago
Bonjour,
Vous ne verrez plus çà, vous ne verrez plus jamais cela.
Le marché de Noël est mort, et ce n'est pas moi qui l'ai cassé !
Merci à tous ceux et toutes celles qui furent présents pendant ces 10 années, merci de votre soutient.
Maintenant c'est fini merci et au revoir.
N.B.: ce marché est l'oeuvre de Freddy Wright sur Francogrid vers 2010, et de personne d'autre.

Hello
This year you won't see that, you won't see that anymore.
The christmas market is dead.
I don't break it.
Thank you to all those who where there during ten years.
Thank you for your support.
Sorry Isn't my fault
Kisses

Tristan Dehaie: @Dabici132, @Marianna, @MelodyStar, @ScarlettEarp, @monika, @thedeeferry, @Roleplayed, @Lampithaler, @Kelso.Uxlay, @elorift, @MoonroseGrid, @JeromFranzic, @soabad Il serait bon de cesser de raconter ... 4 years ago

CyberGlo CyberStar: Goodbye dear friend! May your soul fly across the universe as it easily flew in the grids. In the play of bright & dark, may you always be a light. 5 years ago
Announcement regarding the passing of DJ Azraella.

To the community, friends, and fellow artists,

It is with profound sadness that I am writing to inform you that DJ Azraella passed away peacefully surrounded by family just weeks after her final event and her public post regarding the lack of process on Neverworld grid. I am her surviving spouse. Alithea (her real name) spent her final months bringing her passion, music, and talent to this platform as a DJ and music producer. Music was a large parts of her life, and she deeply valued the genuine connections she made with her listeners, fans, and fellow performers.
Regarding the recent events: Alithea spoke the absolute truth about the abuse she experienced and the systemic failure that followed. We are deeply grateful to the community members, onlookers, and witnesses who saw through the edited timelines, called out the manipulation, and stood up to defend her integrity when she was at her most vulnerable. Your solidarity meant the world to her, and it means the world to me. The institutional response here was entirely compromised, but the court of public opinion has already spoken. No amount of righteous indignation, fabricated evidence, or protective bias from Neverworld grid management can rewrite history or erase the reality of how she was treated in her final weeks. This will be my only communication on this matter. I am completely disconnecting from this Platform to focus on my grief and to honour my wife’s memory in the real world, where her true legacy, her music, and her staunch integrity remain entirely unblemished. Thank you to everyone who brought her joy, danced to her music, and stood by her side. Sincerely, Road Kill.

Reposted on behalf of DJ Azraella.
Why Never Neverworld.

There is something particularly bleak about a community calling itself “The Friendly Grid” while apparently treating abusive behaviour as a problem best solved by telling the person on the receiving end: “You have a mute button.” Welcome to Neverworld Grid, where, judging by my experience, “friendly” may be less a standard of conduct than a decorative slogan attached to the front door.

I was a DJ in a virtual worlds for years lately as a visiting performer at Neverworld. By the point this incident occurred, however, my personal circumstances had changed. I am dying. That is not written for melodrama or sympathy. It matters because it explains what it cost me physically to be there at all. Despite being seriously ill and largely confined to bed, I got out of bed and DJed one final event to say thank you to my audience for supporting me and to draw people in one last time, which also helped to promote Neverworld Grid.

The reward was memorable, although perhaps not in quite the way their promotional department might prefer. During the event, I was verbally attacked and abused by a member of Neverworld Grid.

Behind every avatar is a human being. The fact that an interaction takes place in a virtual world does not make the behaviour, or its effect on another person, imaginary. The following day, despite the physical toll, I got out of bed again and raised a formal complaint with the owner of Neverworld Grid. I expected, at minimum, the complaint to be taken seriously. What I encountered instead was dismissal. No action was taken against the resident. My complaint was pretty much ignored and seen as nothing other than an interpersonal issue despite the fact I was a victim of one of their residents.

And then came this: “You have a mute button.”

And there, in five small words, lies the much larger problem. Of course I have a mute button. A mute button is a useful tool for an individual. It is not a substitute for moderation. Those are two entirely different things. A mute button allows the recipient to stop hearing somebody's behaviour. Moderation determines whether that behaviour is acceptable within the community in the first place. Confusing the two produces a wonderfully convenient system for administrators: the offender remains, the complainant makes them disappear from view, and management is spared the disagreeable business of actually managing anything. Problem solved. Well, invisible, which is apparently close enough. Imagine applying this philosophy anywhere else. Someone behaves disgracefully in a cinema and the management responds: 'you can use ear-plugs.' One can only admire the efficiency. No difficult confrontation. No standards requiring enforcement. No possibility of upsetting a patron who may have a life-time ticket. Just mute and carry on.

Neverworld Grid presents itself with the tagline: “The friendly grid.” That is precisely why this incident matters. If you advertise friendliness as part of your identity, then friendliness ceases to be merely a pleasant aspiration. It becomes a claim about the community you operate. And claims should survive contact with reality. A genuinely friendly community is not one in which nobody ever behaves badly. Such a place does not exist outside advertising copy and unusually optimistic children's television. A friendly community is one in which antisocial behaviour is taken seriously when it occurs. It is demonstrated by what administrators do when unfriendliness becomes inconvenient. That is the test. Not the logo. Not the website. Not the slogan. Not smiling avatars standing beneath carefully selected promotional photographs. The test comes when somebody crosses the line and management has to decide whether its proclaimed standards actually mean anything.

In my case, I believe Neverworld Grid failed that test spectacularly. I cannot state why the owner chose not to take action. Only the owner can answer that. But users are entitled to ask uncomfortable questions when enforcement appears absent.

What behaviour actually results in consequences?
Does a resident's financial contribution affect how complaints concerning them are handled?
Are paying residents subject to precisely the same behavioural standards as visitors are?
What happens after a formal complaint?
And perhaps most importantly: What behaviour would actually be serious enough for Neverworld Grid management to intervene rather than telling the recipient, “You have a mute button”? These are questions created by the apparent absence of action. If Neverworld Grid wants people to believe that payment of tier guarantees renters a friendly safe place, there is a very simple way of showing it: Have standards and apply them.

There is another unpleasant implication to the “you have a mute button” response. It transfers responsibility. The person accused of behaving abusively does not apparently need to change their behaviour. Instead, the person experiencing it must change theirs. You must mute. You must avoid. You must adapt. Management remains comfortably above the unpleasantness while the individual affected quietly rearranges their virtual existence around somebody else's deplorable conduct. That isn't moderation. It is outsourcing moderation to the victim. And it creates an obvious incentive for the worst personalities in any community: behave however you please as long as you keep paying. Eventually you can achieve the remarkable distinction of being peacefully surrounded by people who either tolerate you or cannot see or hear you. Community harmony, achieved through selective deafness as decreed by management.

There is another aspect of this which a mute button cannot undo: the physical effect of the encounter has already happened. Verbal abuse is not experienced solely as words arriving through speakers or appearing on a screen. Human beings respond physically to confrontation and distress. The body does not first consult the graphics card to determine whether an attack is sufficiently real to react to it. For a healthy person, that reaction can be deeply unpleasant. For somebody who is dying, already seriously ill and functioning with greatly diminished reserves, the consequences of that stress can carry considerably greater weight and could even be the last stress that body can take. And once that distress has occurred, telling the person “you have a mute button” is not a remedy.

The button cannot take you backwards in time. It cannot prevent the encounter that already happened. It cannot erase the stress already inflicted. And it certainly cannot answer the question of why the behaviour that caused the complaint apparently attracted no consequence. There is a peculiar cruelty in dismissing that distinction which no amount of virtual-world branding can disguise.

I did not expect sainthood. I did not expect somebody to erect a statue of my avatar outside the welcome centre. I expected basic human decency and a complaint to be treated seriously.

Apparently that must be the 'Super Ultimate Friend of the Owner' premium feature. Neverworld Grid calls itself friendly. People considering investing their time, creativity, communities and money there should understand what “friendly” meant when my complaint was placed in front of its owner. Because communities reveal themselves not through their slogans but through the behaviour they are prepared to tolerate. Anybody can write: “We are the friendly grid.” The interesting question is what happens when somebody isn't friendly. In my experience, the answer was depressingly simple: Nothing. The complaint was effectively binned. Apparently making bad actors into clouds is your only option meanwhile Management avoided doing anything meaningful other than preserve a monthly tier payment. And the slogan will survive. Perhaps that is the most impressive achievement of all. In virtual worlds, apparently even irony can be rendered in 3D.

Neverworld Grid also seems very keen on telling people that it isn't Second Life.

Second Life gets plenty of criticism, some of it deserved. One complaint you hear is that region owners can make their own rules and, if you don't follow them, eject or ban you. That can certainly be irritating. People can make ridiculous rules. People can throw you out for reasons you think are unfair. Give somebody control over a virtual patch of land and occasionally they begin behaving as though Buckingham Palace has asked for the keys back. But there is another side to it. If you enter somebody's region, you know they have rules and that breaking them can have consequences. If you behave badly enough, somebody can actually do something about it. After my experience with Neverworld Grid, I find myself wondering why removing that is supposed to be an improvement. If the alternative to somebody saying “These are the rules here” is somebody behaving abusively and the person being abused getting told “You have a mute button,” which system is actually friendlier?

There has to be some middle ground between petty little dictators throwing people off regions because they don't like the colour of their shoes and a free-for-all where nobody wants to intervene.
Rules can be abused. So can the absence of rules. The difference is that when there are sensible community standards, ordinary people know where they stand. Don't abuse people. Don't deliberately disrupt things. Don't make somebody else's experience miserable. Hardly tyranny. And if somebody does cross those lines, there should be consequences. Neverworld seems to dislike the way people in Second Life exercise control over their own regions. Fine. But what is being offered instead? If the answer is greater freedom, then whose freedom are we talking about? The freedom of somebody to enjoy an event without being abused? Or the freedom of somebody to behave however they like without anybody in authority becoming involved? Because those freedoms collide eventually. Mine did. And apparently I had a mute button.

Then there is the question of tier. People pay to be on grids like this. That makes it reasonable to ask whether somebody who keeps paying can expect considerably more tolerance than somebody who just visits but still contributes to the success of the grid. I cannot prove that this is what happened in my case. But the response I received certainly gives me reason to ask. If somebody pays tier and behaves disgracefully, what happens? Are they warned? Are there consequences? Or does everybody they upset simply get reminded where the mute button is? Because if the practical message becomes: Pay your tier and management will look the other way, then who exactly does that attract? Most decent people don't need immunity from basic standards of behaviour. Creators don't need it. DJs don't need it. People running events don't need it. People who simply want somewhere pleasant to spend a few hours don't need it. The people who benefit most from a place where bad behaviour carries few consequences are, rather obviously, the people most likely to behave badly. That seems an extraordinary foundation for something calling itself “The Friendly Grid.”

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be different from Second Life. But different does not automatically mean better. If Second Life says, in effect, “behave yourself here or somebody may throw you out,” while Neverworld's answer to abuse is “you have a mute button,” I know which approach now looks more like a community and which looks more like an incompetent Management avoidance strategy. Being different is easy. Being better requires rather more than a tagline. If Neverworld Grid believes this account misrepresents its standards, it can explain them.

What happens when someone reports serious verbal abuse? What behaviour actually results in action?
Are paying residents treated exactly the same as everyone else? And why was “You have a mute button” considered an adequate response to my complaint?

Those answers would tell people considerably more about Neverworld Grid than any slogan ever could.
Until then, perhaps the tagline deserves a small amendment:

“Neverworld Grid — The Friendly Grid. You have a mute button.”
or
" Welcome to Neverworld the Friendly Grid where you may have to mute your fellow residents"
or perhaps as almost happened in my case:
" Neverworld the Friendly Grid (we let you away with murder just keep paying you'll see)"

The bottom line has to be this:

If you claim friendliness you automatically accept a duty of care to all users. and paying doesn't excuse unfriendliness. Community standards you claim must be enforced swiftly and across all tiers of membership and extend to visitors. I was told my abuser hadn't broken any TOS. I guess there is no actual TOS beyond the owner's mood. Yes you guessed it my abuser is a friend of the owner.

My final advice to anyone looking for a new home...lift the carpets before you decide.

I won't see a resolution to this issue or see Virtual again but that doesn't mean you can't learn from my experience.

Azraella.