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This is not only about what Patch Linden has allegedly done. This is about the existence of sexual ageplay in Second Life itself which has been spoken about outside the SL bubble for the first time.
SL users are now ramping up their fight against sexual ageplay, also because Linden Lab obviously doesn't do jack against it.
OpenSim users feel like they have to do the same, also because there's no Linden Lab ruling over and overseeing all of OpenSim which is entirely governed by its own community. It's up to them and only them to combat sexual ageplay because they can't ask anyone else to do that for them.
This, in turn, will lead to a whole lot more collateral damage of which many more will claim it isn't collateral in the first place.
Child avatars will be more and more suspicious and banned from more and more places.
The Adult rating will be re-defined as "G-rated, but no child avatars allowed" more and more to the point that especially newbies will think this definition is official and end up deeply disturbed when they come across naked avatars on Adult sims.
Also, the criteria of what makes an avatar "underage-looking", which are ridiculous already now in the long-standing anti-ageplay paranoia, will be raised. I mean, sim owners already kick and ban avatars not only for being under 1.70m, but for having freckles or too small boobs or for wearing the wrong hairstyle, too brightly coloured clothes or too much pink without being a Jessica Biatchi look-alike. Many more sim owners will do this, they'll raise the minimum avatar height regardless of looks otherwise, and they'll add more criteria on top. I expect 6" heels and an even larger minimum breast size to become mandatory for female avatars in the near future as well as a deep suntan for both sexes.
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SL users are now ramping up their fight against sexual ageplay, also because Linden Lab obviously doesn't do jack against it.
OpenSim users feel like they have to do the same, also because there's no Linden Lab ruling over and overseeing all of OpenSim which is entirely governed by its own community. It's up to them and only them to combat sexual ageplay because they can't ask anyone else to do that for them.
This, in turn, will lead to a whole lot more collateral damage of which many more will claim it isn't collateral in the first place.
Child avatars will be more and more suspicious and banned from more and more places.
The Adult rating will be re-defined as "G-rated, but no child avatars allowed" more and more to the point that especially newbies will think this definition is official and end up deeply disturbed when they come across naked avatars on Adult sims.
Also, the criteria of what makes an avatar "underage-looking", which are ridiculous already now in the long-standing anti-ageplay paranoia, will be raised. I mean, sim owners already kick and ban avatars not only for being under 1.70m, but for having freckles or too small boobs or for wearing the wrong hairstyle, too brightly coloured clothes or too much pink without being a Jessica Biatchi look-alike. Many more sim owners will do this, they'll raise the minimum avatar height regardless of looks otherwise, and they'll add more criteria on top. I expect 6" heels and an even larger minimum breast size to become mandatory for female avatars in the near future as well as a deep suntan for both sexes.
From the Reddit discussion: "Since this article came out, I have seen and experienced the typical knee jerk and witch hunt type reactions from many areas of the overall SL community where people using avatars of the type who the allegations are against".
Knee-jerk reactions against the idea that there can be such a thing as a non-sexual age player have been around in OS since Meta7 migrants were kicked out of OGS back around 2012. I call it the "child AV panic." At present, there are people engaged in witch-hunting, inept as it is. The article provides information about, and a model for, rooting out age play with actual and convincing evidence.
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Knee-jerk reactions against the idea that there can be such a thing as a non-sexual age player have been around in OS since Meta7 migrants were kicked out of OGS back around 2012. I call it the "child AV panic." At present, there are people engaged in witch-hunting, inept as it is. The article provides information about, and a model for, rooting out age play with actual and convincing evidence.
The (very small) migration of Second Life users to Open Sim and or other platforms is due, in part, because the users have been banned due to alleged age-play, in some instances, unfairly. And even if that alone didn't make this article relevant to people in OS, it provides information useful to people trying to prevent age-play.
First, an all ages place can use a HUD that scans the HUDs other people are using and ban anyone using an impregnation HUD or the like. Second the article provides a model for what the age-play police can do to document the problem on these grids.
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First, an all ages place can use a HUD that scans the HUDs other people are using and ban anyone using an impregnation HUD or the like. Second the article provides a model for what the age-play police can do to document the problem on these grids.