Comments on: How to – Get yourself unbanned

By: V

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:58:56 +0000

I might also add, by personal experience, that honest apologies and pleading not to repeat the offense in the future still isn’t guaranteed to unban you, especially not in the case of Second Life. In fact, it might screw you worse.

By: Seshat Czeret

Seshat Czeret — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:20:41 +0000

Marion:
You do realise that Tateru is not an employee of Linden Lab, and has no authority to affect your status in SL?

She’s just telling you how to do it – she has no way of actually unbanning you. You’ll have to make your plea to the Lab, not to her.

She has authority over New Citizens Inc. land, but not over Second Life as a whole.

By: marlon koizumi

marlon koizumi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:18:22 +0000

good day..this is caleb winstanley on second life.i have read the following statement. and some of those violations, i can say that i did in second life. i really apologize for what i have done,i am not aware of those voilations..i know some of those but not all of it..my account has been disabled by linden maybe because of doing unnesessary things.im really sorry about it. now i have read these voilations,i would be aware of doing such things. so im begging to please give me a chance to get back in second life for a second time. thank you.. and i really appologize.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:09:05 +0000

I’m quite well acquainted with the rest of the world. I’ve spent the last several decades working with people who have very little idea about anything once a PC is turned on. Heck, for most folks the Web’s only been mainstream for three years or so.

By: Two Worlds

Two Worlds — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:01:12 +0000

Look, Tateru, I know you’ve got a good head on you–moreso than certain other Second Life “journalists”/synchophants, and I appreciate that. But you’ve gotta realize, while that may make perfect sense in your own avocational circles, out in the real world, with non-Second Life people, that doesn’t really mean anything. Real people don’t talk about “emergent technologies” or “new media” or “vee-double-you’s” or things like that. Out in the real world, yes, there are still such things as anti-social shut-ins that spend too much time on the computer. I’m not insulting you now, I’d just like you to realize, claims like that aren’t going to carry a whole lot of currency out past Web 2.0/metaverse types.

By: Seshat Czeret

Seshat Czeret — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:22:17 +0000

For many people, it’s not the account. It’s the friends. They care about their SL friends, and want to maintain regular contact with them.

For many people, they have no other access to those SL friends. They probably don’t know their first-life names, they may or may not have contact emails, and they certainly couldn’t afford to go down to the local pub with them – the most centrally located pub may well be in Hawaii, Fiji, or on some island in the middle of the Atlantic (is there one?).

For a smaller percentage, SL is their livelihood. And not caring about the account could well lose them their job and put their ability to pay their mortgage at risk.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:44:18 +0000

Just pointing out that you’re trivializing human activities based on the medium by which it is conducted. Just as our own parents did with the telephone (your generational grouping may vary).

The medium by which a human activity is conducted does not intrinsically add or subtract value.

By: Two Worlds

Two Worlds — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:29:58 +0000

Thanks for reminding me that health and livelihoods are definitely comparable to a virtual world, Tateru.

And the only reason why the PN are now irrelevent is that their hijinks have been eclipsed beyond anything they could ever do by the Lindens themselves. The Lindens no longer need organized griefers, because they **** themselves over more than the PN or anyone else ever could.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:04:45 +0000

Sure, and people can stop caring about their legs, and their jobs, houses and property while they’re at it

The PN themselves don’t seem to be taking their own advice, however. So many of them seem to have just “gone native” in SL and similar environments over time, which I think only goes to demonstrate their basic fallacy. It’s certainly been a long time since they were relevant.

By: Two Worlds

Two Worlds — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:14:05 +0000

No, you’re right about that. Even the PN admits that ShoopedLife will not stop all kinds of bans, just the most common ones. Their solution is just simply “stop caring about your SL account so much that it is not expendable”. Seems like pretty sage advice to me.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:36:17 +0000

Although, as you might have noticed, there’s a bit of an arms race with that application. Just using it at all can get you banned.

By: Two Worlds

Two Worlds — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Install ShoopedLife, f*ck Lindens, problem solved.

By: Danton Sideways

Danton Sideways — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:09:01 +0000

“It’s possible that you didn’t do anything wrong. … Have any documentation handy.”

I was banned from Facebook (rather than from Second Life) because I DID do something wrong. I registered as my avatar, instead as my real-life identity – which is against their policy. (Actually I registered separately as both.)

I made a very polite formal appeal, but at Facebook policy is policy. I’m still waiting for a reply to my appeal. Meanwhile I tweeted about the ban, and the news got splashed across SL blogs, including Hamlet’s and Tateru’s. I suppose that only worsens my fault in Facebook’s eyes….

By: Adric Antfarm

Adric Antfarm — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:05:31 +0000

Or create an alt and start over until you get unglued again.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

By: Patchouli Woollahra

Patchouli Woollahra — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:16:32 +0000

Awesome, this article goes on my profile for future unban appeals.

By: Uccello Poultry

Uccello Poultry — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:11:07 +0000

Apple Users can follow this path:

Hard Drive > Users > YOUR NAME > Library > Application Support > SecondLife > YOUR SL NAME

Note that “Hard Drive” could be named something else. You could also simply use Spotlight to look for the file Chat.txt on your computer.

By: Seshat Czeret

Seshat Czeret — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:08:13 +0000

“Have any documentation handy. Emails, transaction records, dates and times of events and conversations.”

For Second Life, log in at http://secondlife.com/ and go to My Account, then Transaction History. This will provide you with transaction records.

If you’re in Windows and logging chat, the logs are probably at C:\Documents and Settings\(YOUR NAME)\Application Data\SecondLife\(YOUR SL NAME)
The ‘local chat’ is in a file called ‘chat’, IMs are in files named the group or person you were IMing with.

DON’T edit the chat record you’re sending if you’re trying to get unbanned from Second Life. Linden Lab can read the original, and if you edit what you send to try to make yourself look good, you’ll look bad.