Second Life’s search censorship blacklist appears to have gone a bit funny, and is refusing to retain entries containing the substring ‘lol’.
That means no so-called ‘lolita’ fashions (quite big this year in many countries outside the USA) (a style strongly reminiscent of candy-goth and harajuku), no lollipops, no lolling, and so on. Not for search results, anyway.
Actually, if you’re an established fashion-house with a Second Life presence, you’re still screwed, as the increasingly-popular ‘lolita’ fashion genre is permanently blacklisted by the Lab.
As for the ‘lol’ problem? A Lab spokesperson confirmed a few minutes ago that it was a bug, and it will be fixed sometime this week.
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Cachinnation is against the Terms of Service!
It’s a conspiracy to ban Lollerskates!
What am I going to do now when I want to find a place to lollygag?
Oh, the humanity!
And no more adventures of Pippi Lolstocking.
Maybe they did it for the lulz…
I do hope they are able to lollify the situation very soon …
You mean this is for real?? This wasn’t just Second Lie having a LOL moment???
I suppose I should have realised, after all you just can’t make this sort of thing up, it’s too absurd.
Guess that’ll teach me not to be lolled into a false sense of security.
But does this mean I can’t go lollygagging tonight?
Well, you can … it just won’t show up in Search.
I can help with the Lollygagging.
What a bunch of fools!
The Search Team is filled with amateurs. Phillips’ words can go in the gutter about their experience in search engines, search isn’t a toy you can mess with but has wide social and economic implications.
Has Fractured Crystal hacked the SL search?