With the rollout of the new, Lithium-based, Second Life forum in early March there have been the usual growing pains. Too much moderation, not the right type of moderation, 'WTF! You're moderating ME?!', and accusations of a list of mod favorites. Some regulars have fled to other fora, chirp on Twitter, or have disappeared altogether.
All to be expected, of course. One poster in particular, Suspiria Finucane (mistress and creator, according to her profile) announced that a number of posters on the old General Discussions forum would hit the skids, be permabanned by the mods, and she would reign as 'Queen of the Forum'.
Instead, sanity prevailed. She had to ditch her alt because it could not inherit her god-like status, she was RIC'ed (Report for Inappropriate Content) several times leading to a ban from the forum for at least one week, and she vented her dissatisfaction on the state of things both at CTUF (Community Tools User Forum) meetings and on her own flog.
Her sycophants went running to her side (DQ Darwin, Ima Rang, Nathaniel Scorpio, Quinn Morani, Ossian) and boo-hoo'ed the fate that Suspiria brought about herself. Few of them had the creativity to generate OPs and complained at the lack of good stuff to post to, seemingly not recognizing the contradiction of this view.
Others, notably Keli Kyrie, Wildcat Furse, and Valerie Inshan remained above the fray valiantly creating OPs in several categories with humor and grace.
Still others (Caitlin Tobias, Cato Badger, Derek Torvalar, Prokofy Neva, Seicher Rae, Storm Clarence, Venus Petrov, and Wilhiam Hydraconis) were declared 'mod favorites' and on Glenn's personal list of 'go to' people (more names pending 'confirmation'). We would love to see the proof (screen shots will suffice) of this unholy collaboration.
Why does no one point out to Suspiria that she flails at an agreement (forgiving RICs from the first week) that was made despite her lack of originality to request it? This, yes, is the hallmark of Sussy and her minions. They lack originality and complain at the lack of originality. Any attempts at originality are trolled, flamed, and baited. Tis a schoolyard on which they wish to play. I hope they find it on a G-rated sim.
