Holy Moly!
There I was just minding my own business over at Planet Michael when I decided to check in on the Second Life grid. That’s when I spotted them. Over 75 bots hanging out at the Virgin Islands. At first I was a a little shocked because bot swarms that big are usually not around for very long, as to be noticed, however, this particular bot swarm has hung around long enough to make the very top of the charts over at New World Notes. I’m not sure how Hamlet missed this one, especially because I e-mailed him twice about it. Perhaps he’s just going crazy again. However, there they are. At the top of the chart. I wonder how long they will stay there. This is most bizarre indeed.
Image Credit: New World Notes
yeah reported to lindenlab, and what happen? i got teleported home *lol*
Jenn, would you allow me to copy the last picture on that post and share it, with a link towrad your post and recipe attached, on my blog Votrepain.com, the way I do with various blogs and sites I like in my weekly bread posts? Your pictures and that recipe are just great.Have a nice day
Looks like they are still there. I’m thinking they may have been there for a couple months. I noticed they were gone for a whole day once, but then they came back.
The Story of the Queen of Bots:
Once upon a time, in the land of Flying Tiggers and Hephelumps, there was a club. This club had been in existence in Tiggerland for ages,
but no one used it. Why? The The Tiggers and Hephelumps are not, by nature, clubish creatures.
Then into the Land came the Queen of Bots, who took over the rare-used Club and declared that the land of Tiggers needed NEW Tiggers and
Hephelumps, because the old ones were too used to flying stuff NOT made by the Queen’s masters, and this could not be allowed.
Of course, in the way of clubs, it’s hard to get the deeply sought green dots, without the green dots being already placed. The Solution for
this, as often is in the minds of frauds and marketers, is to make FAKE green dots by the use of Bots. The Queens enlists (pays for) the help ofpeople who can each run 4 or 5 alts (max) on one IP address, and who will make those alts have some non-bot-like history of groups (etc) and to run them all at each event the Tigger Club has.
This practice is unethical at best, a fraudulent lie and TOS violation, at worst. But the marketeering Queen of Bots has such moral
equivalence that she sees nothing wrong at all in misleading and mischaracterizing for the purpose of gathering green dots! it’s not really
a “lie” because 1/5 of the people in the club are actually real people, and they have the “right” to make alts, and the “right” to log them
all in at the same time and fake dance at the Tigger Club!
Lo one night the DJ at the Tigger club, who likely also has 4 or 5 alts of hephelumps dancing away at stale 1980′s music (the Queen is old,
isn’t she?), has a DJ board on the wall with clever scripting. This script not only diplays the number of Tiggers and Hephelumps in the sim
(all in the club), but also………..those number actually listening to the stream!!! OMG!! BUSTED!! Only 1/4 (average) of the
supposed Tiggers and Hephelumps in the sim are ACTUALLY LISTENING TO THE STALE 1980′S MUSIC THEY ARE DANCING TO!!!
The other suspect nature of the Queen’s Bot Club is that when someone new comes in and says “Hello”, no one answers them! Strange indeed,
for people who are very used to the social interactions at REAL clubs.
And so, into the land of Tiggers and Hephelumps comes Innocent Emily, out to explore the new aspect of Tigger Club which promotes so many
new green dots in the land. Emily, as it happens, is a DJ herself! One with long experience in REAL clubs. After wandering in and saying “hello” to all the new green dots she had never met before, she was greeted with ackward silence. How STRANGE!
Our Innocent Emily then looks at the DJ board which shows, as she would notice, only 13 people listening to the stream, but over 50 people
in the Tigger Club! Curiouser and Curiouser! So, even though she can well unsterstand why no one would want to listen to stale 1980′s
music (our Queen is old), our poor Innocent Emily sends an IM to the Club Queen to inquire about all the green dots who are not listening to
the music. She is met with a long tirade of cursing and vile sexual referrences, completely out of context with a new person in the Tigger
Club asking a simple question about information which is provided by the Club’s very own DJ board!!
OH MY! Our Innocent Emily must have struck a bad nerve somewhere, and the Queen’s litany of personal abuse designed to deflect from the
OBVIOUS answer to Emily’s Innocent question! Innocent Emily was sent packing and banned from the land of Tiggers and Hephelumps for the
audacity of asking an obvious question, so that she not contaminate the poor dumb unsuspecting Tiggers with some important hidden truths!
The Queen of Bots was running a club full of Bots to attract other people, like a spider web, to the Land of Tiggers and Hephelumps. The
Queen, you see, wanted to get RID of most of the current Tiggers who thought her presence unnecessary in, and downright irrelevent to the
stated purpose of, the land of Tiggers and Hephhelumps! The purpose of the Land of Tiggers and Hephelumps was to FLY and to DOGFIGHT, and it
was to THIS end they endured the ranking, training, and drama of the social structure in the Land. What has a CLUB, that uses up precious
resources, to do with this? Yet, in the Land of Tiggers and Hephelumps, one does not openly question decisions made from above. For a while,
at least.
As it happens, the very next day, the DJ board which had given away the fraudulent nature of the Queen’s lie, showed nearly ALL the Bots in
the Tigger Club listening to the stream, yet they still refused to speak a simple hello to anyone new coming into the club! Apparently the
Bot Queen (old as she apparently is) finally caught on that the truth was being exposed and issued a Royal Command to the Bot people to have
their alts all listen to the stream also, and turn the sound down on the browser! The NEW land of Tiggers and Hephelumps is built on a lie.
A dishonerable, fraudulent, misleading and mischaracterizing, LIE which SHOULD be exactly contrary to the stated nature and character of the
Tiggers and Hephelumps group.
Yes, dear reader, the Tiggers group is based on a military code of honor and loyalty, yet the new (and old) Queen of Bots has thrown the
original stated honorable nature of the Tiggers and Hephelumps down the toilet, without so much as a slight notification that the premise
on which everyone before had joined was now null and void. The Role Play of the Tiggers and Hephelumps demands an honor code, yet for the
expedient purpose of attracting NEW tiggers with the old “green-dot” theory of sim traffic, the ONLY honest thing the Tiggers and Hephelumps
had going for them is gone.
The question now is, will it be missed? Most of the OLD Tiggers and Hephelumps have been expelled, or left in disgust. The only people
remaining are the few whose self-identity and self-interest is SO tied up in the time and work they have invested in the Tiggers group, that
they will sell their honor to remain. Will the NEW generation of Tiggers and Hephelumps recognize that something very essential is missing
from the role play group they have joined? Time will tell, as it always does.
As for the Queen (old as she is), we may take comfort in the fact that she will eventually be thrown under the bus with the same gleefull abandon with which she threw those before her, because as we have just learned, there is no longer any honor in the Land of Tiggers and Hephelumps, and those who devalue honor cannot then cry foul when they do not receive it. Closing the group to enrollment to hide the truth from the little woodland creatures will not help, anymore than the same principles helped Joeseph Goebbles, for long anyway. Off with her head!
The Tiggers, you see gentle reader, are based on a REAL life group of heroes, men who understood the meaning of honor and loyalty. Though this was the model on which the original group was founded, honor is a principle difficult to maintain. Anyone who was weaned on, raised with, or sacrificed blood and treasure on the alter of honor knows it when they see it, and the absense of it when they do not. There is no equivocation for it, no way to cheat it, pose it, or fake it.
Those who are unacquainted with honor cannot recognize this fact, but they are there for the the rest of the world to see. It exsts outside yourself, it is greater than yourself, and it is judged by others more or less the same. The Queen of Bots has no honor, the masters who placed her in the positon of representing Flying Tigers have no honor, and any claim to it only makes a mocking joke of the lie. So be warned, dear reader, honor and loyalty no longer resides in the Land of Tiggers and Hephelumps, if it ever did. Better had the group disolved in obscurity than survive with the methods of dishonor. In the end, it’s all about money and ego.
By: The Smart One, and endorsed by the Innocent One, and the Bad One.
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