The Great Goon Holocaust of 2006 Anniversary Observed

by Pixeleen Mistral, Subrealism Affairs desk

Outside Hurfzateer HQ in the W-hat’s sim “what”, a solemn vigil was held Friday September 19th, to observe the second anniversary of the great goon holocaust of 2006.

A small crowd gathered near the grave sites, and took a few moments from running “talk like a pirate day” animations to consider the fate of the Voted 5 group and Satyr sim - for on this day in 2006, the entire sim of Satyr was repossessed by Linden Lab and all objects in Satyr were deleted.

At the same time time Satyr was wiped clean, Philip Linden told the metaverse that a grid crasher crackdown had taken place and some 60 accounts were perma-banned. Friends and relatives of the notorious Voted 6 group could only identify the names of 22 accounts that had gone missing - not surprising given king Philip’s tendency to perhaps accidentally overstate figures on occasion.

Immediately after the destruction of Satyr, the W-hat goons vowed to "Never Forget" and erected a memorial to the fallen which said, "This Memorial stands so that we may remember those that lost their accounts, of the innocent furs and humans alike that were lost to us".

Of course, 2006 was in many ways a simpler time, as Gene Replacement passed time by using the mega-prims he had recently invented for some skywriting over Satyr.

V5 - gone but not forgotten

Still, there was a sense that change was in the air, and W-Hat goons worried that 4chan /b/tards might get bored with Habbo Hotel and migrate to Second Life. The mass pool closings that followed in the wake of the /b/ immigrants to Second Life only underscore the prophetic words of Dano Plisskin who warned me two years ago, “never underestimate the power of retard in large numbers”. Ironically, the destruction of Satyr was followed 9 months later by the destruction of Woodbury sim as history repeated itself.

And so on this solemn day, I considered the fate of those who anger the game gods and feel the force of the ban hammer - they may perish, but their friends and alt accounts will never forget.

two mourners near the gravesite

black and white photo of the original memorial

Isometric Bedlam's scrapbook of e-friends included Philip Linden - before Philip used the ban hammer on Mr. Bedlam

Comments

[Raoul]

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final."
—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979

[RIP]

Rest In Peace all ye fallen creators of the Lulz, rest in peace...

[IntLibber Brautigan]

Oh, please. Like anyone cares. Next you'll be telling everyone I was somehow involved.

[Verbena Pennyfeather]

Suppose I should say thanks and all that. Even when me and the W-Hat's had our issues, things always stayed cool. Hope everyone's enjoying their pretendy fun-time game!

[Darien Caldwell]

At one time I had thought about starting a Griefer Museum. They have such a rich and interesting history, I think it would be quite entertaining. Another idea I'll probably never get around to. :)

[Rabid Barkley]

This article is racist. Pixeleen Mistral does not care about black people. 9/11

[Corona Anatine]

and ....

should I care that the supporters of the PN *peodophiles got permabanned

(* "it would be fun to rape Madeline Mc Cann" )(sic)- (the PN words -not mine)

[sux 2 B U]

I think those are your words. I have never heard the PN say anything like that. Those are your own words that you hold on to and pull close to you in the depths of the dark night when you are so lonely that your lust for a little dancing Madeline produces her and she comes to you in your mind and is alive in your perverted sexual delusions from moment to moment. Sick fuck. I bet the PN would kick your ass if they could find you...

[Carfax Gutter]

I'd like to have a moment of silence for yet another unfairly banned av, Napalm Vernon. Although He was never a goon, nor a griefer, he was taken down by the evil money grabbing hands of Linden Labs in the Spring of 06'. Yes he was a vampire loving goth fag, but damn it, the boy could swoon.

[We]

I think the effectiveness of LL griefer banning is summarized quite succinctly by the image I saw of the little graveyard that was set up for the banned characters, and one of the banned goons standing over his own grave pretty much within a day of the banning.

[Alyx Stoklitsky]

"I think the effectiveness of LL griefer banning is summarized quite succinctly by the image I saw of the little graveyard that was set up for the banned characters, and one of the banned goons standing over his own grave pretty much within a day of the banning."

A day?

Two minutes, more like.

[Corona Anatine]

if you search back through the herald archive i think you will find that the words come from the mouths of the PN mine

it is there in the archive in black and white if you bother to check

they say it would be "fun to rape Madeline"

thinking it would be fun to do such makes the PN child molestation fantasists

your call sickos

[A None]

Corona, you do realise that those statements arent serious and they do it to get exactly this type of reacton from people, right?

[Witness X]

Little Alyx usually doesn't have much intelligent to say, but in this case, he's right - LL griefer banning isn't effective so long as they fail to ban IP addresses (they go through the motions, but their implementation is worthless).

[Witness X]

So - quick poll here: without naming names, how many people do you know wouldn't be able to connect to SL without using a proxy? I know I couldn't, I've been IP banned. And about a fourth of IntLibber's goons^H^H^H^H^Hemployees couldn't.

[Vegna Fouroux]

These aren't griefers they're jumped up dramafags,

memorial day? Jesus Christ. what a novelty. Clever. original. Now kill yourself.

[Zac]

You first, Vegna

[doktor ringwurm]

"I bet the PN would kick your ass if they could find you..."

the PN are pallid, scrawny pencils-necks who couldn't kick a quadriplegic's ass.

they're about one step away from 'ZOMG GIRL GERMS!' on the maturity scale.

maybe with the economy failing they'll have to get jobs, will finally leave never-never land, and will have less time on their hands to worry about what other people do in their spare time, like a bunch of blue-haired old ladies.

[Alyx Stoklitsky]

@ "how many people do you know wouldn't be able to connect to SL without using a proxy? I know I couldn't, I've been IP banned"

I require no proxy, spoofed mac, or hardware serials to connect to SL.

[Bennie]

"Corona, you do realise that those statements arent serious and they do it to get exactly this type of reacton from people, right?"

A none, is that the same reason why there's TONS of shota (manga style drawn underaged boys in sexual situations) and lolicon (same, but girls) to be found all over the chans the PN hold so dear?

For the lulz and reactions?

They're taking their trolling VERY seriously, then :D