>What is Open Pony? A model for Second Life that beats all other 3D pony models. Info here: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/05/a-showcase-of-amazing-and-completely.html
I much prefer when the thread OP is a single picture instead of 2, 3 or 4 pics. The big collages are fine. I just feel really high quality pictures from the prior thread should be given a solo spotlight instead of sharing it with other pics.
>>43263878 but anon what if one thread has more than one really high quality picture? do you want them to pick one and then put the other/s on a waiting list? and then the waiting list then gets extended indefinitely bc there continues to be high quality pictures in thread? Or should OP only pick one per thread and everyone else just gets shafted even if their picture matches quality
>>43263899 Pick one per thread, luck of the draw style. When multiple high quality pictures are posted but only one can be chosen, it adds a sense of thrill if your pic got chosen
>>43263878 Nothing wrong with alternating. If it becomes single photos forever people will miss the collages, if it becomes collages forever people will miss the photos. Why place limits?
>>43263899 I take popen pics for the enjoyment of seeing and sharing ponies, I don't expect them to be included in the OP. If I posted a picture and it wasn't used, it wouldn't discourage me.
>>43263970 I didn't mean to imply it might discourage photopopens >>43263969 I think this is best route, just alternate personally I enjoy both the collages and the single photo focus OPs I just wanted to know what route the first anon would propose for their preference
>>43264022 ive been meaning to make a proper wet pony for ages, maybe it is finally time that spec makes you look like a wet window but its the best we got
>>43263878 As the guy who used to bake the threads, my reasoning was that a single image (especially a square) is more eye-catching in the catalog. But I often had trouble choosing one if there were multiple nice images posted, and I know people like to see their friends/themselves represented, so I totally understand current baker's approach.
reposting >>43262513 in case anons missed it On Saturday, Jun 6, we'll have a "Baseball club" photoshoot, which will likely happen in Baltimare, unless we'll get a permission to do it at one of nohoof sims Gathering for photoshoot starts at around 6 AM SLT, and posing continues until 11:30AM, photos going to be taken until 2 PM Pose cubes will be provided as usual, on which you pick pose, sit and go afk if needed
>>43263905 I think it works better in threads with a vast number of amarezing pics from several events to have a few in a collage. Takes more than a single pic to encompass popen culture when there's much going on.
>>43263970 Same deal, but it's always an honor seeing them in the OP.
How can I make my grid drives a bit less miserable? Holding up the rest of the team every 5 minutes because I crashed and need a TP back to them is no fun. Are there special settings?
>>43264463 Some griddy regulars said that they >used pre-PBR viewers, like FS 6.6.17, Genesis, and Catznip >set draw distance around 88 to 120 >set LOD to 3 or under >disabled shadow rendering >enabled texture rendering restriction to 512px >detached avatar attachments that contain scripts. They lowered their script memory load under 1500 KB
>>43264930 Polaris please think a little more before posting I like you but how do you think this is funny enough to post? I hate that I can spot 99% of your replies because you either can't stop including your avatar, or they are so unfunny I physically cringe
>>43265138 gonna have to hop in the trench for him this time. there are so many other things to get really bothered by and personally I think many of his posts are charming. the thread has been borderline dead recently and both shitting and death are way worse than a couple impulse everyday type posts. I prefer some mildly entertaining posts over the thread bumping against page 11 again.
>>43264929 FINALLY A GOOD STEADY SOURCE OF CIDER. THE DOCKYARD BARELY HAD SOME EVER, ONLY HARD SHIT AND ALSO THE MARES and stallions, ew THERE OFTEN GOT TOO PUSHY EITHER
>>43265219 I think it's a good lesson for people to remember to look around themselves and capture things that might be going on, even if it doesn't involve them specifically. That can be hard, though, since you aren't always going to be aware of it if you aren't involved with it. And it's especially hard if we're adding "don't be cringe" to the equation, because let's face it, we're all awkward autists here.
Anyone can take that extra step to simply look around them and see the things that popens are doing. One of the things popen SL excels at is just these goofy little slice-of-life moments, so please do capture those whenever possible.
Would it be possible to make a couple ponies able to take Camarea with him? Sky and Tetsu rescue her the most so maybe them? If safety an issue maybe a certain escape sim could get hard coded into the script.
>>43265592 Lala left like 2 fucking seconds before the restart. Kek that's like a minigame in itself. Edging the restart to the very last moment and then hop off without getting killed in the end. >Anon but there's a countdown I tried this multiple times and the official countdown is never precise. Sometimes I got killed even when the countdown still had 3 seconds left.
>>43265598 The cider in Baltimare is controlled by big cider (mostly FLIMSY CORP) who keeps a keen eye on staying the only source of cider. You will find cider kegs regularly at parties. >but Anon I want cider outside of parties too Tough luck. Any cider you MAY find outside of parties is ILLEGAL cider and may result in deadly fines for both the illegal cider provider and the customer.
>>43265613 that would be illegal, anon. That said I do have some sweet apple juice I've been saving in my basement for a couple of years, it should still be good if you wanna buy some
>>43265138 you're probably attributing posts that aern't mine to me again >>43265274 I love the little slice of life moments, just capturing them is harder than I thought, because they're usually spontaneous and if I'm not personally involved then by the time I get the camera over there...
Nostalgia has been a bitch lately, was looking at some old photos of when I first joined and made me think about good friends and familiar faces I don’t see anymore or don’t know where they went off to, I really miss the simpler times, how do other oldfags deal with it?
>>43265921 >how do other oldfags deal with it? Many of the people I knew are still around and it also helps to just hang out with the ponies no matter if new or old. Over the years I kept meeting great horses from here. If I just stuck permanently with the same set I met back then I'd feel like it would have been an insane waste of great opportunities of great times spent with ponies. On top of it there's always hope some oldfags show up here and there which does happen and that's great too.
>>43265921 as an oldfag who's been befriending people on the internet since 1999, it makes me really sad a lot of the time but I still have a lot of friends who I still talk to and they help me feel a little less sad about those I've lost along the way
>>43265977 What's the name of the gesture that does that flip over on the side BUT with that squeaky dog toy sound? You all know it, almost everyone has it but I don't know its name and where to get it
>>43266030 I'm not a fan of super puffy frogs like that, personally. A little bit of detail is fine. If it sticks out beyond the hoof itself, something has gone wrong.
>>43266030 frogs are nice, the extra detail is welcome in 3d. It doesn't need to be super detailed or realistic though. Even a simple heart texture on the bottom of the hoof is nice
>>43266231 it's possible for the heel bulbs to be a smidge puffier than your image but generally they are more shaved down, yes at the end of the day, ponies are cartoon horses and do many things both behaviorally and anatomically that cannot in any way be compared to a real horse so I don't mind anyone's take on what the hoofa might look like in detail I find the little frog beans rather cute but not fit for every look >>43266138 the hoofa here are probs the most tame ones on that note, buuut I have also been toying with the idea of making a more true to real horse underhoof for some time, with maybe a smidge of fan-inspiration as pictured here https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1716/17/1716173463785.png
>>43266247 >at the end of the day, ponies are cartoon horses and do many things both behaviorally and anatomically that cannot in any way be compared to a real horse so I don't mind anyone's take on what the hoofa might look like in detail https://derpibooru.org/images/2295255
Do you guys use real measurements for RL items you wanna make for SL? Stuff like furniture or let's say a microwave oven. Or do you just use whatever scale fits in the surroundings?
>>43266349 I import a static popen mesh, and if it's a larger build, I'll do a mockup in prims that I export to Blender as well. I don't pay attention to actual item scales, because a lot of it is scaled in goofy ways to accommodate cartoon ponies.
>>43259129 I want to strongly disagree with this post by the way, so many times I've wondered "hm does this <simple thing> exist" and the answer has been a resounding no. This goes double for popen because the popen avatar is only a few years old and has a relatively niche community, so there's still so, so much that could be done that hasn't been. But even for general stuff, like searching for specific props on the marketplace only to find some really, really, really shitty ones and absolutely nothing decent.J
>>43266659 >looking for food items and other random props >it's either no-copy gacha resellers or some no-mod no-copy Life RP garbage I'm not going to say "every time", but it is annoyingly common
>>43266666 The bubble gum item doesn't actually exist for popens. The ones they're using are made for nohooves avatars, so the gum itself clips. A version actually made for the popen would be great.
>>43263899 >Or should OP only pick one per thread and everyone else just gets shafted It's this. The OP pic spot is not a competition, it's a pleasant surprise when it happens. Also everyone getting shafted is hot
>>43265721 I tried using it to save birthdays of ponies (not for being a discount pinkie pie, I'd suck at that, just for stalking) but almost as soon as I started I ended up with one pony with like three conflicting dates and gave up
>>43266030 Everyone else is describing their preference instead of answering the question Hooves are extremely important to a sizeable portion of the population
>>43266247 1 is meh 2 is pretty good but I think the overdetailed frog contrasts with the extremely stylised everything else 3 is almost what we have now 4 is pretty good 5 is a direct upgrade to 4 and absolute sex hhhh 6 is also good for hard hoofa enthusiasts
I have finished updating my bellybutton mod today with everything I went over previously, since the marketplace bulk redelivery is slow you may want to grab it via order history.
>>43266712 I... assume this is how you've numbered them? 2 was going to be my main inspo when I compiled these references, as it was the singular 3D example I had that wasn't the squishy bean frog style, while 3 I put there more for the general hoof shape than the frog itself it seems for you at least that 4, 5, 6 are the main ones I should find myself referencing tho I will also note that I wanted to add a smidge more hoof/ankle definition but some others have done as much already and it hasn't been terribly favorably received
>>43267129 >I... assume this is how you've numbered them? Correct, I'm not chinese >my main inspo Honestly it's a good inspo for the general shape, it's just that around the frog the rest of the hoof is literally just a concave flat plane. If you don't copy it exactly but add a proper hoof wall then it'll be pretty good. >3 I put there more for the general hoof shape That's fair yeah, its contour shape is actually pretty decent. I'm not sure if I prefer 3's contours, 4's much more angular back, or 6 style with a cutoff wall, I'd probably be happy with any of these (or ecstatic with variants for different options, and the resulting hoof variety on popens, but I imagine that'll probably be literally 3x the work lamo).
>>43267129 >>43267147 some current research as well >3x the work I have considered making just multiple options for variety let me get at least a basis going and I'll get back to you on if that's plausible for me or not
>>43267129 Modular hoofa, shoe mesh choice and underhoof mesh choice, the (p)open hoofa dream, could maybe even kitbash some older hoofa to fit. My personal favorites are 2 and 6, for me the shoe, toe and hoof wall are far more important to look good than the underhoof, which IMO is far too easy to overdo or overshadow the design.
>Using referal link to put new users immediately land in a community-handled sim What do you think? https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/account-registration-referals
>>43267188 This sounds like it's basically set up as the opposite of how we (are supposed to) operate. We already have a landing area, and it's this thread. None of the things suggested would be very helpful to us.
>>43267336 That is probably the best use for it yeah. But all it really does is remove the "paste a link to Ponyville" step, which is like... the lowest possible barrier to entry in a long series of hurdles. Meanwhile you'd still start as a human and you'd still have to navigate the rest of SL's jank. Is the Linden Lab movement walkthrough at all useful nowadays? Because you'd be passing on that, too.
>>43267865 I didn't ban them, they have ceased renting in Horse Heights and just don't come around Baltimare at least not that I've seen. Their parcel was cleared as they opted to let it go, and thus is free to be rented! So do talk to Tea about renting if you're looking for a parcel.
>>43267625 Threw a hissy fit after trying to get his coached foid into Baltimare and being told no. If only all the other coached fags in the sim with pronouns on their profile like Tori would follow suit.
>>43268142 >>43268146 I still pop over there and send other popens to visit. One of the few ancient pony sims still around. Was also surprised to find her house there.
>>43268014 Soft and others also had pronouns bullshit in their profile some time in the past. Like Soft, Tori is also one of the sweetest people around and also does a ton for the community like making animations and other items. I don't understand your personal vendetta with that particular pony since I saw you making posts like this a couple times now.
the pronouns shit is a femoid thing (apart from the actual gender confused weirdos). it's easy to ignore especially when they don't pester you with it and you actually ACTIVELY have to look up their profile to get intentionally bothered by that sight.
>>43268524 This is the first time I ever posted about Tori so I don't know what to tell you. >makes free shit I had no idea the bar was that low, maybe we should invite all the group oldfags back in!
>>43267555 It's funny because in all the HMART ads/picks I see it says their main shop is in Neighberry. And the one in Las Pegasus is also significantly larger. Why the fuck can't we use the gift card in these?
>>43268526 In my case I don't mind if people want to put pronouns and shit in their profiles. I just don't want anyone to get completely whiny if I use the "wrong pronoun" once in a while.
>>43268526 >>43268835 Not pronouns but I was genuinely weird out when Rose threw a shitfit due to some people "deadnaming" him or something. I actually thought he was joking until he kept getting angry on some occasions and I realized he was actually dead serious. Guess the shrink really did brainwash him good. What a giant shift in character.
>>43268652 It's normal, but be careful about getting emotionally attached to the person behind the ponies. It often leads to pain if you follow that route. The pain isn't often caused by malice, but that doesn't make it any less painful. Just enjoy the ponies.
personally i started enjoying sl food. the quality went really up in the last couple years and it's really neat to look at. marj is also in part responsible and the builder ponies with the decoration
>>43268822 >>43268824 HMART advertises their main shop in neighberry most likely bc the Las Pegasus store is part of LE and LE is.... unsavoury. As for gift card usage, second anon must be mistaken or had used a different gift card than the smart start
the smart start gift card is intended only to be used in the ponyville starting area because it's a starting gift card and you are intentionally only meant to be able to use it with that "starting" selection of items in ponyville what you're asking for essentially is that HMART give you their newest releases for free, when the gift card is meant for starting out and is already incredibly generous of them
>>43268703 If the bar is that low, then you my friend must be in Auzzie land, cause I bet you sure haven't made shit or contributed much. Go fuck yourself.
On my journey to not stand out and cause less attention to myself in baltimare, I have realized that I don't really have any genuine connections here because of that constant fear I have that I would be "out-casted" for being me. I now realize that was very stupid, so stupid that now I just artificiality relationships with other ponies, mostly just a "Hi" "boops" and then bye. Starting today I am going to try and change that..
>>43269998 >I am socially dysfunctional and don't know how to make real friends >"Baltimare isn't for you" what the fuck are you talking about anon, baltimare is exactly the right place for him
>>43269988 I'll be ur friend anon! my literal only cut-offs for ponies I wont befriend is if someone is like.... egregiously disgusting. Examples like R.V, Searing
>>43269988 Most people don't feel the need to express every facet of themselves in every context. That doesn't mean the friendships that they form are any less genuine; it just means you tailor the things you say to the people you're among. In other words it's exactly like everywhere else.
Man this thread really does loop back around to teaching autists how to function socially, huh. >>43256057 keeps on being right.
>>43270292 I always notice. Even if we don't talk, I take notice of every pony that hangs around and I often wonder about the ones that disappeared quietly. I hope they're doing okay.
>>43270392 if you know the right sequence of flirting you can get her to bring you upstairs to her apartment where you can have sex with her. kuro really outdid himself.
>>43270397 And on that subject. I must ask that no one posts a guide on how to do it. Make opens actually have to figure out themselves how to sweet talk the barmare.
>>43270578 TNG Season 3, we'll be on episode 18 cum Saturday. There's a schedule board and a marquee sign outside, both of which are updated daily. Everypopen is welcome.
>>43271298 sorry to disappoint you but I'm confident I'm not polaris >>43271299 several times it's thought to have been him it has turned out to not have been
>>43269988 Ask somepony how to get an invite to Cloudsdale or Huffu. Not that those places are any better, but they are still the only MLP-only ones (excluding Mare Mare Sandbox) that I know of if that's super important to you.
In other words, be the change you want to be. No need to adapt to an already established culture and community, especially if you're starting to notice its bad sides.
>I worry about posting here because someone probably knows who I am just from posting this.
Where can we suggest changing sim rules? These two have been terrorizing the place for a long while now We need speed limits or who knows how many more lives will be lost to these two menaces
just in: New waitress quits job immediately due to "harassment" and "lack of paycheck", while the only waiter still at work seems to enjoy said "problems"
>>43268014 Yes yes my pronouns in bio are because I think your first born should have puberty blockers... sacrifice them to my woke agenda now. I hope you can become less sensitive to my wokeness one day.
>>43272149 nta but having pronouns in your bio IS support and compliance towards a certain worldview, whether you truly believe in that worldview or not. It's like dressing like a slut and expecting people to NOT assume you're a slut. You're signaling to others that you think a certain way.
>>43272159 >It's like dressing like a slut and expecting people to NOT assume you're a slut People assuming you're a slut doesn't actually make you one though
>>43272159 To make assumptions about others is just natural. If someone has a rather negative view of others based on simple things, then it's likely I wont want to involve myself with them as they wouldn't me anyways. I'm really just here to enjoy myself, see what I can make, and hopefully share my knowledge and help others make their own content too.
>>43272197 NTA but "gender" in profiles was generally used in text forums for people who wanted everyone to know they were a girl on the internet (or pretending to be one), because otherwise there'd be no indication. In many places it was also frowned or ignored or treated as attention whoring. In SL, people can tell the "gender" just by looking at your pony (most of the time...) so this problem is moot. And secondly, "pronouns" is a very specific and politically motivated approach, exactly because it replaces the indication of gender. Putting "pronouns" basically means "I don't think it's just mare or stallion; instead, I think a stallion can go by 'she/her', or I think someone can go by 'they/them' or 'xir', etc.", and that in itself is political. Just putting M or F in a profile is not the same thing at all.
I don't actually care about the ponies being namedropped here btw, just saying that specifically putting in "pronouns" is catering to a specific political ideology by using a specific type of messaging.
>>43272325 shy ponies can be the cutest to cuddle. just make sure you're the cute kind of shy that gets blushy and melty when hugged and cuddled, not the tard kind of shy that acts standoffish and aggressive or pretends to be disinterested and aloof in other words embrace your shyness and try to avoid using coping mechanisms like aloofness or acting distant and you will have the best cuddles
>>43272361 >the [...] kind of shy that acts standoffish and aggressive or pretends to be disinterested and aloof hhhh, these are the ones who are the best to cuddle, you're missing out
>>43272480 >went out of your way to look at her social media to find a reason to ban her just say you didnt like her because if jannies banned on how anons act elsewhere many more would be banned
>>43272527 nta but I hate the hypocrisy. These foids and libshits always tooting their own horn but still try and encroach in places where they're not wanted, because surprise surprise, their libshit ideologies remove all soul and community-minded activities from groups, as it turns everyone hostile against one another. Always amusing to see these people touting all that shit, then desperatedly trying to fit into the one place that doesn't want them (some like tori even removed the pronouns from their profile when called out at first, then later quietly readded) because that place is miles more fun than their usual infested shithole like LE.
>>43272550 if these people are so forward about their ideologies in social media (and profiles), why are they trying to fit in and pretend otherwise in baltimare? why not go cozy up literally everywhere else? or are their morals so flexible theyll drop them as long as it means they get to be a part of something?
>>43272545 Wa wa wa wa people don't think exactly like I want them to wa wa wa wa I want a safe space I want a hugbox I want to be coddled Grow a pair of fucking balls you chicken-shit coward.
>>43272605 Wa wa wa wa people can hang out on the entire grid except one sim wa wa wa wa I want to be exactly in the one place filled with people I constantly advertise hating but it's the one place I really wanna be
>>43272605 This holding cell was meant for Mr. Industrial Lights out and Magic himself. George bet you need another Billy Baston movie soon. Pride George but I put in the best of good words for him over your character assassination
>>43272641 >nooooo you cant call our my heckin hypocrisy anonymously thats unwholesome you must do it ingame where we can poison the well like the parasites we are
>>43272706 first the hollowhearts steal all of my fries now i'm being blown up when will this torture be over i hope daybreaker shows up again when i get back
>>43272545 >it turns everyone hostile against one another I dunno how to tell you this, anon, but 4chan has always been full of hostility towards one another, regardless of the presence of ""the libs"" for your theory of the removal of sovl and community, it happens to everyone, regardless of idiot ideology I've been here from the start and have not once removed my gender/pronoun bullshit from my profile and never once been questioned bc jannies do not care unless someone is being openly belligerent about their dumb bullshit there's been a handful that were banned without belligerence that I have disliked but said ponies often showed their true colors after being banned and then it was considered justified >>43272566 >are their morals so flexible many of us actually walk a funny middle or ground or simply do not fucking care, which is funny when you all care sooo much rent free, as they say
at the end of the day you are going out of your way to hunt down shit to be angry about in someone else's profile
>>43273050 why can't we post funny chatlogs instead >[21:36] firecrakcr: hind would you rather have your genitals fed into a paper shredder or eat one corn chip that's slightly too spicy
>>43273071 Yeah that was nuts I dunno how niggas end up here w/o browsing /mlp/, since Tetsu's been here a bit. I don't think anyone's coached him, just that some popens don't actively browse 4ch due to time constraints or whatever.
>>43273084 very nice, the arrows on the cassette doors almost make it look like it has auto reverse on both decks? that'd make it pretty high end actually
>>43273076 >11,615 images tagged foal, explicit on derpi >kuro is your boogyman because he's drawn like 3 of those get real. clearly people fap to fillies
>>43273088 I think only the recording side has auto reverse. Fixing the boombox was pretty trivial once I dismantled it though, it was just tape clogging the rollers which was probably why it was submitted as e-waste at my old job (and thus why I got to keep it for free). The arrows seem to indicate cassette playback direction, the only features it boasts about is auto/high speed cassette dubbing (recording from one tape onto another), and dual play. The speakers on both sides are also easily detachable for transport. It's a very nice boombox all things considered, there was one other MTC model online about double the size of that one, with shortband radio support and some extra features but I don't think many of them were sold.
>>43273101 high-speed dubbing is only really good if you're in a rush, it tends to make for a worse recording than just doing it in real time... free is super nice!!
>>43273090 >because he's drawn like 3 of those Kuro is a reachable target core to the community we interact with as opposed to some anon I've never even considered the existence of getting his rocks off to fillies. that said, I really don't give a fuck, personally, but your stupid part of the argument is retarded and you are retarded
>>43273117 good thing I'm a background pony invisible to threadshitters >big party happens in balti >threadshitters crawl out of the woodwork and post chat logs of in-bar discussions
>>43273111 too many coached foids allowed in. staffie was about to bring in one more but in a rare moment of sanity, tea decided to remove the massive horse dildo from his ass and do his job instead.
>>43273119 anon what the FUCK >>43273071 >>43273074 >>43273075 really missed the part right after where it was pointed out he was gaslighting and he said "stop being cheeky" at moony >>43273079 >>43273125 can you point at the coached fags and foids, are they in the room with us, anon? >>43273122 >>threadshitters crawl out of the woodwork anon, it's summer
>be dragonpony >visit baltimare >they're all RACIST >go through the effort of taking up pony form just so you don't get shot >now your magic is drained, and you're starving, and it's dark... >oh hey, a bar >mmm... bunger... I figure at least one of you will like the brooding faggot look he's got going on at the moment, I think it's kinda cute
>>43273278 I know this is bait but it's so far out of the realm of anything I would ever even consider doing that I can't help but find it funny I'm convinced that people who are into skunks must live in parts of the world where they don't exist, because you can look at the cute critter photos all you want but it takes a fucking week to get the smell out of your car when someone ahead of you hits one and you happen to have the windows down I'm only even granting this (you) because we're well past 500 on this one
honestly this mane is pretty close, and it always hurts to admit being wrong but hims pony form is clearly the right choice for popen come boop him or whatever tomorrow when I get back online, he'll probably have a little while to exist before he is once again shelved moon is perfect moon is eternal
hiii!! i appreciate the anons defending me for my ban, it honestly still stings because clearly the jannie who banned me went out of their way to look at my socials to find a reason to keep me out which ngl when i joined balti i was slowly learning chan again after not using it for a few years so i admit i was a newfag who only really used /ic/ not /mlp/ and it annoyed me because i was told i was being coached which i wasnt but i know that i wont be unbanned but a lot of my popen friends in sl mean a lot to me and ive been told how i was treated unfairly and that makes me wanna keep creating and posting in the OP community ill be drawing more bar mare and maybe in the future do more sketches of balti residents!! its my little thank you to the kind anons who accepted me when i was there
the most unfair ban was when Desu got banned because he drew revenge art of Pumpkin after she got banned... and didn't post it to thread nor talk about it on sim, but ban reason was stirring shit/being a shit
>>43273389 We do not want the type of people who are on the lookout for "bigots and fascists". Whether they say it behind your back or to your face is irrelevant. Users saw red flags, so they asked jannies to look closer. Jannies did, and found bigger red flags, so they banned. This is not new; it's been the way of doing things since 2022.
>>43273580 I've been here forever and I bet you'd want me banned if you knew my politics but I don't bring them up in SL. You're the one bringing them up. Good luck with the witch hunt.
>>43273599 No one cares about your politics, anon, or at least not the people who bother with banning. What matters is whether you're a risk every time someone drops a racist joke or puts on a blonde-haired-blue-eyed white mare in SL. This is not the community or the board to clutch pearls about those things. The way we operate has obviously worked for quite a while now and we're not interested in changing it.
>>43273615 nta but as an active community member who's been around since 2022, I have reported on sim before for deplorable shit said and nopony will ever know who I am
>>43273632 That's unfortunate if you're being truthful and not just FUD-ding, but there's not a whole lot to do there, and we're not about to start a witch hunt. We'll just continue to deal with it as we're able, when we're made aware of them. As we did with Vile.
>>43273365 this brings me back to when Melody got banned for having pronouns and saying she was "a /b/tard coming back to her pony roots" and then her ban was justified by her constant shitting up the thread for months afterwards before she quit SL bc she was that upset about being banned from balti
>>43273298 >moon is perfect >moon is eternal I just want to say I am very happy that you are staying moon and that we have a full-time moon on sim now I love moon, but up till now anyone who's made a princess did so just to have it to wear occasionally or on special events and we've never had anyone play as a princess full-time, let alone as best princess
>>43273632 Well thanks for proving why banning people like Vile is justified. The only difference between you and him is that he advertised it publicly while you are a hidden snake.
>>43273742 The whole policy is based on making assumptions about people because waiting until they actually do something harmful is too late. It's a better safe than sorry approach because it has to be.
>>43273753 Generally I agree but we honestly have to be pragmatic in this case. This is not a court of law where we have to apply innocent until proven guilty to a strict legal standard. Someone can always report shit to linden labs silently and there's no way to prevent it, so some measure of subjectivity is required. Being prolific on normalfaggot social media is already not something a "true" anon would normally do, so if you have social media you're already partly a normalnigger. It's obviously not a ban reason in itself but if you have normalfag profiles and then put extremely normalfag shit like "racists not welcome!" on it I think it's entirely reasonable to just determine that you're not going to be a good fit.
If anyone wants to avoid this all they have to do is not have traceable social media profiles, aka basic online literacy that should be second nature to anyone on an anonymous imageboard. So if you fail to do that, I see that as just a darwin award type ban.
>>43273756 theoretically could Vile not be allowed back on a promise of good behavior? knowing that reporting puts the sim itself at risk should be enough to discourage them from being the type that you're worried about, seeing as how they love the community and the ponies they befriended in balti, and have already been convinced they're not getting a second chance, but still come to the thread and offer to draw for ponies and generally nice things
>>43273756 >This is not a court of law where we have to apply innocent until proven guilty to a strict legal standard There's a reason why this exists in the real world, and you doubling down on your pettyness isn't making you look any better. Just shows you're a fucking faggot for going out of your way to ban someone over their social media that has no effect on you or the sim itself. But go ahead and keep banning ponies for no *good and fair* reasons. You're going to end up with an echochamber of closet homo incels that think being edgy is cool.
>>43273742 It's unlikely it would even get to that point. Looking further into it is a response to red flags, not some proactive thing. >>43273772 >you're a fucking faggot for going out of your way to ban someone I don't think that's a janny, anon But again, we've been doing it this way since 2022 and we haven't ended up as an edgy kid echo chamber (at least no more than we started out as), so I think we're doing alright.
>>43273766 Do you really think we don't have enough coached tourists? As far as I can tell Vile was never from the board, never browsed the board, and now only browses /opg/ to look at Balti screenshots. General consensus so far is that coming to 4chan for the first time in your life just to browser /opg/ in order to say you "browse 4chan" on a technicality is not enough to make you not-a-tourist.
Baltimare is meant to just be a sim for anons from /mlp/, not everyone and their grandma who have "good behaviour". The social media shit was used to determine Vile was an obvious tourist and I think there's no evidence to the contrary. >inb4 hurr there are many tourists already Obviously moderation is flawed and there will always be false positives and false negatives but that doesn't mean we should just throw our hooves up and completely allow all tourists forever, just because it can't always be perfect.
>>43273772 >There's a reason why this exists in the real world, It only exists in a very specific context: legal courts. There are many, many, many organisations IRL where you can be excluded or denied admission just because the owners or organisers decided they don't want you there. This is even true for nominally public spaces, while Baltimare is more of a friends' club. With the friend group being anonymous which makes it a lot more nebulous than an actual private club, which is why the sim isn't invite-only or something, but still the point being that people don't have a "right" to come here by default. (Unlike how people IRL have a right to not be thrown in prison by default unless there's a proven reason to do so.)
>Just shows you're a fucking faggot for going out of your way to ban someone I'm not a janny anon lmao
>>43273778 >>43273783 Make the sim invite only like cloudsdale and you'd have less shitting. Also saying you're not a janny means you're jannies. Both of you.
>>43273791 >and you'd have less shitting True but I think what we have now is honestly a nice compromise. The sim could always be locked down more to prevent even more people from coming in. Or it could be made more open and moderation more lenient to make it easier to get it. These options are always available. But I don't think we should do either. I've been here since 2022 and I really think the middle ground that the current janny team is applying is pretty decent.
>>43273795 >the middleground of hounding ponies' socials dogshit take tbdesu. Sim should just be closed, the jannies can vet ponies in, more than enough jannies to perform that job and you get less people coming in to steal those oh so precious freebies.
>>43273783 >to say you "browse 4chan" on a technicality is not enough to make you not-a-tourist. first of all, we literally have ruling that covers for "naturalized tourists" and is why a lot of touristfags are allowed to stay at this point secondly vile admitted they were ex-4chan and coming back to it after a few years when they came to /mlp/ and balti
as an oldfag and regular, I myself hadn't been frequenting /mlp/ for years before /opg/ came along, which reignited my interest in the board, tho I'd been still frequenting other boards we don't have definitive proof that Vile is only browsing /opg/ unless they come forward and say so. for all we know they could now have interest in other generals, i.e. the drawthreads would be a good fit for them
>>43273800 >I think moderation is too aggressive therefore I think we should make it triply more aggressive! You are just shitposting and not providing genuine arguments. I wouldn't mind if anyone with an active twitter account was banned unconditionally, without stalking whether they have pronouns or "no racists" on it or whatever. But even that would be less extreme than making everything invite-only. (I also don't feel about this strongly enough to advocate change which is why I said I'm happy enough with the status quo.)
>>43273801 If there was evidence Vile was naturalised and regularly browsing the board in general now then yeah sure whatever. He could make an appeal and the jannies would hem and haw about it. I just don't think it's something worth being proactive about, and the burden of convincing the jannies would be on him now. It's true that it may be slightly unfair because it's annoying to be able to "prove" that you're naturalised, but again I simply do not care about individual twittertard normalnigger tourists who just happen to turn over a new leaf.
Also it's entirely possible to go all "teehee I love Baltimare I promise I just want to be part of the community :DD" and still silently seethe about anything non-PC you see and have the LL report button on a trigger. I don't think it's productive to be paranoid schizophrenic about this, just pointing out that Vile being sorry or whatever doesn't necessarily mean we should rush to find a way to unban him.
Also if your username is "the yeen" you're a fucking furfag and I honestly say good riddance
>>43273814 >furfag there are many, MANY furfags among us who just keep it hidden souce; I am one there's at least one on the janny team, and several regulars
>>43273814 Making it whitelist only doesn't mean its triply more aggressive at all. You're just vetting people before letting them like a bouncer. Right now its a you can enter the club but the bouncer tells you to fuck off after you made friends there already, resulting in further isolation of actually good hearted ponies. However, its clear to me you don't want good hearted ponies on the sim and prefer a hatespace where everyone constantly argues with each other with infinite in-fighting. This thread is a literal reflection of how the sim actually is. Ponies REFUSE to use the thread because of how toxic it is, yet you breed the toxicity. Whatever happened to friendship is magic? The anon that mentioned that for a show that teaches us about friendship but we do the polar opposite is absolutely right in every way.
>>43273841 >prefer a hatespace where everyone constantly argues with each other with infinite in-fighting. This thread is a literal reflection of how the sim actually is. Ponies REFUSE to use the thread because of how toxic it is, Are you stuck in 2023 or something? This is the first time the thread has had a discussion like this in many, many months by now. It's past bump limit in a dying thread. And it's also 3x more civil than the typical moderation discussions we were having in the early days. I literally have no idea what you're complaining about
>>43273848 >This is the first time the thread has had a discussion like this in many, many months by now Blissful ignorance at its finest. If you actually were in the sim you'd know people brought up that they don't browse the thread because of how SHIT it is. However, this will never be admitted publicly because they are afraid of being banned from a space they made a lot of friends in. Everyone is being suppressed because of fear, not out of respect.
>>43273853 Well I dunno anon sounds like a skill issue. This entire conversation is caused by someone like you going "won't we pwease unban the furfag tourist with 'racists not welcome' in their bio, they said they were sorry that means we should have open borders :("
Some responses beg to ask what one thinks it means to be a part of the community, as I'm sure there's a lot of PC fags that'd never be let in that are part of the board just to spy on shit or something and not of the same soul of the community, so to speak.
>>43273853 >people brought up that they don't browse the thread because of how SHIT it is >>43273857 >tea has literally advised ponies not to use the thread because it's shit lmao
Yeah, and those people are stuck in 2023 too. It has been demonstrated with actual statistics that /opg/ threads did slow down around the end of 2024. https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43230268/#43231991
>>43273860 And if they could be reliably identified they'd not be considered part of the community, indeed. The only issue is practical in how you determine people to fit in, and as has been stated many times this is always going to be imperfect with many false positives and false negatives. There is no perfect method, you can just decrease the false positives at the cost of increasing the false negatives, or vice versa. The only thing that can be done is to try to find a balance. And the sim has survived just fine for 4+ years now so I'd say that whatever balance has been found seems to be working out alright
>>43273870 The spreadsheet contains links to all of the archived threads. If you don't trust the numbers in the spreadsheet, you're welcome to try to collect them yourself.
>>43273653 compared to Melody, Vile isn't shitting up the thread and instead drawing things for people and otherwise stays pretty much in the background/mostly invisible. They're not here with the explicit mindset of pissing people off.