S(econd) L(ife) ash tray

There are many ways to attract customers in a mall and boost your turnover, for example you launch a contest and oblige people to buy your products if they want to participate.

SLASH is currently running such contest for the sexiest avatar.

In their mall you can see a large wall where contestants post their photos with Slash Outfits, there is even some photostudios in the place for free usage.

overview from outside
one of the photostudios

I first tried to enter the contest with an old pic that I took at Bear Infohub and that I love much, but it was removed one day after, which proves that they are checking the outfits.

my preferred
Therefore I had no choice but buy something in the mall to be able to participate.

I pitched on a bath suit not too expensive (some L250 if I remember correctly) and took a photo with my own photostudio.

used for the contest
obviously the best one
in the top 50

You are totally free not to vote for me.

Contest rules (excerpts)

SLASH! Contest instructions:

Voting:
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1. You can vote once a day
2. Vote for the nicest picture you see, do not vote for your friend, it is not a popularity contest but a beauty contest !
3. Voting for the nicest picture INCREASES your chance of winning the voter's prize. Voting for your friend decreases your chance !
4. Click on the picture you want to vote for.
5. Wait for a blue menu to appear, verify the text on the blue menu and click Yes if it is correct, No if it is not correct
6. Vote again if you clicked No in the previous step

Remarks:
* You are only allowed to add 1 photo to this contest
You will get this message if you try to enter a second photo to the contest. That is not allowed.
* This photo has already been added to this contest
Every picture has to be unique.

CONTEST RULES

These are non-negotiable rules of the contest, if you enter, it is on the strict understanding that you agree to them. We tried hard to make it as fair as possible for every HONEST contestant. We are sorry that we`ve been forced to tighten the contest rules in comparison with the 1st contest but it seems there is no other way to keep it fair for the majority of honest contestants and to avoid a popularity contest.

1. Contest Theme: Sexiest Avatar

1a. Voting system - Ben will give more detailed voting and technical information in a seperate message/notecard.

You can join the contest in the lobby of the SLASH! sim when it's opened. Many things will stay the same as the first contest, like voting via clicking on the pictures and the contest HUD etc.

In short, the voting system will be as follows:
- Every voter has one vote per day.
- Contestants can't vote for their own pictures.
- A panel of 8 judges will pick the 3 winners from the 50 contestants with highest number of votes.

1b. Prizes: 1st Place: L$50,000, 2nd Place: L$10,000, 3rd Place: L$10,000, Prize for the 2 VOTERS who match closest to the final winning girls win L$10,000 each! The panel of judges will choose a winner from last 100 joining the contest, to win L$10,000. Prizes in total: L$100.000.

2. Photos must show an Avatar wearing a Slash Outfit - NO face only shots please. The picture needs to show at least your face and torso. You can use the photostudios in the Lobby for free. Photoshopped backgrounds are ok, photoshopped avi's are not.

3. Any contestant found to be spamming, begging for votes from the SLASH! group/the people on the SLASH! sims, paying people to vote will be elimiated immediately with absolutely no discussion. The same for any other cheating to grab votes in a unfair way. This is a contest for the sexiest avatar - NOT a popularity contest!!

3a. Please respect the privacy and freedom of other users - using the group channel for any blabla, shouting around on the sim will exclude you from the contest. Nobody wants the chaos we had on some occasions in the 1st contest. Zero tolerance in this point and with any cheating behaviour! NO previous warnings, NO discussions! We will add a script soon that kicks EVERY writer in groupchannel automatically out.

4. Spending multiple hours at the contest wall will be eliminated by an automated script which will evict your avi after 2 hours.

5. The contest will end on midnight SL time on Friday 14th March. This will be followed by a prize-giving event on Sunday 16th March at 2pm SL time (11pm CET). If you are a winner and are unable to attend the prize-giving event for any reason whatsoever, your prize will move to the next person on the list and you LOSE your prize - absolutely no discussions about that too.

6. If successful in winning a prize, you will be required to be at the prize-giving event venue for rehearsals at least one hour before the event start.

7. You will be required to wear a SLASH! costume that we supply at the event and to be available for publicity photos.

8. Rules may change without further notice when unexpected things happens.

Contest Manager: Sudidi Surya
Technical Manager: Ben Turas
In charge for this contest: Dig Dollinger

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

Aviator in Second Life shoots in Picanswers

307 views in 5 days!

Go and have a look by yourself, somebody has finally found the answer of the pic.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)

Where are the griefers?

(English version)

(En Castellano)


Comme Prokofy Neva voit des griefers partout, j’ai voulu juger par moi-même et suis allée me promener dans deux endroits qu’il (elle) avait mentionnés comme étant des hauts-lieux du griefing dans Second Life, à savoir Bear Infohub et Orientation Island Public.
Je connaissais bien Bear pour y avoir trainé à mes tout débuts et je n’avais trouvé là que des personnes serviables qui m’avaient beaucoup aidé.
Quant à Orientation Island j’y étais bien sûr passée, mais sans en avoir un souvenir quelconque, en tout cas pas de mauvais.
Les seuls griefers que j’ai pu rencontrer se trouvaient plutôt à Orientation Island et c’étaient des petits nouveaux qui essayaient maladroitement des attachements ou des objets divers qu’ils s’étaient procurés et qu’il voulaient montrer à la galerie ; vraiment pas de quoi fouetter un neko, pardon, un chat.
Je suis restée dans ces deux endroits environ une heure sans me faire agresser ni même aborder et je me suis contentée de faire des photos que vous pouvez voir dans le show Vuvox.
Je reviendrai régulièrement pendant quelques temps dans ce genre d’endroits publics afin d’en avoir réellement le cœur net.

Le chagrin est une sorte de chat sauvage, de couleur grise. Son cri est plutôt triste et lugubre. Il faut se mettre à plusieurs pour en venir à bout. Car, tout seul, on arrive mal à chasser le chagrin.
Francis Blanche
Extrait de Signé Francis Blanche

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English version
As Prokofy Neva sees griefers everywhere, I wanted to judge for myself and I went walking in two places that he (she) mentioned as being the hot spots of griefing in Second Life, namely Bear Infohub and Orientation Island Public.
I knew well Bear for having wandered around there during my first days, and I had found in this place helpful people who assisted me a lot.
Regarding Orientation Island I had transited here too, but without having a memory whatsoever, in any case not a bad recollection.
The only griefers that I was able to meet were rather in Orientation Island, and they awkwardly were trying new attachments or different objects that they had acquired and wanted to show to the rest of the class, not really something you can fry a fish with.
I stayed in these two places about an hour without being mugged or even approached, and I simply took the photos you can see in the Vuvox show.
I will come back regularly for a certain time in such public places in order to really clear the matter up.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

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En Castellano
Como Prokofy Neva ve griefers en todas partes, quería juzgar por mí mismo y me fui caminando en dos lugares que él (ella) mencionaba como los puntos calientes del griefing en Second Life, es decir Bear Infohub y Orientation Island Public.
Yo conocía bien Bear por haber vagabundeado ahi durante mis primeros días, y había encontrado en este lugar personas serviciales que me ayudaron mucho.
En cuanto a Orientation Island yo había transitado también en este lugar, pero sin tener una memoria alguna, en cualquier caso, no un mal recuerdo.
Los únicos griefers que yo era capaz de encontrar estaban más bien en Orientation Island, y que estaban tratando torpemente nuevos apegos o diferentes objetos que habían adquirido y querían mostrar al resto de la clase, algo que realmente no es la muerte de nadie.
Me quedé en estos dos lugares cerca de una hora sin que se fuese agredida o incluso abordada, y yo simplemente tomó las fotos que pueden ver en el show Vuvox.
Volveré regularmente durante un cierto tiempo en estos lugares públicos, a fin de realmente tenerlo todo claro.

El hombre desdichado busca un consuelo en la amalgama de su pena con la pena de otro.
Milan Kundera (1929-?) Novelista y ensayista checo.

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Voila la nouvelle banque en ligne qui arrive bientôt dans Second Life

Ci-dessous quelques avatars discutant des mérites de la banque en ligne après avoir lu l'excellent article de POCarles.


(d'après le quotidien Les Echos du 19 février 2008)

Il parait donc qu'on peut commander sa MasterCard directement depuis (ou dans) Second Life.

L'histoire ne dit pas si on est débité en $Linden ou en Linden €.

Si vous devez cent dollars à la banque, c'est votre problème. Si vous devez cent millions de dollars à la banque, c'est le problème de la banque.
Jean-Paul Getty

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Their picketrope, and the trooper on guard, pacing the mighty
carwarrior abhimanyu who resembled that i have for you!
obstacles! And he laughed or fitness for any purpose. 1.f.5.
some states give his foe only such land as does not produce
by fear. But your wrath will 'stand to cool' and that is
indeed a great addition and a great security now are in
the hotel and hospital laundries of in among the vast terrified
host of thy son in chitrasena, vikarna, and other sons of
mine, i return) and addressing him asked what he was to
her to a first presentation of some wretched farce carry
at least two servants, well certainly, said and worshipping
them. And having worshipped the science hath his generalitie,
upon the whiche.

Y la traducción del mensaje falso en idioma español.

Su picketrope, y el soldado de guardia, el poderoso ritmo
Carwarrior abhimanyu que se parecía que tengo para usted!
Obstáculos! Y él se rió o idoneidad para cualquier propósito. 1.f.5.
Algunos estados sólo dar su enemigo tales como la tierra no produce
Por el miedo. Pero su ira se 'stand que se enfríe', y que es
De hecho, una gran adición y una gran seguridad en la actualidad son
El hotel y lavanderías de los hospitales en los que la gran aterrados
Anfitrión de tu hijo en chitrasena, vikarna, y otros hijos de
La mía, i regreso) y le pidió hacer frente a lo que estaba a
A la primera presentación de algunos miserables llevar farsa
Por lo menos dos funcionarios, así ciertamente, dice y de culto
. Y habiendo adorado la ciencia tiene su generalitie,
A la whiche.

Siempre poesía.

La poesía se escribe cuando ella quiere.
José Hierro (1922-2002) Poeta español.