Goddamn Furry JIRA Lindens

Alexa Linden is such a pestilence. That's exactly the right word to describe someone maliciously going out of the way to dig through my JIRAs and close them with extreme prejudice and zero justification -- "just because".

There is absolutely no reason in hell for Alexa to be hunting up a bug report from 2008 under my name and closing it *now* on specious grounds -- except animosity. So much for the "science" of "computer science".

The answer to the appeal of my permaban yesterday was no accident, either. That was likely precipitated to my active resistance on Sluniverse.com or some recent posts that the goons at the JIRA didn't like. Ugh.

This move today was conscious, and deliberate, and likely because I made a fresh attack -- and attack is precisely what is needed on these assholes

And yes "asshole" is not too strong a word to use on a Linden who maliciously, deliberately, with high politicized animus closes or stalls a JIRA just because they don't like the critic, or the idea, or find that they need to use this device to stick it to the land business they hate (as open source technocommunist freaks).

So...I just got a message today that this JIRA is "resolved."

VWR-5135 was originally filed by me in 2008 *three years ago*. Since I was banned in 2009, I wasn't able to keep pushing it, but it was certainly a valid bug.

What happens is that when you check off the SEARCH PLACES box on the land menu, only you as the land owner or group officer can see the checkoff box. Members of the group or outsiders cannot see the check-off box.

So this causes annoyances each time you add a $30/week ad for a customer, because they don't believe you're giving them what they've paid for. I have cards explaining this "known issue" and I patiently explain it.

But because on Viewer 2 especially, even when you check off land for "search/places" $30 ad, *people can't even find their parcels even looking up their exact store names for days on end* they are skeptical and it's hard to convince them.

Interestingly, on Viewer 1.23, when you put a parcel into "search" you can instantly find it under its exact name, and often under the key words in its description, too.

On Viewer 2.x, it seems to show up only in the sim name, if you think to look that up; eventually -- 72 hours later or more -- it can show up under the exact name. Sometimes it never shows up, and you file a ticket.

But look at the specious, facetious reason Alexa used to close this JIRA:

"The UI has been greatly changed since this issue was filed. If this is something you feel is still relevant to the new design and Viewer, please open a request with current information. Thank you!"

Oh, fuck you. Do you fucking furry JIRA Lindens ever look at land? Do you ever try to do anything inworld except have open source triage meetings?!

Of course it's exactly the same. A checkoff box for "search/places" is not something that would be changed in the design -- it's basic.

And of course it's exactly the same, as anyone can see.

I don't know if Alexa Linden has land. Furry sandboxers often hate land so much they don't even have their own but perch on other people's. Even if they did have land, they might not wish to put it in search, although, of course, if Lindens WOULD put their land in search, and put their office hour, documentation, bears, etc. out on the lawn, people would find it helpful. But of course, they're not here to do this.

Imagine, shutting a JIRA *you have no reason and no business to be shutting* *just because you're an asshole*. Oh, and *just because you think someone else you don't like is an asshole*. You could ask -- say, is this still relevant in 2.0? and someone would instantly answer, even in a stupid-ass Linden office hour by testing it right there on that land.

I hope someone will go in and re-open this JIRA immediately and tell Alexa Linden to stuff it.

Viewer 2 still has the same issue. I knew it did, but I just went back to double check with my main in a group as an officer, then a non-group alt -- it definitely does not show that check-off box.

This would seem a fairly easy bug to fix, no? But it was labelled "minor" apparently by the notorious JIRA busybody Ella McMahon or some one else among the "regulars" that so infest this device. It's not minor when many of your customers feel you are robbing them and feel they are not getting something they are entitled to -- especially when search is so crappy.

BTW, while on Viewer 2, holding my nose, I took a look at what was happening with the term "rentals" in the latest iteration of the search. Yeccth. Will drink some milk and save that for another post.

Comments

[Laetizia Coronet]

It just doesn't come into your mind that perhaps they are clearing the backlog of JIRAs. Perhaps not in the best possible way, I'll grant you that much, but really, you seem to think that these Lindens all have daily Prok hate sessions under the guidance of that Rod who's been ignoring you for far too long. How f***ing dare he!

I think weeks pass at the coffee house around the corner from LL in which your name is not mentioned. Unless someone there is called Prokofy. Slim chance though.

[Prokofy]

No -- and no again.

This is VERY deliberate, coming immediately after the negative resolution of my appeal for the JIRA ban yesterday -- which itself is no accident.

These particular two Lindens *do* have frequent Prokofy hate sessions. I've been astounded at the malice and foresight into which Soft Linden put his nasty tweets against me, for example. Alexa is silent but more cunningly malicious.

Why do you spend all day on Twitter and blogs, Laetizia? Do you have a life?

[Prokofy]

Thanks to some prodding from Vince Forcella, this has now been updated and Alexa has admitted that the bug stil exists in Viewer 2.6.

That it would take somebody disrupting her hate and putting in a link to my blog on the JIRA -- geez.

That even THAT was not enough at first, because it was still left closed and "awaiting review".

Then someone/somewhere must have checked that yes, search/places checks still aren't showing, and approved its reopening.

These people should be flogged.

[Medhue]

Well, I've never had a good jira experience, and I question whether any of those Lindens even have the viewer installed. I remember the first Jira I ever posted. I'm not a techie really, but I tried my best to make it as detailed as possible. The bug had something to do with Brightness in the build window. They could not even find brightness, and then proceeded to change my jira to what they thought it might be. I was like WTF! Can you read, or follow instructions? It was plain as day. I've met newbs with more knowledge of the interface. Granted, that was years ago, but even today, I feel ill after looking thru the jiras.

[Prokofy]

It's a known fact that the furry opensource Lindens use other viewers, they used Emerald, or Imprudence or others and weren't in fact looking at the standard Second Life viewer that many of us were using.

The real problem with these people is that they refuse to expand their narrow little minds beyond the immediate arcane task of the JIRA and the code to look at USAGE for even five minutes, and USAGE that is not their own insular culture of sandboxing and weapons-testing but the normal life of Second Life that the majority live in homes and stores.

They hate homes and stores. These people loathe the settlers and civilization that has made SL their home.

They adapt a cynical, meta view toward it as if it was all just crap and something they are all above. But in fact they're considerably below it.

[Darien Caldwell]

I thought LL employees were required to use the standard viewer. I'm pretty sure this is policy as if a Linden account became compromised, it would a 'very bad thing'.

[Prokofy]

Being required and actually complying with such a requirement are two different things.

[melponeme_k]

Wow, Philip Linden's new Love Machine is changing the world for the better! I can just feel the tolerance and the love wafting from Linden Lab.

NOT

This company is a lost cause. But typical in the CA gaming world.

[brinda allen]

@Medhue ...yes. I have only filed a single jira in nearly 4 years.
The instance I reported was eventually fixed.... I just learned to live w/it for a long time. I guess that was the plan...ignore and pretend "Nothing to see here folks, move along please".
And that was in the days when Lindens actually did come in world.

[Ann Otoole InSL]

She closed one of mine but someone else commented and she reopened it.

Oddly she should have closed it because what it was about was technically fixed in SLv2 but as long as LL allows SLv1 then guess what? They are stuck supporting it.

Close them all I don't care. Artificially inflating jira close rates is not going to fool their new CEO.

[Prokofy Neva]

No, JIRAs should not be closed except by the author, and by Lindens, *only for cause*.

There is no reason to be running around closing JIRAs. In a system where there are both bugs and feature proposals, you don't "win" by having closed X number.

Even if it were only bugs, the idea that you have to run around artificially trying to close them belongs to straitened 0/1 code thinking and is a hobble on progress.

The whole reason I fought the battle of WEB 382 -- which you'll note Alexa opposed and tried to close mid way through!!! -- was because I was tired of the Warkirbies and Ellen McMahons of the world coming around and closing entries.

For some obsessive-compulsives, this would somehow agitate them because they would think of them as loose ends or "clutter".

But they aren't clutter as they are not in your view unless you search for them.

There was no reason to go lurching for that particular JIRA of mine from 3 years ago except malice and victory-dancing over the defeat of my appeal.

[Bunjie]

FYI they're Lindens, adding 'Furry' into it only makes you look bigoted.

And sure you hate soft linden, but don't apply this to every linden who wears a similar avatar, would you do the same for a race? or religious interest that shows through someones avatar? hell no?

But I personally think going by a name like 'soft' when your head of security is asking for trouble.

In a psychological sense mentally emphasizing the 'soft', but anyway try not to be a bigot not everything's a furry conspiracy.

[Prokofy Neva]

I don't care if I look bigoted. These are goddamn furry JIRA Lindens and that means they are of a distinct type. It's a particular branch of the tribes of furries that are intolerable so I won't tolerate them. In general, I like furries. I have lots of furry customers. If they all leave tomorrow because I called Soft Linden a goddamn furry Linden, that's ok, I'll live, it will be a big hit because I have lots of them, but I think most of them don't care what I say on my blog.

I've already had one furry Linden I do like write to me protesting all of this but he's not protesting furry bigotry (although that could be the case that he's hurt), he claims the entire thing isn't true because he sees the last edit and not the renditions in the emails.

There are certain furries I absolutely loathe that fit the stereotype of a certain kind of furry -- sandboxer, never settling, living in collectives (Luskwood), espousing socialist theories (Luskwood), embracing the open source cult, etc.

[Prokofy Neva]

And why do I go on saying "Goddamn furry Lindens"?

Because I want to shout and complain as loudly and as fiercely as I possibly can.

The JIRA is a brutal, sectarian unjust place run by assholes.

It must change.

It will not change by "working with the system". We've all down that, including me, for years.

That doesn't make it change; that only makes you be exploited.

The new management has to ponder the question: it's one thing to have furry open source sandbox cults in the user base as one of the many forms of flora and fauna in Second Life. But to have them running security and deciding what does and does not get put in the JIRA?!

It's the cultishness of these people that is the basic problem, and that has to be called out. After all, "furry" is not something you are born with like your race or nationality in real life.

It's an adopted, fictional tribe you join online with certain traditions and rituals. It has wide enough manifestations that it probably has socialists as well as Republicans in it, but there's a certain tribe in SL that is definitely of the open source technocommunist persuasion and I'm definitely going to fight them and call them out.

[Cinder Roxley]

Erm... since when did fandoms become comparable to someone's race or heritage? I very much doubt you were "raised furry", Bunjie.

[qie.niangao.myopenid.com]

An (impractical) work-around to see if others' parcels are set to show in search (among other things) : Enable "Show Admin Menu" from the Develop (Ctrl+Alt+Q) menu. If it's greyed-out (as it is by default), "Show Debug Settings" from the Advanced (Ctrl+Alt+D) menu and set AdminMenu to TRUE.

Yes, this is quite beside the actual topic of jira administration, as well as being utterly hopeless to convey to a tenant wondering why a simple checkbox isn't checked. I had to say something, though, or they'd revoke my "Insufferable Little Geek" card.