1. I believe that there are at least two schools of thought on this:

One believes that there's little to no difference between camping on a chair and jerking off on a mat in SL. If you sat on the poseball to start camping, you agreed to making a fool of yourself, and that's your right if you're clearly comfy with it.

The other believes that such actions are clearly the point where people are starting to get asked to do unmentionable things and that this is taking advantage of newbies.

Personally, I think it's mroe of the latter... but who am I to judge? I'm only a blue wildcat with black wings.

Posted at 8:51AM on Dec 10th 2006 by Patchouli Woollahra

2. Better yet, there's already a wave of "sexual abusers" of such campers, who will stand close to your avvie while you're away and touch whatever sex add ons you have... it's like necrophilia, but for those who're still alive. I love Second Life :)

Posted at 8:00AM on Dec 10th 2006 by Rebecca Munson

3. I don't know... If I felt I had to camp for L$ I doubt I'd waste that tediously earned pittance on scripted sex parts for people to abuse. Or numb them or something. In fact, if people are sitting on masturbation pads in order to earn enough L$ for a talking clitoris, then that just goes to show how messed up the sex situation in SL is.

This isn't new, back in about March or so, I was looking for one of those inner tubes you could splash around in I'd seen at a place near a store I checked out. They had those mats (and a "girls only" paying pink ball of a sex anim pair) and I had a pleasant conversation with the avie who was sat on it earning money for texture uploads. She didn't see it as anything specially significant, just a fairly immature thing to put out to get traffic, and it paid better than most.

Posted at 12:57PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Ace Albion

4. How long have you been in SL Tateru? This is amazingly tame compared to a lot of what I've seen on SL.

Sex with men using female avatars and shopping for slut-wear for those female avatars, the only things on SL to do. If I want to chat with friends I'll use a stable platform.

Posted at 1:21PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Willis Brown

5. I take personal offence at that sort of statement even though it's clearly not aimed at me. Believe me when I say I've never had a day of boredom in SL.

In barely over a month I've discovered:

the joy of cultivating a garden out of thin empty land
fair and normal warfare with normal scripted weapons (no insane one-hit kills or shields, just lots of careful aiming and tactics)
fishing for Midgar Serpents (still lookng for Red Gyarados)
The insanity of Ahern Welcome Island
Getting interviewed by three different people for three equally good causes.
Toured the WTC as if it was still standing.
Fed happy little birds in Svarga Island
Rode a dark ride (Thanks to Sinatra Cartier)
Met a thousand little shades of light, all very much different.
Engorged myself on TUi classes and still wanting to learn more.
Tooling around in sandboxes building higher prim stuff.
Played around with a Pear Computer
Chewed through 47 catnip mice. (Thank god for copyable catnip mice)
Sat through the insane antics of Bukans acting stupid
Listened to Reggie Phils-Aime and Judge Posner's wisdom.
Spawning the Field of Dreams halfway in the sky and marvelling at its complexity... until it crashes the sim. (Tweaked down density significantly to solve this, but it's still beautiful even so.)
Discovering the AR system can handle ten reports in five minutes easily even if you take the time to fill things out properly.

And you say SL is just a sex and slutwear sim? Has it even occurred to you that your head is shoved in particularly wrong location to be able to possess sch a blinkered mind?

Posted at 4:06PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Patchouli Woollahra

6. One thing I've learned about the dance pads, etc., is you have to be careful how much you set the payouts for...too much and the newbies will clean out the account of whoever owns the pads in jig time. Miho, who deployed some pads at the GR, found this out the hard way. Twice. (And then the dancers wonder why they don't get paid...) Presumably, the same would apply to these.

Posted at 4:06PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Erbo Evans

7. Well, Second Life is more about what people choose to do. And those same people are everywhere. In all the virtual worlds, in your office, and in your home.

Posted at 4:25PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Tateru Nino

8. I know... two of them are camped out in here. One bowl of instant ramen every eight hours, plus timeouts for showering and playing WoW.

I guess the camping thing DOES work in RL... just as effective as the SL original. :p

Posted at 4:24PM on Dec 10th 2006 by Patchouli Woollahra

9. umm, would anyone mind explaining what exactly camping is and why it would be useful to someone?

Posted at 4:47PM on Dec 11th 2006 by Pyutaros Achterbahn

10. 'camping' in this context is a kind of search engine optimization in SL.

The owner of a club or a casino (or whatever) who wants to make their business more visible (especially if they want to drive it up into the popular places list installs 'camping chairs'. These are seats (there are quite a few variations) that pay a couple of L$ for every 10-15 minutes that an avatar remains seated on them. This increases the traffic figure for that parcel for the next day, making the place a higher-ranked search result because of it's 'popularity'.

The people who install camping chairs either go broke very quickly, or earn far more than the small amounts they pay out from whatever their business on the land is.

In short it's a way of making your otherwise completely generic and indistinguishable club/casino attract more people.

Posted at 6:55PM on Dec 11th 2006 by Tateru Nino

11. What are some of the places that have these? Can you name them? Or the sims they're in?

Posted at 11:46PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Destiny's Child

12. This image was taken in sim Fraxini if you're desperate.

Posted at 11:48PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Tateru Nino