Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World
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Storms of flying phalluses, mutilated Furries, ruined $10,000 battleships -- it's all the work of griefers, the sociopaths of virtual worlds.
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt...
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What can we learn from Second Life? Comment Many of us who are active on the internet, giving our views on what is happening, are used to getting "flamed" (having hostile messages about us posted online).â¦
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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Members of the Second Life online world criticise the handling of a serious security breach.
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Panel discusses the depth of the problem and roots of sexual predation in online communities and ways to protect children.
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When you look at gender in virtual worlds, how do you leave your biases behind? For some researchers, you don't. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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A video game purports to probe the minds of the Columbine killers. What enlightenment can a shooter game provide? Commentary by Tony Long.
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By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News  Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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Researchers discover in a recent study on cyber-bullying that there may be negative consequences for users in both Second Life and the real world.
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Readers remark on cyber mugging, tree hugging, and de-bugging. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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By Anonymous  WAN lessons learned  Plus: How to hide your online footprints.
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An online role-playing game is to be built by a community of ordinary gamers.
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The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned. Thatâs the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.