Child Avatar Category/Community
Madi Melodious
The new Marketplace overhaul looks well but I can't help but notice there is no community or category to cover child avatars. Virtually, every nonstandard avatar is represented in the community's section. You have anime, fantasy, furry, gor (is that still a thing?), tiny, vampire, streampunk, sci-fi, and Goth, but no child avatar. We are a large part of the Second Life community, maybe larger than some of what is listed. I would like to request that you add a category and/or a community to the new marketplace page for us.
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prissypaw Aldrin
would also be nice for a sub catigory devision between prim babies like zoobie and actual avatar children when it comes to items.
NicholasTheHufflepuffWizard Resident
Agreed, I wouldn't mind a Kids Section for the Second Life Marketplace, it'd make it a lot easier to find items for Toddleedoo or other child avatar brands.
The Kid Community in Second Life does need some representation in some form.
Zippy Banana
I think in all honesty, the Child Avatar community needs better respect and community focus as a representation from LL inworld BEFORE focus on marketplace. They will not do this unless, some valid questions are filtered to upper management from concerned residents who these issues affect.
I do not include open cast meetings, where every biased and inflamed Tom, Dick and Harry can attend in to vent a half stabbed/ semi-populist mouthpiece. Especially when meeting in open invite attendance, creates structured disorder as well as anti- kid partisan crowds who give no constructive comments to issues at hand.
This includes Child Avatar marketplace, where many items were stripped from the site because they were deemed "inappropriate" when actually not (when actually some were removed due to moral panic and fear of public retribution), which incidentally shows LL also had no control over its marauding residents ganging up on them in anti SL kid sentiment.
Instead pandering and pacified to them, in fear for various managemental reasons. The kid and family community suffered in many ways, not the people responsible for any article nor accusation... trolls or otherwise!
The SL kid community had always been a financial rock to LL, pre mesh/ photographic sim age. It gave LL money to fund benefits to advance with profits, as many SL kid and Family communities invested in mass sim rentals (often via other SL kid community residents) with open pockets. They were the original DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement, that were openly creative and self-reliant communities on offer.
Yet Linden Labs allowed others to victimize, troll, accuse and even turn a blind eye to freeloading accounts, some of the worst examples to even profit off monetary content; to further create negative stigmas (and uninformed bias) through anti-SL Kid content on various social media sites. It's an absolute travesty.
Linden Labs needs to go back to understanding the value the Family Community brings to SL, rather than just its low percentage of questionable types which all communities have. LL need to do better !!
BrightonTez Resident
I agree there should be a child avatar section in the marketplace. Please add the section for a busy community.
Liam Clover
I've always been a child avatar, always will be, I will never be anything else... I didn't even notice the section disappeared until someone just informed me of this post... Please bring it back, there's a massive community of us out there and we deserve to be treated equally.
Ryonen Resident
I agree that there should be a category for child avatars. This is an important category for many in SL. Unfortunately, the idea of child avatars is often conflated with unseemly things, but that is only rarely the case. The vast majority of child avatars and child-focused products and places in SL is Totally Innocent!
Skyler Goode
I've been a child avatar going on twenty years. We are a quality community with a lot of investment in SL Any world would be a lesser place without children, second childhood or otherwise. We should be represented.
Daemon Davidson
Please give all due consideration to adding the appropriate category and/or community to the new marketplace page.
Ellena Ashland
yes, we do need our own category.
ie it makes little sense for a designer of children's clothes/articles to list their things in grownup-categories and the other sub-categories don't apply to us.
also makes it much harder to find things
please fix :)
TomArcher Resident
I agree with everything that was said here, one of the pillars of the SL economy market comes from the infant's niche, so it would be good if there was a greater and better appreciation of this segment, as said and well explained by Madi.
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