Joshua Sao contacted me today about a nasty encounter he had with Olive - Founder of SLBB. A uninvestigated claim made by a ex-tenant of Joshua's was listed on the SLBB website. Joshua explains his side in the letter he developed to distribute to all SLBB members . This morning after he distributed a few of these - he was contacted by a SLBB insider and was asked to come to a mediation between him and Olive - (not the person that made the complaint). Once Olive realized that the conversation was not going her way she stormed out of the negotiations swearing never to remove Joshua's name from her blacklist. This is the same level of harassment I received from Olive. SLBB is a protection racket. Business' that pay the membership fee do not end up on Olive's blacklist blog. Ger friends and family can also make uninvestigated claims and remain anonymous. They use this policy so that they can grief people they do not like or get rid of business competition.
Linden Lab sent Olive official notice to stop using 'Second Life' in her group's name. Hopefully they will insist she comply immediately so more people do not join this group thinking they have any authority whatsoever.
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[9:16] Joshua Sao: [8:57] Investor Allen: By posting the stuff on Joshua you are not helping to make SL business fair and legit, your creating drama on a case that has no evidence.
LETTER JOSHUA SENT TO SLBB TODAY
Dear SLBB member,
I have been wrongly accused by the SLBB owner of unjustly reclaiming some peoples land. Of the complaints filed at least 3 of them were by the same person yet they are listed as 3 different people. As a sim owner I do reposes land for tier that is extremely late without notification or serious and repeated LL terms of service violations. I have made mistakes in the past and have fixed them when it is called to my attention. I also use a legal service with RL attorney in SL Monday Beam where if someone feels that I was in the wrong he will hear the case and make a decision that I abide by.
When Olive (the owner of the SLBB) contacted me she refused to check the information on the complaints and investigate them, I did my best to explain to her the reason for the reclaims but she refused to take any of it into consideration, she also refused to stop listing mutable complaints by the same person as if they were coming from different people. This was a very one sided process that did not involve any investigation of the facts by the SLBB. I have a very fair process when things like this happens and it is very rare that it actually gets to the point of actually reclaiming land. In fact, one of the ones she lists she left out the reasons for the reclaim, here they are if you want to see one of the many parts she left out on the web page:
Mutable complaints were filed. Objects extended onto other peoples land and the whole sim, when asked to move told neighbor to fuck off. There is still an object that extends sim wide that has not been removed. Placed image spam outside neighbors sky business in order to scare off customers. Ripped off people renting vendors on property causing them to dump prim spam all over the sim. Having a club running it when the covenant specifically says no clubs or malls on the sim.
If those things happen on the main land (like dropping an object that can span 100 sims2) the person would have been banned from the game. And even at that the resident got a chance to plead their case in front of a RL attorney.
Also the guy who is listed 3 times as 3 different complaints (macs yue) was booted out because he did not pay tier, he said his reason was because the previous owner said that the tier had been prepaid. I did investigate and spoke to the previous owner (Nomad Rovio) and was told that he said no such thing when selling the land. If Macs did not lie and said he forgot to pay, or did about anything else other than lie about it the outcome would have been different. None of these facts were taken into consideration by OliveEue.
A couple things the Owner of the SLBB does not want you to know is she was more eager to start a black list than to check the facts, yes I was wrong in a couple of the repos that I have done and those people either got paid or their land back, I'm not perfect but I'm not a scammer and I have over 100 residents on my properties that will tell you the same. What OliveEue also does not want you to know is that she had a group for attorneys in SL before the SLBB where she charged 1000 L$ for the membership than after about a month she kicked everyone out of the group and than left it without notice or explanation to any of the members. She has also had Harassment TOS tickets filed against her by me and other people she would not leave alone and kept spamming IMs at after she was asked politely to stop.
Thank you for taking the time out to read this, honestly I am just glad for a chance to be heard about some of these issues.
Joshua Sao
Sao Estates
