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I've been pointed out to a Reply by Wayne Porter to a post of an Interview I had with him. He says "I tend to look for solutions rather than point fingers".

I've had fingers pointed at me, I'm having fingers pointed at me, and I have committed no theft, I have passed any and all knowledge I have about the WSE scandal in a proactive manner to the appropriate powers that be. Essentially, with the exception of posting everything below, I have done all I can do from here on out by myself. The rest is going to us all to step up and make changes. Actions can beat words down with a stick, while being blind-folded.

Am I now just pointing fingers myself, and stirring the drama I dislike? Yes, I am. I am angry and I have good reason to be.

A friend told me this is a pivotal time, an important time and what we do, whether it is perceived as a game or reality, is shaping the world. I could grind axes until there is nothing but a tiny piece of metal left, I could keep up this warfare and allow it to serve no purpose other than an outlet for my anger.

What can I do here? What solutions or remedies can I offer? How can I make SecondLife better than I found it? What would I want my children to look back and see?

From here, the warfare will cease. This will be my time to cool off and offer up solutions to those willing to listen, instead of pointing fingers. We can share Ideas instead of pointless bickering.

• Exchanges needs clear outlines on how everything will be handled. From running CEOs to Exchange malfunctions to Freezing accounts.
• Investors, this is still a game, although the heartache and the good times feel real, and they are real. For some, this is how they move and interact socially.
• Shares get traded by emotion, emotion is handed over by risk, and risk is only what reality agrees it is. It's what you and I agree it is. We agree what risk is, we know the problem, now we find a solution.
• We need more ideas, solutions, and most importantly unity. We can create a society by joining hands, but a whole society can be destroyed by pointing fingers.

As for Exchanges in general, a part of this emerging Second Life, here are some ideas you can do to join hands in creating a successful market together.

1. Stop allowing these crazy huge transactions. Limit what people can withdraw per day, week, month, etc. Limit what people can deposit in the same fashion.
   • This will allow you greater time to discover fraudulent activity and prevent a major event that could ultimately ruin the market.
   • Don't just set up LSL scripts and rely on that protection, make it site-wide. The tools are there, use them.
2. Ask a CEO to reveal them. Get a signed document to protect investors. Setup a fund to protect investors.
   • Use some of those trading fees to setup a fund, retain a lawyer and have the fraudster in court. There are plenty of hungry Lawyers needing jobs too.
   • Use that IPO Fee to do a background check before the CEO can access the capital. Save the heartache instead of sipping Starbucks.
3. Don't look at just CEOs, look at traders too. This market is so thinly traded; an ALT can crash a stock and make thousands in a matter of seconds.
   • Allow Avatar linking for accounts, this way you can get trends on how the trader is affecting stocks, good or bad. Or so she/he can transfer funds to their ALT in the event Linden Labs has banned or suspended their primary for sending a nude shot to the wrong person -- accidentally -- in a PG area.
   • Setup a capping system, if a stock drops below a certain percentage; halt the stock until it can be reviewed. This is a small step towards Insider Trading. I would be angry if I got dumped some shares and the seller knew the CEO was in Orientation Island tidying up his/her new shiny Account. Loss is mitigated when it is shared among many.
4. Don't let outside groups that depend on SecondLife's group system to 'guide' you to the light. Tyranny is one thing, CABAL is another.
   • Sure these groups will taunt a little publicity and grab your good graces, but have you asked yourself why they care so much?
   • Get real guidance from a professional, not someone you stumbled onto in SecondLife who is a self-proclaimed stock market guru, if that was the case they would be in Bahamas sipping whatever they sip there, wearing a nice shiny robe -- you get the picture.
5. Don't think of just software security, think of personal security as well. Most hacking is achieved by social engineering.
   • Don't give out mod rights to your objects, no matter who it is, even if they do work for you. It's just like giving away your password -- you wouldn't do that, would you?
   • Make your business a professional business. You shouldn't brag to anyone that you have this, this, or that -- they gives someone confirmation that you're a good target and can easily be deceived -- hard targets disclose only the typical.
6. Disclosing the bad things can save your tail. You won't achieve much more than deception if you hide everything. You never know what person waits to help you out of a sticky situation.
   • Good, bad, ugly. Tell us. It's your responsibility to mitigate risk, even if that risk is you. Don't be ashamed, I don't know a single 'perfect' person.
   • Don't try to hide everything -- Silence is consent.

I'd be rather impressed if people could send in solutions to be posted here while leaving their finger pointing at the door.

Sure I'm under a lot of scrutiny right now, but that's natural and I expected it would happen once I went public. Everyone has an opinion, but not everyone can control it. Opinions are just someones take on a given subject. Opinions are also largely based on Rules. If there are no Rules, opinions are scattered. When opinions are scattered, creativity of ideas are free flowing and anything that is true can end up being construed as something entirely the opposite.

I could have sat happily on the throne as a top company of WSE -- check the data, it's all there. But I risked my entire work, SL income, reputation and most importantly my REAL identify, to tell the story that I'm sure we're all aware would have never been told.

Judge me all you want, "oh, she had to have known!" --

Did you know you were being scammed by someone you knew when they wrote a bad check for your VCR?
Did you know you were being scammed when your friend stayed the night with you and you woke up to missing jewelry?

Did you ever have a roommate who was your very best friend and over time had to find out the hard way she really wasn't when she took your rent money and paid for another apartment and left you without a home, did you think you would get scammed?

Did you ever know you were being scammed when you had given the poor homeless guy a five dollar bill because he was hungry, only to find him moments later with a beer can and asking you for money again, not remembering you just gave him money?

Life is full of deception. It's how you handle the deception by prevention and education that helps mitigate losses, and ultimately risk.

You can accept me for who I am and what we can do together, or you can point your fingers in the mirror, keep in mind the mirror will point back.

This is Shania. I have officially spoken my peace.

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