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The Patriotic Nigras is a group of Griefers in the online multiplayer game Second Life.

The Patriotic Nigras exists solely to disrupt and abuse members of the online world Second Life. They attack there targets en masse showering the victims with racist or obscene images or creating storms of particle that block the victims vision. Another one of there common tactics is to make there avatars very similar to those of the players they are harassing and then to destroy there avatars in gruesome ways.

History

The group was started in 2006 by an anonymous user known as "Mudkips Acronym". They had 143 members as of September, 2007 around which 35-60 were active. The Patriotic Nigras are said to operate hundreds, if not thousands of accounts in second life.

"Mudkips Acronym" resigned as leader of the PN in August, 2007 after an anti-greifing organization Justice League Unlimited dug up personal information on the co-leader of the the Patriotic Nigras N3X15 including his phone number and published it on the internet, MA resigned in fear the something similar would happen to him. The current leader of the group is known as "Frizzlefry101".

The group was gained media coverage after an attack on the second life headquarters of John Edwards, and an attack on a room where second life user Anshe Chung was being interviewed after making over one million dollars in real world money off the game was invaded by flying penises.

The group was at first tolerated by the produces of second life Linden Labs but the John Edwards attack Linden Labs began to crack down and now take efforts to find and ban greifers on sight.

References

  1. ^ Giles, Jim. "Serious Grief". New Scientist 9:1-7 (2007). Pages 52-53.
  2. Girard, Nicole. "Griefer Madness: Terrorizing Virtual Worlds". MacNews. Accessed August 10, 2008.
  3. "Evidence of Script Stealing Exploit Surfaces". The Griefer Herald. Accessed August 10, 2008.
  4. Fulco, Ivan. "Griefer: non chiamatemi vandalo, sono un attivista dei mondi virtuali!". La Stampa. Accessed August 10, 2008. (Italian)
  5. Giles, Jim. "Virtual entrepreneurs and 'griefers' spoil the fantasy of online worlds". New Scientist.