Top 25 Most Popular Second Life Sims for April 2012

Courtesy Louis Platini's Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here's April 2012's top 25 most popular Second Life sims including Adult-rated regions, which are generally porn, listed according to their average visitor count at any given period:

Click here to use SL's map function on the web to search and directly teleport to any of these sims. Last week, I posted the top 50 excluding Adult sims, but from now on, after reading the advice of readers, particularly Arcadia Codesmith, I'll be posting two charts: Top 25 without the Adult sims, and below the break (where things get kinky) the Top 25 uncensored. For this month, compare and contrast with the Mature/General-only list:

Thanks to Louis, by the way, for updating the Ratings in the latest version with Moderate and General, instead of the old school designations Mature and PG.

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[Adeon Writer]

Is there any correlation between the amount of general/moderate/adult regions on the grid, and their distribution on the top charts?

I'd assume, from looking at this, that most of the grid is Moderate rating.

[Adeon Writer]

Oh and - having a big of fun going down the list seeing how many of these sims use camping bots.

I won't point fingers, because I don't have that many fingers.

[Pussycat Catnap]

Fairly certain number 1 on the list is bot free.

I used to be a regular there. And as far back as 2009 it was bot-free and still insane in traffic.

The place just attracts nooblets like flies to... well... yeah...

If they actually enforced their theme, it might be fun to still go there. But the LAST thing you will ever find at SNB, is the second word in its title... :) And the first word is a tad hard to find too... :)

That said, the first time I ever saw 'SL blue and pink poseball bouncing' was on the beach there in 2009 - before the adult-content policy existed.

These days it is just hundreds of nooblets all packed in there walking around on default AOs and chatting - kind of like an infoHub, only more vibrant.

I need to get out more often these days - have only been to a few of the rest of the places on the list. I had thought B-Bliss-Island was a mainland Zindra spot. Now I suspect I may have it confused with another similarly named locale.
- Unless the place moved off of Zindra and it has been -that- long since I looked.

I would be curious to see top rated parcels rather than sims - so it could include mainland venues (without the added cushion a mainland sim might get by having 2 popular places on one sim).

[Iggy]

Headline Hamlet omitted:

"Brits Fall in Behind Sexy Nude Beach Bums, Hookers and Slave Girls Slip a Bit, Rise Reported for Bound Cowboys, Spooge-Fest Holds Steady at #5."

[Little Lost Linden]

Miami Island (contains Club Stacks) on the first chart is all bots. It's been that way for 6 months.

http://thebotzone.net/2011/12/28/the-bots-are-stacked-at-club-stacks/

[Tiffy Vella]

I'm glad that you are posting both lists, as it's an interesting comparison. But laughing as Sexy Nude Beach is still the top of both. I'm going to have to go lob up there and see what gives, one of these days. I'll send my nanna in to check it out, nude.

[foneco zuzu]

I only know Tempura, Crossroads and Frank's place!
Wish to see some really astonishing places on the list, but i'm glad that they aren't, as at least in those we can be without lag!
Still a shame that so many amazing places are closing doors and others seem so popular without deserving that for sure!

[Arcadia Codesmith]

Some days I suspect that the disconnect between quality and popularity is merely a dissonance between our professed tastes and what we actually value.