Self-Replicating Prim Nuisance growing larger even as I type

[Kyrie Deka]

Hi!

UPDATED:  Thanks to everyone who answered below (and any future recommendations for us all too!).  I shortened this post up a bit too.  Some details left for keywords.

ISSUE:

A nuisance self-replicating object on my mainland parcel, left on one of the parcels in my region, growing larger and multiplying, flashing and loud, rapidly consuming the region and lowering frame rate, blocking sky, and pushing avi as they float around and grow larger and move.  Objects are huge blue or red morphing corkscrews and they grow to super-huge in size individually and float and move so that means even if I block them on my parcel they still somewhat float over from neighbors.  They each have their lovely air raid siren audio too that gets louder as it grows bigger, they each flash, and they actually push avatar (land set to no-push).   My auto-return is always set to 1 minute, and did not return them until I blocked the actual Owner name on each parcel.  All the corkscrew-objects contain two no-perm scripts (rc, and self) and some also contain a no-perm object, others do not.  I blocked owner, then blocked the object, then returned all objects.  Even after I blocked it all of course neighbors had not blocked and so neighbors were still growing, and the loud air raid siren in each travels to me on my parcel from objects on neighbors parcels, and as they multiply and grow in size on my neighbors properties they each float and stack and even when blocked rain down on my property and push avatar as they fall.  And that's all on the ground.  You'd think way up in the sky it might be better, and thankfully no more incessently flashing loud overtaking trash up there but the lag brings the Lag Meter for the Server down to red and usually up there my framerate flies but with this going on I can only walk-in-place.  Unfortunately it appears to be a very effective way to make land use unavailable actually.

Presuming some might think it no biggie to just log off and go do something else, for those that actually want to help if possible what is the most proactive/protective thing we little-people-parcel-owners out here can do to mitigate/help when we see this hitting our parcels?  Last time I heard someone describe this happening to them (only weeks ago) in a popup chat their sim crashed and they were down for days. 

 

My initial response:

What I do have available to me is prim "owners" name by right-clicking the nuisance object.  Having the owners name, I went to About Land >> Access and under blocked ADDED that owner's name.   Then went to Objects tab and "refreshed" the list at bottom > saw that prim owners name  was there with X prims and highlighted THEIR name (not mine!) and clicked Return Objects button.   I can then again right-click the Object somewhere on a neighbor's property and choose Manage >> Report Abuse.  Wished in the Abuse dropdown there was more than "...unfair..." to describe it--I see "unfair" as whining and this is more than that-Jes sayin.  I pull up object Owner name's provile and I see that object Owner is not a premium member -- this in no way shocks me, and at least until this is under control I also change land settings to ADD that visiting avis have to have payment info on file.  Make a mental note to maybe remove that again later--maybe.

 

And I am putting the nuisance object's avi names here at least until it is fixed in case someone who has the EASY button up in the sky sees this and can fix quicker.  Thankfully all virtual-problems are only a single button push away, even if its just the power button smiles.  Owner is showing to me here with green-dot as online.  Tried to get a response from Owner, but no response -- that was a *nice* thing I did though acknowledging that this could be an innocent avi account just stolen by griefer.  Hesitated to put any names here because accounts hacked maybe, but primary goal is to stop the maddness and in light of no-response/until response from object owner I'm putting them here so they can be dealt with.

Object name:  Object    Creator:  Oppps Cardalines  Owner:  Baysu   Group:  angel's eyry

 

Keywords:  sim crash grief nuisance

[Lindal Kidd]

First, file a support ticket.

Second, Abuse Report the object owner (not the creator, the owner.)

Third, Mute or Block the object owner.

Fourth, ban the object owner from your property.  You might wish to advise your neighbors in the sim to do the same.

While self replicating objects are possible, it's much more common for there to be a single object creating the corkscrews.  Try to track them back to their source.  If you can find the rezzing object (it's likely to be very small and transparent, and may even have stuck itself underground), you can Return it if it is on your land.  For that matter, use About Land/Objects to identify all objects owned by the griefer and Return them.

 

[Echo Hermit]

Wow, that looks like a challenge for anyone's graphics card - thank you for providing a screenshot.

This isn't a new problem, for sure. Some people unfortunately take great delight in attempting to spoil the enjoyment of others, by searching for land that has no auto-return on it, on which they dump their self-replicating prims.

Lindal's advice is absolutely correct. Linden Lab can do nothing unless they know about each incident as soon as possible, and so an abuse report must be submitted for each incident.

It is no use trying to contact the person who has rezzed the objects.

For us who choose to live on the mainland, we need to be good neighbours to each other, and ensure we all have auto-return on our land. This will help to minimise the griefing attacks.

[Leko Littlebird]

January 4, 2015 The exact same thing hapenned on my friend's sim.  The griefer in this case is  Feeloove and the creator is as in 2012  is Oppps Cardalines.   While the owner is the instance griefer, I see no function whatsoever for this device than to grief so it would seem prudent for Linden Labs to address the creator and delete the objects that create from all the servers as they are only intended as tools for griefing.