Are there any official statistics on frequency of griefing?

[Blaze Greybeard]

I am a student studying an MA in Education in Virtual Worlds and want to write a short peice on griefing.  I am looking for some statistics on how prolific griefing is and or has been in sl.  Are any such information availalbe? Such as how many incidents reported a month or something like that?

[Fenimore Hapmouche]

I'd be very surprised to see any company publish that information for any of their online properties.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Hello Blaze and welcome to SL Answers.

I don't believe Linden Lab categorizes the various Abuse Reports, their findings and remedies in a publicly available report. This would be an interesting document to read but the extra filtering, analysis & research required to make it reflect the actual number of incidences would require additional labor that I think LL can ill afford. [e.g. Merging multiple A.R. reports for a single incident to reflect a single incidence of griefing observed by many. - You get the idea. ]

Additionally I don't think giving the Griefing Community a public metric to gage their ineffectiveness is a great idea.

 

[Rolig Loon]

None at all.  Many years ago LL used to post a weekly log of people who had been banned from SL for griefing, but I believe they discontinued that featuire in about 2009.  As you can imagine, there are a couple of practical reasons not to publish statistics like that.  First, of course, they are not numbers for Linden Lab to be proud of.  There's little to gain by telling the world how many bad guys are running around in SL.  Second, the statistics are likely to be very misleading.  In my 7 years in SL, I have probably submitted a dozen ARs.  I am not easily offended, and I can take care of myself.  A lot of SL residents are very sensitive, though, and see every minor slight as a reportable offense.  I suspect that a pretty high percentage of the griefers who are reported to LL are not griefers at all.  Anyway, the bottom line is that there are no accessible statistics.

[LishaJoya Haven]

I agree with all 

But in conjunction there are devices you can wear that count the scripts against your avatar (scripts to crash, deform etc) and it names them all and lets you know who is doing it.  U can count for yourself 

 

I  HIGHLY advise you DO NOT go picking a fight to find out - you can be considered a griefer for that and why lower your self to that level?

 

ADDING.....why dont u ask people about griefing? and see the rest of the forums on people talking about griefing - add the pscyhological reprocussions for greifing...and the like...

 

I hope that helps

[Syo Emerald]

There are no such statistics and also it would be difficult to draw a clear picture of griefing in SL in general.

Griefing can take place in many forms. From chaotic individuals who fload a public sandbox, over griefers who express their taste or moral views by griefing specific themed places (I know of furrysims being griefed, escortplaces and beastiality related places) to very personal issues, where a former partner or friend starts to grief one single person.

Many griefings don't even get AR'd. Sometimes because the griefed person don't know how or doesn't thing it will help. Other times experianced residents either know how to fight back or just leave the griefer alone (for example going to another sandbox when one gets griefed).

[steph Arnott]

Statistics mean nothing because people use them to support their argument by only publishing the parts that they want and if the survey was done by them then they are even more ridiculous because the criteria is set by them. Modern alchemy.

[Lindal Kidd]

The only number I've ever heard of  is a statistic that I got at third (or fourth or fifth) hand...someone once told me that LL receives a couple of thousand ARs a day.

But as others have said, even if you consider that number as accurate, it tells you nothing about actual griefing.  There's a lot of other stuff, most of it trivial, that gets AR'd.