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Is sharing the Names of a Griefer and the Many Alts They Use to Grief Others Okay?
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franklincoln
Hello, everyone,
I would love to have Linden Lab's official position on this, but... *sigh*
I know of a griefer who has been harassing many, many Residents and many, many sims often repeatedly for at least a year now. Some of the things that have been done are extremely vicious.
They have used many alts, maybe near 20, to do so. A lot of these alts no longer exists. I know for a fact the Linden Lab banned 3 of them within 2 days.
However, a number of them do still exist and this person keeps creating new alts to grief with.
With regards to the Community Standards, it says this:
http://secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php
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4. Disclosure
Residents are entitled to a reasonable level of privacy with regard to their Second Life experience. Sharing personal information about your fellow Residents without their consent -- including gender, religion, age, marital status, race, sexual preference, alternate account names, and real-world location beyond what is provided by them in their Resident profile -- is not allowed. Remotely monitoring conversations in Second Life, posting conversation logs, or sharing conversation logs without the participants' consent are all prohibited.
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Further down in the Standards, there is this:
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Alternate Accounts
While Residents may choose to play Second Life with more than one account, specifically or consistently using an alternate account to harass other Residents or violate the Community Standards is not acceptable. Alternate accounts are generally treated as separate from a Resident's principal account, but misuse of alternate accounts can and will result in disciplinary action on the principal account.
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I have an acquaintance who claims sharing the names in-world of the main account and the alts they use to grief with with others who are being harassed and attacked and crashed is against the Community Standards because of the "Disclosure" section.
I think he is wrong in his claim. I think if a Resident is using alts for the purpose of griefing, they have -no- right to "a reasonable level of privacy" (as is stated in Disclosure) with regards to sharing their primary account's and alts' names with others who have been and are being attacked in order to protect themselves -- and so they can do full and accurate Abuse Reports on this person.
In fact, given what is stated in the "Alternate Accounts" section, I think the Community Standards actually supports doing this.
As I said, I would love to have Linden Lab's official position on this, but that isn't very likely to happen.
So what do people here think with regards to this matter? Thanks.
-- Frank Lincoln
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FOLLOW-UP:
Ah, well thanks, everyone. It's nice to know all of you believe in the hypocritical "Don't do as I do, do as I say" policy of Linden Lab. It's basically what I expected.
I'll be sure to tell the people who were harassed and attacked for months your opinions.
And, gees, some folks wonder why membership in Second Life is dropping!
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