katiapfurtscheller Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Hey folks, Every since I have started renting parcels and sims in Second Life I notice that at least half a dozen times daily a bot turns up on my land. What I find bizarre is that 90% of them are seven months old, which suggests they were created in May 2021. Almost every bot is seven months old. The most chilling one is a person called Dead Jenny, which kind of freaks me out because my name is Jennifer. Also, the bots never show up when I am on sim. Yesterday, I tested it - I logged off for 30 minutes and when I came back one seven month old bot had been ejected. Any thoughts on what is going on here? Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Surveys, you'd need to ask the person deploying them what particular information is driving them. Most likely it's somebody with a database that doesn't have enough data (yet). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 (edited) Years ago - many years ago - we had a fun thread started here on the forums about a strange avatar that was parked always on land adjacent to someone else's. After several more sightings of other similar looking avatars we found they belonged to an organisation called Traffic Injection, although to this day I am not 100% how that worked particularly. Some people in Second Life like to build and create and manufacture to sell items. Others like bots - for all kinds of purposes - some to crawl and get information about land prices or possibly what's currently on a parcel of land. The name though is just a coincidence that it is the same as your own, I am 99.99999% sure of that. And maybe they all just keep landing on your spot because the owner of them used to rent/live there and hasn't got a new home base for them perhaps. You could find out who they belonged to by pressing "ctrl" and "3" and then clicking on an attachment on the avatar and it may show the group it belongs to and give you more information. Adding a photo, maybe explain slightly better. (click on photo might enlarge it to see a bit better) From memory the actual profile for this avatar did not tell us anything, least of all the groups she was in. Edited December 19, 2021 by Marigold Devin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 3 hours ago, katiapfurtscheller said: Also, the bots never show up when I am on sim. Yesterday, I tested it - I logged off for 30 minutes and when I came back one seven month old bot had been ejected. I suspect that was just luck. I was asked to script a visitor recorder a few months back for somebody also annoyed at people arriving at her place and departing after 20 or 30 seconds, and never replying to an IM. She also, like you, felt this was creepy. The bots come and go there perhaps 2 or 3 a day, all dating, as you have identified, from earlier this year. One thing you can do to try and avoid having them in your face is to use your parcel option settings and designate a particular spot on the parcel as the arrival spot. Anybody, bot or genuine avatar, will arrive there no matter where their stored landmark would try to put them, or where they clicked on the map. You can still use TPs yourself that go where you wish, and you can TP others into beside you. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiapfurtscheller Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 I spoke to somebody a few months ago and they claimed to have tracked some of these bots (the dead Jenny one) to a location. And apparently, there were hundreds of them in the one place. I wish I remembered her name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystina Ferraris Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 I agree with Mari, your display name might be Jennifer but your actual name is katiapfurtscheller. I would worry more if I suddenly saw bots with names like DeadKat or something similar to your actual account name. Maybe I’m just being naive here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiapfurtscheller Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 Interestingly, the dead Jenny bot showed up on a sim I was banned for - and yup I was being blamed on being her!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystina Ferraris Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Well you’re already banned from that place so what’s the worst that can happen! Let them have a field day wondering what Jen is up to 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katiapfurtscheller Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 Now I logged off again, for about 20 minutes and BAAAM ...another bot. Again 7 months old. Never when I am online. Only when I go off. Are they tracking me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, katiapfurtscheller said: Now I logged off again, for about 20 minutes and BAAAM ...another bot. Again 7 months old. Never when I am online. Only when I go off. Are they tracking me? Keep tracking THEM! Make a proper note of when they are visiting you. Maybe - maybe - someone has your name on an online tracker and sends them whenever you log off. Trick them perhaps by having an alt come online to watch. Or it might just be a coincidence. I mean, why would anyone be tracking you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alazarin Mondrian Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Marigold Devin said: Years ago - many years ago - we had a fun thread started here on the forums about a strange avatar that was parked always on land adjacent to someone else's Our Lady of Perpetual Silence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, Alazarin Mondrian said: Our Lady of Perpetual Silence Beloved Brokli and co - you started it all off, and it ran for ... years really! And I don't think we ever did find out the whole truth, but it was fun. Such fun. Thank you for sharing your strange serene visitor with us. 🥰 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 You're never alone... It's odd, only yesterday an old friend asked me for my thoughts on synchronicity, and here we are, discussing a an actual case of it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alazarin Mondrian Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Good old Brokli... just goes to show that bots can be a source of entertainment in their own mute way. I can't remember if we built a shrine to her at one point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Just now, Alazarin Mondrian said: Good old Brokli... just goes to show that bots can be a source of entertainment in their own mute way. I can't remember if we built a shrine to her at one point. There was indeed a shrine, and a true community spirit as one by one half of the forum people of that time paid her a visit. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) Here's the shrine... We took bus tours... We tried to send her off to space... We tried an exorcism, but she would have none of it... She was a deadly force... July of 2011. We still haven't found anything better to do after all this time? Edited December 20, 2021 by Madelaine McMasters 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said: Here's the shrine... We took bus tours... We tried to send her off to space... We tried an exorcism, but she would have none of it... She was a deadly force... In some ways it feels like only yesterday, in others it feels like a lifetime and a half ago. We may have come full circle, or we may just be halfway around the bend. Edited December 20, 2021 by Marigold Devin bend it straighten it, I'm off to bed now ni-night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alazarin Mondrian Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) I recognise that. I built it. I'll have to take a look in my inventory for it. Good times I found it and sent you a copy. Edited December 20, 2021 by Alazarin Mondrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, Marigold Devin said: In some ways it feels like only yesterday, in others it feels like a lifetime and a half ago. We may have come full circle, or we may just be halfway around the bend. I guess we'll know in eleven years. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwin Alcott Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 8 hours ago, katiapfurtscheller said: IAnd apparently, there were hundreds of them in the one place seeing the allowed avatars on a region by LL limits... that's not likeley possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaRavencroft Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 I generally just ignore the Jenny one when I see it. I forget where I usually see it, but, it always seems like a store. Meh. I can think of a few reasons to have a bot, but, I also store my L$ on one of my alts, so.. go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Bots that pop on and then leave are survey bots. They stay long enough to get data about the region, typically they are only interested in land, what's for sale/unoccupied, by whom, etc etc .. and due to the complaints on here, have probably been programmed to try and show up when no one is about. They aren't trying to follow people around the grid, to be effective, that would take an insane number of bots and generate an unmanageably large dataset ... we would be tripping over them, everywhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 8 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said: I guess we'll know in eleven years. That's probably the most hopeful thing anyone has said to me in a couple of years. 4 hours ago, Alwin Alcott said: seeing the allowed avatars on a region by LL limits... that's not likeley possible. I am almost sure the most bots I saw on one region was at Quark, and I am almost sure I counted 96, but did I dream that many. I thought regions could only hold a maximum of 50. Going back to 2008. And a certain organisation had four regions together that housed batches of bots, a couple of hundred in large buildings. Always looked like hundreds when I looked at the world map. 9 hours ago, Alazarin Mondrian said: I recognise that. I built it. I'll have to take a look in my inventory for it. Good times I found it and sent you a copy. Thank you. I love it! So nice to this again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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