🔔 LindenLab 🔔 : The Strong Need For Differentiation Between Actual Residents Versus Bots, Scripted Agents And NPC's In Second Life

[Lyric Demina]

I don't like that there are pictures of avatars with names clearly visible in this thread.  At least one of those avatars has a business title; and they are all clothed; how exactly are they hurting anybody in this world? 

In one of the pictures, it is perfectly easy to verify their purpose and/or passion (alt and/or regular account) is Tiny Empires, a HUD game that a person pays good money to play and which requires the recruitment of and daily conversations with real people in order to get anywhere in the game.  This is not to advocate for TE but to advocate, rather, for the legit human social activity behind these avatars represented (without their consent or the consent of the humans-in-charge) in at least one of these pictures.

This bot-or-NPC-apartheid discussion has already dehumanized the person-or-people behind the accounts of those avatars represented in those photos.  No good can come of that.

[Arwyn Quandry]

18 minutes ago, Floryn Tordenskjold said:

I don't like that there are pictures of avatars with names clearly visible in this thread.  At least one of those avatars has a business title; and they are all clothed; how exactly are they hurting anybody in this world? 

In one of the pictures, it is perfectly easy to verify their purpose and/or passion (alt and/or regular account) is Tiny Empires, a HUD game that a person pays good money to play and which requires the recruitment of and daily conversations with real people in order to get anywhere in the game.  This is not to advocate for TE but to advocate, rather, for the legit human social activity behind these avatars represented (without their consent or the consent of the humans-in-charge) in at least one of these pictures.

This bot-or-NPC-apartheid discussion has already dehumanized the person-or-people behind the accounts of those avatars represented in those photos.  No good can come of that.

I've seen too many screenshots of bots on platforms standing around TE setups to believe that people aren't using bots to play it. 

[Silent Mistwalker]

2 hours ago, Count Burks said:

When a normal users is idle for 24 hours in world without any form of navigation this is unusual but possible. The message also clearly indicates "IF your avatar is being used for other purposes than normal resident activity."

I do not see why anyone would be upset about that. Many games just log out players after 30 minutes of inactivity.

[Dakota Linden]

Greetings, All!

This thread has now been locked. 

If you come across avatars in world that you believe may be violating the Bot Policy, please file an Abuse Report against the account and the Governance Team will investigate. 

Using the Forums to "Name and Shame" has never been, and never will be, appropriate. 

The Forums are for the community to discuss Second Life and should not be used to Call out Lindens or request changes to the system.  There are appropriate processes, including but not limited to Jira and in world User Groups, that should be used where users may discuss their concerns and submit suggestions and bug reports.