sallymayye

Currently sims use "campers" to increase the traffic of a sim. People won't be inclined to go there if its low traffic. So Linden may have found a way that "campers" are not counted for traffic. If they no longer count them, then there is no point parking them all over your sim, and logging them off means Lindens may save money. Still not sure why AFK sims still seem to represent the highest traffic. ( not all the AFK's are full time AFK, some people there when they are not doing anything else, for example when they go to bed , to try to make easy money ).

Well i can't agree with the OP. The AFK places are topping the searches, and what is an "AFK account " there is no such thing. Any ( and i'd suggest everyone ) is AFK at some point. How can they tell someone dancing on a pole and chatting in IM from someone parked on a pole and someone parked in a seat? How can they tell if three people are paragraph role playing or simply parked there?

That might be right, but it makes for a search as flawed as the last one. If a roleplay community had 40 regular people, they would be a very healthy and popular sim. But they will show terribly comparing unique visitors, to stores and pickup places, or hubs where ejected people with no homes stack up.

My friends and i started a new sim, and had slowly had some traffic. But it just dropped from near 3000 down to 175. I put "Sex" into search to get lots of hits. It looks like lots of traffic has dropped but one of those silly AFK places is still on top, so if it is meant to stop idle dwell time its not working. A lot of the visitors here have been getting shown around so it shouldn't show up as idle time. I'd love to know how Linden know if someone is idle, do they monitor chat? movement? what?