thank you for this thread, lord darkmatter:
I fully agree! The procedure is complicated enough as it is:
1. The data base on aristotele may be huge, but as expected they do not have every citizen in the world on file.Some residents need to send in a copy of an ID and a utility bill via a ticket to Linden Lab, despite most IDs in many country being proof of the adress of a citizen. Linden Labs verify in due time, which is helpful.
2. The next hurdle to get into adult rated Sims is activating adult content in the preferences -> general ->search for:pg, mature, adult content
Once both is done, these residents have access to a multitude of adult sims and get them in search as well. However I was baffled when they were unable to come to MY sim, despite them being verified adults and being able to give me details of other adult sims from the search function, my sim was still not available to them, although I only activated 'adult' as the only rating that could stop anyone from visiting it.
to make SURE its only the adult setting that stops adults who can VIEW adult content in search that stops them from coming to my sim, I deactivated the adult setting, tped them in...and on reactivating it again they were ejected...
Now as far as I know only verified adult residents can see adult places in search. Why is it still not possible that they tp into my sim, even after having taken the first two hurdles successfully??
Generally the procedure is already too complicated, as even payments made by credit card do not verify. However only adult rating of a sim protects the sim owner against possible minors witnessing whatever may be seen by residents of a country we do not even know the law of, and about what qualifies as adult content: While in the US a visible bare breast may be rated 'adult content', in some oriental country that may already apply to a female unveiled face. In denmark a bare breast would most certainly not be seen as X- rated. No one can guarantee a perfect supervision of all public chat or voice in a sim making sure it has no violent or sexual content. The only way to stay safe as a sim owner is setting the sim to 'adult' no matter what the content may be.
However I too have witnessed verified adults being unable to come and see my sim, as if the underlying permissions were different from adult sim to adult sim.
Like 90% of the sims we offer content for residents to enjoy, however I can t get rid of the impression the permission system is faulty.
*hugs*
Larah Oh