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Abnor Mole

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  1. The objects rez and ask for permission to attach (or auto attach if they are part of an experience the person has agreed to). If they cannot attach they will just sit there rezzed if the creator hasn't accounted for that possibility and made them die if not attached.
  2. Residents aren't always aware of the covenant and many just put out a device at it's default settings or try every option that it can do. Creators of devices very much should be concerned with the spirit of the law rather than just the letter of it if their products can be set in a way that goes against it's intent. When problems occurred with devices that automatically added avatars to the parcel ban list we updated the covenant to disallow use of that feature. We would do the same with any other features that became problematic. It is in security device creator's best interests to design their features with both of those in mind. Disallowing settings in the Belisseria estate that are not allowed by the covenant and not introducing features that would do an end run around them or break the intent of why those restrictions are there in the first place means their devices won't be set incorrectly and are returned to their owner. Because yes... if it is decided that checking if devices are set incorrectly and responding to reports of incorrectly set devices it simply too onerous or widespread; opting to change the covenant to disallow use of any device other than the one provided is where that would be going. We don't want to do that because we are not on opposite sides. We want creators to have a market for offering features our device does not. Creators just need to be thoughtful which features they offer and how they can be used or misused intentionally or unintentionally. That is why creators very much should have a huge interest in the spirit of the covenant.
  3. If the orb is automatically adding avatars to the orb blacklist (circumventing the normal warning time) then it is essentially the same as a parcel ban, just without the ban lines. Your device would need to prompt the owner if they wish to add avatars it detects to either the parcel ban list or to the orbs blacklist or both, rather than doing so automatically and indiscriminately. Essentially, if an individual is going to be immediately denied access to a parcel it needs to be based on an active decision by the owner to ban that individual on a case by case basis rather than a blanket banning of anyone who enters and/or is ejected. That should apply whether that denial is done by the parcel access list or by a scripted object. The security section of the Bellisseria covenant is meant to encourage a presumption of innocence (or ignorance) before malice rather than the other way around; which is how many security orbs have historically been made or used and why they are often considered a bane on travel and exploration on mainland. One could argue that adding avatars to the orb's blacklist automatically doesn't violate the letter of the covenant; but it would still go against the spirt of the covenant to do so. If need be we would update the wording of covenant to reflect that, making devices that automatically add avatars to their blacklist non-compliant in both spirit and letter. On a side note, in the years since the launch of Bellisseria and the security orb policy there my own personal experience when traveling across mainland has been with a notable reduction in the number of security orbs I encounter that teleport people home with no warning.
  4. One of the biggest complaints seems to be that the old mentor program failed because it was not properly managed by the Lab. I'm not sure how creating a resident run group would help in this regard since by definition it would not have any oversight by the Lab. If a group of residents wants to create their own group dedicated to helping new residents there is a way to do that... by applying to form your own Community Gateway (with the accompanying commitment and compliance). That way you are able to build and run it with all your ideas of how it should be run without coming in conflict with the existing program.
  5. Mentors are instructed they need to be professional at all times. If you have witnessed any who are not, a better course of action would be to inform Viola. (rather than talking about it on the forums where people like to argue about anything and everything) That said, we have also heard complaints from Mentors as well who feel some residents enter the Welcome Hub more intent on undermining their efforts by "proving they know more" than actually helping new residents.
  6. Resident are not restricted to certain areas, but we don't want a new residents to feel crowded as soon as they land. Let them orient themselves a bit and decide if they want to take the social path or the self guided orientation first. If it becomes a problem we can make signs to that effect, but it should be common sense for most long time residents to know not to crowd a landing area. Maybe you should have privately messaged the mentor instead. If they have the wrong information I'm sure they would like to know. You didn't make the mentor look bad in public, but you did to that resident. We do want old residents to feel they can engage with new residents and help them if they wish... but please defer to the Mentors in that regard. It is why they are there.
  7. I can't tell you when the next theme is coming out, but I can tell you when it is not coming out (if there is a rumor that it setting up unreasonable expectations). Like if there were a rumor that the next theme was releasing tomorrow I can tell you "No, it is not releasing tomorrow." In the same way I can't tell you what it will be... but I can tell you what it won't be for the same reason.
  8. To make that work in a Linden Homes environment smoosh all those islands in that picture in a quarter of that space or less and remove all the trees, deco, everything. Bare islands all jammed up close together.
  9. He said very clearly it is a code name, not a hint. Anyone taking it literally and thinking the next theme is going to all be thousands of little islands is going to be very disappointed.
  10. When we were building them we referred to them between ourselves as "Sandybrooke" in case you are looking for a non-official popular moniker.
  11. No, we can't. Object bonus affects all parcels in the entire region. It cannot be localized to an individual parcel (assuming there is even enough LI that is not spoken for that could be allocated). Persephone is correct. Land Impact on regions doesn't work the way you want it to work. Edit: If it did we probably would have offered it as a Premium Plus benefit ages ago.
  12. I have some bad news about the Secondhand Shorts Underwear Recycling Center...
  13. Yes, yes there is. Detroit style pizza is square, baked in a pan. The legend is it started when autoworkers would make pizza in square pans meant for holding parts they'd nicked from work.
  14. I suppose I could have made it more authentic if I'd made the pizzas on the "Generic Pizza" signs square.
  15. We set the media on those to what the client asked us to and I did mention that. If you just close the Facebook login popup on the screen the page will open without logging in.
  16. We realize this is different than what residents are used to in SL. What shouldn't be surprising really is that since we are are working with the music labels themselves they are very concerned with how the content under their management is offered. One of those concerns is with streaming content only to those in countries with which they have the legal right to do. It's not any different than how Netflix can stream a program if you are in one country, but not in another.
  17. Autoreturn would not have been a factor. When land changes ownership the autoreturn defaults to 0 (off) to prevent that very thing.
  18. Did you have another parcel deeded to the same group so they were sharing prims? When you reclaimed the land that sharing of prims is no longer in effect, meaning it can only support the LI of that parcel by itself. Anything more than that and it will return objects until it is not over its limit.
  19. I think an important point to remember is that when you do see Moles or Lindens in world, we are working. When residents are in world you are primarily playing (not that running a store or business is not work... quite the contrary). I'm only pointing out that much of the time you do see us, we are busily trying to meet one of those many deadlines on multiple projects Patch mentioned. That's not hiding or running away. As much as we'd like to hang out and chat we're usually just pressed for time.
  20. oops... I meant http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BelliHub/128/128/2
  21. There is information on all of this and more at the BelliHub http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CH6/54/130/33
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