Marianne McCann

Also, double prims, lots of protected edges.

It will depend on what specifically they did. If they committed fraud (selling empty boxes, etc.), abuse report them from inworld and include the relevant information in the body of the report. If their listings was incorrect, flag their listings from the item page. If they are selling things they should not (ripped content, copyright content, 'copybotted' content, full-perm mesh sets they don't have resell rights for, etc.) contact the original creator of that content and urge them to file a DMCA on the content.

I added a jira requesting the addition of a "Share on Plurk" button to the rather lengthy list of buttons on the bottom of these pages. As a Plurk regular, there's a pretty strong SL community there, and I feel it would be great to share materials here and bring in their voices. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41561

"Similarly, some of the first educators and researchers in SL were a bit clumsy in their approach. There were early incidents in which Residents felt—rightly—that they were being spied upon or treated like guinea pigs rather than human beings. Imagine how you would feel if an entire class of students set up right next to your vacation hideaway, left trash lying around, logged your conversations, and posted them on the Internet with criticism and mean-spirited comments. This is exactly what happened to some early Residents. Things have improved greatly in the years since then, but sometimes SL Residents are still subject to that kind of inconsiderate behavior. For example, a constant stream of researchers (often students) posts on the Second Life official forums requesting that Residents please take their surveys. Most of these surveys include the same questions that have been asked over and over. Often they aren't spell-checked, or refer to SL as a game—a sure way to irritate a substantial number of Residents. Some Residents make a hobby of critiquing these surveys, pointing out how the questions and their wording make it clear that the researcher isn't familiar with Second Life. Some post outright that they are sick of badly planned surveys and suggest that the researchers log in and do their own research." From The Second Life Grid: The Official Guide to Communication, Collaboration, and Community Engagement by Kimberly Rufer-Bach ISBN-13: 9780470412916

That I can only click "like" once on this reply is unfortunate.

As I think the JIRAs I posted above might point out, while I really like the Places pages, I find them rather limiting. The Good: I can show off the places I have built and am proud of, including more and larger pictures. It's vastly more compelling to look at than the old search results version. Plus being able to add a spherical or a video link really ups the possibilities. The Bad: There needs to be more still. I want to be able to show off more than four photos (hero + three additional). I want to show my event listings. I want to include more information. I want a map on it. I want deeper information on any given place. If these pages are to be the gold standard for a directory of this metaverse we share, then it is going to have to have more information than your typical Wikipedia stub page. The Big Question: (you thought I was gonna say ugly, huh?) We currently have the following: world.secondlife.com search (which serves the "more info" in the web-based search) http://search.secondlife.com/ http://secondlife.com/destinations http://maps.secondlife.com/ and now https://places.secondlife.com/ How can these (and maybe even land.secondlife.com, my.secondlife.com, or events.secondlife.com) work together to make for a better experience. How many of the above can be integrated into a single killer directory?

That is unfortunate.

That's the tricky part, to be sure. I'd be happy to have photos of happy people enjoying my parcels. I don't want pictures of angry people griefing my parcels. Hence, it would be useful to have a couple levels of curation. 1. Pictures taken by a user would not show up on a places page if they unselected "Show Location" (using my.secondlife.com as the example) 2. A page owner can uncheck "show photo taken by others" on their places page, disallowing *any* photos other than their own on their Places page. 3. A page owner can click an "X" in the upper right hand corner of any picture on their page to disallow that picture from showing up on their Places page. A similar mechanism to removing photos from a Flickr group that one moderates. Additionally, if a person is banned from a given parcel or region, none of their pictures from said parcel or region would show up on the page. That may seem obvious (how could they take a picture from a place they can't get to), but would account for photos taken *before* such a ban took place.

Did a JIRA or six: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41555 (Integration of search data) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41556 (Integration of Second Life Map) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41557 (Additional text area) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41558 (Integration of event information) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41559 (Additional Share button for Plurk) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-41560 (Integration of my.secondlife.com images)

Huzzah!

I'd love to see the Bay City thread get re-pinned in mainland. :-)

Sounds like a good time to test it!

E2V

When I was weighing what vendor system to go with when upgrading from basic box sales, the reputation of both spoke for themselves.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the waters of Daley Bay have gone green! (We're at least 62% sure it's non-toxic!)

I never have the time for alts, though the money holding alt I have for Bay City stuff is a polar opposite of my main. Mostly because I was doing a riff off "the main in the gray flannel suit" with it. My main is pretty close to my in first life, except in age.

And yet, you didn't! ;-)

Ah, that's right! THAT was the feature from the previous forum that caused me to not use it! Thanks for the reminder! I was wondering what it was that made this more useful to me over the previous.

That's the ninja smiley! Great for lurkers.

Looks like you have a new best friend, Rhonda! ;-)

Yes. That being hit on the heard hurts!

Oh, I'm sorry, it's being hit on the head lessons in here.

Bay City, nothing but trouble (welcome to my end of SL!) ;-)

This is where I pull out a helpful old paragraph: "Similarly, some of the first educators and researchers in SL were a bit clumsy in their approach. There were early incidents in which Residents felt—rightly—that they were being spied upon or treated like guinea pigs rather than human beings. Imagine how you would feel if an entire class of students set up right next to your vacation hideaway, left trash lying around, logged your conversations, and posted them on the Internet with criticism and mean-spirited comments. This is exactly what happened to some early Residents. Things have improved greatly in the years since then, but sometimes SL Residents are still subject to that kind of inconsiderate behavior. For example, a constant stream of researchers (often students) posts on the Second Life official forums requesting that Residents please take their surveys. Most of these surveys include the same questions that have been asked over and over. Often they aren't spell-checked, or refer to SL as a game—a sure way to irritate a substantial number of Residents. Some Residents make a hobby of critiquing these surveys, pointing out how the questions and their wording make it clear that the researcher isn't familiar with Second Life. Some post outright that they are sick of badly planned surveys and suggest that the researchers log in and do their own research." From The Second Life Grid: The Official Guide to Communication, Collaboration, and Community Engagement by Kimberly Rufer-Bach ISBN-13: 9780470412916

Huzzah! Welcome back! Pull up a chair and stay awhile. :-)