Adam Spark

If you break in to my house and steal all my stuff, and I discover it the next day, can I do anything about it? Not without taking you to court. The "taking you to court" part is accurate due to the rights creators have. Sure, you can copybot my stuff. If I catch you doing it and I can take you to court and make you pay for it, because I have rights over the distribution of my creation. Napster no longer exists because musicians had the right to distribute their content however they saw fit, not however you or I see fit.

Pretty sure the entire grid would have to be rebuilt and rewired for such things to work. Just adding adding the unique identifier system to replace the UUID system sounds like something 1000 times more difficult than anything Linden Lab wants to dream about, let alone attempt. Good ideas for someone who wants to get it done, somewhere, eventually. One thing I want to see changed is the ability to see the coordinates on all prim locations, not just those with rights to edit. This would make collab building so much easier and more accurate. Decorating a sales booth, for instance, would be a use case for such a tweak.

Two words: copyright law. Second Life exists legally because it offers a permissions system to comply with the rights of creators.

Creators have every right over the distribution of their intellectual property. Those behind a movie you purchase have every right to tell you not to use it in certain ways (hence the warnings about distribution/public broadcast without permission). Just because certain restrictions are not placed does not mean a creator doesn't have the right to do so. I am very open with the usage of my products, but I have every legal right not to be.

When I was brand new in SL, I made the mistake of taking LMs to places that by the time I landed there they were private homes. I was greeted so pleasantly by most back then - even formed some friendships - that I refuse to not pay that forward by treating people how I was (generally) treated. Now, once I know you are there intentionally for reasons less than ethical, well, you won't be there very long. But I refuse to be ban happy. Too many people innocently don't know what they are doing or use old LMs. I wouldn't want to move and have a person banned from a place just because this one time they intruded on my property by mistake.

With the exception of DJs (not all of which use club tip boards either), no not really. Live performers rarely if ever use any tip jars they don't have complete control over. Hosts and DJs often have their own tip jars too. As common as club boards are, it isn't exactly rare to see a host or a dj owned tip jar.

Performers generally own tip jars and club owners generally have no control (nor should need it) over their tips. In the use case of shared tips or DJ boards, a transaction triggered by a payment should go through. I have no issue with this. What should be stopped are the invisible transactions that bad apples can trigger. Every transaction that does not involve a payment or some other authorization by the loser of the money should not be possible on a technological level, in my humble opinion.

But surely there has to be a way for scripts to only take money when both debit is acknowledged and when a user requests the withdrawal. The fact that debit perms can allow random withdraw amounts to empty a purse surely can be stopped under the hood? But then there is a reason somebody else does these things and not me. It just feels like a loophole LL has resigned itself to not being able to fix - which they are notorious for.

It has been implemented. Its just flawed. 10 to 50Ls per event for a club to advertise is nonsense. The cost of a dime or less to advertise a real world event would never compute with anyone, but yet here in this world, thats the reality. Maybe one day they will take some zeros off of the cost of owning land and tack one or two onto the cost of advertising.

What I meant by letting scripts get away with it wasn't implying that LL doesn't have ways to deal with it. I meant that it kind of shocks me that the ability to take money from accounts unknowingly after one simple debit click using a timer exists in the system. Some gift cards do in certain situations - I have use gift cards that become vendors for the item when you click on the in-store vendor. If my balance is less than the cost, I have had the remaining L's taken via debit perms.

Seriously? Linden Lab lets scripts get away with this? I've used shopping huds and gift cards that "buy" via the gift card hud. It never occurred to me that the grid would make it possible to have these things take your money without the explict action for every instance of payment. This needs to change. Like a decade ago.

Even debit permissions still require a pay action on the users end, or receipt of lindens by the user. The permission just allows an object to take the Ls you tell it to take. Take the Relay For Life kiosks. I rez one and accept debit (I have to do this so that the money I get gets funneled automatically to the American Cancer Society). The kiosk is still not capable of blindly removing my lindens - just the lindens that the kiosk pays me. So with that said I am sure it could be done without trust being a part of the equation.

I have seen many comments, and several responses from creators. Is it an underutilized feature? Sure, but it is there. There is nothing stopping a creator from responding to a false review by utilizing that feature.

The major issue with this is you don't need an invitation to go to a shop. A shop can see a sudden rise in popularity by word of mouth and suddenly their tier should go up? Yeah, no. The biggest problem in Second Life economics, if not the grid entirely, right now is land/tier costs. This suggests a step backwards in correcting that, with all due respect. Linden Lab needs to solve the problem of lag, not punish its users for a system that lags.

Which is hilarious because those counters have some of the most resource offending scripts in them.

Sellers can respond to MP reviews. Happens all the time. There is a comments link on every review.

I believe if it is posted in-world then yes. On a blog? Likely not. Just remember a couple things. Things happen. Not all bad experiences are reflective of how a store normally operates. We are all human and we are all going through this thing called life. Also, any time you mention a store by name, you are providing advertising for said store.

I'm not seeing much change, but it will be nice to see my family more and not be afraid to order out, so not ENJOYING it, no. Mind you I won't be in a rush to see this lockdown end until the world realizes that we need to slow down as a society. This will happen again. Heck, it might even have to happen again thanks to this very same illness. We can't keep everything shut down forever, but we cannot afford to keep flicking the proverbial switch in both directions on even a somewhat routine basis, either. If this is the new normal for how we deal with pandemics such as this, then we NEED to find a new normal for life in general, and make a routine effort to minimize the frequency of these things. Wouldn't hurt to take some lessons here as far as dealing with influenza, either. Covid-19 is a plus-1, meaning all other health matters are continuing. Heart attacks, influenza, strokes, car accidents are all still happening. If we can control influenza a little better with more frequent hand washing, slowing down as a society and taking a page out of the covid-19 response book, future severe pandemics won't be such a strain on health care.

I don't know you, but I respect you. This grid (and quite frankly, this planet) needs more of the compassion shown here.

Many clubs don't require past experience, some even train. Here are some tips and some general guidelines and common rules to being a host: - The first basic thing you must know is how to send notices. Typically a DJ has a two hour set, and you are likely to have to send a notice prior to a set, and another halftime notice after hour 1. Once you are in the group, you will be able to look at archived notices to get a feel for what goes out in a notice. Or you can just join a club group and watch for a bit to get a feel for what hosts are doing there before stepping up to do the job. - Next basic requirement - Life happens, but generally, be prepared to be there for the two hours. Don't go afk. Don't look at it as easy money and clock in and out. Do it because you enjoy it and the rest will take care of itself. Do it for the money and you'll probably wind up making less and looking bad. - Second basic requirement - promote the DJ in chat, particularly remind the crowd to tip them. Don't overdo it - my rule of thumb when hosting is generally once per hour. - Never, ever, EVER promote yourself or your tip jar on stage. Its tacky, at best. - Greet people. Use radar to watch for people arriving. Say hello when they do. This can be hard in large crowds. Don't panic but do your absolute best. - Don't blow off sets because at the moment you don't feel like hosting. When a club hires you, you have a responsibility just like if you got hired by Walmart. You won't make every shift, just make sure your reasoning isn't anything close to "I'd rather do something else right now" These are the basics. Good hosts will also show up early, leave late, tip the previous and following workers, and work/communicate with their DJ. I almost forgot. Promote the club. If they have live singers, games, cuddle areas, or anything else - Talk about it. Get to know the club and find out things, although you might be asked to talk about specific things also.

WoW is comparable to the RP sims and to Linden Realms. Very much so. Go to a live venue sim or some other business and the comparisons stop at 3D graphics.

I never said SL couldn't or don't have games on their platform. You can also buy countless games in-world. There is a difference between being a game and having sims with games.

Almost everything found here is found there. But there is a lot found there that is not here. Quests, experience points, storylines, and all things that make games games are not here. SL is no more a game than Facebook is.

Games are an entirely different category with only so much in common with virtual worlds