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Phil Deakins

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  1. @Eowyn Southmoor Perhaps you've set yourself as a scripted agent for some reason and forgot about it. Scripts can inspect avatars that are in the whole sim, as well as just on a parcel. But you've given me a nice idea for an addition to the AntiBot device that I offered here - store the names of scripted agents that are in the whole sim, just to see what bots are around
  2. She would have fine if she hadn't been able to go straight back in again.
  3. I disagree. Anyone who goes straight back after being removed has a negative intent. It may not be malicious (a word that I didn't use), but it is negative intent, and nobody anywhere would tolerate it if they didn't have to.
  4. I thought I'd bump this thread for this post because it's the right topic A couple of days ago, a customer asked me for a device to detect and remove the frequent bots she gets on her parcel. So I added the option to one of my devices for her. Then I decided to create an object just for that purpose. It's ready now, and it's free to anyone here who asks me for it. Maybe later I'll put it up far sale at a nominal price but not yet. It scans the parcel every few seconds and detects scripted agents. With scripted agents it can:- * eject, permaban instantly, and save their names * eject, permaban instantly, and not save their names * send home, permaban instantly, and save their names * send home, permaban instantly, and not save their names * save their names and take no other action. That's it. If anyone want one, PM me or IM me inworld. ETA: I've added a function that spots scripted agents in the whole sim. It can't remove them from outside the parcel it's on but it stores their name with the dates and times they arrive. It can be useful for just checking what scripted agents come around.
  5. It's not like that at all. It's not even close. You are lumping all the people who prefer to 'play' with people of a preferred gender, usually the opposite gender, as people who want to form relationships that might even reach into RL. That's simply not the case. It may be for a few, but it's not the norm. You have your way of 'relating' with people in SL, and that's your choice, but it's not everyone's choice. Judging by your posts, you don't have any experience of the way that other people think about it. You only seem to know about your way. You have a lot to say, but only about your own personal point of view and against the points of view of other people. Yours is not the 'normal' point of view, and neither is anyone else's. People think about relationships in SL in a variety of ways. For many years, I've only 'related' if I had some confidence that the other person was an RL female, because I would hate it if the RL physical part of such 'relating' was also occurring in the other person if it's not a female. And that's the big thing for me. I'd hate to be encouraging that kind of reaction in another man. People think in a variety of perfectly good ways. Yours is only one of them.
  6. I have to say that I agree with @sunnyskyz. Nothing can suit everyone perfectly, but allowing a person to go straight back into someone's home for another 15 seconds or more, time after time, seems to me to go too far. One 15 seconds of warnings is more than enough for anyone to understand that they aren't welcome there. Going straight back in shows a certain kind of attitude that wouldn't be tolerated by anyone, anywhere. I understand the desire to keep Bellisseria a really nice place, without ugly ban lines all over it, but I see no reason at all not to subject a person with that kind of attitude to banlines. They would only show for that person, and Bellisseria would remain really nice for everyone else. The way it is now doesn't make any sense to me and, imo, it is negative and bad for Bellisseria residents. An auto-ban after the first set of warnings, for at least a period of time, makes very good sense.
  7. The OP asked if it's ethical to pretend to be something he is not. I answered, saying that imo it is not ethical to deceive people in that way (or in any way), especially when it's known that there is a very good chance of it mattering to the other people. Correct me if I'm wrong please, but didn't most people in this thread, including you, answer the question with their opinions, just as I answered it with mine? They are giving their opinions, not telling people how to act in SL, and I did the same. Or are you actually telling people how to act in SL, and any opinions that are different to yours shouldn't be accepted? They are all just opinions, which were asked for.
  8. It's not impossible at all, but true confirmation usually doesn't happen. But that's nothing to do with what I replied to, which was to do with ethics, and, imo, it is unethical to pretend to be a gender you are not, knowing that the person at the other end of the 'interactions' believes you to be the gender you appear to be. It actually matters to many people, including me. I'm not looking for suggestions. I've been here since 2006, so I think I have enough SL experience to know what's what here
  9. In certain circumstances, I disagree with that. Some people, and I am one of them, would seriously hate to be 'romantic' with an avatar that is being operated by someone of the same gender and, imo, it's unethical to have someone think that the person at the keyboard is not the gender they believe they are 'interacting' with.
  10. It mean posting in a thread just to get it back to the top of the list of threads - bumping it up to the top. The poster isn't bothered about whats/he posts.
  11. The LevelGuard does automatically detect that it's in Bellisseria. It's just the SpaceGuard's ability to do it that's "coming soon..." Actually, I think I'll do that before I finish what I'm on with now. There's no need for a 'default' because, when rezzed in Bellisseria, they will both recognise it and automatically set themselves to compliance. Outside Bellisseria, they won't, of course. So the default is that that they automatically set themselves according to where they are.
  12. That's possible but the take-up would minimal, imo. Bellisseria homes are already supplied with a security device, which most tenants would think is adequate, so my guess is that not many tenants would buy a different one. And of those, even fewer would want to buy a prim that could automatically secure a particular space or room, so I think it wouldn't be commercially viable.
  13. The SpaceGuard does all the calculations. All the user is required to do is rez the supplied semi-transparent box, stretch and rotate it to the desired shape, click a button, and delete the box. From then on, the SpaceGuard calculates whether or not an avatar is inside that space. I should say that the SpaceGuard does not yet automatically take account of the Belliserria covenant. It can be set to be compliant, of course. When I've finished what I'm doing now, I'll be adding that to the SpaceGuard. My current LevelGuard does automatically comply with the Bellisseria covenant.
  14. The maths for ascertaining the inside of a rotated space was enough for me lol.
  15. Alternatively, it can be done the way that my SpaceGuard does it You rez a supplied semi-transparent box, position, stretch and rotate it to the shape you want to protect, click a button in the SpaceGuard's menu, delete the box, and it's all done. Simples
  16. One of my devices does exactly that. It's called SpaceGuard because it protects spaces, which can be tiny, such as protecting a single poseball, or the 'action' surface of a bed but still allowing people to stand on it, or up to 64x64x64 meters. The spaces can be rotated and don't have to align with the grid. It supports up to 9 independant such spaces.
  17. Camping is legal but it must be rare, because the purpose of it was to inflate traffic.
  18. Thank you, Sid. You are only a day late, so it's perfectly ok :D
  19. If it's just for some pics, another alternative is to ask here if someone would pose with you. But if it's not just for a short time, then creating a second account for the purpose, as Paul suggested, is hugely better than paying for an npc.
  20. I am, thank you You have an amazing memory lol. I'm not aware of people dramatising your posts, and I have no idea why, but if that page had the normal affiliate ads - not the huge things that are a real pain - I would see nothing wrong with it.
  21. I just went to the disputed page, and I didn't find any fault with it. I saw no ads on it but, even if there were some affiliate ads, I still wouldn't have found any fault with it. It's not easy finding a page on the web that doesn't contain some affiliate ads. It's actually expected these days. If the linked-to page contained largish ads for goods and services, i.e. if it's basically an advertisement for stuff, with some text etc. slotted in, then it would be against the rules to link to it. But most pages on the web aren't promotional pages, even if they contain some affiliate ads. Imo, such non-promotional pages are not against what the quoted rule disallows. But that's just my opinion.
  22. How about the use of 'quantum' when something big is meant; e.g. quantum leap. But a quantum is a very tiny thing. FWIW, I'd never heard of gantlet. For me it's always been gauntlet, as in running the gauntlet. It's also meant a glove. Similarly with decimate. I don't think I've ever heard it used correctly, and I often mentally criticise it when I hear/read it.
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