TK1 Beaumont

A way could be to tag the sl last name to TeenResident instead of just Resident and the last name change be made automagically based upon declared age, the accounts uuid remains the same but the server reports the age related lastname when queried. Such queries could be in a profile lookup or when the user interacts and the user name is obtained so it can be rendered in 3d scene or in the various chats. My solution to the social interaction dilema is the same as I always use in all chat programs is, forget online sex... there is no 100% way to be certain what it is you are interacting with... male, female, or anything in between. Age level: minor, adult,or wrinkly... or single, married or anything in between. I personaly choose to use interactions for platonic friendship. While this won't be acceptable to the vast majority of current sl users, it's worked for me in chats where the age limits were anything above 13 were permitted... others that chose to seek cyber-sex in such virtual worlds took their own risks... and some found out their cyber-sex partner was some teen girl crushing on an older man and then had to deal with the consiquences.

Another option open to LL is they could charge L$ for a decent level of support per incident for basic members, many issues including ghosted avatar account lockouts still allow L$ transactions to take place via web portals. To LL L$ does mean real money at the current exchange rates as they had to have been paid real money for the L$ in the first place and taking those L$ license tokens out of the system means more rl money has to be spent to release more L$ license tokens back into the comunity again. We should not be penalised just because we do not trust making our payment and personal identity information accessable to a foriegn security service, by giving that information to LL it would by default be available upon request by US federal government agencies... no thanks! I have same problem with age verification, the amount of personal data they demand would be sufficient for a 3rd party be it criminal or clandestined inteligence service operative to steal my identity and comit criminal acts in my name both here and abroad.

I too was stuck in the ghosting avatar loop for over two weeks, attempted to file a support ticket 19th Dec 2010 and found NO appropriate support option so use one of the available option and explained the problem in the desciption and did not receive a single response response until 10th Feb 2011 inviting me to pay for upgraded premium membership... this whole issue is due to a bug in their inter-SIM server protocols and is an account issue as the account is more or less crippled by the bug until the ghosted avater is destroyed. and the phrase "and some technical" is hardley useful! Exactly which technical support issues are included and which are not? because the basic accounts support ticket portal does not list any acceptable technical support topics that are covered! The fact that it took nealy TWO calender months for a support team to even acknowledge the raised ticket existed and only to say oh you need to pay us to get that resolved... is dispicable. That response should have happened within the first 24hours then MAYBE it might have given the impression there was a responsive support team that would have been worth paying for the service of! As it was back then I was considering cashing in my earned L$ for real money and leaving, but thanks either to a fortunate sim server restart or a helpful user that found my ghost after I had added my comments to some bug reports citing this type of problem, that my account returned to normality again, no thanks to LindenLabs!