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Pauline Darkfury

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    Rya Nitely wrote:


    Well, maybe not protecting teens, but protecting SL from any bad publicity involving 'children' that could have a huge impact on its success -  and so it is protecting all us merchants.

    Tbh, as long as they are seen to come down like the proverbial ton of bricks on the absolutely forbidden content (sexual ageplay, and other things which are not ever acceptable in adult regions), and have a token form of screening for the 16s and 17s, the rest is just a marketing opportunity and the publicity can rapidly be spun into free advertising.  If you step back from it and think about the freedom SL offers, the policy support for diversity and tolerance in Community Standards, it's easy to spin anything that doesn't cross that completely uncrossable line into a good thing.  There will be kids lieing with impunity about their age to bypass the screening (How do I know this for certain?  That's what I did decades ago while a teen, before SL had been conceived and before the general public knew what it meant to go online, never got caught, as I was sensible enough to RP being 18+ successfully).

    The trouble here is that they have gone way beyond the token form of screening and are actively damaging the economy with the current measures.

  2. Brooke, you need to completely ditch the over-zealous keyword matching when people manually edit items.  It's wrongly forcing listings to A rating when they should be ok as a M.  There are also cases being reported in the in-world SL Commerce Merchants group chat of G items getting forced to A inappropriately.  At the very least, it should be disabled for manual listing edits, as it is wrongfully limiting the visibility of our products.

  3. Welcome, Brooke!

    Thank you (whichever Linden(s) are responsible) for finally fixing WEB-2308, it's much appreciated.  Communication does seem to have been a bit lacking from the Commerce Team in the last few months, so please do try to engage with us over the important issues, and recognise that this needs to be a partnership between creators/merchants and LL, where both sides should prosper from good, honest, and frank communication.

    There's two rather important issues that I can think of which are outstanding with SLM.  Firstly, there's the tiny default size of the description field when editing listings (some browsers, e.g. Safari, do allow us to drag this larger, but Firefox does not) — a much larger default size would be very useful in trying to provide well-written and informative listings.  Secondly, we really do need some ability to format our listings, so that we can draw attention to important information, and make things a bit more readable for customers.  Bold, underline, italics, lists, a choice of colours, and limited range of sizes (e.g. larger for section headings, smaller for the small print).  For the cherry on top, being able to insert URL links to slurl.com and *.secondlife.com would be wonderful.

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