Nite Planer Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Saw this in a notice.....Linden Labs have recently made the decision to kill older unused accounts from the grid. The reason given for this is that the amount of unused accounts are lagging the inventory servers. If every avatar has just one alternate account, thats twice as much storage is unnecessarily being used. So from October 1 2011, Linden Labs will commence kulling any account that has not been signed into for 60 days.....So if you have alts you want to keep you need to log them in before 10/1/11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Are they really going to reduce the 22 million SL accounts to a more reasonable number, which will probably come down to a mere 150k residents? Not that I'd disagree with this decision. I think it's great that they are trying to keep the asset and inventory database as lean as possible. But does this mean that we will have to log our alts in every two months? Do you perhaps have a link to this announcement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikki Miles Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 looks very much like a hoax. I saw that too, and when I asked for the source of this "info", I only got that "I know someone who knows someone..." kind of a reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamara Artis Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 If its true it would be on our dashboards. Don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alazarin Mondrian Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Nite, it's culled not kulled. And I suspect that LL would issue a notice in a prominent place to notify residents of such action as well as sending out notification emails. FWIW, I think the 60-day cutoff is a bit extreme. 6 or 12 months would be more than adequate to trim out the dead space on the asset servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Sounds like a hoax to me. I will check with live help later today, if i remember, but I can't imagine LL -- bad as they are at communicating at times -- doing something like that without warning us. I'm wondering, though, how much of an issue all these defunct accounts are. Yes, they and their inventories are taking up space in LL's database, but other than that, I wonder how much they actually slow stuff down. I guess an initial cull of -- say -- all NPIOF accounts more than 18 months old who were less than a week old when they last logged in and who haven't logged in for over a year would free up a lot of space, and probably the people involved wouldn't notice the loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Nite, If you are going to post this, you must provide a link to a reputable (i.e., LL) site. This was a notice posted by Miro Collas of the Phoenix/Firestorm Viewer Support group inworld on 14 Sept 2011: A baseless rumor has been going around that LL will start culling accounts that have been unused for 60 days. Apparently, it is being said that this originated from this group. The Phoenix/Firestorm Support Team did NOT say any such thing. Furthermore, never believe something being passed around without being given proof; and please do not spread it further if you have not seen evidence. Summary: the rumor is just that, a rumor. And it did not originate here. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti Nefarious Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Nite Planer wrote: Saw this in a notice..... WHERE was the notice? WHO was the notice from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nite Planer Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 Like I said it was more the view to see if was true.. i just saw someone post the notice in a group I was in.. Today.. it was what i was looking for too.. if was right or not.. nothing more.. as i said it was posted today.. sorry for any inconvienience .. was not intended.. shocked me too.. my apoligies.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 The rumour I heard was that Linden Lab was going to pull a reverse Facebook. Any one creating an avatar with their real name would be cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dresden Ceriano Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Nite Planer wrote: Like I said it was more the view to see if was true.. i just saw someone post the notice in a group I was in.. Today.. it was what i was looking for too.. if was right or not.. nothing more.. as i said it was posted today.. sorry for any inconvienience .. was not intended.. shocked me too.. my apoligies.. No biggie... I got the message in one of my groups as well. My first thought was... no way would LL purposely admit to the fact that so many people have left SL by reducing the amount of "residents" they have in the system... so it had to be a rumor. This is why you can't find any sort of documentation about it... if it can't be verified, it usually isn't true. Now, if you want to discuss whether or not that is something they should actually do, fine... but I don't think you'll find many people who'll actually support such a thing. ...Dres ETA: @Perrie: Lmao!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ima Rang Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Ishtara Rothschild wrote: Are they really going to reduce the 22 million SL accounts to a more reasonable number, which will probably come down to a mere 150k residents? Not that I'd disagree with this decision. I think it's great that they are trying to keep the asset and inventory database as lean as possible. But does this mean that we will have to log our alts in every two months? Do you perhaps have a link to this announcement? I think that there are currently ~800,000 unique residents in SL. If I can find the youtube interview where that was stated, I will post it up. Either way, an amusing number of alts in SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 This announcement doesn't make much sense. Unused accounts aren't just alt accounts. They could be main accounts of people with one account who just haven't logged in much. There's no way to tell which account is a primary or an alt. Plus the warning is less than one month and so obscure that no one can find it on the official blogs? Plus the word 'cull' is a term used to mean killing off wild animals or livestock which goes against the the customer friendly wording that LL would use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 NP. I have now, as promised, checked with Live Help and they confirm the rumour is completely baseless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Lol @ 60 days. You'd kill half the active population too with that. And a lot of them people who pay LLs quite a bit, but might be away now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudolphUkka Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I heard a * rumour that they were going to start the * kull (great neologism!) with another 40% of the * Linden Lab workforce. *** Don't be surprised if Lexxie doesn't * turn up for the next * CTUG meeting! *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Linden Lab Posted September 19, 2011 Community Manager Share Posted September 19, 2011 As long as you're in good standing with Linden Lab (not delinquent with billing or otherwise in violation of the Community Standards and Terms of Service) your Second Life account can remain inactive indefinitely. This means that your avatar and inventory will continue to be stored on our servers. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Accounts-overview/ta-p/700019#Section_.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria1488304562 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Thanks for an official reply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conifer Dada Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 It's highly unlikely that LL would want to cull accounts after only 60 days' idleness. What LL should do, though, is revert Premium accounts to Basic if they go for a year without logging in (but only after sending several warning messages, both in-world and as emails) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dresden Ceriano Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Conifer Dada wrote: What LL should do, though, is revert Premium accounts to Basic if they go for a year without logging in (but only after sending several warning messages, both in-world and as emails) I don't understand what would be the incentive to do this. As long as people continue paying for premium membership, there's no reason to revert them and, if they stop paying for it, their account would be blocked... as would any account that owes LL money, whether they are premium or not. This leaves their fate in their own hands... which is the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, the way LL handles non-payment could be improved, but that's a completely different issue. ...Dres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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