Second Life users can flag accounts as bots, to no effect

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10-30-2009 @ 12:25PM

Gwyneth Llewelyn said...

I don't know why Prok's entry is faded out and so hard to read, but he has a point — shop owners might be able to claim some respectability back by pointing out that their mannequin bots are really bots. At least, as soon as the bot status shows up on the profiles, too — something that LL apparently has not excluded, but hasn't implemented yet, and given no timeline to include.

Oh, btw, apparently the Third Party Viewer registry is to be used for bot applications as well.

10-30-2009 @ 6:54PM

Tateru Nino said...

It's a comment-voting system. After careful consideration, it was decided that people should be allowed to have a "no" vote as well as a "yes" vote. We've been told how important it is to have the ability for people to vote no as well as yes. It takes a lot of no-votes to start the text fading out, but it can still be easily read by highlighting the text.

My own point is that none of this is available now, so there's apparently nothing to gain by flagging an account, until those other features are finished. There's no bonus to respectability, it doesn't affect traffic or search, etc. So, why hustle the flagging out the door, before any of the rest of it is ready for testing?

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