Linden Lab Bans Second Life Camping Bots & Traffic Bot Alt Avatars
I have written before about the use of bots in Second Life.
It is no secret that they are a bother to many, a drain on server resources, and an effective way to boost traffic stats for a virtual sim in Second Life. Jack Linden announced that this use of bots will no longer be allowed.
Camping bots are also used (often from countries all over the world) and are a major problem in addition to camping itself. Land owners pay a set amount of Linden Dollars for each time period that an avatar or bot posing as an avatar hangs around their virtual sim or camps.
Video of Second Life Camping Bots:
Other bots will soon be banned as well such as those that automatically search for and purchase virtual land parcels. Those using bots will first be warned and then suspended or banned. Linden Lab hopes to remove the need for these land bots by allowing resident auctions between avatars and more use of the web site tools.
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Yeah, right. Here we are into August and the bots still rage across SL. I see large groups of them standing around, taking tea, owned by the land owner himself.
Landbots flit about grabbing land from honest buyers, unstopped.
It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow. If you’re butt-buddies with a Linden or you make umpty-thousand dollars a month for LL, your bots are going NOWHERE! LL only bans the guy who owns 1 or two, or they use bots as an excuse to trash a person’s store so the shop owner can be forces out of world and onto XSTREETSL, which is now owned by LL by the way…
That way LL can steal a person’s money 4 ways instead of only 2.
GIVE US A F***ING BREAK, Linden Lab! If you’re gonna ban the damned things, DO IT! No favorites or exceptions!
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The logical next step is to hire real people to do this work for lower pay, eg like gold farming.
We covered something on this line on The Virtual Currency report last month.
Regards,
Ivan