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Originally Posted by Aodhan McDunnough  I have a problem with social solutions in something the size of SL. Social solutions need enforcement by humans and we know well that it's not scalable. |
I disagree. This would make sense if it were something just everyone did, or even that a lot of people did, and were determined to do. (Like drink alcohol during prohibition.)
These sorts of landbots are not what most residents do.
And even where a larger group of people does something - like, say, camper bots - making them illegal would automatically mean a large proportion of those people would no longer do it.
Which would, again, result in far fewer people you'd need to enforce the rule with.
We're not talking about something that everyone does and would continue to do even if it were made illegal.
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In systems the size of MMOs, as I told my friend who works in the biggest MMO company in my country, that the true solutions to in-game problems are:
1. Make it impossible to commit the infraction.
2. Remove the reason the infractions get committed. That is, make it not worth the "criminal's" time to do the deed.
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These are good solutions, too, in addition to making the action illegal. But where they are not possible, making something illegal will cut back on its occurrence. Making examples of a few offenders by banning them will cut back on it even more.
This notion that you couldn't police it is, I think, wrong. The number of people who use landbots is small, and the number of landbotters who refuse to return mistakes even smaller.
Same thing with ad farms. Most of us can NAME the worst offenders. It would take like ten minutes to stop them.
I think the problem with landbots is more complex, as far as LL is concerned, than not being able to set a rule and enforce it. I think they are more concerned that they will be too draconian about something being automated, where other things being automated are not illegal. Sort of a slippery-slope deal.
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Actually LL already supplied the best technical solution I can think of for preventing landbot steals: the sales interface. If you set all the stuff properly a landbot CAN'T steal the land.
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Yes, and I like that. I would like the delayed timer like someone suggested, too.
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and some sellers despite all warnings do not listen, do not take heed, and go about with an unsecure transaction.
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Yup.
coco