Jesse Barnett

If they are going to start cracking down on people wanting to be abused:
Then who are we going to stock our dungeons with?

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Jack Abraham

In the early part of the year the G Team asked peacekeeper groups to stop filing multiple ARs for the same incident; up until that time they had asked for ARs to be filed for each type of applicable infringement (so a griefer could easily get 4 to 6 ARs with one replicating spammer cube in the sandboxes). That might contribute to the decline in blotter reports; don't know.

bladyblue

We started having those marketing explosions in the summer of 2007. Yahoo article in France - French Invasion, then Brazil. etc. CSI in October 2007.

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Tyche Shepherd

Yes - There were only 2 published copyright infringement violations which resulted in a ban of 14 days (there were 17 in total across the period) . But I'm surprised there are any as now copyright issues are supposed to be resolved through the DMCA process and not the AR process.


Generally I must stress that these figures are only the Published Incident Reports, people say there are plenty of resolved AR's which don't make the Blotter and they certainly don't include any bans which do occur or suspensions for other reasons (account issues, activity which triggers money laundering detection etc) so it's difficult to draw concrete conclusions about the whole AR process from them . The only confidence I have is that these are an accurate analysis of the published incident reports.

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Ciaran Laval

DMCA is for a content creator filing, but maybe the copyright issues are for complaints made by people not associated with the product, for example where RL brand names are used and there's no evidence of the person having the right to use that brand name. I know there has been talk of such listings being removed from Xstreet.

Talon DeCuir

If this contains both teen and adult grid - did both areas have a drop in incidents at same time? or was it skewed toward one or the other?

Thanks for posting these!

DanielRavenNest

I think that was the peak of new account creation.

Lalo Telling

Outside of the help areas and the sandboxes, I'd say, "Yup, we do."

FurNaton Vista is the home of The Ark, a major furry hangout - I've been there when while it was being griefed by the PN.

Lusk is, of course the home of Luskwood, the oldest continuous furry gathering place in SL (about to celebrate its 6th birthday).

Rizal is the nearest sandbox to Lusk - it is, in fact the sim immediately adjacent to the south and is, I suspect, the creation and launching point for much of the "replicator cube" type of attack.

I know this because I am a Luskwood Resident. My home is a parcel of Group land in Tehama, immediately east of Rizal and southeast of Lusk. We get our share of replicators and scripted spam attacks, too.

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IntLibber Brautigan

It's one of those sort of *being black on a sunny day* type violations that certain Lindens abuse to kick out people they dont like the looks of without any evidence that they're actually doing anything wrong. The assumption is that if they are innocent, they wont have any trouble getting identity confirmed, and if they do provide ID and they decide they don't like that person in real life they say, thanks, don't come back again, often with loss of significant sums of money and/or land resulting.

IntLibber Brautigan

What they actually want people to do is file an AR for each type of offense relating to the same act. So a self replicating spammer cube that emits goatse needs an AR for each of the following: a) abusing sim resources, b) prim pollution, c) spamming, d) broadly offensive content, and possibly e) harassment if it happens multiple times. Otherwise you could file an AR on just one charge and the investigator would give it a pass on the one charge and not punish for the others, making it a crapshoot whether the perp gets punished. Obviously you should be able to select multiple offenses on one AR but thats not allowed in the client.

On another note, I think the stats published here prove what I've long been saying: our efforts in changing the approach to griefers, of abandoning the "war on e-terror" approach that all the faux-cop groups play at which turn griefing into a video game for users, and instead adopting a juvie crime model and dealing with it with creative outlets and economic opportunities, using the Woodbury University virtual campus as the centerpiece, have led to a long term downward trend in griefing, as we first drained the manpower of organised griefing groups and gave a place for socially maladjusted /b/tards to sandbox and hang out with their own kind without being judged by opinionated politically correct vigilantes with a finger on the ban button.

A simple "thank you" will suffice.

Lalo Telling

Can you point me to unequivocal guidelines in the so-called "knowledge base" that give clear indications about what LL "wants" regarding griefing ARs -- and which classification of offense should be used to file each type?

I didn't think so.

Incidentally (pun on "incident" intended), yesterday afternoon (9/30) another sequence of replicator cubes, launched from Rizal, appeared over Lusk and Tehama simultaneously. I filed an AR for each of two cubes in Tehama, and reported such in IM to one of the Luskwood core group in-world at the time. He told me about the "cautionary" Jack mentioned (see quote), and implied that I could be suspended for filing too many ARs!

It's a crap shoot anyway.

"Our efforts" -- Whose? What efforts?

"...drained the manpower of organised griefing groups" -- Got numbers to back that up? How effective have "your" efforts been in reducing the impact of, for example, the PN?

When I see something deserving of a "thank you", I'll think about expressing one. Smug superiority, meanwhile, doesn't cut it. When the attacks contain material specifically targeted at your SL-equivalent of an ethnic group (pompous self-important land barons, perhaps?), let's see if you're still whining about "politically correct" and "faux-cop" groups.

In my experience, people who complain about "political correctness" are actually complaining that they can no longer get away with their own bigotry.

Kyllie Wylie

Also wasnt 2007 was when all the "language" viewers came out?

Which opened up SL to a lot of people who could not speak english, which also can lead to misunderstandings when dealing with people who dont speak your language and probably more complaints.

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Yuo

Fun answer but another version is that some of the original 3rd party orientation islands didnt impliment a full suite of identity fields therefore if a linden goes through the records there will be members with that data missing.

When ones found (and im sure this is something they put the office noobie on for a day once a month) they send a warning email along with setting the edit bit on your account so when you next log in you can fill in the required fields that usually arent show and if you do that, everythings fine from there.

Winter Ventura

What these numbers don't show.. is the number of reports received. What we're seeing may not be a reduction in the number of abuses, nor in the number of reported abuses.. but a reduction in the number of reports being either processed or acted upon.... or perhaps a reduction in the number of acted upon reports being shown in the blotter.

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