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Reset your mac address and you’re back in the game again, once you’ve signed up a new account of course.

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE
[future editor of the SecondLifeHerald]

Example: I start dating in SL an av who says they are 25. He lives really close by, and I think… what the hell? New friends are always welcome. He makes what I think is a joke in passing that he’s really 14. I go to meet him at a local McDonald’s and wham! Police are there. Sound crazy? It’s not. It happens every day. All you have to do is a simple google on any state and realize this is how they ‘get’ sexual predators and frankly the whole ‘I thought he was joking about his age’ doesn’t fly in our courts.

And in your case of showing that people didn’t want to give their credit card info, these are the same people that would give their info to eBay, amazon, authorizing use of their cards in paypal to be ‘billed’. I frankly, have a VERY hard time believing the reason the accounts stayed so low in numbers is because people don’t want to give out credit card info. Anyone who is that savvy to the net to even come across this game could do a simple google and realize it’s legit, not only that, but hundreds of thousands of people every hour are giving their billing info to other games to pay to play. Like I said, I find it hard that anyone could happen to come across this game in ANY form, and then be scared it wasn’t legit.

I’d fancy a poll taken to see how people got here. I came from word of mouth, and my friends, so I know that they played and it was fine. What way could you come up with, that would make this not a not trusted company? Random search? Even if you came here through someplace like GameSpot, IGN, a newspaper article, etc. those are all legit as well. So I will state again, maybe 1 person per month comes to this game, without any knowledge of gaming, what to do, how to get here, how to search on it, etc. and I am fine with losing 12 people a year who don’t trust LL. Frankly, given the high tech nature of this game, someone with zero internet knowledge whatsoever, wouldn’t last more than a week anyways.

Now, the account numbers will stay padded, so we will never know anyways.

The *SUPER SECRET* banning method is a fantastic idea (If it’s what I think it is, I hope it’s the truth), and while it’s not a perfect method, it’s better than anything, including credit cards, since many people have more than one.

Linden Labs REALLY, REALLY needs to address (meaning, publicly acknowledge and express a position on) the legal liability issues for its residents engaging in “adult” activity in their environment. Pushing the responsibility onto the residents will NOT work. As the non-validation story became the talk of the world, some adult-catering parcels began to require independent age verification (such as contacting the owner through 3rd-party adult websites). One’s traffic stats over the rest of the week dropped from the usual mid 3,000s on average to less than 100. When there’s a traffic stipend on the line, it costs the land-owners more (or might even kill their service!) to keep their residents honest.

Robin Linden said in a recent post on secondlife.blogs.com that a “verified” status in a member’s profile was in the works. It would be great if Linden Labs would clue the business and land developers in on their roadmap for such things.

I said the MYSPACE BS. First off, remember to read that carefully.

Secondly, any intelligent thought would surface, had you read it the way it was worded and intended. This isn’t the SL of old. Get THAT part through your head. This game isn’t so “underground” anymore. It’s being brought into the mainstream by actual publications everyday now. And obviously, if you had at least one marble in your head, you’d realize that means that it’s an increase in scrutiny. Up until this point, if a teen joined in SL and someone wanted to raise a fuss, LL had the terms to point to, that it’s sign up processes required ADULT verification. I don’t know many 14 year olds with credits cards.

Now, with no verification, the barriers are let down, in the prime of the spotlight. With no real reason to remove them. Unless they wanted to hope to pad their numbers now, allowing teens in, other previously banned people, and those that have good accounts can now make as many as they want = a jump in member accounts, and now, no way to verify they are individual accounts or alts. I personally have two alts, one I create on in peace and silence, and the other I play normally on and sell from.

All it takes is for one overly zealous parent to walk in, while their 13/14 year old is on a poseball they shouldn’t be, and see that, to create some trouble for LL. Does this mean all teens suck? Not at all, this just means that the parents can sometimes suck and now, without sign up requirements, cannot monitor their actions in SL. Add to that you cannot easily ban SL from a comp like you can webpages, and it’s the start of a fiasco, for just ONE SINGLE INCIDENT.

If you had any idea on REAL LIFE news, then the statement of MySpace BS and lawsuits heading for LL over content go hand in hand. Not once did I trash teens, their inputs, accomplishments, etc. in my post.

Yes, the new registration method will bring out griefers. But realize this: Your average moron with a sim nuke doesn’t know how to get around SL’s **SUPER SECRET** method of hardware banning. They make an alt, grief some furries, and their alts and main account are pretty much gone for good. Whereas before, they’d maybe keep their actions under the radar with a lot of subtle griefing spread over a longer time. I honestly believe that this new registration method will bring out the really stupid trouble makers and will get rid of them. The waters will be rough for the first few weeks, but things will settle down.