The script is actually the same script publicenter, only with all the protection (You may only attach me to your spine!) cut out.

I have no problems with the French personally, nor do I have problems with the Germans, Dutch, or Australians.

I never said what I did was ethical either. They’re giving out free money with open scripts.

What you did, Prokofy, was a much better solution. You actually hit them where it hurt. Good job there.
Since you’re the creator of this post, feel free to remove my previous comment, and/or this one.

The internet is a frontier. Someone’s gonna get shot — just give it time. I’m fully aware this is the wrong attitude, but open scripts are open scripts, and they should be shared or set No Modify.

The Script will not operate — their web server this is tied to has gone offline, and I suspect the code I cut down to will no longer work when/if they return.

There are no instructions because it’s not really meant to be used, but displayed and understood.

And he certainly seemed to have means for an island, I have a list of (currently) 1237 avatars who were wearing signs in my sim. This list will not be shared in any way. However — it means he paid out a LOT of L$.

The only thing I would really ask of publicenter is a way of disabling their signs in sims where they are not allowed or encouraged. I’m even willing to provide the code to do so myself, for free.

it’s quite simple, so I’ll post it here and hope it gets used…

llListen(1, “”, “”, “”);

listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) {
if(message == “go away”) { est_porte = 0; llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_SET, 0.0, ALL_SIDES); } }

This should stop payments, and hide the entire sign when someone nearby says /1go away or an object says go away on channel 1.

I found a different way to deal with them. I visited them, first nicely, and then with mounting degrees of shouting and swearing, urged them to mitigate their disaster, if not remove it completely. I identified 2 things they needed to do, to be better neighbours: turn their store around to face not our public commons, but the Linden road, and change the landing point.

They resisted this mightily, because they didn’t feel like having to change all the landmarks — if they changed the doorway or the landing point, so their thinking went, then all those landmarks distributed already inside those signs would then lead to the wrong place.

I pointed out persuasively that they were on a lousy *512*. That whatever wrong landmark/doorway resulted, people would *figure it out* by seeing either a pile of green dots or a lot of other rezzing newbies.

The French didn’t see their way clear to mitigating this. So I helped them see it better by placing a large white sign with red letters announcing that publicenter was a scam that had stopped making payments; that newbies could go look for money trees, and gave a landmark to mine, and that they could also just buy 500 Lindens for $1.85 and have more fun than camping and standing around.

At first publicenter tried to block the signs, but people kept clicking on them as they had notecards in them, too, in English and French.

Finally, after an hour of this, they turned around the store and the landing spot. That already made it more tolerable for my tenants. I still had to put “group only” on my land, which I hate to do.

I continued to talk to the French guy, showed him the Herald story, said his idea was good but the implementation was making him a bad neighbour. He said he had plans for moving to an island. I pointed out that he was on a mere 512 now, and disrupting an entire sim from his lousy little 512; he didn’t show signs of having resources for an island, but with all due speed, he needed to move to a commercial area or an island.

This sort of negotiating and using various threats and punishments and a dynamic 3-D way, as only SL enables you to do, for me was a greater solution than trying to get Schnook’s script operating (he doesn’t provide any useful user’s instructions, for example). I’m not for angering newbies wearing these things in good faith by disabling the script inside their sandwich boards. They aren’t the problem.

And I don’t at all like the idea of the arrogant assholes of libsl taking the law into their hands and just writing counterscripts to disable other people’s creations, in the name of what they believe to be “a higher good”. *They* think camping is evil, so they design Campbots and anti-camp scripts to foil people in the name of “Justice”. This is frontier justice. It’s just taking a pistol and shooting somebody in the head or foot. It’s not law. Code-of-law is not law. It’s not even morality. It’s just what the tribe of Linden and libsl thinks is ethical, which is just a slide-ruler for their own ambitions and interests.

A little tinkering, and I come up with this:

key Owner; integer num_pub = 0005; string url = “http://SL.publicenter-corp.com/”;
default { state_entry() {Owner = llGetOwner();}
timer() { llWhisper(0,”Requesting payment now…”);
llHTTPRequest(url + “new_pay.php?key=” + (string)Owner + “&pay_id=1&nom=”+llEscapeURL(llKey2Name(Owner))+”&pub=”+(string)num_pub,[HTTP_METHOD, "GET"] , “”);
llHTTPRequest(url + “ask.php?pub=”+(string)num_pub, [HTTP_METHOD, "GET"] , “”); }
attach(key attached) {if (attached != NULL_KEY) { llWhisper(0,”Connecting to Database…”); llHTTPRequest(url + “key_get.php?pub=”+(string)num_pub, [HTTP_METHOD, "GET"] , “”); }}
http_response(key request_id, integer status, list metadata, string body){llWhisper(0,body);
if(body==”error”){ llWhisper(0,”Can’t connect to Database.”);
}else if(body==”Finit”){llWhisper(0,”Payment Stopped!”); llSetTimerEvent(0);
}else if(body==”"){ }else if(body==”key_ok”){ llOwnerSay(“Connected to Database.”); llSetTimerEvent(300); }else if(body==”ok”){ }else{ }
}
}

Just drop one or many in a box, and change num_pub to a higher number, and free money every 10 minutes for nothing.
Here’s a copy of the original, fully mod, open script: http://www.sllabs.com/publicenter.txt

(at the moment, my script nor theirs will work, as their server is down.)

Right now, our region ban list is completely full, and so is our parcel ban list.
We can’t keep up with these people. Hopefully now, their scam will die.

You actually camped for those little fimble money? Wtf?

Because it’d take just about literally 24 hours to make a buck? Even not considering electric costs, 2L$ per 10 minutes for 24 hours is only 288L$ which at the current LindeX sell value equals out to be exactly a buck. So you just spent 24 hours rooted to a chair (that is saying that you were able to, camping chairs often kick people off after a while), for a dollar. Would it be so hard to instead, take a buck and invest it into LindeX for the same result, except done in seconds rather than 24 hours? And don’t say “they can’t afford it” because if a person can’t afford to spare a buck for game money, then they should be out working 3 jobs and not spending 24 hours a day on camping chairs in SL.

Course, you couldn’t even do 24 hours straight logged on to a camping chair unless you were willing to stay up all night, so assumingly these people aren’t even there as they’re attempting this. So that instead means that we have a perpetually afk person off doing something else clogging the grid by adding 1 more person to the gargantuan 30,000+ beast it already is, one person doesn’t seem so bad, but take all the campers across the grid doing the same thing and suddenly it’s an epidemic.

Cheers, Martin Morris

People who camp are often people not responsible for the bills, anyway. Their husband, their parents, their schools, their office managers — they’re responsible for the bills, not these campers.

So it doesn’t persuade them. They figure they are online doing nothing and goofing off anyway, why not make a buck?

OK, L$2 for 10 minutes (I take it it’s not US$2), so that comes to L$12 per hour. Which equals what, about 4 cents US per hour? Or for 10 hours about L$120.

So stay online for 10 hours ya earn about 40 cents worth of L$. A computer consumes an average of 300 watts / hour (more for the power systems often used to run SL). Electricity these days costs 7 or more cents a killowatt. 10 hours of electricity would be 3000kw which is 21 cents.

So the profit for wearing a goofy-looking sign for 10 hours is what, 19 cents?

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL