Invisible people and group voting

What ho, chaps!

I have a huge problem with invisible avatars since 1.4. If the AV has objects attached I can see those. I can't see the name above the person either.

There doesn't seem to be any relation between the length of time I've been in SL and the invisibility. People who were previously visible often just vanish.

I also have a problem with group votes. I ran one group vote, and then it kept running itself again when I had done something else like invite a member. It was also doing this to other people.

Are these 'bugs' or is the problem my 'puter?

Group voting proposals are still re proposing themselves when you do something unrelated in the group info.

I'm also getting plagued by IMs from people complaining about the continuous voting. And many funny people are posting their own proposals about the proposals. Ha ha. very funny. These proposals are then in turn being re proposed.

I'm close to disbanding the group, how the hell can I get rid of these proposals?

AAARGH!

Yes, please fix this. I'm in this group, and while the responses are occasionally humorous, getting the same vote 10 times a week is getting really, really, really old.

This bug essentially makes the proposal/vote feature worthless, as it's more hassle than it's worth.

Jinny you might IM Bhodi of VERTU, she has had some experience with the group vote situation.

I needed to talk to Bhodi anyway-- good plan!

Make the voting stop, Thinkers has... some 40 votes that repeat after a week x.x first the vote on a change of land, then 3 more, then the people using vote to complain, etc... it's now to the point where I've sent bug reports on it.

Jinny, are you east coast, west coast, or outside the US? I'm on the east coast and I get the invisible avatars too. They seem to come in waves... I'll see (or not see) the problem for several days, then it will clear up for a while before starting again.

I'm starting to think it's my cable internet provider's fault, dropping packets or distorting them so that the player mesh doesn't load and/or render.

A sure-fire method to once again see the invisible avatars is to ask them to switch into apearance mode for a second. This re-transmits their mesh and makes them visible.

I just wish there was something I could do on MY end to do the same thing... Short of relogging (which also works).

Sorry about the bug Jinny. I dropped out of the group because I couldn't take the perpetual vote popups anymore.

Group voting has been broken since it was released. All indications point to this being priority #1672 for LL sitting just after adding gradients to menu tabs.

Oh wait, they did add the gradients; I must misunderstand their priorities.

I'm in the UK. The invisible people thing seems to come in fits-- some days it's really bad, but then I don't notice it for ages. Of course, unless the invisible person has an object attached, you don't know you're missing something.

The group voting thing is pissing me off. I think most people realise it's a bug but I still get complaining IMs. I am seriously thinking of disbanding the Thinkers and starting another group. This however, would be a pain in the arse, and we've got over 100 members, despite not showing up in the Group list unless you do a search for us.

Please, oh great and powerful Linden! There must be a way of deleting these former votes... please tell me what it is before I go completely loopy...

I'm Having the Invisible people problem too!

Its been since 1.4 and yes, it does sort of come in waves, but I've noticed it getting worse now. I see someone fine, turn around or walk couple meters away, come back to them and BOOM they are invis cept their natty pair of glasses or what have you.

Yes the bandaid solutions work - relog, get a TP, have the person relog, or try appearance mode etc. But sometimes those things are not possible in a high-lag moment or area.

I've sat on ppl at events, cuz I couldnt see them, or missed seeing the pinky ring they had attached, or someone rates me and I cant rate them back, because even their name is gone, and they don't happen to be wearing attachments.

Glad to know I'm not the only one here, and I think there are a lot more out there too. Is there something that needs toggling on our ends? Or is it a LL thing to fix? Either way: make it stop! */cry* I wanna SEE everyone

Still having group voting issues-- and still having problems with people posting polls to protest the posting of polls. The next person who does will be shot.

If you run into someone who's invisible, change your group and they'll reappear. (choose Edit > Groups from the menu.)

Why does this work? *shrug*

It didn't work for me

Group voting thing, still ongoing, at end of tether.

The group change thing worked today after asking the person to flip into appearance mode didn't work.