Idea: Optional newbie demarcation, and alt-based false-positives

Even though I'm not an official of any sort, I sometimes like to hang around in the WA greeting newbies and being helpful.

Two things:

1) It would be cool if there was an option to let my client automatically hilite/demarcate newbies according to some preference settings (hilite if "age" less than 'x', no ratings yet, etc). That way, I could identify newbies more easily to focus my attention on them, and not let any feel neglected.

2) Alts appears as newbies, from a profile POV (no or low ratings, recent "birth" date) -- but they probably don't need my help/greetings. It would be cool if when you create an account, you can mark off "I don't need/want help", and it shows up in the profile, so greeters, etc, can "ignore" veterans with otherwise-apparent-newbie profiles.

Don't ask the Lindens for that, build it yourself!

You can use the get agent data function to get the age of all avatars nearby (do a llScan), and then have a function work out who is say, a month young and younger, and list the names for you.

It's your world, you can do what you like

Your title to this thread was delicious.

The Welcome Area is no script J.

I bought a newbie-detector-hat in-game many many months ago. You wore it and whenever a newbie was around you, it would shoot out a beam from your hat to their groin.

Rats

Oh well.

So?

So he can't use a script on that land.

A script can be more simple than using scan.

Simply do a llListen for the following... feel free to expand this list



10. "Can you show how to make a push gun?"

9. "Hey how do I answer an Instant Message?"

8. "OMG! Look at what my AVI is doing!"

7. "What are cuddle/kiss/pose/etc balls?"

6. "Where is [common place on top 10 traffic]?"

5. "Where do I got to get my picture taken?"

4. "OMG! Look at what his/her AVI is doing!"

3. "Hey do you want a [freebie object everyone has]?"

2. "Hey I just found [common place everyone knows about]!"

1. "A/S/L?"

Ah... pity that.

Dialog pops up "Talk to ..."

So do others agree that this functionality would be useful?

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Jsecure,

To be fair, I suppose I should have been explicit about the need for a non-script-dependent solution.

Inez,

Thank you. *bows*

Aaron
For some reason, I'm picturing a fedora. Am I close?

Lecktor, Lance,

Thanks for the clarifications.

and finally

Blueman, Siobhan,

Thanks for your humorous insights also. I'd add to the list, but the clever part of my brain is still asleep.

Aaron I want one of those...hehe.

Shadow