Notice -- Unsolicited Teleports == Abuse Reporting

Like the subject says.

I'm tired of the pop-up spam from unsolicited teleport requests. It happened again, last night, some event in the snow sims. I got offered one, I replied with my *own*, feeling a bit punchy, gave 'em their own medicine.

Well, this guy continues to do the same thing, so after the last exchange of teleport offers, I got a nice honking screenshot of 'I can do this all night' from his last offer, and sent in a abuse report.

Be warned - if you haven't talked to me via regular chat or IM, don't offer me a teleport for your yet-another-clubbing-event-with-somebody-spinning-discs
at your dwelloper attempt, ok?

Thanks for your understanding.

Does anyone else hate this behavior of unsolicited teleports? If so, I'd like to know...

I've received only one spam teleport, but as far as I'm concerned it was one too many. I agree that it is an abuse-report worthy offense.

Should you receive said teleport, attach something BIG and prim heavy to you; a large cabin, one of Cubey's larger airplanes, or if you're eggy, a couple hundred chairs, and also attach several hugely innefficient particle effects to you... become a walking lag bomb... and then take the tp. Dance like crazy in the middle of the dancefloor, obscuring everyone else with your attachments, and making sure everything you say in chat is shouted, exclaiming mainly 'w00t!', 'w00h00!' or 'Lets get naked!'.

If anyone protests, loudly shout about how you were invited explicitly. I bet you aren't on the list next time round.

HAHA thats a GREAT idea!
I love it!

You get an 'A' for creativity Kris, but honestly, I'd like to save my energy for my own projects.

Interesting solution though.

I've got a 300 prim pirate galleon that should be just perfect for the job....

Oh, agreed Excellent idea.

LF

I hate hate hate hate HATE the teleport spam.

H A T E it.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A T E it.


maxx, IM me. neil's got a pair of wings that would be ideal for Kris's suggestion

This will be a great subject to bring up at the Town Hall meeting with Philip Linden today.

Great Idea Kris, may I elaborate one step further with an excerpt from my Guide "101 uses for Prims n Scripts." Chapter 8 "How to Pisss of a Dumbass Teleport Spammer."

Go there simply as a bomb with a burning Fuse. When the fuse burns down to the core thats when you drop your Lag attachment on that has 400 prims and 200 scripts. Each of the 200 scripts shouting Oh yeah baby! with multiple particle emmisions oh yeah and have push scripts in it with Then rez Multiple spheres with follow me scripts in them so that they fight for the same position over your shoulder. By the time your done you should have effectively cleared the sim.

Basicaly, Teleport spam sucks but at least IM Spam and Note Card spam can be cut off or deleted and not accidentaly clicked and teleported away.

Shadow

Kris, I like your style. Glad to see you posting on forums again, BTW.

Shhh! I'm not. Really.

Ok, well I am. But just because I'm very, very bored. lol

It is good to see that a new form of griefing has been discovered to combat something that LL should fix in the first place.

WTG!

Last time I checked, lag bombing a sim is against the TOS, no matter what the reason.

Ty



Oh grow a sense of humor.

(hint: you can't make one out of prims)

*deletes the "humor" attachment she started building*

If only you could, it might be a hot selling item.

LOL, that cracked me up. Kind of like... what's that science fiction movie where they trick an alien trying to abduct humans, by compiling balls of waste matter and sending that back through the transport gate? That really had me in stitches. Hahaha.

I guess they can't claim you're a party crasher since you WERE invited, like you said. Hahaha...

Hey Eggy, if there was ever a time for FLASHTUBBING, this might be it!!!

Lita: Your whiskers are awesome!

My latest encounter with this happy phenomenon was two nights ago.

I had had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of someone who seems to know what he's doing with XML-RPC stuff, and he suddenly IM'd me to invite me to an impromptu demo of a couple of neat tricks.

I was making my hasty good-byes to my companions, preparatory to hiking my newbie self post haste to his location, when I found myself involved in the following (paraphrased) IM exchange with someone whose events I've attended a couple of times:

Them: Hi! Please come to our <details obscured> Contest!

Me (not particularly set up for <details obscured> modes of appearance anyway): Ahh, thanks, but I'm in the middle of something really interesting...maybe in about 20 minutes?

Them: Umm...the event's right now.

Me: <stunned silence>

Them: Please, just come for 20 minutes? If we don't get enough people here, we won't get paid!

I'm a wuss...I went. Yeah, I know.

Having been fuming about that for a couple of days, and watching this thread as well, I think I've come up with my Weekend Journeyman Scripting Project, which will be a little Social Services bracelet I can wear to these pressing events. I haven't started yet, so if you see anything that seems technically unfeasible, or have any suggestions for improvements, please let me know:

1. I arrive at the behest of an unsolicited TP.

2. I mention the hostoid/hostette's name to my tastefully understated bracelet.

3. Said bracelet promptly rezzes a very tiny, highly transparent, utterly mobile, singularly focused, and thoroughly phantom little doohickey, which I have tentatively named HopeThisHelps (or HTH).

4. The bracelet then mentions to me that my schedule is now clear...at which point, after a quick check to make sure that I am indeed looking, once more, at Badly-Scaled Faux Marble Textures, I depart.

5. HTH promptly rises to an altitude of, say 10 + current Z, and putters off in search of Hostoid or Hostette, with the goal of conducting an impromptu mini-seminar on SL community life.

6. Since this is an important educational event, HTH commences by providing a bit of warning for others in the venue...something akin to the "Caution...Student Driver" signs. I'm thinking along the lines of a rotating "For-Rent"-style sign about 3 m over the Hostoid's head which says "Please do not disturb...basic SL etiquette seminar in session." And I'll want fairly high-profile texturing, so that the sign isn't overlooked amidst all of the club decor.

7. Drawing from a notecard, HTH then provides a paced, concise, informative, and ACCURATE overview of the reasons why some folks might find unsolicited TP requests disruptive to their in-game goals.

8. Since genuine information is being provided, HTH will need to provide some true/false or multiple-choice questions along the way (say, no more than half a dozen), via dialog boxes. It's really important that the hostoid absorb the information, so an incorrect answer at any point will unfortunately rewind the dialog and repeat the section.

9. At the end of the exchange, HTH will provide the hostoid with L$1 of my money to contribute to his growing fortune. This should be a cause for celebration, and the overhead sign will need to be briefly re-textured with enough information so that everyone can rejoice. I'm not sure of the exact wording yet, but I'm fairly certain there will be at least one "wOOt!" somewhere in the copy.

10. HTH and the sign can then die happy, having contributed brief-but-fulfilling careers to the betterment of SL, and to the TPer's bank account.

Of course, sometimes people do get logged out unexpectedly, especially in a lagging sim. My thought is that HTH, if it can't find its student, should be willing to rise to Z+60 (if possible) and hang around for an hour or two in the hopes of completing the coursework.

As long as the information presented is accurate, the test questions are real, the exchange is reasonably brief and courteous, and a reward is provided, I really don't see that ANYone can object to it.

Does anyone see any technical problems with the approach?

- yoshi

Edit: That is, I really don't see that anyone can object to it successfully.

Edit #2: I managed to spell a three-letter word correctly this time around.

Perhaps not, but it should garner you some spectacular neg-ratings!

Yoshi, that is brilliant.

But like most well-thought out responses to bad behavior in SL, you have to self-censor yourself, because - gosh, golly, gee - what if LL thinks you are in violation of the TOS?

Not that I think you are, personally. You would be responding to a behavior, trying to modify it to the point where it becomes less of an option to the person considering it.

But again, this is not really 'allowed' in SL. We can't try to think of clever ways to prevent bad behavior, only hope that our abuse reports will have the intended impact.

Thanks for posting that creative solution, but I'm not certain that it can be used without repercussions to yourself, and that I think is really a shame.

On an unrelated note, I see I've exceeded 1,000 posts. Heh, interesting. I guess I really do like this virtuality. Thanks to all who gave me reasons to stay

Have a great weekend.

I find it is far easier to take down the name of the person, and the location they wish to teleport you to, then revisit their land later in an Alt and give them a few negs.

Although that's been taking too much time recently, so I've just been accepting the teleport, opening the ratings dialog, teleporting away, and neg rating.

-Adam

Maxx,

Nail...head. Thanks.

My uncle is a successful industrial psychologist, and a classic Skinnerite (excapt for the "fatalistic blind determinism" component). He's a delightful guy, and there's not a trace of the Control Freak in him; he doesn't spend any time that I know of trying to get what he wants out of other people.

But he's thoroughly accomplished at not getting what he doesn't want, and in a most efficient manner.

I thought about following in his footsteps...even did 3 years as a Psych undergrad, before I realized that most of my professors were Bearded-Earth-Father BS artists, who were running their classes like "Dr. Phil" pilot episodes, dazzling students with force of personality and wit, and generally making up pseudo-science as they went....ah, if I could've attended Stony Brook, it might've been a different story.

But I bailed out and discovered programming instead.

And now my life's ruined...

- yoshi

I just received an unsolicited teleport and I have attached giant prims to myself and will accept the teleport.

Here's a pic.
You can sort of see my legs.
I may attach a few more prims. Though the Serpent head is almost 100.

remind me not to ask for an object lesson from you.

my alt got a random tp from someone elses alt whom i wont mention but needless to say i had a fit neg rates went flying and then i was told who it was...ect ect but i went out of my way to apologize and i got told this: now im just shocked again...someone who is famous in game? how freakin arrogant is that? the only people who are famous to me are the ones who arent self proclaimed....anyway just my rant for the day

my alt got a random tp from someone elses alt whom i wont mention but needless to say i had a fit neg rates went flying and then i was told who it was...ect ect but i went out of my way to apologize and i got told this:
Quote:
no worries, it's over. but taken from someone who is famous in game, and has been in your spot, it never helps to fl off the handle

now im just shocked again...someone who is famous in game? how freakin arrogant is that? the only people who are famous to me are the ones who arent self proclaimed....anyway just my rant for the day