02-28-2003 12:49
Dear Second Life Closed Beta Residents,

A number of you may have noticed that your in-world account balances have been fluctuating rapidly over the past three days.

These fluctuations are due to:
-errors found in the stipend software
-adjustments due to incorrect balances caused by the "object decay" bug.
-other adjustments made by the addition of new rating categories
-errors in calculations of these adjustments.

Today, we expect the final adjustments to be made, and the balances should be accurate by 4:00pm PST.

If you have noticed a large increase in your account, it is due to an incorrect account balance that has been fixed. This also applies to a large reduction in your account.

In all cases, we rounded "up" while fixing the errors i.e. when we corrected the account balances and determined that a negative adjustment needed to be made, the fix did not remove the total negative amount, and the resident will have a higher "corrected" account than the adjustment rules would have given.

Best Wishes,

-Linden Lab