LOL Tricky Get vote

What earthly (or otherwise) good do those vote boxes do anyway? I've seen them around my entire 2 and half years as a resident and never bothered to ask what they do if anything.

Whatever it is, it seems obsolete now.

Some seem to add the place to a web site out side of SL. A popularity contest not based on search in SL

Nope, but this is what they are thinking.

How much trouble I get in if I go around tellin' people they get banned for usin' them?

Odd one i have voted on took me to a web site that showed a list of clubs in SL and were the one i voted for was at

dwell is not traffic.

Subject: Re: Need the math proof for 1 + 1 = 2

The proof starts from the Peano Postulates, which define the natural
numbers N. N is the smallest set satisfying these postulates:

P1. 1 is in N.
P2. If x is in N, then its "successor" x' is in N.
P3. There is no x such that x' = 1.
P4. If x isn't 1, then there is a y in N such that y' = x.
P5. If S is a subset of N, 1 is in S, and the implication
(x in S => x' in S) holds, then S = N.

Then you have to define addition recursively:
Def: Let a and b be in N. If b = 1, then define a + b = a'
(using P1 and P2). If b isn't 1, then let c' = b, with c in N
(using P4), and define a + b = (a + c)'.

Then you have to define 2:
Def: 2 = 1'

2 is in N by P1, P2, and the definition of 2.

Theorem: 1 + 1 = 2

Proof: Use the first part of the definition of + with a = b = 1.
Then 1 + 1 = 1' = 2 Q.E.D.

Note: There is an alternate formulation of the Peano Postulates which
replaces 1 with 0 in P1, P3, P4, and P5. Then you have to change the
definition of addition to this:
Def: Let a and b be in N. If b = 0, then define a + b = a.
If b isn't 0, then let c' = b, with c in N, and define
a + b = (a + c)'.

You also have to define 1 = 0', and 2 = 1'. Then the proof of the
Theorem above is a little different:

Proof: Use the second part of the definition of + first:
1 + 1 = (1 + 0)'
Now use the first part of the definition of + on the sum in
parentheses: 1 + 1 = (1)' = 1' = 2 Q.E.D.

- Doctor Rob, The Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Dwell is not traffic.

Nina Stepford]im talking about dwell and rl $ vs traffic rating in search.
dwell is vastly different than traffic.
i dont understand the relevance of a mathematical formula.

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Post-Stipend Realities

I've done some re-rigging of the article to reflect the current post-stipends reality that we live in. Could I get someone to look over the edits just in case I FUBARed some of the details? Thanks in advance! --Patchouli Woollahra 23:39, 20 January 2007 (PST)


Please stop editting this page and replacing everything with nonsense about complex formulas just because some stupid Linden told you some BS about how traffic works. Conduct your own experiments and present the methodology and results if you disagree with what is written here. We absolutely cannot rely on the word of devs or other random Linden Lab employees on this topic and MUST resort to simple experiments. - Elanthius Flagstaff

* Personally, I disagree on both the content and the tones of your comment. I think word of devs or other random Linden Lab employees on this topic is absolutely relevant --oobscure 13:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC) ~~~~Yes in the WIKI too~Rafe~~~~

Removed section

I removed this section because it does not describe traffic as actually measured. -- Argent Stonecutter 14:25, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The current traffic algorithm

In May 2008, Linden Lab provided a description of the traffic algorithm, which they assure is still current:

How ‘traffic’ works:

* Every user gets 1 point of dwell to give out during the 24 hours between midnight and midnight. Any parcel of land that the Resident spends more than 5 sequential minutes on gets counted as a place that they spent time.
* Parcels owned by the Resident (or group) are counted as if they were the same parcel. The user's 1 point is then evenly divided between those parcels.
* So, I if was online for 1 hour and spent 20 minutes on Resident A's parcel and 40 minutes on Resident B's parcel, Resident A would get 0.333 from me and Resident B would get 0.666 from me.
* Alternately, if I only spent 5 minutes online and spent all of it on resident A's land, she would receive 1 point from me. Those raw point totals are what is reported in the find window.

Traffic does not take into account the length of time someone spends on a parcel, but rather is based on the proportion of their inworld time spent there.

As you can see, the traffic measurement is confusing to understand and doesn’t necessarily result in useful statistics for Residents, which is another reason why the Popular Places tab is being replaced with the Showcase. (Source, LewisPR on behalf of Linden Lab, 16 May 200
How the algorithm evolved into its current form

The original idea was to reward builds of ‘good’ content. We first tried to detect "good" via Voting Stations -- green pillars placed in-world on which a user could click to indicate a parcel was "good". Only one vote per day per user per parcel was allowed. We would then tally up the votes nightly and distribute L$.

This didn't work well because users would gang up, fly around to all their friends' parcels and click the voting stations. Or they created vote farms - collections of 16m² parcels each owned by a different person each with its own vote box, to make voting for friends easier. So we decided to replace it.

Dwell (subsequently renamed to ‘traffic’) was an attempt to limit how many "votes" a single user could provide in a day. The idea was to give each user one "aggregate vote" per day, and divide that contribution up among all parcels that user visited. Visits under 5 minutes were discarded as "just passing through".

(Source, LewisPR on behalf of Linden Lab, 16 May 200

Traffic is based on dwell.
Your dwell plus my dwell on this thread = .0012 traffic for said thread.

you have suggested you are be old enough to remember monthly usd dwell dividends. clearly you are not.

According to his profile he is old enough to remember (it says his original account was from 2004).

Maybe he is having a senior moment.

Some seem to add the place to a web site out side of SL. A popularity contest not based on search in SL

all they are good for now is people in clubs spamming you to click on them, because they don't realize they don't do anything.