Lindens Take My Sploder From My Cold Dead Hands

They are banning them when someone reports them. Please read the blog.

I dont know about you. But there are still many Sploder around. She should be upset because they are not appling the rules to everyone.

The term police state is a term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates above the normal constraints found in a liberal democracy. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.

The term police state is a term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates above the normal constraints found in a liberal democracy. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.

I'm still hung up on this rumor of a Linden Labs customer relations department, or at least a director of customer relations.

Given the lack of supporting evidence, I remain unconvinced, but I'm at least curious and wonder whether anyone else has reported sightings of alleged members of an LL customer relations department.

@ Alex: Well, lol, i would tell you the name of the customer relations Linden in question, but that would be naming names. And everyone knows that's a cyn!

Please do show us all where Linden Lab answered anyone's questions regarding sploders - perhaps we all missed it in the blog.

Policy

It is a violation of this policy to wager in games in the Second Life (R) environment operated on Linden Lab servers if such games:

(1) (a) rely on chance or random number generation to determine a winner, OR (b) rely on the outcome of real-life organized sporting events,

AND

(2) provide a payout in

(a) Linden Dollars, OR

(b) any real-world currency or thing of value.

This includes (but is not limited to), for example, Casino Games such as:

o Baccarat
o Blackjack
o Craps
o Faro
o Keno
o Pachinko
o Pai Gow
o Poker
o Roulette
o Sic Bo
o Slot machines

It also includes Sports Books or Sports Betting, including the placing of bets on actual sporting events against a book-maker or through a betting exchange.
Linden Lab will actively enforce this policy. If we discover gambling activities that violate the policy, we will remove all related objects from the inworld environment, may suspend or terminate the accounts of residents involved without refund or payment, and may report any relevant details, including user information, to authorities and financial institutions.

This includes (but is not limited to), for example, Casino Games such as:

And how do you figure they're not?

In other words ... the Lindens did not wake up in the morning and think,.

Unless you really do want to take the position that she should not have to abide by the policy that applies to everyone else, there's nothing wrong here.

In answer to your Question:

July 25th 2007:


http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/07/25/wagering-in-second-life-new-policy/#more-1106

And Clarified Information On August 9th 2007:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/09/anti-gambling-policy-update-faq/#more-1137

Sploders are a CLEAR Violation of Both Sections 1, and 2(a). There is also the extremely Important Phrase stating
Meaning, that the Games Listed are Only examples, and because a Game isn't specificly named in the Policy, dosn't mean the game is OK. THERE is Linden Lab's Answer to Sploders.

As for Policing, since LL is Not in Possession of a Magic switch that Can target every conceivable Scripting permutation Involved in Gambling machines and wipe them Out, the Only two methods of Removal left to them are
A: Wait for an AR from a Citizen

or

B: Random spot checks on various Locations with Low level responses to Violations (Returning the Machines to the owners Inventory).

remember it IS within a Lindens ability to delete anything from the game without Notice, or Compensation, so returns are pretty Lenient. Word Will spread pretty quickly that these checks are being done, and the SMART Owners will remove the Machines before LL begins ramping up the penalties.

I don't See How you Missed this in the Blog as it is CENTRAL to the New Policy Unless of course you didn't actually Read the Policy.

Angel.

Misery loves company. But I am not going to go runing around the grid reporting on others just to make myself feel better.
And Linden Lab employees should not be running around on their day off randomly returning sploders when their time could be better soent helping the working casinos close their doors.

A new low.
To have the community decide which people have to comply with a grid wide policy that applies to everyone is WRONG. To ignore several fullislands of casino equipment and instead work overtime on a Saturday to return one sploder without talking to the resident is outrageous.

How do I figure that? Because there are sploders still in clubs why have not they not taken them out? because the randomly look at locations? Well if that was the case then Babyblues place does not fall under the more popular location. Why hers?
Usagi

This is clear to you? the word SPLODER is never mentioned. We asked several times specifically about the sploders. Linden Lab refused to reply. Instead they begin this witch hunt campaign against select individuals that we all assume were abuse reported by some bizarre resident. Nice way to keep the drama down.

This is clear to you?

Because she had one, and who says she's the first, maybe this is just the first rounds to say to you nicely that they aren't allowed and they will take action. How about the next 10 clubs or the 10 before that, of course they don't count because they are just the competition.........
I've notices sploders gone from 2 clubs I frequent and none present in some new clubs. I used them occassionally, but will get over it.
There won't be any overdramatised "cold dead hands" you just won't be able to login one day and residents lives will go on..............

Unbelievable. This guy comes by and returns one of my sploders to my inventory. Just the main one - not any of the ones on the beach or in the pub below the island. So I guess they are wandering around
the grid harassing paying customers. First time a Linden works on a weekend and its to police the grid. Wonderful.

Well i doubt this. As i said before. Her location is not popular. So why hit on her first. Where larger more known clubs are still running their devices. This is what doesnt make sence. The devices in questen are the same. They take money and the return does not equal that the amount taken. No matter what the name of the device if the X amount is not returned to you ( pay out is less ) then what yu put in its fall under the rules of gambling.