A thing about friends online
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Dune Enzo
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09-09-2009 16:48
From: Imnotgoing Sideways /me adds this to her list of "Ooh... People ~PAY~ for that?" (O.o) LOL - People do pay for it. Anecdotal evidence indicates those who use these things are generally the creepy, deluded sorts who couldn't get into the military or police training school in RL because their paranoia was evident to everyone but themselves  |
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Briana Dawson
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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09-09-2009 17:45
From: Dune Enzo You can't hide in SL. Avatar online huds are available for about $300L. $300L????? Hell no. You can find them cheaper on XSL. I would never pay $300L for such a simple functionality that any good scripter can bang out in 60 seconds. A few lines of code placed inside a prim and attached as a HUD. Definitely not worth $300L. |
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Dune Enzo
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09-09-2009 18:10
From: Briana Dawson $300L?????
Hell no. You can find them cheaper on XSL.
I would never pay $300L for such a simple functionality that any good scripter can bang out in 60 seconds. A few lines of code placed inside a prim and attached as a HUD.
Definitely not worth $300L. Such scripters would be doing more good if they scripted a way NOT to be tracked by one of these things. It is a bit stalkerish, after all. |
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LittleMe Jewell
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09-09-2009 18:52
From: Dune Enzo Such scripters would be doing more good if they scripted a way NOT to be tracked by one of these things. It is a bit stalkerish, after all. I have every one of my accounts listed in my av tracker and it is set to send me emails whenever they log in. I consider it a good way of knowing if any of my accounts gets hijacked.
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Briana Dawson
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09-09-2009 18:54
I cannot ever agree that these tools are stakerish. In the beginning - everyone could map every one, no one could hide their online status. Was SL inherently stalkerish then? I do not think so. Just more of a close knit social world. Now things are more private, still social, but no more popping around grid dropping on interesting people to see how they are doing. My partner and I were notorious for house visits, and back then, people loved it. When you logged in at 4am and only saw 2-6 people on the entire grid you did not mind if someone dropped in on you and said "HI!" and kept you company while you built something. From: Dune Enzo Such scripters would be doing more good if they scripted a way NOT to be tracked by one of these things. It is a bit stalkerish, after all. |
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Dune Enzo
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09-09-2009 19:16
From: Briana Dawson I cannot ever agree that these tools are stakerish.
In the beginning - everyone could map every one, no one could hide their online status. Was SL inherently stalkerish then? I do not think so. Just more of a close knit social world.
Now things are more private, still social, but no more popping around grid dropping on interesting people to see how they are doing.
My partner and I were notorious for house visits, and back then, people loved it.
When you logged in at 4am and only saw 2-6 people on the entire grid you did not mind if someone dropped in on you and said "HI!" and kept you company while you built something. If someone, be they known or unknown to you, keeps a log of what times you use your own computer to run a particular program, then a) what business is it of theirs? and b) it's an invasion of your real world privacy. When inworld I also just drop out of the sky to visit people I know, usually unannounced. Regular piece of SL tumbleweed, I am  But if the attention is unwelcome it becomes something else. |
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Benski Trenkins
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Join date: 23 Feb 2008
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09-09-2009 20:12
I usually don't hide with my main. if I really want to be left alone, I either log in with my alt or use the Emerald function of autoreply to all. as for mapping, that is only for my partner. i don't want people dropping in on me. specially not when I am building.
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Tarina Sewell
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09-09-2009 22:16
From: Tiffy Vella Some of us noticed this today....It used to be that you could get a list of who were your friends online- you could look in your account on the official website, and there it was- one list of people. And if someone had tried to hide online from you, their name would still come up on this list. Very sprung! Now today, we thought it was odd and experimented, and saw how it's different. I get a list of ALL my friends. Those online are in bold. The rest of my friends are now also listed, but paled out. One didn't come up at all on any list on the site despite being a sl friend and this raised questions today so we played about to work out what might have happened....turns out she is hiding (understandably for some personal reasons--long story and irrelevant). So I realise that we now have extra tools to tell us about what some people are doing. Sooo....did you all know that this extra feature is now available, and does anyone still hide, and does anyone think this still works? (I choose to hide from one person only who is a rabid IMMer and demands to know what I'm doing and where I am, constantly...nobody else). yes, as well as if you are loged into the webpage as one person and are loged into SL as an alt and someone you have that you are able to see their location, it will spawn a lm tp into the viewer no matter who you are loged in as. ; ) Interesting and disturbing. |
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Tiffy Vella
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09-10-2009 22:20
From: Tarina Sewell yes, as well as if you are loged into the webpage as one person and are loged into SL as an alt and someone you have that you are able to see their location, it will spawn a lm tp into the viewer no matter who you are loged in as. ; ) Interesting and disturbing. Now that *is* weird Tarina..time to rustle up my lazy no-good alt and do some more experiments.... |
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Marcush Nemeth
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09-11-2009 03:08
From: Dune Enzo Such scripters would be doing more good if they scripted a way NOT to be tracked by one of these things. It is a bit stalkerish, after all. If only such a script was possible. But it isn't. It's one of the parts that still needs fixing in the privacy settings i.m.o. Scripts outside the sim you're in should not be able to "test" whether you're online. This could give some problems with certain types of vendors (specifically, the vendor server types), but I feel that's the vendor's responsibility, to get that part scripted correctly. |
