"Police Blotter" Issues

It does for me as long as everyone else plays along as well .

If it's a social setting (and you don't have access to the land controls, or the griefer is outside the parcel borders) just have everyone mute, sit, turn off particles or whatever is needed to stop the annoyance or just ignore it altogether and go on with whatever you're doing, or tp away. I used to just keep on hosting whether the club was getting bombed, burried in prims or whatever else. If there's nothing you can do about it there's little point in getting worked up about it, just try the best you can to calm everyone else down and get them to focus on something else.

The only times I've seen things escalate was when people were taunting the griefer back or went after him/her. They just kept coming back over and over and things ended up worse than they were.

For a private setting (your own house), I've had the most luck with a simple force tp home. Ejecting/orbitting/banning/talking would just ensure they'd come back and find a new way to be annoying.

I never said your perspecctive was wrong though, it's just different . In my view the only way a griefer wins is by letting him ruin whatever I'm doing, or get me annoyed and worked up.

I agree with the "not running away" bit, particularly on your own land.
It's the scale of the response that might get you in trouble. Eject/Ban does the job admirably and zeroes the chances of the perp successfully ARing you.

I admire Aria's patience in letting the cowboy have so much of her time.
I had a guy pull a gun in front of me on my land a while back. I asked him politely to put it away.
He didn't.
Instant ban/eject!!
No talking. No time for lewd advances or shooting. Bang! Gone and forgotten.
I'd have ejected Aria's cowboy on sight if he came in shooting.

I'm a creature of sweetness and light. Really!
But I don't take shit from anyone.

There isn't a 'one size fits all' response.

If a club is running an event, then it would be wise to have someone on hand with ability to ban, either as a parcel power or via a device. If an avatar is banned, their objects or chat can not enter the parcel. That doesn't necessarily stop everything they can do, but it can tone it down.

If nobody on a private or Linden parcel can trigger a ban, then any 'vigilante' action is open to being successfully ARed by the perp. It seems a shame, but I understand that to be the case from reading postings here.


It's been suggested before that LL give ban powers to selected residents in the worst-abused sandboxes. Those peoples' actions would be under a LL microscope, with an account suspension being the result of any heavy-handedness on their part.

But what other than an Estate ban (or, on Mainland, an account suspension) would prevent the griefer from just doing that again anyway? Would it somehow help to have orbited him between sim crashes--assuming he makes himself convenient to orbit?

If one wants to play with the griefer for entertainment purposes, fine. I just don't see how it can be effective in actually dealing with the problem, except in the case of exceptionally clueless griefers. Sub-PN clueless, even.

The device warns you that the person is within 96 meters - If you then walk toward them then you aren't really the victim anymore. This personal security armband has been being used for several years.