I discovered yesterday that if you Mute somebody, not only do you not get their chat, or their IMs, or things they try to send you...but now their appearance in world is (nearly) deleted as well!
The Muted avatar appears as a pale gray silhouette, and their movement is at a reduced frame rate, about 1-2 fps.
It's about as close to erasing somebody from your world as it's possible to get. Bravo, LL.
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Lindal Kidd
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05-05-2008 13:33
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Lauralynne Cuddihy
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05-05-2008 13:39
Not true for me. I muted someone a week ago and they were able to drop notecards into my inventory and I was able to see them. I wish they would go away though. lol
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LittleMe Jewell
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05-05-2008 13:42
Lindall - which version of the viewer?
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Ricky Yates
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05-05-2008 13:44
Sounds like a cool feature!
If I could log in right now (which does not appear to work due to the usual >50k SL borkiness) I would immediately try it out by muting the next best passerby.  |
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Lias Leandros
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05-05-2008 13:47
It really works. Every idiot loitering in the infohub near my parcel is a quiet grey. So we can help the technicolor noobies and avoid the troublemakers.
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Macphisto Angelus
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05-05-2008 13:47
Lindall - which version of the viewer? It's on the RC right now. _____________________
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LittleMe Jewell
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05-05-2008 13:56
It's on the RC right now. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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05-05-2008 13:56
I wonder if there is any connection with the report of a "transparent avatar" that appeared in the past month or so.
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Emily Darrow
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05-05-2008 14:02
I've never muted anyone. I've muted objects that spammed but I've never muted people. Here's why; I learned how to ignore them completely. This is something I learned in Middle School and it is very effective and still let's me know what someone might be saying and if that includes slandering others. Just tell someone they are muted but don't mute them just ignore them. You have the power to not respond.
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LittleMe Jewell
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05-05-2008 14:11
I've never muted anyone. I've muted objects that spammed but I've never muted people. Here's why; I learned how to ignore them completely. This is something I learned in Middle School and it is very effective and still let's me know what someone might be saying and if that includes slandering others. Just tell someone they are muted but don't mute them just ignore them. You have the power to not respond. /me thinks now that she doesn't live there anymore, she can probably remove them from the mute list - hmm what a thought. _____________________
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Kitty Barnett
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05-05-2008 14:37
That's been there since RC0
 . Only works if you have avatar imposters checked though.Other fun mute "feature" (aka bug): if someone has too many particles to your liking, mute them and then just instantly unmute. Their bling will be gone for as long as you both stay within each other's draw distance. |
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Schobbejack Swindlehurst
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05-05-2008 15:02
muting the owner shouting griefer cubes is a good way to get rid of the spam, this would make finding the person in the colorfull mass a bit easier too
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Raudf Fox
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05-05-2008 15:06
But this doesn't mute prims unless they're attached, does it? Mind you, I don't mute too many people.. mostly pregger bellies and Xcite toys
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Conan Godwin
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05-05-2008 15:09
This sounds like the same kind of "feature" as the amazing "Ruth Mode" that became popular last year.
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Macphisto Angelus
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05-05-2008 15:52
But this doesn't mute prims unless they're attached, does it? Mind you, I don't mute too many people.. mostly pregger bellies and Xcite toys Baby jumps happily within mommy's belly. Baby is hungry. _____________________
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Bree Giffen
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05-05-2008 16:09
Great to hear. I tested it and it even says (muted) by your name so the newbie who accidentally muted you will know what they did.
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Raudf Fox
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05-05-2008 16:28
Baby jumps happily within mommy's belly. Baby is hungry. Yeahhhhh... And lets not forget the broadcast of Prim-mommy-to-be's cravings. Mommy wants strawberries! Seriously, I'm happy they took this *ahem* baby step on extending the powers of muting. Now, if they'd visibly mute prims, I'd be tickled. _____________________
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Vittorio Beerbaum
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05-05-2008 18:39
Other fun mute "feature" (aka bug): if someone has too many particles to your liking, mute them and then just instantly unmute. Their bling will be gone for as long as you both stay within each other's draw distance. It's not a bug, but a feature. And it doesn't mute the particle emitting from the avatar, but the particle *emitted (already) by the av, in example if the emitter starts again llParticleSystem they will reprise. This is the fastest way to discover particle spammers within a dense area, you cannot identify a particle griefer with beacons, neither it seems there's any reliable information on the particles data (debug), so the only way (pretty fast really...) is to start to mute the "candidates" (usually alt/noobz) until the particles are gone (they will disappear instantly... all of them) and so you have the ztoopid to ban/kick/makefunof. _____________________
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Kathy Morellet
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05-05-2008 19:53
But this doesn't mute prims unless they're attached, does it? Mind you, I don't mute too many people.. mostly pregger bellies and Xcite toys Actually it mutes anything the muted person owns, whether attached to them or not. A neighbor left a particle generator near one of my rentals and the particles were entering the house and bothering my tenant. I had her mute the neighbor and she got instant relief even though the neighbor wasn't even present. |
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Teake Homewood
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05-05-2008 19:55
How good is that, nice.
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Incony Hathaway
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05-05-2008 20:02
2D chat in a 3D world, thinks ive been there before....
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