First Look Viewer Lock button

Greetings all,
As you all know and have most likely seen on the live grid, There are few people who think leaving the lock button on helps with the preformance of there voice chat.
However looking into the future of SL having such a feature leads to many problems that will later on arise.

Senario1: Someone goes into a club leaving there lock open so they can talk to people clearly, thinking that it makes it sound better, This person goes afk, and either you hear there background, or there headphones feed a looping sound into there mic. This results in people mass muting them, and when the person coming back having no idea why people aren't responding.
This seems easy to correct and would think well people will have to use there brains to turn lock off be four going afk. Iv seen it you seen it, people in SL aren't that smart!

Or you get that guy that plays music and walks away, and everyone is forced to mute them.
And many countless others.

I should have added these notes when i posted about the mute option back on the beta grid but didn't think about it, now I am.
If your going to keep this feature so people can chat hands free and not click a button to speak,
-give the parcel owners of sl the ability to to lock out the ability to use lock, this way when mr jhon gets up and walks away to use the bathroom, or Ms doe gets up to beat her kids, we don't have to listen to it.
Every feature should have another feature to even it out.

The welcome area and all linden land obtain much attention of the populous of sl, and there fore should have this lock ability turn off. It only sounds better when lock is on cause someone else is doing it anyway. have it only work when you click will also help save bandwidth, this is money.

Not sure if you mean few or a few. The leaving lock on for performance is a known bug though, it's not supposed to be like that, and it only happens in certain sims.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1210

Otherwise, though, PTT is still the default option. I find it better that people learn how to control their audio properly and not just be made to conform without knowing how it really should be set up.

I vote for just disabling the lock altogether...

No, it does has a use. Imagine if you were giving a class or something and you had to hold the button down for 2 hours while managing to put up slides and look through notes and such at the same time. Or if you were giving a concert or something. And me and my friends had a karaoke night once and used it then so the voice would stay active even if SL's window was in the background.

Don’t you get the same scenario with the Push to Talk toggle key?
People just really need to get into the habit turning off their mic (PTT or whatever) and others around need to be not so apprehensive about telling others to close their mic.
And as far as the AFK thing…mute them once and they’ll hopefully learn.

DK

Maybe there should be Mute Voice separate from normal Mute All? Normal mute would always mute voice chat, but Mute Voice would allow their chat and IM to get through, just not voice?

You already can, just go into the chatterbox select their name and check "Mute voice chat."

Um...then there shouldn't be a problem anymore, should it? If someone's mic has loud noise, they can just mute the sound and tell that one to stop the noise