Traffic Trafficking

I came across a scary sight the other day:

A small (and I stress small) jewelry store had traffic exceeding 50,000. There were camping areas around 300m in the air, and as soon as I arrived up there, I was banned from the land. Except for a small square, I was not allowed in the area. So I looked at some of the profiles of the people there, and none had anything in their profiles: no groups (not even that of the store), no comments, no picks, no nothing.

I hope I am not being paranoid, but somebody did not want me there to see what was going on.

I suggest a new form of valuing traffic not based purely on time spent by visitors. I think the sims should sense when a person is moving, typing, or panning their camera. The cumulated time spent doing these actions will go toward traffic. If they only stand around (or camp), that time should not be used.

If a store is of superior quality, people shopping there will supply traffic. Giant companies that can shell out mounds of cash to keep people there are misusing their power. The current traffic calculators are biased against small start-up shops.

Queen

Its a common sight these days, Its not even paid camping... its a business owner who wants to get ahead by using a new way to get traffic by exploiting the system, they register 10-20 basic accounts... load a cut down SL client, where they can run 10-20 of them with the same memory/bandwidth usage as 1 regular program, and run things called "Bots" these count towards traffic, cause its not checking unique IP#'s or even if they are doing anything... or if they are basic accounts or premium. and they watch the traffic go up up and away...

10,000 traffic is easy in a smaller parcel.. also adding them to the picks of 50-100 alts helps traffic go up even faster. I've never done this, nor do i condone this practice, it makes me sick.. they need to change the current traffic system so it only counts 1 person, for 1 hour, per 24 hours per location or something. some sort of CAP / Limit per avatar, per location, or a throttled limit per unique avatar .